On the Water: Fishing

Hatteras Yachts has a new GT series,  with a GT54, GT60, and GT63 Convertible. Sweet – boat builders are back to building new boats! The GT 60 has already hit the water, but for 2011 it’s redesigned (and being reintroduced at the Ft. Lauderdale boat show in October), and joined by the GT 54 and GT 63 (to [...] …Read More

A 10 year old was skewered by a flying stingray stinger last week, in a freak accident reminiscent of the Steve Irwin death-by-stingray event. File this one under strange but true: according to the Baltimore Sun, the 10 year old boy, Quentin Tokar, was on vacation with his family while fishing on the Avon pier. They caught [...] …Read More

We spent the day chasing striped bass and bluefish with Rich Armstrong of Boston Fishtix charters, and asked him about running his McKee Craft Freedom 22. Armstrong’s been running the boat for three seasons, and got it for several reasons. “It was mostly the beam, it’s got one of the widest beams for its size,” [...] …Read More

When it comes to Skishing, Laura Dekker (another youngest around the world solo sailing trip), and other weird nautical news, sometimes you just have to wonder if mankind has run out of things to do. Now, we’re inventing strange and unusual activities, pushing the limits of old ones, and generally behaving like we don’t have [...] …Read More

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Jerkthatjig has a new lure called the Octojig, which I tested recently while fishing for blueline tilefish. This is one of the wackiest jigs ever created, similar in nature to Shimano’s Lucanus. There’s a large roundish leadhead skirted by rubber hairs, wings, and trailers, with a pair of relatively small hooks swinging around in the middle [...] …Read More

The best time for summer striped bass is after dark. It is up to you to find them. …Read More

The House of Representatives has a bill, HR 5804, which prohibits trade in billfish and deserves your support! HR5804, which they’ve titled the Billfish Conservation Act of 2010, would shut down all commercial trade of white, blue, striped, and black marlin, as well as spearfish. What about swords? They’re specifically excluded, no doubt because they represent a [...] …Read More

This is the first in a series of quick interviews with fishing guides, and why they fish the boats they do. Eric Wallace is a fly fishing guide from Maine who specializes in sight fishing to striped bass in clear, shallow water. Eric Wallace has been guiding for striped bass in Maine for 11 years, [...] …Read More