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It is tournament time but the present forecast for the weekend is not particularly encouraging for the first of the season’s big tournaments. A lot will depend on how quickly the region of bad weather moves through. If it comes earlier than anticipat...
DATE: Jun 07, 2014
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Tight Lines
Well, you cannot have too many excuses left in the bag for not heading offshore. The weather is more than conducive to such expeditions, the familiar duties should be out of the way, for a while at least, and the fish are biting!
They are biting just...
DATE: May 31, 2014
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Tight Lines
As befits what is the start to the inter-club competitive season, the 2014 Bermuda Fishing Clubs Annual Tournament got off to a great start under blue skies and calm conditions last Sunday. Although the bite was not as furious as it had been, it was ...
DATE: May 24, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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Tight Lines
The parade of bright, warm and sunny “Bermudaful” days has definitely started and with it has come the return to summer pastimes. The commercial and charter fishing operators have been getting into the swing of things with some notable successes and ...
DATE: May 17, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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Tight Lines
This could be the weekend that you have been waiting for! The forecast is for the sort of seas that encourage amateurs, the days are long and there is no doubt among the cognoscenti that the season is into full swing.
Do not be in any doubt that ther...
DATE: May 10, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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Tight Lines
Winter is over, according to the local fishing calendar and it is now formally tournament season. That may have been in doubt this week, but now the bluster has gone out of the weather and boats have been able to start concentrating on the offshore s...
DATE: May 03, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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Tight Lines
Despite the blustery weather of the last week or so, there is every sign that the best of the angling has started. Not that many of the weekenders have had a chance between the feast day and the daily grind that comes with a day job.
Having said that...
DATE: Apr 26, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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Tight Lines
Between the rather blustery weather earlier in the week and the Good Friday holiday, there hasn’t been much in the way of fishing effort expended but that is probably just the calm before the storm.
Improving weather and a reduction in familial duti...
DATE: Apr 19, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
By Pickled Onion
Longer days, bright sunshine and warmer weather should have put the wintry malaise into the past and angling should become a priority as time flies by and the year inexorably progresses. Although we try to do so, it is hard to define...
DATE: Apr 12, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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Tight Lines
Put aside the cobwebs of winter and grab the season’s angling by the horns, as it were. Although it is, arguably, early dates yet, the month will rapidly fleet past and it will be May, when there is no disagreement that it is fishing season. By then,...
DATE: Apr 05, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines