166 results returned for search: "" category "Sport" author Tight Lines
Now you know what the old-timers meant when they said that winters were different back in the day. This present one is a real throwback to times when wood was collected for fireplaces, space heaters (especially the kerosene variety) were the norm and...
DATE: Feb 20, 2010
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This past week was a bit much. Talk about a good, old-fashioned February; cold, wet and outrageously windy. So much so that it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise that the fishing effort this week was pathetically low. Early on a few commercia...
DATE: Feb 13, 2010
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The entire concept of going fishing for pleasure at this time of the year is pretty much out of people's minds. The commercial operators can and do take advantage of anything that remotely resembles a good day and, for next eight weeks or so, at leas...
DATE: Feb 06, 2010
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Here we are with about eight percent of the year already gone. Time really does fly when you are having fun or are otherwise distracted from more pleasurable pursuits. If fishing is the objective, then most will be writing February off as a hopeless ...
DATE: Jan 30, 2010
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The winter malaise has taken firm hold now, so much so that it has progressed to the point that we don't even notice some of the calm, sunny and particularly pretty days that punctuate the months of January and February.
You probably haven't even not...
DATE: Jan 23, 2010
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Even those totally oblivious to all around them living in a make-believe world of their own, will have some indication than the last week has been anything but kind to commercial fishermen or sportsmen. In fact, most of the latter have found solace i...
DATE: Jan 16, 2010
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If you have paid any attention at all to the weather this past week, you will have thought of the similarity between the present conditions here in Bermuda and that television programme The Most Dangerous Catch. To be sure, the waves were of the same...
DATE: Jan 09, 2010
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Ah, the return to normalcy! The festivities are over, work starts to become a reality again and there are many tired and overworked individuals to whom any prospect of a quiet day on the water has been dashed by the, again normal, wintry gales and te...
DATE: Jan 04, 2010
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How fast the year has gone - and, boy, is it ever so fleeting!
It seems that New Year's 2009 was yesterday and here we are again on the cusp of another one. Not so very long ago, we were in panic mode about Y2K with visions of airplanes dropping out ...
DATE: Dec 19, 2009
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If you aren't sick of turkey and ham yet, you will be soon, as the holiday season progresses.
Fresh fish is getting to be a commodity that is hard to come by as even the commercial fishermen concentrate on lobsters and guinea chicks.
As for the amate...
DATE: Dec 12, 2009
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