Fishing

Getting started with spearfishing…

Easily the most eco-friendly way of putting fish on the dinner table is spearfishing… Sadly, spearfishing has many adversaries who have spread a lot of propaganda that makes far too many people believe just the opposite. As a result, there is both a certain social stigma as well as far too many anti-spearfishing laws. The …

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Scary fact…

Did you know that it takes modern fishing line over six hundred years to break down? That is seriously scary and I’d have guessed a couple of years at most  the way plastics are affected by UV and suchlike… Something to think about when disposing of fishing line and leaders!

If you are in Woods Hole…

The Woods Hole Film Festival at the end of July will be showing James Waldron’s film “Reel People…Fishermen of Plum Island” If you are in the area why not drop in and show some support for independent film making… In the meantime you can always get primed for the festival by buying the DVD!

Eye candy…

The new online issue of “Catch” magazine… We WILL be talking lots about fly fishing from boats in the not-too-distant future!

A film of note…

There is just not a lot of good fishing media out there. I’ve always loved fishing but most fishing films and TV shows leave me looking forward to the commercials or hoping for the odd power failure. Sailing film is much the same and it has always been a mystery to me how someone can …

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A fishing bible…

Up until Scott and Wendy Bannerot wrote “The Cruiser’s Handbook of Fishing” there has not been much information available on the whole fishing while cruising gig and with this book they certainly filled the gap. Fishing while cruising is a whole different world than sports-fishing (though not without it’s sport) and it is good to …

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