(301,1,'2011-12-05 21:34:54','2011-12-05 21:34:54','<em>By Aaron Derr</em>\r\n\r\nA novice fisherman will hit the water armed only with the knowledge of an overhand knot. A real angler wouldn’t dare venture out with such a limited arsenal.\r\nDifferent situations call for different knots. The knots needed for tying fishing line to a hook are different from the knots needed to join two sections of line together.\r\n\r\nTo be prepared for anything, learn these knots before you hit the water.\r\n<h2>IMPROVED CLINCH KNOT</h2>\r\n<h2><a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/improvedcinch.jpg\" class=\"lightbox\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-287\" title=\"improved cinch\" src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/improvedcinch-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a></h2>\r\n(for tying line to a hook)\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Thread the line through the eye of the hook, then make 5 to 7 wraps around the line with the loose end.</li>\r\n	<li>Thread the loose end of the line through the loop closest to the eye, then back around inside the loose section of line.</li>\r\n	<li>Pull both ends of the line until tight.</li>\r\n	<li>Trim the loose end of the line if necessary.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<h2>TURLE KNOT</h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/turtle.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-291\" title=\"turle knot\" src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/turtle-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"turle knot\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>(for tying thin line to a small hook)\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Run the line through the eye of the hook, then tie a loose double overhand knot in the end of the line.</li>\r\n	<li>Pass the open loop over the hook and tighten the whole thing so that the loop tightens around the eye.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<h2>BLOOD KNOT</h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/blood.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-292\" title=\"blood knot\" src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/blood-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"blood knot\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>(for joining two sections of line together)\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Line up the ends of each line together for several inches, then wrap the first line around the second at least five times.</li>\r\n	<li>Wrap the second around the first at least five times, and bring both loose ends back to the middle between the two lines.</li>\r\n	<li>Pull tight on each line until the knot is snug.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<h2>PALOMAR KNOT</h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/parla.png\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-293\" title=\"palomar knot\" src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/parla-150x150.png\" alt=\"palomar knot\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>(for tying line to a hook)\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Double your line to make a loop, then push the loop through the eye of your hook.</li>\r\n	<li>Tie a loose overhand knot.</li>\r\n	<li>Pass the loop around the end of the hook and pull on the line to tighten.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<h2>DOUBLE SURGEON\'S LOOP</h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/doubleSurgeon.png\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-295\" title=\"doubleSurgeon\" src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/doubleSurgeon-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>(for forming a loop in the end of a line)\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Fold over the end of the line to make a double line, then tie a single overhand knot.</li>\r\n	<li>Pass the loop through the hole in the overhand knot one more time.</li>\r\n	<li>Moisten the knot and tighten.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<h2>WIRE LINE TO MONO KNOT</h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/wireline.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-296\" title=\"wireline\" src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/wireline-150x120.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" /></a>(for attaching wire line to monofilament)\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Fold four inches of wire line back over itself to form a bend at the end of the line.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<h2>TUCKED SHEET BEND</h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/sheep.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-297\" title=\"tucked sheet bend knot\" src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/sheep-150x63.jpg\" alt=\"tucked sheet bend knot\" width=\"150\" height=\"63\" /></a>(for attaching line to a leader loop, or snelled hook to the line)\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Pass the end of the line through the loop, then make a simple sheet bend knot.</li>\r\n	<li>Pass the end of the line back through the loop of the sheet bend.</li>\r\n	<li>Tighten until snug.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<h2>SNELLING A HOOK</h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/snelling.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-298\" title=\"snelling a hook\" src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/snelling-150x144.jpg\" alt=\"snelling a hook\" width=\"150\" height=\"144\" /></a>(for attaching monofilament to a hook)\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Pass the end of the line through the eye of the hook twice, creating a loop that hangs alongside the hook.</li>\r\n	<li>Wrap the loop around the hook, forming tight coils, 5 to 10 times.</li>\r\n	<li>Holding the coils in place with one finger, pull the line up until the loop is snug under the coils.</li>\r\n</ol>','8 Fishing Knots to Know','','inherit','open','open','','58-revision-12','','','2011-12-05 21:34:54','2011-12-05 21:34:54','',58,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=301',0,'revision','',0),(302,1,'2011-12-05 21:35:36','2011-12-05 21:35:36','<em>By Aaron Derr</em>\r\n\r\nA novice fisherman will hit the water armed only with the knowledge of an overhand knot. A real angler wouldn’t dare venture out with such a limited arsenal.\r\nDifferent situations call for different knots. The knots needed for tying fishing line to a hook are different from the knots needed to join two sections of line together.\r\n\r\nTo be prepared for anything, learn these knots before you hit the water.\r\n<h2>IMPROVED CLINCH KNOT</h2>\r\n<h2><a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/improvedcinch.jpg\" class=\"lightbox\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-287\" title=\"improved cinch\" src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/improvedcinch-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a></h2>\r\n(for tying line to a hook)\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Thread the line through the eye of the hook, then make 5 to 7 wraps around the line with the loose end.</li>\r\n	<li>Thread the loose end of the line through the loop closest to the eye, then back around inside the loose section of line.</li>\r\n	<li>Pull both ends of the line until tight.</li>\r\n	<li>Trim the loose end of the line if necessary.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<h2>TURLE KNOT</h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/turtle.jpg\" class=\"lightbox\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-291\" title=\"turle knot\" src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/turtle-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"turle knot\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>(for tying thin line to a small hook)\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Run the line through the eye of the hook, then tie a loose double overhand knot in the end of the line.</li>\r\n	<li>Pass the open loop over the hook and tighten the whole thing so that the loop tightens around the eye.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<h2>BLOOD KNOT</h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/blood.jpg\" class=\"lightbox\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-292\" title=\"blood knot\" src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/blood-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"blood knot\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>(for joining two sections of line together)\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Line up the ends of each line together for several inches, then wrap the first line around the second at least five times.</li>\r\n	<li>Wrap the second around the first at least five times, and bring both loose ends back to the middle between the two lines.</li>\r\n	<li>Pull tight on each line until the knot is snug.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<h2>PALOMAR KNOT</h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/parla.png\" class=\"lightbox\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-293\" title=\"palomar knot\" src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/parla-150x150.png\" alt=\"palomar knot\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>(for tying line to a hook)\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Double your line to make a loop, then push the loop through the eye of your hook.</li>\r\n	<li>Tie a loose overhand knot.</li>\r\n	<li>Pass the loop around the end of the hook and pull on the line to tighten.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<h2>DOUBLE SURGEON\'S LOOP</h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/doubleSurgeon.png\" class=\"lightbox\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-295\" title=\"doubleSurgeon\" src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/doubleSurgeon-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>(for forming a loop in the end of a line)\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Fold over the end of the line to make a double line, then tie a single overhand knot.</li>\r\n	<li>Pass the loop through the hole in the overhand knot one more time.</li>\r\n	<li>Moisten the knot and tighten.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<h2>WIRE LINE TO MONO KNOT</h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/wireline.jpg\" class=\"lightbox\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-296\" title=\"wireline\" src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/wireline-150x120.