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Last weekend was certainly not one for those who are restricted to that time of the week to even consider venturing off the moorings. While the optimists will expound upon the necessity of such heavy weather to ensure proper mixing which, in turn, is...
DATE: Feb 23, 2013
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Tight Lines
After the best part of a week of windy conditions and a weekend forecast of more of the same, it is unlikely that fishing is going to be on anyone’s agenda just yet.
While the amateurs have been indulging in other pastimes, some of the commercial ope...
DATE: Feb 16, 2013
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Tight Lines
Time marches on and soon the first month of the year will be consigned to history. Funny to think that it seems like only yesterday, we were ringing in a new year with all the festivities that normally accompany such events. A lack of interest, incle...
DATE: Jan 26, 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
And so time marches on and we enter the quietest time of the angling year. The cooler waters offshore are no encouragement to the tropical species that we concentrate our effort on and it is not as if we are in a hurry to take on the chilly winds and...
DATE: Jan 05, 2013
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Tight Lines
Here we are on the cusp of a New Year, yet again! It is hard to believe that another long-awaited angling season replete with a full slate of tournaments, both local and international, is finished.
It all seems to have flown by — a bit l...
DATE: Dec 28, 2012
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Tight Lines
So much for the hype! Apparently, yesterday, the 21st of December 2012 was not the end of our world.
The prognostications and doomsayers were quite convinced that it would come to pass and some interpreters even had the renowned Nostradamus predicti...
DATE: Dec 22, 2012
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Tight Lines
Just how big do they get! The yellowfin tuna, that is.
We think that they are big when they top 100 pounds here and, even then, there aren’t all that many of that sort of size caught here in any given year. Most of us make do with nice fish in the 6...
DATE: Dec 15, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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Tight Lines
As the carol goes, “fast away the old year passes” so does the fishing for this year. With just enough inclement weather on the weekends and plenty of diverse onshore distractions to keep the anglers home, there has not been much in the way of wet l...
DATE: Dec 08, 2012
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