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Winter is upon us. There is no doubt; the halls are decked, trees are lit and the solstice is a mere three weeks away. While that astronomical event may mark the start of winter, it also assures us that the sun’s warming beams will have again started...
DATE: Dec 01, 2012
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Tight Lines
In case you had not noticed, the shopping, turkey and ham season is well and truly upon us and, with the added excitement and distraction of an election, will probably put most weekenders’ boats out on their moorings for the duration. Either that or ...
DATE: Nov 24, 2012
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Tight Lines
Talk about self-fulfilling prophecy! No one is going to catch any fish this week. And that is pretty much correct.
The weather was less than conducive to sport fishing and the fact that the commercial fishery has concentrated on lobsters with little...
DATE: Nov 17, 2012
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Tight Lines
It sure looks like winter is hell bent on coming early to the northeastern United States. We can be rightfully thankful that the weather has given us a miss, even though we have had a sampling of wind, rain and thunder. Nothing to cause more than min...
DATE: Nov 10, 2012
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Tight Lines
Well, there won’t be much fishing of any description here this weekend as the Island does its best to shy away from Sandy’s attention.
The last thing we need here is a blow; it is late enough in the angling season to put a complete end to the year’s...
DATE: Oct 27, 2012
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Tight Lines
Anyone who thought that the offshore could have done with a good shaking up really got what they wanted earlier this week when Rafael moseyed on by, drenching the Island with much desired rain and doing little damage beyond rewriting some schedules a...
DATE: Oct 20, 2012
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Tight Lines
With snow starting to fall on the North American mainland can winter’s chilly grip be too far away? Maybe not in terms of months, but we should still manage a few more weeks of reasonably fishable weather and even the weekenders should be able to get...
DATE: Oct 13, 2012
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Tight Lines
The autumn steadily progresses as winter waits in the wings and it really looks as if this year will go down as one of the more lacklustre for sports fishing.
There may be a couple of intra-club fun tournaments left but, at this stage, most of the i...
DATE: Oct 06, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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Tight Lines
Well, it is all over but for the crying, some might say. Without a doubt, the passage of Leslie put a serious dent into the amateur fishing effort with many deciding that discretion was the better part of valour and boat would be in a far better plac...
DATE: Sep 28, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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Tight Lines
Despite all sorts of gloomy predictions, the weather last Sunday turned out to be more than appropriate for the season’s final large-scale competitive event : The annual Royal Gazette Wahoo Tournament.
Considering that the previous weekend’s weather ...
DATE: Sep 22, 2012
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Tight Lines
