Tagged: fishing
Seasonal Awareness
Last night I attended a local boat club meeting that featured a panel of fishermen sharing tips on landing more fish on outings. The meeting covered a lot of ground, from proven lures to various fishing line sizes, however, one thing that might have been included was safety. Currently the air temperature over Boston Harbor is 48 degrees and the water temperature is 49 degrees. With temperatures that low, any fisherman that unexpectedly enters the water is going to deal with hypothermia in short order. This time of year requires not only lures and rods, but EPIRBs - both [...]
Fishing “Timeshare” Service
Recently a Floridian father and son team started an online booking service which enables anglers to reduce the price of charter boat fishing, world-wide. ShareaFishingCharter.com provides a number of individual tickets for each charter which allows the fishermen to spread the costs among a larger number of anglers, reducing the cost for each individual. More than 500 charter companies are participating in the service and roughly twice that many anglers have purchased tickets since the company’s launch in May 2014. The service represents a new way for anglers to engage in their favorite boating experience, affordably.
31st Annual Gloucester Schooner Festival, Sept. 4-6
The Annual festival is sailing onto the horizon. The well-known event, held off Gloucester, MA, will feature a wide variety of schooners hailing from a number of eastern ports, There is a lot to this festival. On Friday evening, festivities will include a block party and gala event. Events on Saturday will kick off with the Maritime Gloucester Heritage Day celebration and conclude with a fireworks display over the harbor. Sunday, the Parade of Sail will start at 10:30 am, followed by the main event, the Mayor’s Race, at 1 pm. This is a pretty rare opportunity to get up [...]