401 results returned for search: "" category "Opinion Writer" author Tight Lines
It might just be time to get ready to do some fishing. Although most weekend warriors are loathe to plan a sortie afloat, the reports from the commercial fishermen are encouraging and it might occur to some observers that the spring wahoo run may hav...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
|
AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
To paraphrase Shakespeare’s Richard III, oh, but the winter of our discontent is upon us.
While most of us languish ashore contemplating a bright, sunny, and calm future expedition or two, the reality is that the professionals are always ready to tak...
DATE: Feb 12, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
|
AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
Happy New Year, as our Asian brothers would say. With the new moon on February 3, the lunisolar new year has started. The year ahead of us is 4708, somewhat older than the Roman 2011 which, in turn, is older than the Islamic year which is currently 1...
DATE: Feb 05, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
|
AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
Deeply into our winter of discontent, the fishing is all but non-existent with even the heartiest souls unwilling to take on the gales, rain and seemingly frigid temperatures. Oh, where is spring? And how soon will it be here?
That is the strange thi...
DATE: Jan 29, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
|
AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
No, there isn’t much fishing going on and it is unlikely that things are going to change anytime in the near future. The weather is “iffy” and certainly game fish seem to be thin on the ground and most anglers are content to follow one form or other ...
DATE: Jan 22, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
|
AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
Little doubt about it, we are in the throes of winter. Windy and wet not to mention a mite on the chilly side. Not exactly the sort of thing that has anyone running down to the boat, casting it off the moorings and tearing out to the Bank in search o...
DATE: Jan 15, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
|
AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
It is the bleak mid-winter, or so it seems. The passage of one cold front after another has reduced the local fishing effort to near nothing. With the holiday malaise having passed, even the commercial fleet seems to have turned to other practices wi...
DATE: Jan 08, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
|
AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
Christmas in rapidly being lost in the mists of time and 2011 is greyhounding towards us. The old adage about time and tide waiting for no man is so true and so unrelenting. So, before we leave 2010 in the annals of times past, let us ever so briefly...
DATE: Dec 31, 2010
|
CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
|
AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
Ho, ho, ho. Actually, it would be more like ha, ha, ha if you have even the faintest thought of going fishing this holiday weekend. Quite apart from getting relegated to Santa’s naughty list, the weather, carefully arranged by Rudolph to guarantee hi...
DATE: Dec 24, 2010
|
CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
|
AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
Would anyone care for an introduction to ice fishing? The temperature of late has certainly suggested that such might be in order but the usual cartoon of a guy fishing through a hole in the ice can be far from the truth. As is the case with most thi...
DATE: Dec 18, 2010
|
CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
|
AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
