EAST HAMPTON STRIPER FLAT (Part I) By Pat Ford
Growing up in New York City I heard a lot about the Hamptoms. Mostly these quaint towns on tip of Long Island gained fame as a weekend getaway for the rich and famous. No one really ever mentioned the fishing - if you wanted fishing you went to Montauk. Then one day Brendan Banahan called and invited me to spend a June weekend fishing for stripers in East Hampton with Capt. Paul Dixon. He’d pick me up at JFK Airport and we could stay at his girlfriend, Deborah Malone’s house in East Hampton, which was about five minutes away from the marina that Paul launched from. It all sounded too easy, Brendan was the publisher for Outdoor Life and Field & Stream Magazines in the late 90’s, so he had pretty good credentials when it came to fishing the northeast. After about 30 seconds of thought, I was in. During the two hour drive down the Long Island Expressway, I grilled Brendan about the “blitzes” I had heard about where schools of bluefish and stripers smash minnows at the surface. ‘That’s in the Fall” was the reply. Evidently, we were going to be dredging currents and rips...wrong! Finally, after a
significant amount of mystery, Brendan told me that we were going flats fishing. When I lived in the Northwest stripers were pretty much extinct. If you caught one on fly in Connecticut or New Jersey, they sang folks songs about you for a week. Now there was sight fishing for them on flats? This was going to be an interesting few days. At Brendan’s suggestion, I brought 9 weight rods with Scientific Angler’s slow and fast sinking “striper” lines. Actually I’d used SA’s striper lines everywhere from Tierra del Fuego to Zambia, just never
for stripers. They are designed for long casts and the type IV sinks like a rock. What I didn’t bring was a floating line, but as it turns out it didn’t matter. The clear, slow-sink striper line worked perfectly. The relatively clear texture kept “fish spooking” to a minimum and 80’ casts were a breeze. Leader wasn’t a problem. Two feet of 40-30-20-12 fluorocarbon was perfect since stripers don’t have much of a dental aray. Bluefish of course were a problem but we really didn’t want to catch bluefish anyway and we could always put on a few inches of light wire if we changed our mind.
Collecting Antique Fishing Lures By Adriana Collado Fishing lures could turn into a good catch, even if there’s no fish to be pulled out the water. Especially those made in the early 20s to the 1930’s and 1940’s are valuable collectibles that can sell for thousands of dollars. Collectors dive into flea markets, antique stores or the Internet looking for those wooden lures made specifically with careful details and several coats of painting by the craftsmen of Heddon,
Pfluger, South Bend and Creek Chub. The value depends on the size, color and age. In order to assess their value you can look into a catalog, but a simple search on the Internet, at the eBay’s list of sold items can give you an idea of their sell price. Other wooden fishing lures don’t have a high monetary value, but their detailed craftsmanship make interesting mementos for sea lovers.
Charter a yacht in the Bahamas By Tony King
Tony King is the principal and managing partner of American Yacht Company a S. Florida based charter brokerage house.
Some favorite Bahamas yacht charter and fishing destinations include the Exuma Islands and the Abaco and of course, the Out-Islands. The crystal clear waters and unique reefs, coral heads and the wildlife are unparalleled. The Bahamian people are warm and friendly when treated with respect and the whole Bahamian experience gets a 5 star rating. Each island in the Bahamas has something different to offer. Enjoy a variety filled vacation by visiting as many islands as time allows. Spend a few fun days in cosmopolitan Nassau with its duty free shops, golf, museums and restaurants.
Lie back and relax on the bright white sand of Long Island’s deserted beaches. Experience the dive of a lifetime in challenging wreck sites off the coast of San Salvador. Witness the spectacle of nesting flamingos and other exotic wildlife in Inagua National Park. Cruise through the Exumas 100-mile-long string of pristine cays. The hard part is deciding which islands to visit! For hard-core fishing fanatics, charter a professional sports fishing boat and participate in the BBC tournament that is held every year in different locations throughout the islands.
