11 results returned for search: "bermuda championship AND " author Tight Lines
It’s hard to keep pace with rapidly moving targets and there is no doubt that the summer billfish scene moves with plenty of pace.
A quick blue marlin release for Captain Brian Hines’ Legasea in the early afternoon of the Saturday moved the team to t...
DATE: Jul 22, 2017
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Tight Lines
What is going on out there? Here it is; right on the very cusp of the recognised angling season and it isn’t as if the commercial fleet was landing dozens of wahoo or yellowfin tuna. Right now it is quite the opposite, unfortunately. Not really likel...
DATE: Apr 29, 2017
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Tight Lines
Now, let’s not all go racing out there at once. The weather is improving rapidly, the boredom has become unbearable and there are even fish willing to please, so has summer actually arrived? Well, no, not really.
For a start, more than half of the I...
DATE: Apr 11, 2015
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Tight Lines
Just about all over for another year! Billfish can move on over into the back seat after occupying the limelight and most of the headlines. After a month of concentrating on the deep blue water and the big fish, things will start to return to normal ...
DATE: Jul 26, 2014
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Tight Lines
By Pickled Onion
Longer days, bright sunshine and warmer weather should have put the wintry malaise into the past and angling should become a priority as time flies by and the year inexorably progresses. Although we try to do so, it is hard to define...
DATE: Apr 12, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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Tight Lines
The second of the summer holidays has come and gone even though the official start to summer was yesterday when the sun had reached its northernmost at the Tropic of Cancer (23.44 Nº latitude). This is properly known as the summer solstice, a term wh...
DATE: Jun 22, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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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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Opinion Writer
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Tight Lines
Do not doubt that the fishing season is upon us. As each day goes by, so do opportunities for a day afloat with the fish cooperating reasonably well. The offshore effort continues to increase as conditions become more to the liking of the weekend war...
DATE: May 22, 2010
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Tight Lines
The merry month of May marches on and with it the fishing season. Seemingly out of nowhere flotillas of boats have started appearing on the Banks and along the other preferred drop-offs as the fishing picks up and, slowly but surely, the weekend warr...
DATE: May 08, 2010
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Tight Lines
Fishing in general and angling in particular is rapidly fading from the limelight as days shorten and locals' mindset shifts into winter mode.
Happily, there are a few die-hards who continue to take advantage of any day that is even close to fishable...
DATE: Nov 28, 2009
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