401 results returned for search: "" category "Opinion Writer" author Tight Lines
It is no understatement to say that the present weather is not conducive to any fishing. The commercial operators may make an effort to get to their lobster traps and the very odd one may take advantage of a singularly good day to see if there are an...
DATE: Jan 11, 2014
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Tight Lines
With the major December celebrations behind us now, things will start to return to normal, although the onset of yet another new year will give all pause for reflection on what is to come.
Perhaps even more important is to look back on the year that ...
DATE: Dec 28, 2013
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Tight Lines
It is not worth even thinking about. The chances of you — or anyone else, for that matter — making it offshore this weekend are being quoted at somewhere between slim and none. What the weather will not prevent, the annual holiday festivities will. N...
DATE: Dec 21, 2013
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Tight Lines
The weather has very little effect on whether or not there is any angling this weekend, or next for that matter! This is when social responsibilities take over and the holiday season spawns plenty of those.
Not to mention the winter weather pattern, ...
DATE: Dec 14, 2013
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Tight Lines
This is the time of year when fishing gets to be a real challenge. And it is not about the usual: weather, fish abundance, selection of strategy, place to go. Nothing so exotic! The weather may co-operate on occasion but that will not be the real sou...
DATE: Dec 07, 2013
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Tight Lines
Not much fishing this past week, huh? Not that there was a whole lot of encouragement for anyone.
Observers of Nature will have noticed the sudden reversion to the winter weather pattern. Cold, wet, windy days, sporadically punctuated by calm, sunny ...
DATE: Nov 30, 2013
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Tight Lines
Not exactly fishing weather but a bit of planning and some daring-do can make for at least a brief trip offshore.
Trolling is the norm with a wahoo or two the intended target. Once succeeding, the smart move is to head for home. An alternative is so...
DATE: Nov 23, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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Tight Lines
To say that Old Man Winter has just moved in and taken up residence would not receive much in the way of argument from most people.
Gale, blustery weather and a drop in temperature translates into winter here in Bermuda, regardless of what the calen...
DATE: Nov 16, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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Tight Lines
The drop in temperature and the rainy and bluster of the last week or so has gone a long way to knocking any ideas of fishing out of most peoples’ heads. What is it about the Rugby Classic that seems to hail the onset of winter?
Quite apart form the ...
DATE: Nov 09, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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Tight Lines
Perhaps too little, too late? Despite the inclement and very wet weather of the last week or so, a few brave souls have ventured offshore and did not return empty-handed. A couple of respectable hauls have been made, at least by commercial boats.
The...
DATE: Nov 02, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
