Posts from the “Offshore” Category

Winter Blues

Posted on March 6th, 2009

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 have fly-rodable bluefin come into the backyard. Watch the water rip at 3:18; that pretty much sums up why this is the holy grail of northeast salt. Damn I’m ready for the season.

FLORIDA: Amberjack

Posted on February 14th, 2009

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 for cover and ruining that game.  We messed around with some reef fish as a plan B.  I caught my first ever amberjack on fly; a little one that still put on a bulldog fight. It looked a little something like this, give or take 100 pounds. (I forgot my camera.) But to a larger point, if you’re cruising along in what is by all accounts a giant ocean,…

Is the Bluefin Tuna Doomed?

Posted on December 8th, 2008

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 its 40-year history merely acted as the fishing industry’s official, tax-funded conglomerate. Think of it as the International Conspiracy to Catch All the Tuna, and its record starts making sense.

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