One of the purveyors of fishing gear I generally buy stuff from is Fish & Save as they offer good gear, great prices, and ship stuff quickly. They also, if you’re on their mailing list send out their deals for the day and let you know when they have sales going on. I’d say it’s …
For folks who tend to catch and eat reef fish you might be interested that cases of Ciguatera are up in the BVI and take precautions. Reduce consumption of coral reef fish, like barracuda, snapper, bass, perch and hind Avoid eating the head, skin, intestines and roe of coral reef fish, which usually have a …
One of the few fishing channels on YouTube I actually watch is Hey Skipper because he’s pretty serious about catching fish. After all, the whole idea of fishing for folks on sailboats is really about putting dinner on the table. As a side business, Hey Skipper has become a purveyor of salted bait and that …
Tailchaser (a place I buy lures from) has an interesting category of lures based on the concept of predator/prey that makes a whole lot of sense. Mainly it’s just a daisy chain with the emphasis on bigger bait fish feeding on smaller ones. Makes all kinds of sense. Better yet, most of the lures in …
Squid, for the cruising sailor, is a great resource as they are fairly easy to catch, abundant, and, cooked properly, quite tasty. Hogy lures has an excellent primer on all you need to know when fishing for squid that you should really check out.
Getting rid of plastics in fishing tackle one bead at a time…
An excellent breakdown of commercial tuna fishing you really should take a look at.
As room on a sailboat is always at a premium I tend to only use three piece spears because they’re easier to stow in my cockpit locker or dinghy. As it happens GATKU has a new spear that really caught my attention… The Eight’er 3pc is made up of three 30-inch sections and compatible with …
The hardest problem where fishing under sail is concerned is how well a lure performs at slow speeds and this lure, from Hogy, looks like just the thing when you’re ghosting along. I’m looking forward to getting my hands on a couple and see just how well they work.
Since I’m pretty close to cutting out a bunch of handline frames for the Sailboat Fishing kits I figured I might as well try to utilize any leftover wood scraps for a downsized frame for dinghy fishing. So far, the only design issue I have to deal with on the frame is that it fit …