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| May/June 2008 Big Game Fishing Journal |
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| Read Captain Len's Editorial -- Perseverance Pays Off: Longlines Back in Closed Areas. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| May/June Feature Articles |
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THE BIG 10 MISTAKES IN BLUE WATER FISHING by Tred Barta |
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As in life and blue water fishing theres always two sides to a coin. Always 10 ways to skin a cat and then theres always the luck factor which is earned by shear determination and hours of blind trolling. |
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2007 MID-ATLANTIC $500,000 LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE WINNER'S CIRCLE by Captain Len Belcaro |
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The prestigious 2007 Mid-Atlantic $500,000 Tournament is now but a brief memory to many who fished in the event. The tournament began on Monday, August 20, with 163 boats competing for top honors and for the $1,934,500 purse, which would be divided among the winners of the different categories. more |
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THE ART OF THE TROLL by Captain Mark DeBlasio and Adam LaRosa |
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The Canyon Runner crew has built a reputation of fishing hard and spending hundreds of days per year chasing tuna, swords, marlin, sails, wahoo and mahi. We are often asked whether we prefer to troll or chunk. The simple answer we do whatever it takes to catch and utilize both methods to put our charters on the fish. But truth be told, trolling is our favorite way to put fish in the boat. more |
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CIRCLE HOOKS IN MARLIN LURES? YOU BETCHA by Captain Fred Archer |
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| In todays world of reduced billfish populations and skyrocketing fuel costs, a couple of things have become more and more important. First, we have to do our best to make sure we dont kill or injure caught-and-released marlin, or that we catch-and- release them in such a way that they die later or become shark fodder. Second, because it now costs so much more in fuel to run to most marlin grounds, we need to capitalize even more so than in the past on converting any shots that we get at billfish, especially marlin, into caught fish. more |
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STAY IN THE GAME by Captain Damon Sacco |
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| Fishing hard is easy. This phrase has been the CASTAFARI slogan for almost 10 years. I figured, why not create an expression to exemplify the notion that working hard and catching fish fit effortlessly hand in hand? Id love to write an article substantiating this quote, filled with tales of trophy catches, manly diligence, and infinite good fortune, but most of us have heard that already. This is a piece about what goes on behind the scenes. more |
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| DAY TIME SWORDS 2000' DEEP by Richard Julylia |
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| You won't believe, what's happening in Florida. Fishermen are catching 200- to 500-pound swordfish during the day in 2,000 feet of water right on the bottomthat's rightno lie. Now this article is not intended to tell you about sword fishing in Florida, but about how the system is evolving on catching swordfish all day long on rod and reel, anywhere in the world. I first heard of big swordfish on the bottom while fishing in Venezuela, in the 1980s and 1990s.Local fishermen using hand lines were filling bags with rocks to get on the bottom to catch the fish of a lifetime. more |
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