On the Water: Fishing

ICAST 2010 is coming up and we’re already hearing about new fishing rods, reels, lures, and lines from the likes of Berkley, Penn, Abu Garcia, Shakespeare, and others. Yesterday I got the latest news release from Pure Fishing, which gave a rundown on some of their cool new goodies we’ll see in Las Vegas next [...] …Read More

When you need to find boat ramps, you can look everywhere at a glance with a new iPhone app, the Boat Ramp locator. The free new app is available to anyone and can be used on both iPhones and Droid phones. It’s available in the Apple iTunes store and in the Droid Marketplace, and can [...] …Read More

I hit Barnes & Noble to pick up another fishing book (The Longest Silence by Tom McGuane) when I noticed a “Staycation” display featuring local books. And it was great to see friend and former colleague Kevin’s book Falvey’s Guide to Fishing Long Island on the table. Here’s a closeup: The book is published by [...] …Read More

I saw the news in Soundings Trade Only yesterday that Bob Hewes had passed. Hewes is credited with building the first modern flats boat in the 1950s, born out of a bonefishing trip with legendary fly angler Lefty Kreh. In doing so he influenced an entire genre of angling, specifically how people approach skinny water [...] …Read More

A friend recommended I check out the “Careful Catch” web site, which is all about catch and release fishing, and was surprised to discover plenty of good saltwater fishing tips along with the catch and release info. If you want to learn more about how to safely release fish – and how to catch more [...] …Read More

Takemefishing.org has put out a free Boat Ramps iPhone app. Notice the “free” is not capitalized. The app itself is free, rather than an app that lists where there are “free boat ramps.” I downloaded the app and checked it out. You can search for nearby ramps based on your current location, by zip code, [...] …Read More

Will bluefin tuna fishing be shut down in the near future? According to the New York Times, an environmental advocacy group called the Center for Biological Diversity filed a request under the Endangered Species act, requesting that this fish be placed on the endangered species list – thus ending fishing for them. The request is, [...] …Read More

You can file your own “citizen scientist” reports on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster and contribute  information about what’s really happening down there. All you have to do is download the free iPhone app called “MoGo,” short for Mobile Gulf Observatory, from scientists at UMass Amherst. If you live in or are visiting [...] …Read More

A fishing buddy turned me on to this a while ago. Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences publishes daily surface temperature readouts for the entire seaboard, and more detailed ones for specific regions. Click on this link and check out your region from the list in the left column. You already know the reasons [...] …Read More

Fishing in Long Island Sound and the near by ocean is, according to long-time boating and saltwater fishing writer Kevin Falvey, blessed. And those of us who have hunted for stripers, blues, fluke, sea bass, and other species here will probably agree. Kevin wrote a book on fishing for these species and others, Falvey’s Guide [...] …Read More