I have had the pleasure of reading many of the books written on our striped friend: Morone saxatilis.  A novel addition to the striper literature is Striper Tales, a collection of fishing stories.  The stories are so well written that reading them feels like they are being told by the anglers themselves.  As I listened to the forty six stories, I traveled from the jetties of Jersey, to the notorious rocks of Mountank, to the Rhody rocky shore, and to Bassachussets.

Thank you Paul Haertel, Jim “Murty” Murtagh, Mark Jollife, Nick Honachefsky, Bob Misak, Joe Pallotto, Stan Dziedzic, Allen D. Riley, Geoff Turner, Edward M. Greenberg, Frank Blasko, Bill Lellis, Larry Welcome, Pete Burawa, Mike “Saltheart” White, Kadir Akturk, Thomas Oswald, Gary Soldati, Rob Cerny, Tony Machado, Al Ristori, Andre Velez, Mike DeSimone, Tony Stetzko, Dave Anderson, Alan Cordts, Ken Zwirko, Don Guimelli, and DJ Muller for capturing these stories before they vanished with the tides of time.

The tide waits for no one.  Turned off YouTube.  Stop texting.  Unpluged Twitter. Go fishing with a friend and make your own striper tale.