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" /></a>(for attaching wire line to monofilament)\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Fold four inches of wire line back over itself to form a bend at the end of the line.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<h2>TUCKED SHEET BEND</h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/sheep.jpg\" class=\"lightbox\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-297\" title=\"tucked sheet bend knot\" src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/sheep-150x63.jpg\" alt=\"tucked sheet bend knot\" width=\"150\" height=\"63\" /></a>(for attaching line to a leader loop, or snelled hook to the line)\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Pass the end of the line through the loop, then make a simple sheet bend knot.</li>\r\n	<li>Pass the end of the line back through the loop of the sheet bend.</li>\r\n	<li>Tighten until snug.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<h2>SNELLING A HOOK</h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/snelling.jpg\" class=\"lightbox\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-298\" title=\"snelling a hook\" src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/snelling-150x144.jpg\" alt=\"snelling a hook\" width=\"150\" height=\"144\" /></a>(for attaching monofilament to a hook)\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Pass the end of the line through the eye of the hook twice, creating a loop that hangs alongside the hook.</li>\r\n	<li>Wrap the loop around the hook, forming tight coils, 5 to 10 times.</li>\r\n	<li>Holding the coils in place with one finger, pull the line up until the loop is snug under the coils.</li>\r\n</ol>','8 Fishing Knots to Know','','inherit','open','open','','58-revision-13','','','2011-12-05 21:35:36','2011-12-05 21:35:36','',58,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=302',0,'revision','',0),(303,1,'2011-10-17 22:39:00','2011-10-17 22:39:00','<em>By Mark Fisher</em>\r\n\r\nLike most vertebrates, the eye of a fish has a cornea (outer covering), an iris (aperture for light passage), a lens (to focus the image), a retina (receives the image from the lens), and an optic nerve (transmits the image to the brain). One difference between a fish eye and most other vertebrates is a fish can change the focus of the lens by changing the distance between the lens and the retina; other vertebrates (including humans) focus by altering the shape of the lens. Fish can focus their eye just like a camera. Also, the iris of most fish lacks muscles and is fixed in shape—they cannot control the amount of light entering the eye by contracting or dilating the iris. Sharks and rays do have movable irises and are the exception.\r\n\r\nThe retina contains special receptor cells called rods and cones. Rods are more light- sensitive than cones, but only respond to black and white. Cones respond to color and produce more detailed images than rods, but are only about one-thirtieth as sensitive to light as rods. Rods “see” light, while cones provide color and detail. Like us, fish cannot see color at night, or other low-light conditions.\r\n\r\nA fish\'s eye is adapted to better see movement and contrast at the expense of detail. The cones in a human eye are densely packed around the retina, allowing for better detail. The cones in a fish’s eye are distributed throughout, which provides better detection of movement and contrast, but with lesser detail. In daylight, the rods contract and the cones expand. Pigment granules move toward and around the rods to shield them from light. At night, the pigment is drawn back to expose the rods, and they expand to become exposed to more light. This process takes about an hour, and most predatory fish are able to adapt faster than their prey. This is probably the reason many predatory fish feed most actively at sunrise and sunset—their eyes can adapt to changing light faster than their prey, giving them a distinct visual advantage.\r\n\r\nColor vision requires different types of cone cells to detect each of the three primary colors, and most fish possess at least two while some have all three. In general, fish can see farther into the violet range than humans, and some can see into the ultraviolet range.\r\n\r\nResearchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science have used electroretinography to better understand how fishes see color. This method exposes a range of colors to an anesthetized fish, and uses electrodes to measure which colors elicits a response in the retina. The article can be found here. This figure (from http://www.vims.edu/newsmedia/press_release/fish_vision.htm) shows the color range for each species, with the thicker black bar depicting the peak response. Except for striped bass, none of these species can see red, while weakfish can see far into the ultraviolet range. Spotted seatrout and red drum can see a range from violet to orange, with a peak in the blue-green range.\r\n\r\nColor vision is used by fishes to help them see prey against a variety of backgrounds. Duplicating the exact color of a prey item is less important than choosing a color that ensures good contrast between your fly and the background. For example, chartreuse is a color that does not occur in nature, yet can be an effective color choice for a fly because it is so visible. Not only is chartreuse well within the visual range of a fishes eye, it is also fluorescent when exposed to ultraviolet light, and many fish can see into the ultraviolet range. Red and white is another effective color combination, but many fish (including reds and trout) cannot see red; instead, red appears as a shade of gray. Red and white is effective because it has good contrast against a variety of backgrounds. Gray and white would be just as effective.\r\n\r\nThe amount of light available and the color of the background is dependent upon a number of factors, including time of day, water clarity, bottom type, water depth, and vegetation. A fly with high contrast would be more visible under low light (sunrise/ sunset) or turbid water conditions. Black is a good color choice at night because it provides the best silhouette against a moonlit sky. Fluorescent colors are highly visible on cloudy days, when ultraviolet light is more prevalent than clear days. A fly with high contrast is less important in clear water and on bright sunny days, and may even \"spook\" some fish. Finally, in addition to vision, fish also depend on hearing and smell to help them find prey. A large fly that “pushes” a lot of water can be detected, even if they can’t see it. Poppers and gurglers are examples of flies designed to make noise. Also, some fly anglers targeting black drum have used “spray-on” fish attractants with great success.<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>In summary:</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Fish can see color, but they use color vision to help them find prey against different backgrounds, not necessarily to identify prey. Fish cannot see color at night.</li>\r\n	<li>A fish\'s eye is adapted to see movement and contrast at the expense of detail. An exact replica of a prey item is not necessary, but movement and general shape is.</li>\r\n	<li>Many predatory fish are well adapted to find prey at sunrise and sunset.</li>\r\n	<li>In general, the brighter the day and the clearer the water, the lighter your fly should be.</li>\r\n	<li>Consider the background when choosing a fly.</li>\r\n</ul>','Can Fish See Color?','','inherit','open','open','','63-revision-5','','','2011-10-17 22:39:00','2011-10-17 22:39:00','',63,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=303',0,'revision','',0),(304,1,'2011-12-05 21:38:02','2011-12-05 21:38:02','','color','','inherit','open','open','','color','','','2011-12-05 21:38:02','2011-12-05 21:38:02','',63,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/color.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(305,1,'2011-12-05 21:36:47','2011-12-05 21:36:47','<em>By Mark Fisher</em>\r\n\r\nLike most vertebrates, the eye of a fish has a cornea (outer covering), an iris (aperture for light passage), a lens (to focus the image), a retina (receives the image from the lens), and an optic nerve (transmits the image to the brain). One difference between a fish eye and most other vertebrates is a fish can change the focus of the lens by changing the distance between the lens and the retina; other vertebrates (including humans) focus by altering the shape of the lens. Fish can focus their eye just like a camera. Also, the iris of most fish lacks muscles and is fixed in shape—they cannot control the amount of light entering the eye by contracting or dilating the iris. Sharks and rays do have movable irises and are the exception.\r\n\r\nThe retina contains special receptor cells called rods and cones. Rods are more light- sensitive than cones, but only respond to black and white. Cones respond to color and produce more detailed images than rods, but are only about one-thirtieth as sensitive to light as rods. Rods “see” light, while cones provide color and detail. Like us, fish cannot see color at night, or other low-light conditions.\r\n\r\nA fish\'s eye is adapted to better see movement and contrast at the expense of detail. The cones in a human eye are densely packed around the retina, allowing for better detail. The cones in a fish’s eye are distributed throughout, which provides better detection of movement and contrast, but with lesser detail. In daylight, the rods contract and the cones expand. Pigment granules move toward and around the rods to shield them from light. At night, the pigment is drawn back to expose the rods, and they expand to become exposed to more light. This process takes about an hour, and most predatory fish are able to adapt faster than their prey. This is probably the reason many predatory fish feed most actively at sunrise and sunset—their eyes can adapt to changing light faster than their prey, giving them a distinct visual advantage.\r\n\r\nColor vision requires different types of cone cells to detect each of the three primary colors, and most fish possess at least two while some have all three. In general, fish can see farther into the violet range than humans, and some can see into the ultraviolet range.