Mike Carotta first cast a line into the Martha’s Vineyard’s surf after his freshman year of college. Fifty years later, he continues to return to the Island for a few weeks every spring. This year he arrived as both a fisherman and an author.

More than 320 people entered the sixth annual Fluke for Luke fundraiser, which is held in memory of Island fisherman Luke Gurney who died seven years ago in a boating accident.

In an effort to protect one of the last large classes of fish now reaching breeding age, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission dropped the recreational maximum keeper size limit for a striped bass from 35 inches to 31.

Nearly 100 children ages 3 to 14 and their families rose before the sun to participate in the tournament, now in its 49th year.

Forty-nine years ago Cooper Gilkes and friends organized the first Kids Trout Tournament.

It has been a bountiful season for the Vineyard’s bay scallop fishery, but scallopers struggled to capitalize due to an atrophied market.