Management Training: Carlos and the Great Cod Caper

For about a month (as of this writing), I’ve been boning up on my knowledge of fisheries management current events, reading a ton of backlogged groundfish news, trying to nail down some specifics about a recent crusade by several environmental groups advocate for deep-ocean coral beds that have been discovered in a number of the notches in the continental slope where we target tuna or billfish.Apr 1st, 2016

Chronicles of Stupid–The Splice Is Nice

While I played enough sports in my years before the deck to have genuine misgivings about calling fishing a “sport” in the tradition sense of the word, my experience both behind the reel or the gaff has shown me that there’s room to excel (and fail in epic fashion) wherever the goal is hauling fish from the brine. I’m talking about those rare, sometime astonishing moments when you find yourself punching 100 pounds above your weight class, or, for whatever reasons of mechanical technique or heightened, near-total focus, you suddenly perform light-years beyond your predicted median skill level. Feb 29th, 2016

Winter Sentence: 90 Days Behind the Remote

90 Days Behind the Remote The bizarre industry-level political correctness I developed over years editing fishing magazines still drifts around … Feb 2nd, 2016