\r\n\r\nResearchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science have used electroretinography to better understand how fishes see color. This method exposes a range of colors to an anesthetized fish, and uses electrodes to measure which colors elicits a response in the retina. The article can be found here. This figure (from http://www.vims.edu/newsmedia/press_release/fish_vision.htm) shows the color range for each species, with the thicker black bar depicting the peak response. Except for striped bass, none of these species can see red, while weakfish can see far into the ultraviolet range. Spotted seatrout and red drum can see a range from violet to orange, with a peak in the blue-green range.\r\n\r\nColor vision is used by fishes to help them see prey against a variety of backgrounds. Duplicating the exact color of a prey item is less important than choosing a color that ensures good contrast between your fly and the background. For example, chartreuse is a color that does not occur in nature, yet can be an effective color choice for a fly because it is so visible. Not only is chartreuse well within the visual range of a fishes eye, it is also fluorescent when exposed to ultraviolet light, and many fish can see into the ultraviolet range. Red and white is another effective color combination, but many fish (including reds and trout) cannot see red; instead, red appears as a shade of gray. Red and white is effective because it has good contrast against a variety of backgrounds. Gray and white would be just as effective.\r\n\r\nThe amount of light available and the color of the background is dependent upon a number of factors, including time of day, water clarity, bottom type, water depth, and vegetation. A fly with high contrast would be more visible under low light (sunrise/ sunset) or turbid water conditions. Black is a good color choice at night because it provides the best silhouette against a moonlit sky. Fluorescent colors are highly visible on cloudy days, when ultraviolet light is more prevalent than clear days. A fly with high contrast is less important in clear water and on bright sunny days, and may even \"spook\" some fish. Finally, in addition to vision, fish also depend on hearing and smell to help them find prey. A large fly that “pushes” a lot of water can be detected, even if they can’t see it. Poppers and gurglers are examples of flies designed to make noise. Also, some fly anglers targeting black drum have used “spray-on” fish attractants with great success.<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>In summary:</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Fish can see color, but they use color vision to help them find prey against different backgrounds, not necessarily to identify prey. Fish cannot see color at night.</li>\r\n	<li>A fish\'s eye is adapted to see movement and contrast at the expense of detail. An exact replica of a prey item is not necessary, but movement and general shape is.</li>\r\n	<li>Many predatory fish are well adapted to find prey at sunrise and sunset.</li>\r\n	<li>In general, the brighter the day and the clearer the water, the lighter your fly should be.</li>\r\n	<li>Consider the background when choosing a fly.</li>\r\n</ul>','Can Fish See Color?','','inherit','open','open','','63-revision-6','','','2011-12-05 21:36:47','2011-12-05 21:36:47','',63,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=305',0,'revision','',0),(306,1,'2011-12-05 21:38:10','2011-12-05 21:38:10','<em>By Mark Fisher</em>\r\n\r\nLike most vertebrates, the eye of a fish has a cornea (outer covering), an iris (aperture for light passage), a lens (to focus the image), a retina (receives the image from the lens), and an optic nerve (transmits the image to the brain). One difference between a fish eye and most other vertebrates is a fish can change the focus of the lens by changing the distance between the lens and the retina; other vertebrates (including humans) focus by altering the shape of the lens. Fish can focus their eye just like a camera. Also, the iris of most fish lacks muscles and is fixed in shape—they cannot control the amount of light entering the eye by contracting or dilating the iris. Sharks and rays do have movable irises and are the exception.\r\n\r\nThe retina contains special receptor cells called rods and cones. Rods are more light- sensitive than cones, but only respond to black and white. Cones respond to color and produce more detailed images than rods, but are only about one-thirtieth as sensitive to light as rods. Rods “see” light, while cones provide color and detail. Like us, fish cannot see color at night, or other low-light conditions.\r\n\r\nA fish\'s eye is adapted to better see movement and contrast at the expense of detail. The cones in a human eye are densely packed around the retina, allowing for better detail. The cones in a fish’s eye are distributed throughout, which provides better detection of movement and contrast, but with lesser detail. In daylight, the rods contract and the cones expand. Pigment granules move toward and around the rods to shield them from light. At night, the pigment is drawn back to expose the rods, and they expand to become exposed to more light. This process takes about an hour, and most predatory fish are able to adapt faster than their prey. This is probably the reason many predatory fish feed most actively at sunrise and sunset—their eyes can adapt to changing light faster than their prey, giving them a distinct visual advantage.\r\n\r\nColor vision requires different types of cone cells to detect each of the three primary colors, and most fish possess at least two while some have all three. In general, fish can see farther into the violet range than humans, and some can see into the ultraviolet range.\r\n\r\nResearchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science have used electroretinography to better understand how fishes see color. This method exposes a range of colors to an anesthetized fish, and uses electrodes to measure which colors elicits a response in the retina. The article can be found here. This figure (from http://www.vims.edu/newsmedia/press_release/fish_vision.htm) shows the color range for each species, with the thicker black bar depicting the peak response. Except for striped bass, none of these species can see red, while weakfish can see far into the ultraviolet range. Spotted seatrout and red drum can see a range from violet to orange, with a peak in the blue-green range.\r\n\r\nColor vision is used by fishes to help them see prey against a variety of backgrounds. Duplicating the exact color of a prey item is less important than choosing a color that ensures good contrast between your fly and the background. For example, chartreuse is a color that does not occur in nature, yet can be an effective color choice for a fly because it is so visible. Not only is chartreuse well within the visual range of a fishes eye, it is also fluorescent when exposed to ultraviolet light, and many fish can see into the ultraviolet range. Red and white is another effective color combination, but many fish (including reds and trout) cannot see red; instead, red appears as a shade of gray. Red and white is effective because it has good contrast against a variety of backgrounds. Gray and white would be just as effective.\r\n\r\nThe amount of light available and the color of the background is dependent upon a number of factors, including time of day, water clarity, bottom type, water depth, and vegetation. A fly with high contrast would be more visible under low light (sunrise/ sunset) or turbid water conditions. Black is a good color choice at night because it provides the best silhouette against a moonlit sky. Fluorescent colors are highly visible on cloudy days, when ultraviolet light is more prevalent than clear days. A fly with high contrast is less important in clear water and on bright sunny days, and may even \"spook\" some fish. Finally, in addition to vision, fish also depend on hearing and smell to help them find prey. A large fly that “pushes” a lot of water can be detected, even if they can’t see it. Poppers and gurglers are examples of flies designed to make noise. Also, some fly anglers targeting black drum have used “spray-on” fish attractants with great success.<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>In summary:</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Fish can see color, but they use color vision to help them find prey against different backgrounds, not necessarily to identify prey. Fish cannot see color at night.</li>\r\n	<li>A fish\'s eye is adapted to see movement and contrast at the expense of detail. An exact replica of a prey item is not necessary, but movement and general shape is.</li>\r\n	<li>Many predatory fish are well adapted to find prey at sunrise and sunset.</li>\r\n	<li>In general, the brighter the day and the clearer the water, the lighter your fly should be.</li>\r\n	<li>Consider the background when choosing a fly.</li>\r\n</ul>','Can Fish See Color?','','inherit','open','open','','63-revision-7','','','2011-12-05 21:38:10','2011-12-05 21:38:10','',63,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=306',0,'revision','',0),(307,1,'2011-12-05 21:38:45','2011-12-05 21:38:45','<em>By Mark Fisher</em>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/color.jpg\" class=\"lightbox\"><img src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/color-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"color\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-304\" /></a>Like most vertebrates, the eye of a fish has a cornea (outer covering), an iris (aperture for light passage), a lens (to focus the image), a retina (receives the image from the lens), and an optic nerve (transmits the image to the brain). One difference between a fish eye and most other vertebrates is a fish can change the focus of the lens by changing the distance between the lens and the retina; other vertebrates (including humans) focus by altering the shape of the lens. Fish can focus their eye just like a camera. Also, the iris of most fish lacks muscles and is fixed in shape—they cannot control the amount of light entering the eye by contracting or dilating the iris. Sharks and rays do have movable irises and are the exception.\r\n\r\nThe retina contains special receptor cells called rods and cones. Rods are more light- sensitive than cones, but only respond to black and white. Cones respond to color and produce more detailed images than rods, but are only about one-thirtieth as sensitive to light as rods. Rods “see” light, while cones provide color and detail. Like us, fish cannot see color at night, or other low-light conditions.