Monday, June 11, 2007

Fish Addict sweeps snapper in TCBA




By ED KILLER
edward.killer@scripps.com

June 11, 2007
FORT PIERCE — The busiest weekend in Treasure Coast fishing tournament history came to a close Sunday as competitors weighed catches in four of the weekend's five events.

A quick scan of the leaderboards revealed that it was a good weekend to target snapper, but maybe not so good to target swordfish, while spearfishing is pretty good right now.

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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Fly Fishing In Martha's Vineyard


Here's a nice article from Steve Grant of the Hartford Courant

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By STEVE GRANT, Courant Staff Writer

MARTHA'S VINEYARD -- We were bouncing down the beach in a big four-wheel-drive pickup, going fishing, when Cooper Gilkes, one of the most respected guides on Martha's Vineyard, stopped to talk to a ranger.

You should have been here this morning," the ranger said. "Six o'clock this morning, it was unbelievable." That is, there were striped bass everywhere. Now, it appeared, they were somewhere else.

"Don't tell me that," Gilkes said. "I don't want to hear that." I was riding shotgun, and I didn't want to hear it either.

I had come to Martha's Vineyard for one reason: to catch a striped bass on a fly rod.

It was early May, after a winter that wouldn't go away. The migratory striped bass and bluefish showed up off the Vineyard more than a week late, and even now were only trickling in. Fishing was agonizingly slow, at the very time of year when anyone who even occasionally wets a line has the itch to be on the water. (More)

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Breast cancer survivors enjoy fly fishing with event


By DAVID THOMPSON - dthompson@sungazette.com
DAVID THOMPSON/Sun-Gazette

Diane Chesnut vainly attempts to interest a pair of large trout into taking a bite of her Wooly Bugger fly as Trout Unlimited volunteer Rich Masters looks on. On Saturday, the Susquehanna Chapter of Trout Unlimited hosted “Casting for Recovery,” a day-long fishing trip in which volunteer fly fishing experts teamed up with breast cancer survivors for a day of trout fishing on Lycoming Creek.

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Monday, June 04, 2007

Splash and dash: Florida is a haven for seaplanes


Here is an interesting article by By Wes Smith of the Orlando Sentinel. However every time I see a sea plane I can't help but think about the one that crashed off of Miami Beach two years ago.