How many of you are fishing from your boat? I know as far as I’m concerned I’m not fishing nearly enough and yesterday while I sat on the foredeck here that a seriously huge fish broke the surface not more than ten feet in front of my boat and I did not have a rod …
I’d hazard a guess that 95% of the fishing done from sailboats is using surface lures but the problem is that far too often the fish tend to hang out a bit deeper… One way to get off the surface is to use a lure that is designed to work below the surface. Most of …
So hardly a surprise I didn’t catch anything… What’s your mantra?
Since the Wahoo tournament just finished, thoughts of Wahoo are very much on my mind… One of the big problems with a fish like Wahoo and sportsfishing tech is that most of the gear and advice you will find at the corner tackle shop is designed for trolling at higher speeds than sailboats cruise at …
When writing a tome such as the “Any Fool Can Fish Guide” I should admit to have taken a certain liberty in the title and in point of fact there ARE fools about who have found it difficult to get with the program… I know that I should have entitled it something more along the …
Last year having the mast fall down and go boom seriously cut back on my fishing and, as such, cut back quite a bit on the ongoing series of the “Any Fool Can Fish Guide”. It was hard to get in that “headspace” while building a new mast, sewing new sails and splicing really big …
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