401 results returned for search: "" category "Opinion Writer" author Tight Lines
May is upon us. Summer is but a stride away. College students are arriving back in droves. Winter wear is relegated to the mothballs and the beach is once again fashionable.
Observers of history and traditionalists will likewise note that this week w...
DATE: Apr 28, 2012
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So, just about a week to go in April and then it will be May and with it the acknowledged start to the Bermuda sport fishing season. Are you ready yet? With most answering an emphatic “No”, then it is time to get on with it.
Way less than a month ti...
DATE: Apr 21, 2012
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Tight Lines
April as a spring month might hold true in some places but here it can be an awfully good mimic of high summer.
With the Annual Exhibition taking place, the weather is often as hot and dry as June even though there are persistent old wives’ tales th...
DATE: Apr 14, 2012
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Wow! The lobster season comes to an end and the weather promptly puts paid to any fishing that might have been done. The onset of a late winter gale and the passages of some classic northern Atlantic depressions pretty much kept everybody home.
On a...
DATE: Apr 07, 2012
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Tight Lines
March may have slipped in in an ovine fashion but it is doing plenty of lion-like roaring as it makes its way out. Now, if only we would get some of those showers that April is said to bring in precedence of the floral abundance associated with May. ...
DATE: Mar 31, 2012
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Tight Lines
Sticklers will be the first to acknowledge that spring has sprung. Last Tuesday, in the wee hours of the morning the sun crossed the equator and continued its northward movement toward the summer solstice, some three months hence. Not that the sun do...
DATE: Mar 24, 2012
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Tight Lines
Looking ahead to the weekend, the weather will probably be quite moderate and should encourage a foray or two offshore. What is actually out there may come as a bit of a surprise, largely because there is a lack of hard intelligence on the availabili...
DATE: Mar 17, 2012
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Tight Lines
With the way the weather has been it is hard to think that spring is a bare fortnight away and the fishing might well start to improve at any time. The clock change for tonight will cause its share of havoc as everyone starts waking up in the dark ag...
DATE: Mar 10, 2012
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Tight Lines
Yeah, in case you just noticed, it is March and it sort of looks as if it is coming in a bit like a lion; maybe not exactly roaring but certainly growling a little.
Growling enough to keep the recreational fleet on their moorings. While there may be ...
DATE: Mar 03, 2012
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Tight Lines
At the risk of bringing down the vengeance of Mother Nature; to be honest, this winter has not been particularly difficult and there have been more fishable days than we might usually expect at this time of the year. March is now in sight and the fis...
DATE: Feb 18, 2012
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