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T’was the night before Christmas and the mere thought of venturing out onto the briny is likely to meet with disaster as there are so many landlubbery chores to be done. There are shops that have yet to be visited, last minute items to be picked up ...

The Island is well into the holiday mood, with the shoppers bustling through town, the lounges and restaurants doing a boom trade and various social engagements going a log way to ensuring that the vast majority of the populace is kept from venturing...

Those of you who like to fish by the rules can just go ahead and put all your gear into mothballs. You won’t even be contemplating using it again until April at the very earliest. Rules? What rules? Here opens an interesting topic for discussion. Loc...

Well moving into the early winter doldrums; well, doldrums of spirit and activity because the offshore is likely to be anything other than calm with downright rough a distinct possibility. Add in to the less than encouraging weather, the seasonal dis...

It has that wintry look about it. The light fades quickly during the afternoon, taking on that yellowish tinge that means that the summer is truly a distant memory and that there are gales and worse to come. It has that wintry feel about it despite t...

Just what we all needed a sub-tropical storm! Sub-tropical, indeed. Is that because it occurs in the sub-tropics as opposed to the tropics? Or is it a tropical system that has escaped to sub-tropical latitudes? Call it what you will, it was a blow an...

Without us hardly noticing any change, the weather has almost completed its shift into the winter pattern where periods of calm are followed by a length of time during which the winds and seas build up with the latter usually set to coincide with the...

A bit of bluster last weekend put paid to most angling efforts and the forecasts for today and tomorrow isn’t too promising either. Basically, it looks like more golf or couch potato exercises. That’s the problem with this time of the year; the fish ...

The weather is slowly but surely moving in its less predictable, more unwelcoming mode that characterises the wintry or “off” season for anglers. Some days are glorious; others way too blustery and, in between, the seas can still be unpleasant even w...

The tropical weather is becoming less of a threat to us but there are signs that things are shifting into the more wintry weather pattern. Probably not too much angling time left. There will be occasions but now is that time of the year when it pays ...