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...
A bit of bluster last weekend put paid to most angling efforts and the forecasts for today and tomorrow isn’t too promising either. Basically, it looks like more golf or couch potato exercises. That’s...
You may have noticed it; not every day mind, but just often enough to confirm suspicions that summer is over. It can still be not much short of hot and the humidity can be right up there but there are...
The weather is slowly but surely moving in its less predictable, more unwelcoming mode that characterises the wintry or “off” season for anglers. Some days are glorious; others way too blustery and, i...
