There are other ways to fish in the ocean than with standard gear…
it is always good to think outside of the box that marketing presents.
It doesn’t ever know how to lead
It follows
and when it leads it likes to control opinion
sales
that is business
but it is not fishing.
Fish do not read magazines or blogs.
Fishing is discovery not formulaKen Abrames
‘But when you go back to a place where you spent many hours of childhood, you find that some of it has become important, if not actually numinous, and that universal irony might just have to eat hot lead for the moment, because there is no way of suppressing that importance. Also, there is the fact of its being no secret anyway. A Midwestern childhood is going to show, for instance, even after you have retired from the ad agency and are a simple crab fisherman by the sea, grave with Winslow Homer marineland wisdom. Sooner or later someone looks into your eyes and sees a flash of corn and automobiles, possibly even the chemical plant at Wyandotte, Michigan. You can’t hide it.’
Thomas McGuane – Sakonnet
Important research work carried out by
Keep in mind that good bites rarely last through an entire tide. You may show up and do nothing for two hours and assume you picked a bad night. You may have picked a great one but you’re not in the right tide window yet, or you missed it. On the quarter moons, when current speeds are the weakest of the month, its not uncommon for the best bite to occur in the middle of the tide, when the current is near its peak. Most of the rest of the month my logs show that roughly 90 minutes on either side of either slack current is often best, especially for larger fish. This is a time when the current speed is changing. It’s one of the most exciting times to fish because even if things are dead, the fish might turn on at any moment. If nothing else, that attitude has often helped me through the slow times and kept me on the rocks long enough for some memorable catches.
John Skinner – Fishing the bucktail – Mastering bucktails from surf and boat
These are wise words spoken by an experienced US striped bass fisherman. If you are an experienced Irish bass angler you will know well their true significance, maybe not in exactly the same pattern as that described above by John but certainly in relation to the timings you have discovered on the coast where you do your own fishing. Current speed, timing of rise and fall, volume, depth, colour of water, position (and many more factors are all key) – understanding the relationships the fish have with and within their ever changing environment and the way that environment moves and changes hour by hour day by day is one of the key factors of successful bass fishing. This takes considerable time and effort spent of course in the locations where you fish. Local bass fishing guides too will have garnered this knowledge over many many locations and seasons through hours of trial and error –
Spending ten hours on the coast may leave you feeling satisfied, tired hungry and thirsty, and yes maybe too you have caught some fish, a quantified bass fisherman! – But which would you rather do, angle optimally at recognised and understood and regular periods of activity or just slog it out for the sake of it over the day? Its important too, to remind ourselves that understanding these relationships will ultimately help in our decision making regarding the presentations we make to the fish at any point in either time or tide.
Joe Cordiero ties a Single-Wing Flatwing pattern that’s a perfect prey imitation. See him tie a multi feather version here. Fly Tying is not just a hobby for this man it is a passion. Joe Cordeiro has been tying flies for over 25 years. The past 10 years focusing on teaching, presenting at shows and marketing salt water flies. Joe has been fishing his entire life growing up near Cape Cod. Fly-fishing has been his main focus for many years His salt-water fly patterns have been tested in waters for their imitation to the bait they mimic. Many of his patterns are lifelike imitations. The materials used are natural and add to the authenticity of the product. Joe’s style and tying technique have caught the attention and admiration of many seasoned fly tiers and his passion for the art is evident.
You can also find his work at the link below
Techniques for Tying the “Flatwing” fly by Joe Cordeiro
For much more magical words and thoughts about bass fishing with the original creator of flatwing flies look here
I have always been fascinated by the moons and how they affect the seasons and migrations of animals
I have no cause and effect answers but even so I notice connections.
My dad told me when I was a little boy that when the lilacs bloom there are stripers around.
It is true and what does it mean? Simply this we can notice things in nature that give us clues to other
events that are happening at the same time.
It makes it into a ongoing adventure
and it never stops growing.
This full moon.
March 23 is the first full moon of spring.
Farmers plant and harvest according to the moons
not by calender dates,
this spring will have four full moons
the lst one of spring will be just before the summer solstice in June,
The first full moon of summer will occur on
July 19th I believe, almost a full calendar month after the first day of summer.
which means Summer will have three full moons and the last one just before the fall equinox.
a short summer moon wise indeed.
And the fish will begin to migrate on that moon.
And the parking lots will be full of folks saying this year spring came late or spring came early
and the same with fall.
What i love about the calendar is Labor day
which signals the fall migration of the folks back to the cities and gives me peace and quiet solitude.
JK Abrames March 23 2016
She came from Providence, the one in Rhode Island
Where the old world shadows hang heavy in the air
She packed her hopes and dreams like a refugee,
Just as her father came across the sea
She heard about a place people were smilin’,
They spoke about the red man’s way, how they loved the land
And they came from everywhere to the Great Divide
Seeking a place to stand or a place to hide
Down in the crowded bars out for a good time,
Can’t wait to tell you all what it’s like up there
And they called it paradise, I don’t know why
Somebody laid the mountains low while the town got high
Then the chilly winds blew down across the desert,
Through the canyons of the coast to the Malibu
Where the pretty people play hungry for power
To light their neon way and give them things to do
Some rich man came and raped the land, nobody caught ’em,
Put up a bunch of ugly boxes and, Jesus, people bought ’em
And they called it paradise, the place to be,
They watched the hazy sun sinking in the sea
You can leave it all behind and sail to Lahaina
Just like the missionaries did so many years ago
They even brought a neon sign ‘Jesus is Coming’,
Brought the white man’s burden down, brought the white man’s reign
Who will provide the grand design, what is yours and what is mine?
‘Cause there is no more new frontier, we have got to make it here
We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds
In the name of destiny and in the name of God
And you can see them there on Sunday morning
Stand up and sing about what it’s like up there
They called it paradise, I don’t know why
You call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye
Eagles – The last resort
In life, the visible surface of the Sperm Whale is not the least among the many marvels he presents. Almost invariably it is all over obliquely crossed and re-crossed with numberless straight marks in thick array, something like those in the finest Italian line engravings. But these marks do not seem to be impressed upon the isinglass substance above mentioned, but seem to be seen through it, as if they were engraved upon the body itself. Nor is this all. In some instances, to the quick, observant eye, those linear marks, as in a veritable engraving, but afford the ground for far other delineations. These are hieroglyphical; that is, if you call those mysterious cyphers on the walls of pyramids hieroglyphics, then that is the proper word to use in the present connexion. By my retentive memory of the hieroglyphics upon one Sperm Whale in particular, I was much struck with a plate representing the old Indian characters chiselled on the famous hieroglyphic palisades on the banks of the Upper Mississippi. Like those mystic rocks, too, the mystic-marked whale remains undecipherable.
Herman Melville – Moby Dick
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