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The doldrums continue, but for how much longer? As the weather authorities warn, complacency is to be avoided as the conditions for tropical activity are ideal throughout the North Atlantic and this Island is on the verge of a month that has seen it...

It is ever so subtle but the passage of fronts and any shift away from the dominant mid-Atlantic high pressure is a sure sign that summer is coming to an end and the natural world feels the onset of autumn which is closely followed by winter in the n...

They say some like it hot, but just for now, that does not include most sports fishermen. The seas are calm, the sun relentless and the fish are behaving accordingly. Trips out to the Banks are either looking for billfish, a much-diminished occupat...

If anyone has any mal-de-mare-based qualms as to taking a sortie on the briny, well, it doesn’t get much calmer than this. Sometimes referred to as the doldrums and often associated with sailing ships being becalmed for weeks. The poem The Rime of th...

Had enough of billfish yet? The excitement of the Cup Match holiday should have gone some way to relieving those woes, although it may have resurrected others from the more fervent supporters of both teams. In any case, things do wind down a bit now ...

This is the climax. The climax of the month-long reverie devoted to billfish and otherwise known as July. The final tournament of the Bermuda Triple Crown Billfish Series is currently being fished and its outcome could well be decisive in the awardi...

Mid-month and midway through the high-profile billfish tournaments; hot and summery with the benefit of a full moon immediately before the main event kicks off. What more could anyone want? Well, some renewed action from the marlin, for a start. Whil...

Fair weather and hot, sunny conditions. The epitome for the blue water big game tournaments that highlight the month of July here in Bermuda. The mass of aerials, outriggers, and towers down at the boat clubs and other marinas pay homage to the draw...

Bermuda’s work in developing a blue economy has been showcased during a weeklong UN Ocean Conference by the home affairs minster, Walter Roban. Mr Roban said the conference, which took place from June 26 to July 1 in Lisbon, Portugal, was “an excelle...

Let there be no mistake; this week’s column is about big fish. Big as in more than you would ever want to have to carry. Big that puts the “big” in big game fishing. That is what this is all about. But like so many stories, it is going to start small...

High summer and the days are shortening; not that anyone is going to notice this, just yet and it is going to get a lot hotter. It is that time of the year when the sport fishing simply does not get any better and anglers should be able to make full...

Anglers and commercial fishermen have breathed a sigh of relief as the offshore grounds have almost totally returned to normal. The odd longtail is never a problem, but that invasion of shearwaters is a horror at best. Happily, it is now possible to ...