\r\n\r\nA fish\'s eye is adapted to better see movement and contrast at the expense of detail. The cones in a human eye are densely packed around the retina, allowing for better detail. The cones in a fish’s eye are distributed throughout, which provides better detection of movement and contrast, but with lesser detail. In daylight, the rods contract and the cones expand. Pigment granules move toward and around the rods to shield them from light. At night, the pigment is drawn back to expose the rods, and they expand to become exposed to more light. This process takes about an hour, and most predatory fish are able to adapt faster than their prey. This is probably the reason many predatory fish feed most actively at sunrise and sunset—their eyes can adapt to changing light faster than their prey, giving them a distinct visual advantage.\r\n\r\nColor vision requires different types of cone cells to detect each of the three primary colors, and most fish possess at least two while some have all three. In general, fish can see farther into the violet range than humans, and some can see into the ultraviolet range.\r\n\r\nResearchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science have used electroretinography to better understand how fishes see color. This method exposes a range of colors to an anesthetized fish, and uses electrodes to measure which colors elicits a response in the retina. The article can be found here. This figure (from http://www.vims.edu/newsmedia/press_release/fish_vision.htm) shows the color range for each species, with the thicker black bar depicting the peak response. Except for striped bass, none of these species can see red, while weakfish can see far into the ultraviolet range. Spotted seatrout and red drum can see a range from violet to orange, with a peak in the blue-green range.\r\n\r\nColor vision is used by fishes to help them see prey against a variety of backgrounds. Duplicating the exact color of a prey item is less important than choosing a color that ensures good contrast between your fly and the background. For example, chartreuse is a color that does not occur in nature, yet can be an effective color choice for a fly because it is so visible. Not only is chartreuse well within the visual range of a fishes eye, it is also fluorescent when exposed to ultraviolet light, and many fish can see into the ultraviolet range. Red and white is another effective color combination, but many fish (including reds and trout) cannot see red; instead, red appears as a shade of gray. Red and white is effective because it has good contrast against a variety of backgrounds. Gray and white would be just as effective.\r\n\r\nThe amount of light available and the color of the background is dependent upon a number of factors, including time of day, water clarity, bottom type, water depth, and vegetation. A fly with high contrast would be more visible under low light (sunrise/ sunset) or turbid water conditions. Black is a good color choice at night because it provides the best silhouette against a moonlit sky. Fluorescent colors are highly visible on cloudy days, when ultraviolet light is more prevalent than clear days. A fly with high contrast is less important in clear water and on bright sunny days, and may even \"spook\" some fish. Finally, in addition to vision, fish also depend on hearing and smell to help them find prey. A large fly that “pushes” a lot of water can be detected, even if they can’t see it. Poppers and gurglers are examples of flies designed to make noise. Also, some fly anglers targeting black drum have used “spray-on” fish attractants with great success.<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>In summary:</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Fish can see color, but they use color vision to help them find prey against different backgrounds, not necessarily to identify prey. Fish cannot see color at night.</li>\r\n	<li>A fish\'s eye is adapted to see movement and contrast at the expense of detail. An exact replica of a prey item is not necessary, but movement and general shape is.</li>\r\n	<li>Many predatory fish are well adapted to find prey at sunrise and sunset.</li>\r\n	<li>In general, the brighter the day and the clearer the water, the lighter your fly should be.</li>\r\n	<li>Consider the background when choosing a fly.</li>\r\n</ul>','Can Fish See Color?','','inherit','open','open','','63-revision-8','','','2011-12-05 21:38:45','2011-12-05 21:38:45','',63,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=307',0,'revision','',0),(308,1,'2011-08-01 21:51:41','2011-08-01 21:51:41','<a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/kniferoll.jpg\"><img src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/kniferoll-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"kniferoll\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-313\" /></a>Your own personal fillet station whether you’re on the boat or the dock, the OHO knife roll is built to keep your knives safe, secure,\r\nand accessible. (knives sold separately)\r\n\r\nFEATURES\r\n• Secures and Stores up to 8 Knives\r\n• Yellow Tarp Lining for Easy Cleaning \r\n• Zipper Flap Secures and Protects Knives \r\n• Wraps Around a 5 Gallon Bucket \r\n• Easy Roll Up for Storage and Carrying \r\n• Surface Mount Buckle and Closure \r\n• Webbing Haul Handle\r\n\r\nVisit<a href=\"http://www.oldharboroutfitters.com\" target=\"_blank\"> www.oldharboroutfitters.com</a> for more details.','Knife Roll &#8482','','publish','open','open','','knife-roll-8482','','','2013-04-02 12:57:29','2013-04-02 16:57:29','',0,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=308',73,'post','',0),(309,1,'2011-12-05 21:52:42','2011-12-05 21:52:42','\nYour own personal fillet station whether you’re on the boat or the dock, the OHO knife roll is built to keep your knives safe, secure,\nand accessible. (knives sold separately)\nFEATURES\n• Secures and Stores up to 8 Knives\n• Yellow Tarp Lining for Easy Cleaning • Zipper Flap Secures and Protects Knives • Wraps Around a 5 Gallon Bucket • Easy Roll Up for Storage and Carrying • Surface Mount Buckle and Closure • Webbing Haul Handle\nVisit www.oldharboroutfitters.com for more details.','Knife Roll &#8482','','inherit','open','open','','308-revision','','','2011-12-05 21:52:42','2011-12-05 21:52:42','',308,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=309',0,'revision','',0),(310,1,'2011-12-05 21:52:49','2011-12-05 21:52:49','\r\nYour own personal fillet station whether you’re on the boat or the dock, the OHO knife roll is built to keep your knives safe, secure,\r\nand accessible. (knives sold separately)\r\nFEATURES\r\n• Secures and Stores up to 8 Knives\r\n• Yellow Tarp Lining for Easy Cleaning • Zipper Flap Secures and Protects Knives • Wraps Around a 5 Gallon Bucket • Easy Roll Up for Storage and Carrying • Surface Mount Buckle and Closure • Webbing Haul Handle\r\nVisit www.oldharboroutfitters.com for more details.','Knife Roll &#8482','','inherit','open','open','','308-revision-2','','','2011-12-05 21:52:49','2011-12-05 21:52:49','',308,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=310',0,'revision','',0),(311,1,'2011-12-05 21:53:06','2011-12-05 21:53:06','Your own personal fillet station whether you’re on the boat or the dock, the OHO knife roll is built to keep your knives safe, secure,\r\nand accessible. (knives sold separately)\r\nFEATURES\r\n• Secures and Stores up to 8 Knives\r\n• Yellow Tarp Lining for Easy Cleaning • Zipper Flap Secures and Protects Knives • Wraps Around a 5 Gallon Bucket • Easy Roll Up for Storage and Carrying • Surface Mount Buckle and Closure • Webbing Haul Handle\r\nVisit www.oldharboroutfitters.com for more details.','Knife Roll &#8482','','inherit','open','open','','308-revision-3','','','2011-12-05 21:53:06','2011-12-05 21:53:06','',308,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=311',0,'revision','',0),(312,1,'2011-12-05 21:53:31','2011-12-05 21:53:31','Your own personal fillet station whether you’re on the boat or the dock, the OHO knife roll is built to keep your knives safe, secure,\r\nand accessible. (knives sold separately)\r\n\r\nFEATURES\r\n• Secures and Stores up to 8 Knives\r\n• Yellow Tarp Lining for Easy Cleaning \r\n• Zipper Flap Secures and Protects Knives \r\n• Wraps Around a 5 Gallon Bucket \r\n• Easy Roll Up for Storage and Carrying \r\n• Surface Mount Buckle and Closure \r\n• Webbing Haul Handle\r\n\r\nVisit<a href=\"http:// www.oldharboroutfitters.com\" target=\"_blank\"> www.oldharboroutfitters.com</a> for more details.','Knife Roll &#8482','','inherit','open','open','','308-revision-4','','','2011-12-05 21:53:31','2011-12-05 21:53:31','',308,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=312',0,'revision','',0),(313,1,'2011-12-05 21:54:50','2011-12-05 21:54:50','','kniferoll','','inherit','open','open','','kniferoll','','','2011-12-05 21:54:50','2011-12-05 21:54:50','',308,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/kniferoll.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(314,1,'2011-12-05 21:53:52','2011-12-05 21:53:52','Your own personal fillet station whether you’re on the boat or the dock, the OHO knife roll is built to keep your knives safe, secure,\r\nand accessible. (knives sold separately)\r\n\r\nFEATURES\r\n• Secures and Stores up to 8 Knives\r\n• Yellow Tarp Lining for Easy Cleaning \r\n• Zipper Flap Secures and Protects Knives \r\n• Wraps Around a 5 Gallon Bucket \r\n• Easy Roll Up for Storage and Carrying \r\n• Surface Mount Buckle and Closure \r\n• Webbing Haul Handle\r\n\r\nVisit<a href=\"http://www.oldharboroutfitters.com\" target=\"_blank\"> www.oldharboroutfitters.com</a> for more details.','Knife Roll &#8482','','inherit','open','open','','308-revision-5','','','2011-12-05 21:53:52','2011-12-05 21:53:52','',308,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=314',0,'revision','',0),(315,1,'2011-12-05 21:55:14','2011-12-05 21:55:14','<a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/kniferoll.jpg\"><img src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/kniferoll-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"kniferoll\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-313\" /></a>Your own personal fillet station whether you’re on the boat or the dock, the OHO knife roll is built to keep your knives safe, secure,\r\nand accessible. (knives sold separately)\r\n\r\nFEATURES\r\n• Secures and Stores up to 8 Knives\r\n• Yellow Tarp Lining for Easy Cleaning \r\n• Zipper Flap Secures and Protects Knives \r\n• Wraps Around a 5 Gallon Bucket \r\n• Easy Roll Up for Storage and Carrying \r\n• Surface Mount Buckle and Closure \r\n• Webbing Haul Handle\r\n\r\nVisit<a href=\"http://www.oldharboroutfitters.com\" target=\"_blank\"> www.oldharboroutfitters.com</a> for more details.','Knife Roll &#8482','','inherit','open','open','','308-revision-6','','','2011-12-05 21:55:14','2011-12-05 21:55:14','',308,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=315',0,'revision','',0),(316,1,'2011-08-01 21:56:57','2011-08-01 21:56:57','<a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/12118527.jpg\" class=\"lightbox\"><img src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/12118527-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"12118527\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-317\" /></a>At February’s Miami International Boat Show, West Marine awarded a grand prize for Green Product of the Year to the BlackTip Catch & Release Recompression Tool. It prevents damage to fish by allowing release back down to full depth without venting of the fish’s swim bladder. Used in conjunction with a handline, rod and\r\nreel combo or downrigger, the design utilizes a weight which holds the tool’s spring-loaded jaws securely shut on the fish’s mouth, until, when it touches the bottom, spring tension is relieved, causing the jaws to open and release the fish. Eliminates unnecessary handling and potential damage to the fish’s gills or protective slime coat. Anodized aluminum body, brass swivels and pins, PVC-coated jaws. Sold without weights for use with sinkers appropriate to the weight of fish being released.