Adam Lucason powerfully strode through the waters off of South Boston, Massachusetts with one goal in mind – winning. A member of the Worcester Boys’ Club of Worcester, Massachusetts, he was competing in the New England A.A.U. Swimming Championships. Almost as soon as they had…
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Frank Mundus, the pioneer for shark fishing, passed away on September 10, 2008. I had always known about Frank but never thought I would get the opportunity to meet him.It was the year 2006. I read in an article that Frank Mundus was selling the…
I love to watch the constant boat design changes year to year to attract new customers. Sometimes the designers come up with a really innovative design that is a real nautical innovation. Sometimes it is just grandly stupid, and sometimes it has the potential of…
October, hands down is the best month on a fisherman’s calendar. Fluke are still in season for the first half of the month. Black Sea bass and porgies are in season. The inshore tuna bite is still worth chasing. False albacore, bonito, and Spanish mackerel…
What is a captain? That might seem like a silly question to bring up, especially in a magazine where many of the readers are captains in one form or another, whether recreationally after buying a boat, or commercially, through accumulating sea time and sitting for…
I am putting a lot of stock in the potential for productivity in this October’s fishing in Southern New England, and so should you. Spring is great as it ushers in the dawn of a new season. Summer’s warm waters draw in a variety of…
There’s really no finer time to be in the Jersey saltwater than October. Cool, crisp breezes matched with the outpouring of baitfish schools combine for explosive fishing on all fronts. The first real wave of stripers should be pushing through like they did last year…
“When I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades…that was to be a steamboat man.” Mark Twain. Many of us think only of Mark Twain as the writer of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, but Twain led an adventurous life…
In all my years of boating, I never had too much to do with pontoon boats. There was one vacation several years ago on a lake in Virginia where we rented a pontoon boat. So, when a close friend of mine showed me a pontoon…
Blue crabs, beautiful and graceful swimmers, provide a delicate, sweet flavor for any seafood lover. Traditionally, the year-round population of Long Island Sound blue crabs found themselves near the northern limit of their range. However, global warming has provided them an opportunity to increase their…