INDIGO TOP BOAT, CASCA DURA’S ABUD TOP ANGLE BILLFISH TOURNAMENT St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. A blue marlin release within minutes of lines out earned the team aboard Indigo, a 61-foot Buddy Davis that is part of the local Ocean Surfari Charter fleet, the Top Boat in the 51st July Open Billfish Tournament (JOBT), hosted July 9 to 11 by the Virgin Islands Game Fishing Club. The Indigo team released three blue and one white marlin in the three days of fishing.“That last hour was a real nail-biter,” says Indigo’s Capt. Kevin Haddox. Indigo started the day in the lead. A fish came up on the right short, then left long rigger but never bit. Then, a few hours later a call came over the radio that angler’s Gabriel Abud and Oscar Faris aboard Casca Dura, a Brazilian-based 80-foot Merritt, released a double header white marlin. This jumped Casca Dura into the lead by 300 points.
Then, with a little more than an hour left in the tournament, Indigo angler Steve Shockley, from Ft. Collins, Colorado, hooked up a 300- to 400-pound blue on the same Grander Custom Tackle-brand handmade lure he caught his first blue of the tournament three days prior. Twenty minutes later, Shockley released the fish, the second blue marlin of his fishing career, to earn Indigo its Top Boat honors. Casca Dura finished Second Top Boat. However, Abud earned Top Angler and his name engraved on the prestigious Capt. Johnny Harms ‘Give Him Line’ perpetual trophy, by being the angler to first release two blues and a white marlin. Abud’s white marlin release, combined with his two blue marlin releases the day prior, tallied to his trophy-winning success. The team fishing aboard Mixed Bag II, a Luhrs 40 Open Express chartered by Capt. Robert Richards out of the Westin, St. John, earned Third Best Boat with the cumulative release of two blue and one white marlin caught by James ‘Mac’ MacNeil. Ironically, had the Mixed Bag II team not had a blue marlin disqualified on day two, they would have won the tournament based on the time of their releases. Even so, it was a great event for Richards whose 7-year-old son, Robbie, was one of the registered anglers. Finally, 17-year-old Tristan Lambert, of Hillsboro Beach Inlet, Florida, angling aboard his father’s 80-foot Merritt, Reel Tight, released two blue marlin on the last day of fishing to land the Top Junior Angler trophy. Winners received exquisite hand-carved marlin head trophies by famous marine wildlife artist, David A. Wirth. The 8-boat tournament fleet released a total of 16 marlin – 12 blue and 4 white – in the three days of fishing.
IGFA trained Observers, all members of the IGFTO (International Game Fish Tournament Observers), rode aboard each boat throughout the tournament to verify the releases. The tournament was sponsored by Glazer’s Premier Distributors, LLC and the Virgin Islands Game Fishing Club. Proceeds benefit the Boys & Girls Club of the Virgin Islands. The Boys & Girls Club of the Virgin Islands, a 501 C (3) organization, enables all young people, especially those most needy, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. Donations are tax deductible. For more information, visit: www.vigfc.com
El Cobo, especie en extinción Por Pedro Díaz
¿Quién no se ha maravillado al contemplar las bellezas que suelen extraerse del mar: esos corales, estrellas, abanicos de mar y caracoles, que muchos desearíamos tener de adorno en nuestro hogar? ¿Cuánto más nos complacería la contemplación de esos animales marinos, si supiéramos algunos interesantes aspectos de su curioso modo de vida! Y ya que mencionamos a los caracoles ¿conoce usted al conocido por Cobo, cuyo nombre científico es Strombus gigas? En la mayoría de los pueblos del Caribe, como Bahamas y Puerto Rico, el cobo constituye una importante fuente de proteínas, tal como lo fue para los aborígenes de Cuba. En la actualidad, este rico alimento se ha extendido y tiene una gran aceptación por su agradable sabor y aroma al cocinarse. La concha del cobo es muy apreciada por artesanos y turistas debido a su belleza. Unido al alto contenido proteínico que posee el cobo se destacan también algunas propiedades medicinales. Por ejemplo, en las Bahamas hay baja incidencia de poliomielitis como consecuencia del consumo generalizado de este molusco por la población. Igualmente los casos de anemia por falta de cobre en la sangre, se combaten ingiriendo
