Get out the pencils and the wide-lined notebook paper and get your kid to write about why fishing and being on the water is so important, and he or she could win a 10′ NuCanoe that you just might be able to borrow once in a while. Go to the Fishy Kid website to check out the rules for the latest contest aimed at getting kids out on the water.
Project Permit, a new joint venture between The Bonefish and Tarpon Trust and Costa Del Mar Sunglasses, has the goal of tagging 6,000 permit for scientific research. The stuff they have found out about bonefish and tarpon is phenomenal so I imagine this will bear the same fruit. Go to the Project Permit website to apply for tags if you are so inclined.
The buoy data reads NNW 20 and that’s that, the salt is taken off the table, but the fishing option portfolio is strong to very strong if you make an effort.
“The pie and cake is mine to take,” –Don Edwards, Saddle Tramp There is irony in the fact that some of my best opportunities to catch native wild freshwater fish exist in manmade drainage canals designed in part to turn what is naturally a swamp into solid ground. A berm about a half mile away cordons off the real wild, the swamp water flowing southerly over limestone bedrock. But the wild creeps into the sanitized despite the best efforts of developers and trappers. Alligators show up uninvited in golf course ponds and largemouth bass make their way into every reasonably oxygenated patch of freshwater. Out in horse country, miles away from the coast, the bass are the game. In the small canals inaccessible by…
An article in the Richmond Times-Dispatch about the debate between anglers and scientists who have seen a decline in the atlantic menhaden population and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) and the Omega Protein Corporation, who say the baitfish population is just fine. From the vantage point of my home waters on the Western Sound, I’m going with the scientists and anglers.
Tagged: bunker, Chesapeake Bay, menhaden, omega protein
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