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It’s finale time! The last major tournament of the season should go ahead tomorrow with the wahoo being the target of choice and, for many anglers, this will be their swansong before the boat is put into mothballs and moved to safety from tropical sy...
DATE: Sep 09, 2017
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Tight Lines
The year is counting down now and so are the days that will be available to most anglers willing to even consider heading offshore.
The official arrival of Santa last weekend has put us all on notice that the festive season is upon us, and that boat...
DATE: Dec 05, 2015
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Tight Lines
“Beware the Ides of March!” Shakespeare wrote those words in his play, Julius Caesar, but they can certainly be applied to the local fishing scene at present.
Getting a good view of what is happening is getting difficult because the commercial operat...
DATE: Mar 15, 2014
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Tight Lines
The second of the summer holidays has come and gone even though the official start to summer was yesterday when the sun had reached its northernmost at the Tropic of Cancer (23.44 Nº latitude). This is properly known as the summer solstice, a term wh...
DATE: Jun 22, 2013
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Tight Lines
It is doubtful that the thought of angling has even crossed your mind in the last week or so. Although it is now well into our winter, there have still been some beautiful warm, sunny days with calm seas and fishable conditions.
The fact that just ab...
DATE: Jan 19, 2013
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Tight Lines
It is that time of the year: when the mere thought of fishing is so far removed as not to matter one iota. This is the time when watching fishing on television comes into its own with the National Geographic Channel’s series Wicked Tuna starting its ...
DATE: Jan 12, 2013
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Tight Lines
It is the season of calm; when the doldrums are omnipresent. Largely brought about by the influence of the summer Bermuda-Azores high pressure system, the lack of wind means that the seas are calm and the days are hot, hot, hot! While there may be li...
DATE: Aug 11, 2012
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Tight Lines
How does that song go? “Summertime and the living is easy....” or something like that? Now that the great summer-long holiday is over with today and tomorrow slated for recovery form many, there is always Halloween to look forward to. Funny how the y...
DATE: Aug 04, 2012
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Tight Lines
The organisers of the Bacardi Tournament could not have wanted for better conditions than they got last Sunday. Bright sunshine, fairly calm seas and light breezes made a real change from what had been a nasty, wet and blustery week.
Unlike the billf...
DATE: Jun 15, 2012
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Tight Lines
It might be June but were it not for the warm humidity that has graced us this past week, it could be March or April. Wind, rain and even thunder simply are not the things that we associate with summer. But, so far, there hasn’t been too much complai...
DATE: Jun 09, 2012
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Tight Lines
