Vineyard Rod News Today

  Nora Arieta, a 7-year-old from Oak Bluffs, clambered through the crowd up the path that winds around Duarte’s Pond Saturday with a heading. She was going to the weigh-in station. Stopping only to show people the haul that lay in the bottom of her bucket, Nora, appropriately dressed in a “Girls Kick Bass” sweatshirt, […]

Tomorrow, hordes of kids will descend upon Duarte’s Pond in Vineyard Haven to participate in the 50th Annual Kids Trout Tournament, hosted by the Martha’s Vineyard Rod & Gun Club. They’ll be there before the sun rises. “There will be kids there at 3:30 am, and there will be kids pleading with their parents to […]

Fishermen are known to be a secretive lot. We love to fish with friends, and do so often, but we also have secret spots that we don’t share with but one or two close friends, and they are, of course, sworn to secrecy by penalty of death (at least of the friendship).  I have one […]

The Rev. Richard L. Fenn died at age 88 on May 25, 2022, at Shell Point Retirement Community in Fort Myers, Fla. Father Fenn was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on March 2, 1934, the son of Fred M. and Sarah Lewis Fenn. He grew up in Bay Village, Ohio, and in 1953 he graduated from […]

Robert C. De Lisle of Edgartown passed away, with his family by his side, on Nov. 16, 2021, just a week before his 87th birthday. Robert shared his life in marriage and friendship with his wife of 59 years, Linda Gaffney De Lisle.  Robert, known as Bob by his many friends, was born in Fitchburg […]

The Martha’s Vineyard Rod and Gun Club announced in a press release the 30th Fly Rod Striped Bass Catch and Release tournament will be coming to the Island on May 21, “wind, rain, or moonshine.”  The contest will be held in May to make it easier for off-Island participants to make travel reservations, according to […]

As the most recently departed generation of Islanders would have told us, there were no deer on Martha’s Vineyard. “There wasn’t any then,” declared Fanny Jenkinson (1893–1994) of Chilmark to Linsey Lee of the Martha’s Vineyard Museum in 1983. “Never heard of a deer.”  Basil Welch of Vineyard Haven told Lee, “I was born and […]

Islanders gathered at beaches all over Martha’s Vineyard Saturday morning to clean up trash from the environment during the Vineyard Conservation Society’s 30th annual Earth Day beach cleanup.  “Earth Day is pretty special because it brings all of the Islanders together to clean up our beaches and ponds for everyone to enjoy,” Betsy Dripps, a […]

Parents, it’s time to stock up on coffee — you’re going to need it. The Martha’s Vineyard Rod and Gun Club Kids Trout Tournament, which begins at first light, returns on Saturday, April 9, to Duarte’s Pond in West Tisbury, according to a press release. The tournament, which has been a traditional rite of passage for […]

“It’s really all about being graceful,” bowhunter Brian Welch said as he nocked his 100-gram field-point arrow to his bowstring. “Like any of the shooting sports, it’s all about practicing the technique so you can be ready to land that shot when the moment comes.” Welch is a lifelong hunter, and range officer at the […]