\r\n\r\nVisit <a href=\"http://www.westmarine.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.westmarine.com</a> for more details.','BlackTip Catch & Release Recompression Tool','','publish','open','open','','blacktip-catch-release-recompression-tool','','','2013-04-02 12:57:29','2013-04-02 16:57:29','',0,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=316',72,'post','',0),(317,1,'2011-12-05 21:58:46','2011-12-05 21:58:46','','12118527','','inherit','open','open','','12118527','','','2011-12-05 21:58:46','2011-12-05 21:58:46','',316,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/12118527.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(318,1,'2011-12-05 21:58:59','2011-12-05 21:58:59','At February’s Miami International Boat Show, West Marine awarded a grand prize for Green Product of the Year to the BlackTip Catch & Release Recompression Tool. It prevents damage to fish by allowing release back down to full depth without venting of the fish’s swim bladder. Used in conjunction with a handline, rod and\nreel combo or downrigger, the design utilizes a weight which holds the tool’s spring-loaded jaws securely shut on the fish’s mouth, until, when it touches the bottom, spring tension is relieved, causing the jaws to open and release the fish. Eliminates unnecessary handling and potential damage to the fish’s gills or protective slime coat. Anodized aluminum body, brass swivels and pins, PVC-coated jaws. Sold without weights for use with sinkers appropriate to the weight of fish being released.\n\nVisit <a href=\"http://www.westmarine.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.westmarine.com</a><a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/12118527.jpg\"><img src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/12118527-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"12118527\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-317\" /></a> for more details.','BlackTip Catch & Release Recompression Tool','','inherit','open','open','','316-revision','','','2011-12-05 21:58:59','2011-12-05 21:58:59','',316,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=318',0,'revision','',0),(319,1,'2011-12-05 21:59:14','2011-12-05 21:59:14','<a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/12118527.jpg\" class=\"lightbox\"><img src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/12118527-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"12118527\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-317\" /></a>At February’s Miami International Boat Show, West Marine awarded a grand prize for Green Product of the Year to the BlackTip Catch & Release Recompression Tool. It prevents damage to fish by allowing release back down to full depth without venting of the fish’s swim bladder. Used in conjunction with a handline, rod and\r\nreel combo or downrigger, the design utilizes a weight which holds the tool’s spring-loaded jaws securely shut on the fish’s mouth, until, when it touches the bottom, spring tension is relieved, causing the jaws to open and release the fish. Eliminates unnecessary handling and potential damage to the fish’s gills or protective slime coat. Anodized aluminum body, brass swivels and pins, PVC-coated jaws. Sold without weights for use with sinkers appropriate to the weight of fish being released.\r\n\r\nVisit <a href=\"http://www.westmarine.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.westmarine.com</a> for more details.','BlackTip Catch & Release Recompression Tool','','inherit','open','open','','316-revision-2','','','2011-12-05 21:59:14','2011-12-05 21:59:14','',316,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=319',0,'revision','',0),(320,1,'2011-08-01 21:59:59','2011-08-01 21:59:59','<img src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/poboy-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"softshell crab poboy\" title=\"softshell crab poboy\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-323\" />Some soft-shell crabs are caught while molting, or “busting” out of their shells. \r\nServings: Serves 4\r\n\r\n<strong>Ingredients:</strong>\r\n• 3 cups canola oil \r\n• 1 cup buttermilk \r\n• 8 small soft-shell crabs, cleaned \r\n• 1 cup all-purpose flour \r\n• 1/2 cup cornmeal \r\n• 1 teaspoon salt \r\n• 3/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper\r\n• 1/4 cup mayonnaise, plus more to taste \r\n• 1 loaf French bread , cut into 4 equal pieces, halved horizontally and toasted \r\n• 8 Bibb or Boston lettuce leaves \r\n• 8 slices dill pickle \r\n• 2 Creole or beefsteak tomatoes, sliced \r\n• Hot sauce, to taste\r\n\r\nIn a large, deep sauté pan or skillet over medium-high heat, bring oil to 350° on a deep-fat thermometer. While oil heats, pour buttermilk into a shallow dish. Place crabs in buttermilk; turn to coat and let stand 5 minutes. On another plate, mix flour, cornmeal, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Season crabs with 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper, then remove crabs from buttermilk one at a time and coat with flour mixture. Place crabs on a baking sheet.\r\n\r\nCarefully add crabs, four at a time, to hot oil. Cook until golden, about 1 1/2 minutes per side. With a slotted spoon, transfer crabs to paper towels to drain.\r\nSpread mayonnaise on cut sides of bread. Top each bottom half with two lettuce leaves, two pickle slices and tomato slices. Sprinkle tomatoes with the remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt. Top with crabs. Add top halves of bread. Serve with hot sauce.\r\nEnjoy!','Buster Crab, Lettuce, Tomato Po\'Boy','','publish','open','open','','buster-crab-lettuce-tomato-poboy','','','2013-04-02 12:57:29','2013-04-02 16:57:29','',0,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=320',71,'post','',0),(321,1,'2011-12-05 22:02:01','2011-12-05 22:02:01','Some soft-shell crabs are caught while molting, or “busting” out of their shells. \n\nServings: Serves 4\nIngredients:\n\n• 3 cups canola oil \n• 1 cup buttermilk \n• 8 small soft-shell crabs, cleaned \n• 1 cup all-purpose flour \n• 1/2 cup cornmeal \n• 1 teaspoon salt \n• 3/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper\n• 1/4 cup mayonnaise, plus more to taste \n• 1 loaf French bread , cut into 4 equal pieces, halved horizontally and toasted \n• 8 Bibb or Boston lettuce leaves \n• 8 slices dill pickle \n• 2 Creole or beefsteak tomatoes, sliced \n• Hot sauce, to taste\n\nIn a large, deep sauté pan or skillet over medium-high heat, bring oil to 350° on a deep-fat thermometer. While oil heats, pour buttermilk into a shallow dish. Place crabs in buttermilk; turn to coat and let stand 5 minutes. On another plate, mix flour, cornmeal, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Season crabs with 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper, then remove crabs from buttermilk one at a time and coat with flour mixture. Place crabs on a baking sheet.\n\nCarefully add crabs, four at a time, to hot oil. Cook until golden, about 1 1/2 minutes per side. With a slotted spoon, transfer crabs to paper towels to drain.\nSpread mayonnaise on cut sides of bread. Top each bottom half with two lettuce leaves, two pickle slices and tomato slices. Sprinkle tomatoes with the remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt. Top with crabs. Add top halves of bread. Serve with hot sauce.\nEnjoy!','Buster Crab, Lettuce, Tomato Po\'Boy ','','inherit','open','open','','320-revision','','','2011-12-05 22:02:01','2011-12-05 22:02:01','',320,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=321',0,'revision','',0),(322,1,'2011-12-05 22:02:24','2011-12-05 22:02:24','Some soft-shell crabs are caught while molting, or “busting” out of their shells. \r\n\r\nServings: Serves 4\r\nIngredients:\r\n\r\n• 3 cups canola oil \r\n• 1 cup buttermilk \r\n• 8 small soft-shell crabs, cleaned \r\n• 1 cup all-purpose flour \r\n• 1/2 cup cornmeal \r\n• 1 teaspoon salt \r\n• 3/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper\r\n• 1/4 cup mayonnaise, plus more to taste \r\n• 1 loaf French bread , cut into 4 equal pieces, halved horizontally and toasted \r\n• 8 Bibb or Boston lettuce leaves \r\n• 8 slices dill pickle \r\n• 2 Creole or beefsteak tomatoes, sliced \r\n• Hot sauce, to taste\r\n\r\nIn a large, deep sauté pan or skillet over medium-high heat, bring oil to 350° on a deep-fat thermometer. While oil heats, pour buttermilk into a shallow dish. Place crabs in buttermilk; turn to coat and let stand 5 minutes. On another plate, mix flour, cornmeal, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Season crabs with 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper, then remove crabs from buttermilk one at a time and coat with flour mixture. Place crabs on a baking sheet.\r\n\r\nCarefully add crabs, four at a time, to hot oil. Cook until golden, about 1 1/2 minutes per side. With a slotted spoon, transfer crabs to paper towels to drain.\r\nSpread mayonnaise on cut sides of bread. Top each bottom half with two lettuce leaves, two pickle slices and tomato slices. Sprinkle tomatoes with the remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt. Top with crabs. Add top halves of bread. Serve with hot sauce.