With the sun climbing into the sky, children anglers and their guardians gathered on Sunday morning at Oak Bluffs pier for the annual Kids Derby. This event is hosted by the Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby. “It was a perfect morning with some good fishing and lots of smiling faces,” Derby committee member […]
Pay it forward just might be Martha’s Vineyard’s motto. While the entire nation was learning about our Island’s innate generosity last week as we rallied around the immigrants in need, another such endeavor was quietly going on. This one involved 15-year-old Finn Sears, who was here this weekend because of an Island couple, Mike Cassidy […]
For the past two years, Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass & Bluefish Derby hasn’t allowed tournament participants to catch bass because of the depleted population. The Baker-Polito administration announced that Massachusetts is offering a new specialty license plate through the state’s Registry of Motor Vehicles “to promote conservation of striped bass, which are an important and […]
For some, it was a record-setting Derby for others, it was a struggle to stay on the leaderboards, or even get a weighable fish. But, with 3,144 registered anglers having participated, and a new record of $76,000 in scholarship funds raised, the 76th Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby closed out with a […]
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