Amy's folks, Gordy and Pris, and Uncle David and Aunt Beverly made their annual trek up to the North Fork for the 14th year in a row, tied to the striped bass migration heading south. After a weekend here they fished off Nantucket for five days then came back down for two weeks of fishing here. The weather was very windy with some rain, but when it was good enough to go out, the fish were there.
Most of these photos were taken by David and Beverly
Lunch with Grandma Kreider's Tomato Soup
Gordy and I replacing corroded rail joints
Amy and Uncle Dave and Aunt Bev
The traditional all red lobster dinner
Gordy and Dave spend a day or two every visit fishing with Peter Minnick just off the Montauk Point Light. Peter is deaf but can understand everything that is said if he can see you speak, and he speaks nearly as well as any hearing person. He's been a teacher at a school for the deaf for many years. When Peter is fishing with his back to Gordy, Gordy signals him by tapping the deck... one tap, fish to the left, two taps fish to the right.
Gordy and Peter
They stay overnight in the house Peter has lived in since he was a boy. It was built in the mid 1700s, the beams are exposed again and beautiful. Two years ago the house was raised and a basement was built underneath it. As a child Peter's bedroom was the third floor of the windmill.
One of David's delicious stripers.
I made fish stock from the four pound
head of this one.
