Things that Suck… & Don’t. Barjack the Angler Permitatious Flat Indian Ocean June 4, 2011 I am wrecked, this place is gonna be hard to get over when I finally have to leave. Scratch that: impossible to get over. The wind is supposed to drop to 15knot’s tomorrow… PERFECT! I will have the big rod [...]
Posts under ‘Fresh Mud’
Trailer: “Itu’s Bones”
The making of a guide. Lovely to watch. This fella probably learned to bonefish in what, a few weeks? I wish there was medication I could take for jealousy… bloody natural fishermen. Let me tell you friends, I have seen first hand photos from this place by actual, real world dudes holding these fish [...]
“More like guidelines than actual rules…”
You can’t catch bonefish until you can catch bonefish. It’s a lot like the one hand clapping thing. All the beginning bonefish anglers I know broke off their first fish, even the first few, and those are the one’s they actually hooked. There were probably a few others they didn’t set the hook on [...]
Key’s Chronicles: Early Season
Day I: Late start, low tide, breezy. Oceanside: small groups, singles, and doubles. Second cast: hooked up! Jump, jump. Sweeeet. Drag singing. Fish off. “Uhhhh… popped ‘im off.” Nope: reel in to find the backing broke! Motored around searching for a #10 yellow line zipping through the water but was forced to admit both the [...]
Fish-Farming: The Answer or Another Problem?
Judge for yourself… isn’t learning fun? * Addendum: Ok, follow the logic here. If you feed fish to fish—basically converting one species into another—the conversion isn’t 1:1. Right? I mean, it can’t be. There is always some energy lost somewhere in the process. So, if you convert say 4 tons of anchovies into feed for [...]
The War on Fish: The End of the Line, revisited.
We are fighting a war against fish, and we are… winning! Remember this? Yeah, well, it’s still happening and it’s gotten worse since the film’s release in 2009. The facts: The global catch has been on the decline since 1989! (Even though the global fishing fleet continues to grow.) One billion people rely on fish [...]
