Imagine that while you’re fishing for yellowfin, you are bombarded by small explosives dropped from a helicopter working for a commercial purse seiner. Sounds utterly absurd, but watch this video… it happened in Costa Rica.
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COSTA RICA: Commercial Fishing Bombing Run
Posted in Offshore, Other Blogs, Save the World, Travel, tagged billfish foundation, commercial fishing, yellowfin tuna on August 5, 2008 | No Comments »
NYC METRO: The Pelagics Are Here
Posted in Northeast, Offshore, tagged bonito, dolphin, mahi, pelagic, tuna on August 4, 2008 | No Comments »
From Capt. Dave Azar’s weekly email reports:
…The water from about 10 miles off the south Jersey coast is a beautiful cobalt blue, with temps in the mid to high 70’s. Working our way along the 20 fathom line we did not have any tuna sightings but we did get to take advantage of the [...]
Hey, Did You Know it’s Shark Week?
Posted in Media, Offshore, Stupid Stuff, tagged Shark Week on July 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The scene in front of my building this afternoon.
Fish. Drink. Eat. Sleep.
Posted in Florida, Inshore, Offshore, Travel, tagged Boca Grande, fishing, tarpon on June 9, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Four objectives met in order of priority. More on the trip to Boca Grande later.
REVIEW: All The Best
Posted in Fly Fishing, Freshwater, Inshore, Offshore, Reviews, tagged Fly Fishing, lefty kreh on May 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The most famous of fly fishermen are famous for something else. Ted Williams, Ernest Hemingway, Tiger Woods…(probably the most recognizable of all time is a pretend one, Brad Pitt as Paul Maclean)…The lone exception to that would be Lefty Kreh. In the fly fishing community at least, he is a one-namer, like ”Babe” to baseball fans, “Jerry” [...]
MORE AUCTIONS: Bid for Bluefin, for Stripers Unlimited
Posted in Fly Fishing, Offshore, Save the World, Travel on May 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Stripers Forever has a silent auction for a school bluefin tuna trip in Maine.
LONG ISLAND: Alewives Get Fish Ladder
Posted in Freshwater, Inshore, Northeast, Offshore, Save the World on April 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Migratory fish can hopefully spawn in the Carman’s River once again.
This Room Smells Like Hotel Illness*
Posted in Florida, Fly Fishing, Inshore, Offshore on March 27, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I just stink. Two days fishing without showering. Hit offshore today with Capt. Scott Hamilton in search of spinner sharks that never materialized. Got into some dolphin (mahi), which are awesome on fly, on a pallet in 30 feet of green water. Unexpected. We also hit a few small false albacore but mostly fought the wind [...]
Kesey’s Fugitive Mexico
Posted in Offshore, Stupid Stuff, Travel on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
A Time’s writer’s pretentious attempt to recreate Ken Kesey’s experience on the lam in Manzanillo.
FISHERIES: Noise Makes Right
Posted in Inshore, Northeast, Offshore, Other Blogs, Save the World, tagged conservation, fishing on March 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
John McMurray with one of his too infrequent posts on fishing conservation, this one pointed at how certain interests with loud voices and bully pulpits can undercut anglers’ efforts as a conservation force.
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