\r\nEnjoy!','Buster Crab, Lettuce, Tomato Po\'Boy ','','inherit','open','open','','320-revision-2','','','2011-12-05 22:02:24','2011-12-05 22:02:24','',320,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=322',0,'revision','',0),(323,1,'2011-12-05 22:03:55','2011-12-05 22:03:55','','softshell crab poboy','','inherit','open','open','','poboy','','','2011-12-05 22:03:55','2011-12-05 22:03:55','',320,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/poboy.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(324,1,'2011-12-05 22:02:44','2011-12-05 22:02:44','Some soft-shell crabs are caught while molting, or “busting” out of their shells. \r\nServings: Serves 4\r\n\r\n<strong>Ingredients:</strong>\r\n• 3 cups canola oil \r\n• 1 cup buttermilk \r\n• 8 small soft-shell crabs, cleaned \r\n• 1 cup all-purpose flour \r\n• 1/2 cup cornmeal \r\n• 1 teaspoon salt \r\n• 3/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper\r\n• 1/4 cup mayonnaise, plus more to taste \r\n• 1 loaf French bread , cut into 4 equal pieces, halved horizontally and toasted \r\n• 8 Bibb or Boston lettuce leaves \r\n• 8 slices dill pickle \r\n• 2 Creole or beefsteak tomatoes, sliced \r\n• Hot sauce, to taste\r\n\r\nIn a large, deep sauté pan or skillet over medium-high heat, bring oil to 350° on a deep-fat thermometer. While oil heats, pour buttermilk into a shallow dish. Place crabs in buttermilk; turn to coat and let stand 5 minutes. On another plate, mix flour, cornmeal, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Season crabs with 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper, then remove crabs from buttermilk one at a time and coat with flour mixture. Place crabs on a baking sheet.\r\n\r\nCarefully add crabs, four at a time, to hot oil. Cook until golden, about 1 1/2 minutes per side. With a slotted spoon, transfer crabs to paper towels to drain.\r\nSpread mayonnaise on cut sides of bread. Top each bottom half with two lettuce leaves, two pickle slices and tomato slices. Sprinkle tomatoes with the remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt. Top with crabs. Add top halves of bread. Serve with hot sauce.\r\nEnjoy!','Buster Crab, Lettuce, Tomato Po\'Boy ','','inherit','open','open','','320-revision-3','','','2011-12-05 22:02:44','2011-12-05 22:02:44','',320,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=324',0,'revision','',0),(326,1,'2011-10-27 17:48:07','2011-10-27 17:48:07','<strong><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-82\" title=\"bangbang\" src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/bangbang.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"347\" height=\"247\" />Ingredients:</strong>\r\n2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil\r\n1 pound chicken breast tenders\r\n1 tablespoon chicken broth\r\n1 medium onion, chopped\r\n2 cloves garlic, minced\r\n3/4 teaspoon dried cilantro\r\n1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger\r\n1 teaspoon finely grated lemon peel\r\n1/8 teaspoon ground cumin\r\npinch of ground turmeric\r\n1 cup coconut milk 2 tablespoons macadamia nuts, finely ground\r\n1 teaspoon sugar\r\n1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper\r\n2 cups fully cooked shrimp\r\n1 tablespoon tamarind paste (available in Indian and specialty stores)\r\n2 teaspoons water Chopped scallion for garnish\r\nCooked rice\r\n\r\n<strong>Directions: Serves 4 </strong>\r\n1. Using a large skillet, heat oil and cook chicken - about 5 minutes per side or until browned and no longer pink in the center. Remove to platter and set aside.\r\n2. Using same pan, heat broth; add onion, garlic, cilantro, ginger, lemon peel, cumin and turmeric and cook for 5 minutes or until the onion is tender but not browned; stir in coconut milk, nuts, sugar, red pepper and shrimp.\r\n3. Return the chicken to skillet, cover and simmer for 10 minutes or until the chicken is heated through; remove to platter and keep warm.\r\n4. Using same pan (do not discard sauce) add tamarind paste and water previously mixed in small bowl. Bring to a gentle boil until thickened and mixture measure about 1 cup.\r\n5. Cook and divide rice; evenly divide the chicken and shrimp among 4 plates. Top with sauce and garnish with scallion. Enjoy!','Bang Bang Chicken and Shrimp','','inherit','open','open','','79-revision-5','','','2011-10-27 17:48:07','2011-10-27 17:48:07','',79,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=326',0,'revision','',0),(325,1,'2011-12-05 22:04:28','2011-12-05 22:04:28','<a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/poboy.jpg\" class=\"lightbox\"><img src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/poboy-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"softshell crab poboy\" title=\"softshell crab poboy\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-323\" /></a>Some soft-shell crabs are caught while molting, or “busting” out of their shells. \r\nServings: Serves 4\r\n\r\n<strong>Ingredients:</strong>\r\n• 3 cups canola oil \r\n• 1 cup buttermilk \r\n• 8 small soft-shell crabs, cleaned \r\n• 1 cup all-purpose flour \r\n• 1/2 cup cornmeal \r\n• 1 teaspoon salt \r\n• 3/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper\r\n• 1/4 cup mayonnaise, plus more to taste \r\n• 1 loaf French bread , cut into 4 equal pieces, halved horizontally and toasted \r\n• 8 Bibb or Boston lettuce leaves \r\n• 8 slices dill pickle \r\n• 2 Creole or beefsteak tomatoes, sliced \r\n• Hot sauce, to taste\r\n\r\nIn a large, deep sauté pan or skillet over medium-high heat, bring oil to 350° on a deep-fat thermometer. While oil heats, pour buttermilk into a shallow dish. Place crabs in buttermilk; turn to coat and let stand 5 minutes. On another plate, mix flour, cornmeal, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Season crabs with 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper, then remove crabs from buttermilk one at a time and coat with flour mixture. Place crabs on a baking sheet.\r\n\r\nCarefully add crabs, four at a time, to hot oil. Cook until golden, about 1 1/2 minutes per side. With a slotted spoon, transfer crabs to paper towels to drain.\r\nSpread mayonnaise on cut sides of bread. Top each bottom half with two lettuce leaves, two pickle slices and tomato slices. Sprinkle tomatoes with the remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt. Top with crabs. Add top halves of bread. Serve with hot sauce.\r\nEnjoy!','Buster Crab, Lettuce, Tomato Po\'Boy ','','inherit','open','open','','320-revision-4','','','2011-12-05 22:04:28','2011-12-05 22:04:28','',320,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=325',0,'revision','',0),(327,1,'2011-08-01 20:35:14','2011-08-01 20:35:14','<a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/catch.jpg\"><img src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/catch-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"catch and release\" title=\"catch and release\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-341\" /></a><strong><em>Written by Mike Plaia</em></strong>\r\n\r\nIn today’s world of smaller bag limits, larger size-limits and general concerns as to the future of our fisheries, more and more anglers are releasing fish of all species. Whatever your reason for releasing your catch, you obviously want the released fish to survive. Here are some tried and true tactics to increase the odds of your fish’s post-release survival.\r\n\r\nOne of the keys to increasing the odds of your released fish’s survival lies in preparation. You can dramatically increase the odds of the fish’s survival by having some specialized tools on hand before the fish is hooked. The most important thing to keep in mind when preparing to release any fish is that the less contact you have with the fish the better the odds of its survival. The only exception to this general rule is for some species caught from deep water when their swim bladder has become distended due to the rapid decompression the fish experiences as it is being reeled to the surface. This phenomenon is called barotrauma and I will talk about it later.\r\n\r\nThe first factor you should consider if you are intending to release the fish you catch, comes even before you put a bait or lure into the water. What hooks should you be using and how should you modify them? If you are fishing bait, you should consider using circle hooks. Circle hooks are designed so that they normally hook the fish in the corner of the mouth, even if the fish initially swallows the bait. The hook is designed to slide along inside the fish’s mouth until the fish turns at an angle to the line. Then the hook will turn as the eye exits the fish’s mouth and the fish will be hooked in the mouth. Circle hooks that have the point offset from the shank of the hook are much more prone to hook the fish in the stomach, as opposed to those without the offset. Obviously a fish hooked in the mouth has a much greater chance of survival than one hooked in the stomach or other vital area. Fish are designed with a tough mouth to enable them to eat other fish, complete with spiny fins, as well as crabs and lobsters, which come complete with their own body armor, so a small hole in the mouth isn’t going to be life threatening.\r\n\r\nIf you elect to use the standard J shaped hook with either bait or a lure, you should consider reducing or removing the barb on the hook, to make it easier to unhook any fish that you catch. The barb is on the hook to help ensure that the hook stays in the fish. Unfortunately, it also makes the fish much more difficult to unhook even when it is out of the water. If you grind or file down the barbs on your hooks or simply crush them with a pair of pliers, you will make it much easier to unhook any fish that you catch and thus minimize the amount of handling of the fish, and maximize its chance of survival.\r\nYou should also consider substituting single hooks for treble hooks on any lures or jigs. Treble hooks will almost invariably hook the fish with more than one hook point, and make the job of unhooking the fish much more difficult. Single hooks without a barb will hook almost as many fish and will make the task of unhooking the fish much simpler.\r\n\r\nOnce you have your catch close to the boat or the beach, you have to accomplish the release, as quickly and with as little contact with the fish as possible. First you have to unhook it. The simplest way to accomplish that goal is simply grab the fish, and gently work the hook out of the fish’s mouth. This isn’t the ideal technique, but it does work. Be sure to avoid grabbing the fish by the gill plates or anywhere near the gills. The gills are very sensitive organs, and any damage to the gills will most likely doom your fish. A better technique would be to put on a wet cotton glove or use a wet cotton rag to grab the fish. Grabbing the fish with your hand, particularly a dry hand, will damage the fish’s slime coat, which protects it against infections much like your skin protects you. Using a wet cotton glove or wet soft rag will minimize the damage that you do to the slime coat and help insure that the fish is not infected by bacteria or fungi.