About the Journal

A local publication about fishing and time on the water in Montauk, New York.

The Montauk Fishing Journal is for people who want to make a day of it: readers who fish, readers who used to, and readers who mostly like being near the water while someone else does. We cover one place: Montauk, the hamlet at the eastern end of Long Island's South Fork, from Lake Montauk and the inlet out to the Point and the ocean beaches.

Who publishes it

The Montauk Fishing Journal is published by Anglers LLC. Anglers LLC also publishes noreaster.com, a fishing-reports and conditions site for the Northeast. The two sites share a publisher and editorial standards. The Journal is written and edited as a Montauk publication in its own right.

Publisher: ANGLERS LLC, 5 Pinecone Ln, Commack, NY 11725 Written and edited by: the Montauk Fishing Journal editors

To reach us, see our Contact page.

What we publish

• Guides. Longer, sourced pieces on fishing Montauk: the fall season, party-boat trips out of the harbor, surfcasting at the Point, shore access, the harbor and inlet, and New York's saltwater rules.
• Boats & shops. A short editorial directory of Montauk party boats, charters and tackle shops. It links to each business's own site and is dated when checked.
• Tides. NOAA predictions for the Montauk station (8510560), plus the National Weather Service forecast.
• Stories and almanac. Shorter pieces on local history and places.

That's the whole publication.

How we source what we publish

We fail closed. If we can't attribute a claim about fish, water temperature, a catch, a regulation or a business to a named source, we don't print it. An empty report page is better than an invented one.

In practice:

• Every factual claim has a source. Catch reports link to the exact original post, whether that's a boat's own report page, a tackle shop, or a newspaper or magazine column. We quote no more than a line or two from any source and write the rest in our own words.
• We say when we weren't there. Most of our reporting comes from public reports and official data. When nobody from the Journal was on the boat or the beach, the piece says so in a "How we reported this" or "How we compiled this" note.
• Regulations come from NYSDEC. We link to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's official pages and date any numbers we quote. Always check the current rules before you keep a fish.
• Prices, schedules and access rules come from the businesses and agencies that set them. We date them, and when we can't confirm something, we leave it out.
• We don't republish private posts. We don't copy posts from private or closed social-media groups. We don't name private anglers without their permission.

AI labeling

Some digests are drafted by software from publicly posted material and then reviewed and edited by a person. Where that's the case, the page says so plainly in its source note. We never present AI-assisted writing as first-hand reporting. Some illustrative images on the site are AI-generated, and they're labeled as such on our Credits page.

Advertising and independence

The Journal may carry advertising. Ads are labeled "Advertisement" and kept separate from editorial content. Advertisers don't review or influence what we publish. Directory listings and Recommended links are editorial: they can't be bought, and they aren't affiliate links. See our Terms & disclosures and Privacy Policy.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, whether a schedule, a name, or a detail about your boat or shop, tell us through our Contact page. We'll fix it and note the correction on the page.