este alimento. Asimismo, algunos investigadores han confirmado la actividad antileucémica de los extractos inoculados del Strombus gigas en ratones leucémicos al retardar apreciablemente los efectos letales. Por otra parte, el cobo es muy utilizado como carnada en la pesca a cordel para pescar pargos, cuberas, chernas. El cobo desde que nace se ve forzado a una increíble lucha por la supervivencia. Vive bajo el acecho de un sinnúmero de depredadores. Desde que es una larva es ingerido por organismos mayores de plancton. En el fondo es objeto de ataques que van desde el hombre hasta macaos, langostas, levisas, chuchos, pulpos, tortugas, tiburones y peces. El macao, que es un crustáceo emparentado con la langosta, devora al cobo y se apodera de su concha para llevarla a cuestas como vivienda. El pulpo lo extrae hábilmente de la concha por medio de sus tentáculos y picadas venenosas. Los demás depredadores tienen fuertes mandíbulas capaces de cascar su concha. El cobo, sin embargo, no tiene mas defensa que su vulnerable concha, sus ágiles saltos que no superan la velocidad de sus victimarios, y una puntiaguda uña en la parte posterior del cuerpo llamada opérculo, de escasa efectividad. Como es de esperarse, de cientos de miles de larvas que nacieron, apenas algunas decenas llegaran al estado adulto. Esto nos hace pensar que con una explotación racional se hará más duradero este recurso marino y, por tanto, más productivo, evitándose con ello su extinción. La longevidad del cobo es de seis años, pero algunos científicos piensan que nuestro amigo y preciado cobo vive mucho más.
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John Hemingway Joins Anglers for Upcoming Wahoo Smackdown V Grandson of Ernest Hemingway Named Tournament Grand Marshal
By John Bell
John Hemingway
Following in the footsteps of his famous grandfather, author John Hemingway this year has run with the bulls in Pamplona and will be soon fishing the big game grounds off Bimini, the same tiny Bahamas out island where Papa
Hemingway chased marlins and tuna aboard his beloved “Pilar” in the 1930s. In November, John Hemingway will return to Bimini, this time chasing speedy Wahoo as Grand Marshal of the popular Wahoo Smackdown V series, hosted by the historic Bimini Big Game Club Resort and Marina in Alice Town. “My family has been coming to Bimini since the 1930s,” said Hemingway, who grew up in Miami and now lives in Montreal. “My father (Gregory Hemingway) came
with my grandfather as a young boy on his boat the Pilar and I was first brought to the island in 1960 as a newborn with my mother and my father on a Chalk’s flight from Miami. We have always fished here, for tuna, marlin, sailfish and grouper and it’s a great pleasure for me to help officiate as Grand Marshal this Wahoo Smackdown John Hemingway poses next to photo of grandfather Ernest Hemingway. Tournament.”
The 54-year-old Hemingway will be fishing with Tournament Director Captain Chase Camacho aboard Miss Kethleen II in the tournament, which is scheduled for November 13-14. “As a writer myself I am a great admirer of my grandfather’s works and this also extends to the life he led and the places he visited,” said Hemingway. “I’ve lived in Italy and Spain, I’ve run with the bulls and I’m an aficionado of corrida, but whenever someone mentions Bimini it brings back childhood memories of fishing out in the Gulf Stream on hot days and coming back to the docks in the evening to see what the others had caught. Good
Hemingway family (including John Hemingway’s father Gregory) arriving in Bimini by seaplane in the 1930s.
times that I remember and that I will live again this coming November.� The entry fee for Wahoo Smackdown V (which includes four anglers per boat) is an affordable $1,250 ($100 for each additional angler). At stake is $30,000 in cash and prizes to be won. For information regarding the next Wahoo tournament and to register online, please go to http://www.biggameclubbimini.com/ big-game-tournament.htm or call (800) 867-4764.
