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We have been spoilt! It has been awfully nice weather for early October, and it is not likely to last. Granted, at this time of the year the tropical activity in these latitudes eases up considerably but at anytime now, the winter lows that the North...
DATE: Oct 09, 2021
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Tight Lines
At the third time of asking, the weather finally co-operated, and Sunday dawned bright and calm with no appreciable seas to speak off.
Ideal conditions for the wahoo tournament which took its place as one of the most popular angling events of the ye...
DATE: Oct 02, 2021
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General
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
Here we go again – hopefully! It is high time to get the season’s last major angling event under way.
The fish are out there on the grounds and there is plenty of bait which augurs well for plenty of action. There can only be one fly in the ointment...
DATE: Sep 25, 2021
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General
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
Just what is the weather going to do?
After almost a week of calm seas and blue skies, it seems that the gods are conspiring to again force a postponement of the wahoo tournament.
Doubtless the decision will be pretty last minute although any seaso...
DATE: Sep 18, 2021
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General
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
O.B.E. - overcome by events – that would summarise the situation nicely.
The circumstances that conspired to move The Royal Gazette Wahoo Tournament back to the first of its alternate dates, now September 19. There will be the naysayers who will be...
DATE: Sep 11, 2021
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General
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
This isn’t going to be easy – not by any stretch of the imagination.
It is more than a little difficult to drum up support for a fishing tournament that is over a week away when a major tropical system is brewing in that part of the Atlantic that so...
DATE: Sep 04, 2021
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General
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
It may not seem like it, but the summer is all but over. Oh, it’s still hot and humid but all the signs are there.
For the doubters, it is football season of both variations, school is about to go back in, the traffic at rush hour is building up and...
DATE: Aug 28, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
Around and round she goes; where she stops no one knows.
Just like the old-time fair barker said, Henri did just that. Around the Island he went, stirring up the ocean, keeping anglers home and reminding everyone that it is that time of the year whe...
DATE: Aug 21, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
Hard to believe, but it is suddenly that time of the year again: that pregnant pause when the weather is hot and calmer than imaginable. It is the hiatus between the next change of seasons; an almost illusory pause. Those old enough to have received ...
DATE: Aug 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
Here it is: August, that month that brings those lazy, sometimes hazy and often crazy days of summer. Actually, this is a pretty apt description of the recent offshore situation. Angling effort is down, in part owing to the heat but also because for ...
DATE: Aug 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines