My buddy Fritz just got back from Bimini and said the Bimini Big Game Club has closed. The island has undergone a lot of change the past few years, and not for the good.
Unrelated email conversations with Jeremy of Flies and Fins and Michael Gracie of, well, Michael Gracie, brought back the memories of a trip that constituted four days of uninterrupted awesomeness. I haven’t gotten to play the tuna game since that trip, though Lord knows we try, but it’s not an everyday–or even every year–happening to [...]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzZhSl_00pI&hl=en&fs=1] Underwater footage from National Geographic.
I spent a few hours on the water with Scott Hamilton targeting spinner sharks. We saw over 100 spinners but they were in no mood to eat flies. Actually, we’d just got the game going when a completely clueless dude in a cruiser ran within ten feet of our boat, sending all interested sharks swimming [...]
Fly Fishing in Salt Waters Nov-Dec-08 In the Nov/Dec issue of Fly Fishing In Salt Waters, John McMurray (New York salty anglers should check out his blog post on saltwater licenses) has a good article on offshore drilling.
Below is an interesting NPR podcast with Richard Ellis, author of Tuna: A Love Story. NPR PODCAST: Can the bluefin tuna be saved? Quote: “The tuna is better at what it does than what MIT could possibly create.” (Thanks to NH Mike for the heads up.)
The people in charge of protecting it seem to doing their best to drive bluefin to extinction. Read this article by noted marine biologist Carl Safina on Yale e360. Money Quote: A 43-nation commission has public-trust management authority and a mandate to conserve. But the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas has for [...]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJnxYsZNzwM&hl=en&fs=1] Somewhere in this equation, drugs must be involved.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bc-Cv9C-E8&hl=en&fs=1] Who wants to paddle out the bait?
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