\r\n\r\nAll of this works quite well with smaller fish, but what happens when you hook something much larger? The obvious difficulty with larger fish is controlling the fish while you work to remove the hook. It is generally not recommended that you use any type of gaff on a fish that you intend to release. We have all seen the pictures of Florida guides holding tarpon half way out of the water by a gaff expertly placed through the fish’s mouth. Unless you have the gaffing ability of one of those guides and are play- ing with fish that have mouths the size of buckets, keep the gaff away from the fish. A hole in the fish anywhere other than in the mouth is going to virtually guarantee that the fish will die. For the larger fish a net is a much better choice. The net will do some damage to the fish’s slime coat, but it will also do the job of controlling the fish while you remove the hook. For best results the fish and the net should not be removed from the water. Keeping the fish and the net in the water will minimize the damage to','Release Fish the Right Way','','publish','open','open','','release-fish-the-right-way','','','2013-04-02 12:57:29','2013-04-02 16:57:29','',0,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=327',74,'post','',0),(332,1,'2011-12-05 21:01:21','2011-12-05 21:01:21','<h3>Trolling for Dolphin is Simple - Anyone with a Boat Can Do It.</h3>\r\n<strong><em>By Ron Brooks</em></strong>\r\n\r\nOwning a boat, maybe for the first time, and deciding to head offshore, maybe for the first time, a number of readers ask about getting into dolphin fishing. That’s dolphin fish, mahi mahi, not dolphin porpoise! I have answered some specifics, but now it is time to lay out some basics on fishing for these prolific, blue water acrobats.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Water</strong>\r\nThe first thing to remember is that dolphin, for the most part, are found in blue water. Along the southern Atlantic coast, that usually means the Gulfstream. For all but Florida anglers, that means a small boat is out of luck. The Gulfstream begins moving away from the North American continent around the northern part of Florida. From Jacksonville, the run to the stream is sometimes 80 miles.\r\n\r\nBut, because the stream meanders in and out, and sometimes warm water currents off the stream can move close, dolphin can be found as close in as ten miles during the summer months. There won’t be a lot of them, but they can be caught. You just need to pay attention to the fishing reports.\r\n\r\nIn South Florida and the Florida Keys, the stream runs from three to five miles off the beach, and I have actually caught dolphin over the edge of the reef in forty feet of water or less. Again, it isn’t the norm, but it does happen. So, take account of where you are and plan accordingly.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Season</strong>\r\nWatch and read the fishing reports in your area and see when and where the dolphin are being caught. Dolphin can be caught year round, but in general, the hot season is from about April all the way through to the first cold weather.\r\n\r\nDolphin will stay in the warm waters of the Gulfstream when the surrounding wa- ter is cold. So, winter time means getting right in the stream to fish. In warm and hot weather, the waters surrounding the stream heat up and dolphin will wander in closer to the reef in search of food.\r\n\r\n<strong>Feeding Habits</strong>\r\nDolphin are voracious eaters. They are virtual feeding machines. Although I have had some days when I could not get a school that was swimming under my boat to bite, in general, they live to eat. The lifespan of a dolphin is only five years, and in that time they reach weights of fifty pounds or more.\r\n\r\nAs far as a favorite food, the flying fish has to be close to the top of the list. Great schools of flying fish will leap into the air, gliding the wind currents for several hundred yards to escape a predator fish. They are all over the Gulfstream, and dolphin, among other fish, love them.\r\n\r\nDolphin also feed on ballyhoo, another baitfish common in the area, and on the small fish and crustaceans that live in and around floating Sargasso weed. This weed comes into the Gulfstream from the great Sargasso Sea, a sea within a sea, in the tropical Atlantic. It is home to a variety of sea life, and Dolphin will usually be found patrolling an area of weeds.\r\n\r\nThe Sargasso weeds are free floating. They provide not only food, but shade from the sun (yes, fish need to stay out of the sun just like us!). The weeds tend to be found in long lines that have been formed by current wave action. Some of these weed lines can be a hundred yards wide and stretch for several miles. Others are a few yards wide and only a hundred yards long. Whatever the size, remember that dolphin like them and feed under them.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Tackle</strong>\r\nDolphin fishing is more fun on light tackle. By light, I mean no bigger than thirty pound IGFA class tackle. I actually prefer twenty pound tackle, because the vast majority of dolphin you will catch are under twenty pounds. The occasional big bull dolphin can still be caught on this light tackle; you will simply have to run him down and fight him!\r\n\r\nConventional trolling rods and reels work well, but medium to heavy spinning tackle will work equally as well. Just make sure the reel holds several hundred yards of line.\r\n\r\nI use twenty to thirty pound test monofilament line on my dolphin reels. But, remember, I am specifically targeting dolphin. Charter boats will usually be trolling fifty or even eighty pound line. The beauty of trolling the Gulfstream is that you never know what you will find. So, charter boats – wanting to make sure their paying customers don’t miss a big tuna or wahoo because the line is too light – will use the heavier tackle.\r\n\r\n<strong>Terminal Tackle</strong>\r\nThis is an area that people spend a lot of money on, yet it’s an area that can be so simple. Remember, we are after dolphin. If something else jumps on our line, we want a reasonable chance at catching it, so we need terminal rigs – the business end of the line – to be beefy enough to handle them.\r\n\r\nI use a five foot long, fifty pound test, stainless steel, wire leader. This is the standard wire leader found in any tackle shop, including the big box discount department stores. Why wire? Remember – you never know what you might find. A roving king mackerel or wahoo may jump on your trolled bait, and a monofilament leader will be sliced in half before you ever feel the fish.\r\n\r\n\"But, you can see the wire in all that clear water\", he said. Yes, but you are trolling and skipping a bait on the surface (more on that later).\r\n\r\nI use a number 3 swivel on one end of the leader and a 7/0 single O’shaunessy hook on the other end. When I wrap the wire leader to the hook, I leave a one-half inch tip of the leader at a 90 degree angle to the hook. See one of the pictures for an illustration. This tip is used to hold the ballyhoo bait in place.\r\n\r\n<strong>Bait and Rigging</strong>\r\nBy far my preference in bait both because of availability and success rate is ballyhoo. Fresh or brined are best, but flash frozen work well if you can get them from a repu- table bait source. I place the point of the hook in and under the ballyhoo’s gill plate and run the hook down into the stomach. I force the hook point out the bottom of the fish so that the hook eye and leader are right at the mouth of the ‘Hoo and the hook is turned down under the belly of the bait.\r\n\r\nThis is where the leader tip comes in handy. I force the leader tip through the bot- tom and top jaw of the ballyhoo so that it protrudes just at the front of\r\nthe top lip. With a tie wrap from an old loaf of bread, I wrap the bill and leader tip to keep the mouth of the ballyhoo closed, and then I break off the bill right at the leader.\r\n\r\nSometimes I may use a pink or chartreuse skirt available at most tackle shops. The skirt offers color and protection of the nose area of the bait, but it really is not nec- essary. Commercial nose cone type products are also available, but in my experience not really necessary. That leader tip works just fine.\r\n\r\n<strong>Trolling</strong>\r\nDolphin usually prefer what I call a semi-hot bait. That is, not too slow and not too fast. I place a rod in a rod holder and let line back behind the boat. These are flat lines – ones that are not attached to an outrigger. I put one on each side of the boat back thirty to fifty yards. I run the trolling speed of the boat up until the bait is one the surface and “skipping” with the front of the bait just out of the water. Sometimes I will troll four rods, two way back fifty to sixty yards, one half way back and one bait right up close to the boat in the prop wash.\r\n\r\n<strong>Technique</strong>\r\nFinding and catching dolphin is easy if you follow some basics. • Look for a weed line or any other kind of flotsam in the water. Dolphin will be\r\nunder anything they can find to escape the sun. • Troll the edge of the weed line heading one direction and then crossing and heading back the other direction.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Vary the speed of your troll if you have not attracted a fish. Speed up or slow down – just break the pattern.</li>\r\n	<li>Watch for flying fish. If you spook some flying fish while trolling, chances are dolphin will be in the area. They follow the baitfish.</li>\r\n	<li>Look for birds – either a flock of birds diving or a solitary frigate bird. The flock of birds will usually be on a school of baitfish being chased by bonito or false albacore, but eh dolphin will be in the area as well. A solitary frigate bird will stay over a school of fish – sometimes solitary big fish – looking for an easy meal. It is wise to head their direction as well.