John Hemingway (far left) with fellow Bull Runners in Pamplona
Lauderdale Yacht Club Holds Safari Themed 2014 Annual “Bimini Blast” at the Historic Bimini Big Game Club Resort and Marina Por John Bell
Since the mid-1980s the Lauderdale Yacht Club (LYC), founded in 1938, has sailed a flotilla of boats and families some 50 miles east to the shores of Bimini to celebrate the start of summer with a Bimini Blast, a popular weekend outing that includes fishing, diving and family oriented activities. LYC returned earlier this month with 32 boats and 160 members to the Bimini Big Game Club Resort and Marina, one of 12 boating clubs that have selected the 51-room resort for family group events this year. “We’ve already booked June 11-14 for next year,” said LYC member Ted Bohne, President of Pino Tile & Marble, Inc. in Pompano Beach. Bohne
said half of the club members fished in a two-day tournament with the winning catch being a sailfish caught by team “In Pursuit”, followed by a 28.5-pound dolphin fish caught by “Starbrite Viking.” Remaining boats were divers and snorkelers enjoying dive sites at the popular Sapona wreck and Honeymoon Harbor. Bimini Big Game Club Resort and Marina Director of Sales & Marketing, Diana Weber, said the resort continues to build family oriented business, especially local clubs looking for a destination that’s easily reached and offers a wide variety of activity choices. On Memorial Day, management at the Bimini Big Game Club Resort and Marina reported a record-breaking weekend with just over $100,000 in sales, including rooms, food and beverage and dockage. Overall, according to Weber, the resort is up 24% year to date through the low season, with a strong summer bookings and the fall is pacing better than fall of 2013.
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Whale shark: a myth, an industry By Maria Bello
The largest living fish Rhincodon typus known as “Whale Shark� is not a whale, is a shark and have been present in the ocean for the last sixty millions of years. His impressive length, 12-15 m on average been able to reach till 20m, does not become it on the most dangerous marine creature and does not pose significant danger to humans. With a distinguish coloration pattern resembling a checkerboard of pale yellow spots and stripes that are unique to each specimen, its slow movements not reaching more than 5 kilometers per hour and its behavior,  it has became it an expensive marine adventure for tourists. The whale shark can be found on tropical warm waters worldwide on the ocean. During the day they can be watched feeding near the surface, migrating to deeper waters at night. Typically seen offshore, it
has also been found closer to coastal zones, entering lagoons or coral reefs areas. Reported as a solitary creature, they form seasonal feeding or reproductive aggregations in some coastal waters. Groups of whale sharks have been seen on Gladden Spit in Belize; Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia; Útila in Honduras; Donsol, Pasacao and Batangas in the Philippines; off Isla Mujeres and Isla Holbox in Yucatan, Mexico; Ujung Kulon National Park in Indonesia; Nosy Be in Madagascar Off Tofo Reef near Inhambane in Mozambique, and the Tanzanian islands of Mafia, Pemba, Zanzibar. Biggest aggregations have been reported on Donsol Philippines and north of Cabo Catoche, off Isla Holbox on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. These seem to be feeding areas with homegeneous patches of fish eggs. As a
planktivorous filter-feeding, the whale shark is an active feeder, targeting concentrations of plankton or fish. It is able to ram filter feed or can gulp in a stationary position. As it swims with its mouth open, it sucks masses of water filled with prey into its mouth and through spongy tissue between its 5 large gill arches. After closing its mouth, the shark uses gills rakers that filter the nourishment from the water. Anything that doesn’t pass through the gills is eaten. Gill rakers are bristly structures (the thousands of bristles are about 4 inches or 10 cm long) in the shark’s mouth that trap the small organisms which the shark then swallows. The water is expelled through the sharks 5 pairs of gill slits. The shark can process over 1500 gallons (6000 liters) of water each hour. The numerous rows (300) of very tiny teeth (around 27, 000) are of little use. Whale sharks are sexu-
ally mature at 30 years old, age at which they are able to mate and reproduce. The whale shark is listed as “vulnerable” with the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Populations appear to have been depleted by harpoon fisheries in Southeast Asia and perhaps incidental capture in other fisheries, but recently Whale shark tours popularity are putting more pressure on the specie as for example on the northeastern Yucatán marine region, where the number of tour operators has increased in the last decade. Whale shark habitats will deserve more concerted conservation efforts to prevent the extinction of the largest creature in the ocean.
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