Saltwater Style’s Salty Girl of the Week – Nancy Brown
Nancy loves surf fishing and is always on the hunt for the elusive 50 pound striped bass on Plum Island in Massachusetts. Nancy has fished as long as she can remember. When she was a young girl she started going with her Dad on deep sea fishing trips. She spent summers in Duxbury with her family and they would take their Boston Whaler out everyday loading it with flounder. During the 80’s Nancy fished freshwater every day for Large Mouth Bass, catching pickerel, smallies and trout. Nancy started to seriously fish the salt for striped bass about 15 years ago.
Nancy’s favorite memory was when she was fishing the beginning of a hurricane about 2 years ago. There were sets of waves reaching 13 or more and reaching 8-10 feet high. Nobody was catching anything and her rod was bent in half. The waves were pushing that fish in at her and she could hardly reel fast enough to keep up. She knew it was a keeper but could not judge how big. It was pitch dark and Nancy felt the fish hit the beach and stop like a freight train. She could not see what she brought in or move it another inch. Nancy and her husband turned on their lights and the next words out of her husband’s mouth were expletive. He never even knew that Nancy was reeling in a fish and she didn’t think it was a big deal. That fish weighed in at 27.4 pounds 40 inches of beautiful striped bass. That fish won Nancy 3rd place in that year’s Plum Island Surfcasters Tournament.
Nancy’s most unusual catch was a fluke that she caught from the beach at night. It was dark and she held it up and saw the silhouette. Nancy thought it was a flounder which is not unusual at that specific place but was odd for being caught at night. When she went to unhook the fish, it bit her and then she knew it was not a flounder. OUCH!
Nancy’s most unusual catch was a fluke that she caught from the beach at night. It was dark and she held it up and saw the silhouette. Nancy thought it was a flounder which is not unusual at that specific place but was odd for being caught at night. When she went to unhook the fish, it bit her and then she knew it was not a flounder. OUCH!
Nancy’s favorite fish to catch and eat is the Striped Bass, but she loves a good fight with a bluefish. Twizzlers is her magic MoJo for catching those big stripers. It’s her number 1 must have!
Why is Nancy successful in fishing? Nancy reads everything on fishing, she puts her time in and learns to read the water and she knows her target fish. She also urges everyone to attend seminars and listen carefully to those who are there to guide. The best advice that Nancy wants to share is to have fun and enjoy the wondrous beauty that surrounds you.
Nancy holds a 1st and 2nd Place Award for The MBBA Everill MacKay Derby, she won 2nd Place in the Casting Contest for The MBBA-Women’s Spinning, She was on the First Place Team in 2011 for the Plum Island Surfcasters Invitational, Nancy’s won Sportsman of the Year in 2010 from the MBBA and she won 3rd Place in the Plum Island Surfcaster Year Long Tournament in 2009.
Nancy’s Seafood Casserole
1 # striped bass (give or take some) cut in chunks
1# Sea Scallops
1# Shrimp
1 C. Brown Minute Rice
2 cans Newburg sauce or 2 cans cream of shrimp soup
1 ½ cans milk
1 stick of butter
1 sleeve Ritz Crackers
1 small onion
Layer fish and shellfish in a large foil pan mix soup/sauce with milk until well blended. Pour over seafood.
Saute’ onion in butter until translucent add roughly crushed crackers and a touch of garlic salt and spoon on top of casserole and bake at 350* 45 minutes. to 1 hour. Call in the troops.
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