401 results returned for search: "" category "Opinion Writer" author Tight Lines
Time flies by and last weekend seems an eternity ago but, mercifully, Bermuda dodged a bullet last weekend when Hurricane Leslie lost most of her punch and followed a somewhat meandering path that led to some inches of much desired rain coming down o...
DATE: Sep 15, 2012
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Tight Lines
Whatever doldrums there were and numbers of fish that were proving unwilling to bite; those matters are no longer of concern. With whatever the next 48 hours brings, everything is about to change markedly with the bottom line likely to be an improvem...
DATE: Sep 08, 2012
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Tight Lines
So far having kept a low profile during the real heat of the tropical season, the anglers of Bermuda await that great fall flourish that so often makes for some of the finest angling on earth.
Some people may say it’s only true of light tackle, but ...
DATE: Sep 01, 2012
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Tight Lines
With Tropical Storm Isaac churning its way across the Caribbean in the general direction of the United States and another tropical depression forming in the mid-Atlantic, the time has come to be aware that the hurricane season is an element of the he...
DATE: Aug 25, 2012
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Tight Lines
Not exactly the sort of weather that one would expect for August. Certainly not what we are experiencing at the moment with the bit of bluster, overcast and wet that seems to hanging around making for less than summery conditions.
Normally, it would...
DATE: Aug 18, 2012
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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
Hot and humid is the weather and the fishing is too! Well, maybe not humid, seeing as plenty of water is involved anyway, but certainly the action is hot with most of the game species at or near peak. Just about the only fish for which the best is st...
DATE: Jul 28, 2012
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Tight Lines
Wow, another unlikely come from behind win in the Bermuda Big Game Classic.
Everything came up trumps for Fa-La-Me when Capt. Rob Moore slowly but determinedly surely came from behind to scoot past Bree, the leader and well experienced boat, results-...
DATE: Jul 21, 2012
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Tight Lines
What a thriller that was!
As is so often the case with these big bucks billfishing competitions, it is really never over until the Fat Lady has sung. With less than six minutes left to fish, it looked like Capt. Allan Bean's Paradise One had the tou...
DATE: Jul 14, 2012
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