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  1. 14 hours ago, brushfly said:

    Montauk is always evolving. Sure is different today than it was years back. Here's where I put the date Montauk started to get bougie IMO. My local friends back island were telling me about this great restaurant that opened out there. "You have to go!" they all said.

    So in my next trip I walked into what was North by Northwest (? name) what use to be the Windjammer on Fort Pond. After walking through a dark hallway and through maroon curtains, I was greeted at the podium by two "10" hostesses probably imported in from NYC for the season. Could have graced Vogue. We sat down and they lit a candle. That minute I said to my wife "It ain't Montauk no more".....this was probably the late 90's if I had to guess. Within a year or two the Surf Lodge took over The Ole' Shebeen, the other hotel area east of town was charging $500.00 + a night, when the rest of the lot were half that, and the rest is history. For what seemed like 70's through the 80's not much had changed with the exception of some homes going in here and there, along East Lake Drive, etc. But that day seemed to bring in some glitz and style or whatever you want to call it that hadn't existed during my prior thirty years going out there. 

    Couldn't agree more. I thought it was East/Northeast, you could be right. Ate there with the wife on one of the 2 weekends a year I had to bring her along. Great meal, pricey, she loved it but it sure felt like the beginning of the end to me. Salivars disappeared, Liars last season, now Paulies...no place for a crusty old surfcaster to hang between tides or on fair weather fishless days. Never thought it would happen, seemed like the Hamptons crowd would ignore it forever...sad.

  2. VS151x2 Black. New spooled w/300yds 20lb Fireline. Rotor upgrade, only seen the beach once to check rotor upgrade and line lay. Bought this on a whim really don't need it.  $850 spooled plus tax any place you shop for it....I'm letting it go for $700 firm USPS priority insured shipping included. My loss your gain.

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  3. Met Pop's many times, his passion for the sport and the way he welcomes any and all to join in is unrivaled. Andy  Mills podcast series is a good one that I watch regularly...as a NE surf fisherman the Popovics interview was a real treat.

  4. 5 hours ago, Portland Bill said:

     

    Sounds like perfect applications for VR series. 

    Agreed, solid, proven reels for your application. As an aside you could pickup 3 clean used ones for the price of a new ZB !

  5. Elite 4500 is a quality optic. At that price it's a good score. Perfect magnification range for a brush gun...muzzleloader, slug or lever gun. Had an original Nikon when they were made at the camera optics facility in Japan, 1.5x4.5x24.

    Sorry I ever sold that one. 

  6. It's more about the climate in Montauk than it is about Paulies. Believed his side of the story or not the place was a wealth of knowledge and legends of the sport, not to be replicated ever again. I had a very hard time entering the shop after his case was settled but I'd sit outside on the porch and share time and intel with the best surfcasters on the planet. How do we ever replace that...somebody needs to keep that shop afloat, if not Paulie somebody else.

  7. 38 mins ago, slip n slide said:

    you know, you can sand the blanks...most commercial blanks are sanded,if nothing else it makes wrapping a lil bit easier,I sand all my graphite NFC's,no big deal

    Agreed, difficult to pack A thread neatly. Laid out, marked, and sanded where every guide foot wrap was going...worth the time it took.

  8. 8 hours ago, SteveZissou said:

    Sad indeed. Paulies was full of characters, it helped bridge the gap between the old school generation and the new school guys of the 90’s. Lots of stories were told over free coffee as we warmed up between tides and shot the $hit. Thanks to Paulie’s those stories will live on and be passed on and for that we all owe Paulie a thank you. It’s was our clubhouse and our home base, it was our savior if we broke a guide or rod tip, or lost our last ounce and a quarter Andrus, or forgot to pack a bottle plug and for all those reasons it will be missed.
     

    Montauk has changed quite a bit and it’s no longer the redheaded step child of the Hamptons and in fact is the hotspot of the Hampton. One place changed everything, attracted young up and coming celebrities, $100 chicken fingers, and that all took social media by storm and things snowballed from there. The NYC 20 and 30 somethings dug into their trust funds and headed out past the ‘old money’ of East Hampton, Southampton, and Bridgehampton and headed to Montauk. Now we have $97 lobster Cobb salads and hotel rates that are 3.5x what they were just 10yrs ago.  I would camp out in the lower lot with two thermos full of coffee, and box or two of Entennmans and live off that between tides until I went back into town for some Herbs fried chicken or a slice of pizza. Then back to the lot. I didn’t spend money out there, but if I did it was at Paulie’s.  We surfcaster weren’t there to spend $100 of chicken fingers at the Surf Lodge. Montauk is theirs now - they bought it with their trust funds and priced us out. Let’s just

    hope their flaky asses get bored of it (like they do with everything else) and they move on to the next thing, some other spot, and Montauk goes back to what it was - a small fishing town at ‘the end’ past all the other nonsense of the Hamptons and (sadly) in desperate need of a tackle shop. Let’s hope Paulie A finds a way to ride out the storm and keep the lights on just a little longer. We surfcasters are a closer community because of Paulie’s, even if Montauk is less of a community and quickly transforming into a resort town and 3month playground for rich kids. . 

     

     

    Herbs fried chicken and their corn chowder in October 

  9. Illness forced me to miss my Montauk trips last fall for the first time in 40 years. You could see the handwriting on the wall for many years and it got worse every season thereafter. Memories made, epic fishing sessions and the chance to fish with many legends of the sport...sadly a good chance we'll never see it again. End of an era...

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