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Fingers crossed, the weather will hold for the 53rd Royal Gazette Wahoo Tournament, one of the island’s oldest and best attended angling tournaments. One of the few public tournaments to still feature line classes and to put an emphasis on the light...

Where has the year gone! This is the last weekend that features a summer holiday and many will be making a last-ditch attempt to head offshore, enjoy a boating picnic or simply soak up some sunshine before life returns to the humdrum world of work an...

The number of recreational lobster diving licences has been cut by 75 to 375 for the new season in a bid to conserve the crustaceans. The move by the home affairs ministry came after statistics for the 2018-19 season showed a 2 per cent decrease in t...

The calm seas have dragged out plenty of anglers who would normally shun the heat that August brings Happily, for most, there have been some rewards as the wahoo fishing is showing plenty of signs of picking up which augurs well for the awaited autum...

The passage of some frontal boundaries this past week made for a bit of a mixing of the deep ocean waters and this, hopefully, will prevent the formation of that so-called “green water” that the offshore angler does his best to avoid. The fish don’t...

The doldrums are upon us! Not just the flat calm seas that are rolling on a long, lazy swell ­— these are described as “doldrums”, but also the lacklustre interest shown by most anglers with many shunning the heat and preferring to seek the solace of...

Almost done, now! All the big billfish tournaments are in the past and only the Bermuda Blue Marlin Release Challenge is to come. A tournament designed to attract lower-key participants, this is a single-day tournament and is based solely on release...

High summer and it is moving at a pace with July nearly upon us! It is well into the fishing season now and the tournaments are coming fast and furious. May and June are the month for the most traditional fishing with wahoo and tuna the primary targ...

Waking to lightning, thunder, torrential rain and gusty winds last Sunday meant that postponing last weekend’s Bacardi Tournament turned out to be a wise move. The tournament will now be held this Sunday in far more conducive circumstances. While the...

Waking to lightning, thunder, torrential rain and gusty winds last Sunday meant that postponing last weekend’s Bacardi Tournament turned out to be a wise move. The tournament will now be held this Sunday in far more conducive circumstances. While the...

Now is the time to get down to some seriously fishing. Yesterday was for picnicking, swimming and soaking up the sun. Consign all that to the history books and get offshore where there has been some very encouraging signs over the last couple of week...

Time for the ol’ sea dogs to do what they do best; and that is; slip in a weekend of fishing between Mother’s Day which kept many land-bound even though the weather was somewhat less than encouraging (a bit of sour grapes, maybe?) and the 24th May Be...