No such thing as a scrap piece of teak…
Doing some boat projects on “So It Goes” has left me with some old teak chain plate backing pads that are no longer needed. What to do? I kinda like the thought of doing a bunch of teak lures…
Lures
Mahi Mahi…
This weekend coming back from shopping we noticed as we were leaving the dinghy dock a big fish swimming under one of the docks… Big fish here are pretty common as we have a hellacious number of real big Tarpon who hang out near the docks waiting for the sports-fisherman to clean their catch and …
Spin off being a good thing… A near perfect sailboat lure?
In the past I have bemoaned (well OK, ranted) the fact that most production made lures for trolling are not designed for sailboat speeds… For most of us the answer is to make our own or modify existing lures but every once in a while someone actually gets the fact that all fishermen are not …
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Thorn may have been on to something…
Writer James W. Hall’s character Thorn ties flies for a living when he is not dealing with various mayhem and suchlike… I’m certainly looking forward to the new book “Silencer“… Off hand I can get into the whole fly tying gig… I’ve always enjoyed tying flies and building lures and there is something about being …
Need new flies…
Speaking of new fly patterns… I really should get into some serious fly tying but with all the other various projects on the boat that will have to wait for a bit. Kind of a bummer really as I have some ideas about Tarpon flies that I’d love to try on the local tarpon population. …
Just below the surface…
I’d hazard a guess that 95% of the fishing done from sailboats is using surface lures but the problem is that far too often the fish tend to hang out a bit deeper… One way to get off the surface is to use a lure that is designed to work below the surface. Most of …
Contest swag… Hawaii Fishing Lures!
Hawaii Fishing Lures is providing one of the prize packages for our contest… HAVE YOU ENTERED YET? Some seriously good stuff here for the taking…
Seriously sweet…
For me the whole secret of tying flies on a boat in somewhat limited space is organization. Regal in my view has always built some of the best fly tying vises anywhere so hardly a surprise that when the do a travel kit it rocks!
Prizes, We have prizes….
Just a quick note that Hawaii Fishing Lures is offering one of the prizes for the upcoming Fishing Under Sail contest… Here at Boat Bits we have long been fans of Hawaii Fishing Lures as they actually have a clue about the needs of sailing fisherfolk and cater to those needs. What a concept! For …