I had taken my boat to my mechanic -- about 30 miles north of the Harborage High&Dry Marina in Downtown Saint Petersburg, Florida -- by land. He lives on the water, and I was able to run the bay with my wife and best-friend Captain David Rieumont. We ran, fished, talked, and laughed. In between we fished. A nice sheepshead, some mackeral, and a couple of small trout added the pull, the passion, and the core of my life to a wonderful day.
God Bless America, and work to protect our sport from the radical enviros that want to take you off the water. Join the Recreational Fishing Alliance and be sure to visit our wonderful sportfishing web site!
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
A Press Release
Gary Poyssick has taken the position of Communications Director for the State Chapter of the Recreational Fishing Alliance. The organization is fighting for our rights to fish, and is the leading Political Action Committee in the country fighting to achieve this goal. Visit today at http://www.JoinRFA.org.
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And thanks for reading our web site at http://www.TheOnlineFisherman.com
Friday, February 11, 2011
Kites aren't only for sailfish
We've been talking to a manufacturer in Australia about a collection of fishing kites they design and sell mostly in the Pacific rim and Brazil. We're currently building a relationship with them that will bring them -- as a product specifically available from TheOnlineFisherman.com -- to American waters.
Our Florida Keys master guide and general all-around cool-guy Greg Poland is using them -- as are a few of the other incredible captains we have there -- for Sailfish and the huge Kingfish that prowl their waters.
But the kites were first designed to aid the thousands of Australians whose passion is surf fishing. This means that there's a very broad range of opportunities for the kite in the Keys (Poland says they're far better then anything he's used, and kites are a mainstay to the pros fishing the Keys' reefs; dropping live bait from a kite kit (two, actually, with two lines per on some boats) makes for an irresistible presentation to sailfish, for sure, with king macks a close second predator taking quick notice of live baits splashing around as if held by the hand of a friendly God.
Fishing them from the surf opens doors all over the northeast; from Long Island through the beaches of New Jersey all the way down to South Carolina, sports men and women fish the surf. Kites like the ones from Caught in Flight give them all a way to put baits -- including the right kind of artificial (soft baits come to mind?) 200, 300, or more yards from where they're sitting in the sand is a world we've never encountered here in the states. At least not to any degree and not that we've ever read about.
If you do know of people using kites to surf fish anywhere, please let us know.
Our Florida Keys master guide and general all-around cool-guy Greg Poland is using them -- as are a few of the other incredible captains we have there -- for Sailfish and the huge Kingfish that prowl their waters.
But the kites were first designed to aid the thousands of Australians whose passion is surf fishing. This means that there's a very broad range of opportunities for the kite in the Keys (Poland says they're far better then anything he's used, and kites are a mainstay to the pros fishing the Keys' reefs; dropping live bait from a kite kit (two, actually, with two lines per on some boats) makes for an irresistible presentation to sailfish, for sure, with king macks a close second predator taking quick notice of live baits splashing around as if held by the hand of a friendly God.
Fishing them from the surf opens doors all over the northeast; from Long Island through the beaches of New Jersey all the way down to South Carolina, sports men and women fish the surf. Kites like the ones from Caught in Flight give them all a way to put baits -- including the right kind of artificial (soft baits come to mind?) 200, 300, or more yards from where they're sitting in the sand is a world we've never encountered here in the states. At least not to any degree and not that we've ever read about.
If you do know of people using kites to surf fish anywhere, please let us know.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
The Recreational Fishing Alliance
We at the online fisherman are in the fight of our lives -- as are you. With regulations stopping us from fishing for the species we love so much -- from American Red Snapper to Grouper, our sport is being taken apart one-species at a time, and one regulation at a time, by the environmental left and the globalist/socialists they represent.
Help us today stop this onslaught against our rights to fish the waters that God's provided us, and protect our rights as Floridians and Gulf-of-Mexico citizens to control our own lives. Stop the nanny state. Visit our web site today and click the Fishing Politics tab. And follow us here, on Facebook, and everywhere else you might find us.
Help us today stop this onslaught against our rights to fish the waters that God's provided us, and protect our rights as Floridians and Gulf-of-Mexico citizens to control our own lives. Stop the nanny state. Visit our web site today and click the Fishing Politics tab. And follow us here, on Facebook, and everywhere else you might find us.