The Moon Pulled Up an Acre of Bass: A Flyrodder's Odyssey at Montauk Point

While fishing off Montauk Point one October evening, Peter Kaminsky watched in awe as the moon rose and thousands of striped bass exploded from the sea in a furious feeding frenzy. As he cast his fly into the writhing mass, Kaminsky felt a soul-to-soul connection with the world’s greatest wildlife migration: the annual parade of fish and whales, butterflies and birds past Montauk Point.

For twenty-five years, Kaminsky’s daily chronicle of his month in one of fly fishing’s greatest years has ...