401 results returned for search: "" category "Opinion Writer" author Tight Lines
The 28th Blue Marlin World Cup took place as always on July 4 in conditions that perhaps were not ideal but were certainly eminently fishable and as this coincided with the Bermuda Billfish Blast there was plenty of action to be covered.
Worldwide, t...
DATE: Jul 07, 2012
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Tight Lines
With another tropical system or, at least, the remnants of one attempting to foul up piscatorial activities on the weekend, some consolation can be taken from the fact that it does not necessarily have to be all doom and gloom.
This was largely the ...
DATE: Jun 30, 2012
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Tight Lines
After a brush with a wannabe tropical system that lashed us with monsoon-style rains at the weekend, things improved rapidly for the holiday and with it the International Light Tackle Tournament got off to a lively, and very welcome start.
This even...
DATE: Jun 23, 2012
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Tight Lines
The organisers of the Bacardi Tournament could not have wanted for better conditions than they got last Sunday. Bright sunshine, fairly calm seas and light breezes made a real change from what had been a nasty, wet and blustery week.
Unlike the billf...
DATE: Jun 15, 2012
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Tight Lines
It might be June but were it not for the warm humidity that has graced us this past week, it could be March or April. Wind, rain and even thunder simply are not the things that we associate with summer. But, so far, there hasn’t been too much complai...
DATE: Jun 09, 2012
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Tight Lines
What a whopper! Granders are big and fish over 1200 pounds are world-beaters.
There was speculation involving the present 20-year old world record expressed on Wednesday when word came in from veteran Capt. Alan Card that the boat he was fishing on ...
DATE: Jun 02, 2012
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Tight Lines
Any way you want to look at it: it is summer. The fact that the holiday was preceded by the first real rain that we have had in some time and that “a bit gloomy” might have been an apt description, the summer season is indeed here.
If the calendar w...
DATE: May 26, 2012
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Tight Lines
Just when it looked like the 2012 angling season was about to really kick off the weather and; well, maybe, a little enlightened discretion, forced a postponement of the Bermuda Fishing Clubs Annual Tournament (BFCAT).
Although on the day, which hap...
DATE: May 19, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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Tight Lines
Are you starting to have that “hunted” feeling? Are you looking over your shoulder every few minutes just wondering what it is that is that is lurking in the back of your mind? Has your significant other mumbled something about a picnic or the boat? ...
DATE: May 12, 2012
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Tight Lines
Despite the recent passage of an errant cold front here and there, the weather did swinging into a more summery mode. The calendar alone insures that slowly, but ever so surely, the number of boats going overboard and a burst of slippage activity mea...
DATE: May 05, 2012
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Tight Lines
