October 26, 2009 – 12:25 pm
Yankee luck By Bryan Lewis Yankees can’t fish. Yet, for a Yankee who never fished off-shore, my buddy Jason, a Pittsburgh transplant to Charleston, sure helped four of us born-and-raised southerners haul in a massive catch in May 2008. Jason is a true transplant to the South since he moved here due to his health. [...]
October 26, 2009 – 12:15 pm
A Fishing Yarn By Missy Whitmire We were at a crossroads in our life and our relationship, and decided to head north to Alaska for a couple of months, to get a different perspective on our situation. After packing a pop-up camper to the brim with supplies, at the last minute we added fishing gear, [...]
October 26, 2009 – 12:07 pm
Yesterday was a wonderful day of bonding with my four year old grandson. We went fishing all day! He spent the night at our house and was up before dawn. When I got up AFTER the sun had risen, the first thing he said to me was “I already have my fishing clothes on!” I [...]
October 26, 2009 – 12:01 pm
Two for One “You haven’t lived until you’ve hooked into a 30 pound salmon.” That’s what my best friend, John, used to tell me during college in the late 70s. Over and over, he would regale me with stories of catching salmon. He guaranteed me that if I ever came to visit his home in [...]
October 23, 2009 – 1:03 pm
Chris Kitchens A couple of years go we headed out of Ripley’s Light on a very unusually warm November morning on the 36’ Blackfin “The Doughboy”, captained and owned by Ben Dantsler. The talk was how everybody and their brother were catching fish in the Gulf, and the lunch I had forgotten at the dock. [...]
October 23, 2009 – 12:56 pm
Take A Child Fishing…Again! A short story by – Jesse Doresy III; Alias – The Fisherking Twas a foggy morn as we left mom and pop’s for an old timey fishing trip. All we took were 4 Zebco 33’s with 8 lb. test and some mealy worms, as well as a couple of beetle spins. [...]
October 22, 2009 – 10:40 am
Shear here, shear there, shear everywhere! Again the North Atlantic tropics remain a real snooze-a-palooza. A disorganized wave over the Central Atlantic with patches of embedded convection faces multiple bouts with 30-40 kt shear with no hope for any spin-up. The tail end of a cold front east of the Bahamas is slowly drifting west, [...]
October 22, 2009 – 10:30 am
Despite Economy, Fishing License Sales Up Sales increase mirrors recreational fishing’s heyday in the 1960s and 1970s ALEXANDRIA, VA (October 20, 2009) – The Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation (RBFF) and the American Sportfishing Association (ASA) today announced the publication of a quarterly fishing license sales index to track trends that have an impact on [...]
October 20, 2009 – 1:44 pm
‘There went my 15 minutes of fame’ By BILL WALKER Zing! My rod bent like a rainbow, and the line spooled from the reel as the fish headed into deep water far beyond the breakers. Standing knee-deep in the Atlantic Ocean, my heart racing as fast as the fish on the line, I let the [...]
October 19, 2009 – 4:13 pm
We had entered the James Island Tourney and were looking for Dolphin and Wahoo. Left Sullivan’s Island around 0415. We started out about 150 degree heading and hit the ledge no weed no temp breaks (the water was under 75) continued out to 500 feet nothing finally approached the 226 hole and had a few [...]
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