Meet your BNL Fishing Club Officers!!!
Club President
For Blake, he caught the fishing bug when he was a young whipper snapper catching Winter Flounder (When you could find them) under the Smith Point Bridge, Stripers in Moriches inlet, and whatever bites chunking clams while culling clams for his father.
While Blake has chased every kind of fish from Blue Marlin in Hawaii, Halibut in Alaska, to Tuna off our local shores, he has developed a strong passion for surf-casting for Striped Bass and Blue fish.
These days, Blake can be found in an over-caffeinated, meditative state on our beaches and jetties in the middle of the night hunting for large Strippers. Blake truly enjoys the challenges of understanding tides, weather, structure in current and finding fish in places where most people simply pass by.
Club Vice President
Trevor’s been fishing since he was little. He started when his dad would take him down to the Upper and Lower Yaphank Lakes, but it didn’t really stick, as he was more interested in sticking the rod in the sand than actually fishing. Fast forward 15 years with the occasional fishing excursion on the beach, at the lake or on a party boat in between, he picked up the rod again on both his family’s boat, as well as with a childhood best friend. Summer fluke fishing with the occasional striped bass trip was a weekend well spent. In 2021, he decided to really dive in and indulge in the culture of surf-casting. Spending most of his nights and mornings during the spring and fall on beaches all over Long Island searching for striped bass, he can still be found out on the boat Saturday mornings hunting for bass and blues, searching the flats for fluke or out on the reefs for tautog. The occasional freshwater trip does still make an appearance in the same lakes he grew up around.
