So, the holidays are over and we are rapidly settling into an angler’s winter of discontent. The days are grey, there are winds that seem almost endless and the sea is all churned up. The overcast is ...
Fast away the old year passes; Hail the new, ye lads and lasses. That just about summarises our present state of affairs. And before we fa-la-la-la our way into 2012, time has taught us that it always...
T’was the night before Christmas and the mere thought of venturing out onto the briny is likely to meet with disaster as there are so many landlubbery chores to be done.
There are shops that have yet...
The Island is well into the holiday mood, with the shoppers bustling through town, the lounges and restaurants doing a boom trade and various social engagements going a log way to ensuring that the va...
Ah, it is that time of year when Mother Nature in both her roles as weather-maker and fish provider combine with familial responsibilities to make it more than likely that the Island’s anglers will be...
Those of you who like to fish by the rules can just go ahead and put all your gear into mothballs. You won’t even be contemplating using it again until April at the very earliest.
Rules? What rules? H...
Well moving into the early winter doldrums; well, doldrums of spirit and activity because the offshore is likely to be anything other than calm with downright rough a distinct possibility.
Add in to t...
It has that wintry look about it. The light fades quickly during the afternoon, taking on that yellowish tinge that means that the summer is truly a distant memory and that there are gales and worse t...
Just what we all needed a sub-tropical storm! Sub-tropical, indeed. Is that because it occurs in the sub-tropics as opposed to the tropics? Or is it a tropical system that has escaped to sub-tropical ...
Without us hardly noticing any change, the weather has almost completed its shift into the winter pattern where periods of calm are followed by a length of time during which the winds and seas build u...
