The owner “Nicky Papers” claims a couple found the body of this new montauk monster while taking a stroll one night. This couple just so happened to have his contact info and email him while on the beach after this discovery (yeah I know it sounds far fetched to me too). Nicky then replied to them, talked to them on the phone and then drove “an hour” to see this new montauk monster, all without anyone other than the couple and Nicky seeing it.

Nicky claims the corpse of this new montauk monster smelled like a mix of low-tide and rotten garbage. In my opinion this is a pig or boar, it was planted by Nicky, and he is looking to cash in on this scam. The only thing that stinks like rotten garbage is this story!

Here’s the photo and video of the new montauk monster so you can decide for yourself whether this is yet another montauk monster hoax, or it is the real deal:

Another "new" montauk monster found

Date: 9/21/08

Since the season was winding down on Cedar Lake we decided to take the boat out of the water last weekend and make a trip to the sounds for some striper, bluefish, and porgy fishing before we dropped the boat off at the marina to be winterized. We launched out of the Baldwin Bridge launch in Old Saybrook aroun 5:30AM, but didn’t make it out into open water until 6:45AM since the fog was in thick and visibility was only about 5 feet!

At one point a 50 foot boat crossed in front of us about 10 feet off our bow and we barely saw it.  Thank god for GPS otherwise we would have never made it to the sound… As soon as the sun came up the fog burned off and we were able to open it up and head out to the eastern rip.  We three way’d eels on two rods and and fresh bunker chunks on one rod from 30-50 feet.  Almost immediately we hooked up with a nice bluefish that gave a pretty good fight and weighted about 12 lbs on the boga grips.

Here is a shot of my friend Robbie with his catch:

We had 2 or three more big hits on the eels, but nothing else was boated on the rip. The fresh bunker was left untouched the whole day. After an hour of drifting we moved to Long Sand Shoal to try our luck, but nothing was biting there either.

A short trip to Outer Hatchetts Reef and we were drifting live eels and bunker chuck with no success again.  At this point the tide went slack and we decided to switch into porgy mode catching 20-30 porgies and about the same number of small black sea bass using clams and squid. It was coming up on lunch time so we decided to tube and worm with t-man custom tackle tubes and sandworms up the shoreline back to the dock and dine, but never had a strike on those either. We ate lunch and headed back out to the eastern rip and tried our luck with our last couple eels.

We hooked up pretty quick when we got back to the rip, but it turned out to be a skate.

It was getting late and the sun, water, and fishing had beat us up all day, and we still needed to scrub down the boat and drop it off at the marina, so we headed back to the launch.

Overall we had a fun day, even though we didn’t have the best luck…

Officially known as the Saybrook Breakwater Light, the Saybrook lighthouse has been put up for sale. The historic navigational station was built in 1886 out of cast iron and brick. 49 feet tall the beacon stands on a one half-mile long jetty at the entrance to Old Saybrook Harbor, where the Connecticut River empties into Long Island Sound.

According to news reports in the Hartford Courant and other sources, the CT General Services Administration has decided to put this boating icon on the list of available excess federal government property. This means that the administration no longer wants to be responsible for it’s upkeep or expenses. The current asking price is a whopping $1…

Now before you go reaching for your wallet to break out a crisp new “Washington”, there are some stipulations to this “historic” deal. Since the station is still a functioning navigation tool, the new owners must be a government agency or a nonprofit organization that is prepared and equipped to maintain the lighthouse in proper working condition, as well as keep it available for public education and recreation.

If you own a nonprofit organization and are looking to throw your hat into the ring as a bidder, the application deadline has been set for the end of September. It is not often you get the opportunity to buy lighthouses, so if you are interested get your application in early, and let’s keep this guidling light in good working order!

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