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Simplicity</strong>\r\nEverything we talked about can be done with minimal expense and literally no special tackle. Big rods, outriggers, and the like are generally not necessary. Dolphin are very cooperative fish and a bait that skips without spinning and twisting will catch fish if you fish where the dolphin live.','Beginner Dolphin Trolling Basics','','inherit','open','open','','261-revision-4','','','2011-12-05 21:01:21','2011-12-05 21:01:21','',261,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=332',0,'revision','',0),(339,1,'2011-12-05 22:04:51','2011-12-05 22:04:51','<img src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/poboy-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"softshell crab poboy\" title=\"softshell crab poboy\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-323\" />Some soft-shell crabs are caught while molting, or “busting” out of their shells. \r\nServings: Serves 4\r\n\r\n<strong>Ingredients:</strong>\r\n• 3 cups canola oil \r\n• 1 cup buttermilk \r\n• 8 small soft-shell crabs, cleaned \r\n• 1 cup all-purpose flour \r\n• 1/2 cup cornmeal \r\n• 1 teaspoon salt \r\n• 3/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper\r\n• 1/4 cup mayonnaise, plus more to taste \r\n• 1 loaf French bread , cut into 4 equal pieces, halved horizontally and toasted \r\n• 8 Bibb or Boston lettuce leaves \r\n• 8 slices dill pickle \r\n• 2 Creole or beefsteak tomatoes, sliced \r\n• Hot sauce, to taste\r\n\r\nIn a large, deep sauté pan or skillet over medium-high heat, bring oil to 350° on a deep-fat thermometer. While oil heats, pour buttermilk into a shallow dish. Place crabs in buttermilk; turn to coat and let stand 5 minutes. On another plate, mix flour, cornmeal, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Season crabs with 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper, then remove crabs from buttermilk one at a time and coat with flour mixture. Place crabs on a baking sheet.\r\n\r\nCarefully add crabs, four at a time, to hot oil. Cook until golden, about 1 1/2 minutes per side. With a slotted spoon, transfer crabs to paper towels to drain.\r\nSpread mayonnaise on cut sides of bread. Top each bottom half with two lettuce leaves, two pickle slices and tomato slices. Sprinkle tomatoes with the remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt. Top with crabs. Add top halves of bread. Serve with hot sauce.\r\nEnjoy!','Buster Crab, Lettuce, Tomato Po\'Boy ','','inherit','open','open','','320-revision-5','','','2011-12-05 22:04:51','2011-12-05 22:04:51','',320,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=339',0,'revision','',0),(2105,6,'2013-04-02 22:03:55','2013-04-03 02:03:55','','Non-Boat Classified Listings','','inherit','closed','closed','','2104-revision-v1','','','2013-04-02 22:03:55','2013-04-03 02:03:55','',2104,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/2104-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(341,1,'2011-12-08 20:34:40','2011-12-08 20:34:40','','catch and release','','inherit','open','open','','catch','','','2011-12-08 20:34:40','2011-12-08 20:34:40','',327,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/catch.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(342,1,'2011-12-08 20:35:07','2011-12-08 20:35:07','<a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/catch.jpg\"><img src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/catch-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"catch and release\" title=\"catch and release\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-341\" /></a><strong><em>Written by Mike Plaia</em></strong>\n\nIn today’s world of smaller bag limits, larger size-limits and general concerns as to the future of our fisheries, more and more anglers are releasing fish of all species. Whatever your reason for releasing your catch, you obviously want the released fish to survive. Here are some tried and true tactics to increase the odds of your fish’s post-release survival.\n\nOne of the keys to increasing the odds of your released fish’s survival lies in preparation. You can dramatically increase the odds of the fish’s survival by having some specialized tools on hand before the fish is hooked. The most important thing to keep in mind when preparing to release any fish is that the less contact you have with the fish the better the odds of its survival. The only exception to this general rule is for some species caught from deep water when their swim bladder has become distended due to the rapid decompression the fish experiences as it is being reeled to the surface. This phenomenon is called barotrauma and I will talk about it later.\n\nThe first factor you should consider if you are intending to release the fish you catch, comes even before you put a bait or lure into the water. What hooks should you be using and how should you modify them? If you are fishing bait, you should consider using circle hooks. Circle hooks are designed so that they normally hook the fish in the corner of the mouth, even if the fish initially swallows the bait. The hook is designed to slide along inside the fish’s mouth until the fish turns at an angle to the line. Then the hook will turn as the eye exits the fish’s mouth and the fish will be hooked in the mouth. Circle hooks that have the point offset from the shank of the hook are much more prone to hook the fish in the stomach, as opposed to those without the offset. Obviously a fish hooked in the mouth has a much greater chance of survival than one hooked in the stomach or other vital area. Fish are designed with a tough mouth to enable them to eat other fish, complete with spiny fins, as well as crabs and lobsters, which come complete with their own body armor, so a small hole in the mouth isn’t going to be life threatening.\n\nIf you elect to use the standard J shaped hook with either bait or a lure, you should consider reducing or removing the barb on the hook, to make it easier to unhook any fish that you catch. The barb is on the hook to help ensure that the hook stays in the fish. Unfortunately, it also makes the fish much more difficult to unhook even when it is out of the water. If you grind or file down the barbs on your hooks or simply crush them with a pair of pliers, you will make it much easier to unhook any fish that you catch and thus minimize the amount of handling of the fish, and maximize its chance of survival.\nYou should also consider substituting single hooks for treble hooks on any lures or jigs. Treble hooks will almost invariably hook the fish with more than one hook point, and make the job of unhooking the fish much more difficult. Single hooks without a barb will hook almost as many fish and will make the task of unhooking the fish much simpler.\n\nOnce you have your catch close to the boat or the beach, you have to accomplish the release, as quickly and with as little contact with the fish as possible. First you have to unhook it. The simplest way to accomplish that goal is simply grab the fish, and gently work the hook out of the fish’s mouth. This isn’t the ideal technique, but it does work. Be sure to avoid grabbing the fish by the gill plates or anywhere near the gills. The gills are very sensitive organs, and any damage to the gills will most likely doom your fish. A better technique would be to put on a wet cotton glove or use a wet cotton rag to grab the fish. Grabbing the fish with your hand, particularly a dry hand, will damage the fish’s slime coat, which protects it against infections much like your skin protects you. Using a wet cotton glove or wet soft rag will minimize the damage that you do to the slime coat and help insure that the fish is not infected by bacteria or fungi.\n\nAll of this works quite well with smaller fish, but what happens when you hook something much larger? The obvious difficulty with larger fish is controlling the fish while you work to remove the hook. It is generally not recommended that you use any type of gaff on a fish that you intend to release. We have all seen the pictures of Florida guides holding tarpon half way out of the water by a gaff expertly placed through the fish’s mouth. Unless you have the gaffing ability of one of those guides and are play- ing with fish that have mouths the size of buckets, keep the gaff away from the fish. A hole in the fish anywhere other than in the mouth is going to virtually guarantee that the fish will die. For the larger fish a net is a much better choice. The net will do some damage to the fish’s slime coat, but it will also do the job of controlling the fish while you remove the hook. For best results the fish and the net should not be removed from the water. Keeping the fish and the net in the water will minimize the damage to','Release Fish the Right Way','','inherit','open','open','','327-revision','','','2011-12-08 20:35:07','2011-12-08 20:35:07','',327,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=342',0,'revision','',0),(343,1,'2011-12-08 20:35:14','2011-12-08 20:35:14','<a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/catch.jpg\"><img src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/catch-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"catch and release\" title=\"catch and release\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-341\" /></a><strong><em>Written by Mike Plaia</em></strong>\r\n\r\nIn today’s world of smaller bag limits, larger size-limits and general concerns as to the future of our fisheries, more and more anglers are releasing fish of all species. Whatever your reason for releasing your catch, you obviously want the released fish to survive. Here are some tried and true tactics to increase the odds of your fish’s post-release survival.\r\n\r\nOne of the keys to increasing the odds of your released fish’s survival lies in preparation. You can dramatically increase the odds of the fish’s survival by having some specialized tools on hand before the fish is hooked. The most important thing to keep in mind when preparing to release any fish is that the less contact you have with the fish the better the odds of its survival. The only exception to this general rule is for some species caught from deep water when their swim bladder has become distended due to the rapid decompression the fish experiences as it is being reeled to the surface. This phenomenon is called barotrauma and I will talk about it later.\r\n\r\nThe first factor you should consider if you are intending to release the fish you catch, comes even before you put a bait or lure into the water. What hooks should you be using and how should you modify them? If you are fishing bait, you should consider using circle hooks. Circle hooks are designed so that they normally hook the fish in the corner of the mouth, even if the fish initially swallows the bait. The hook is designed to slide along inside the fish’s mouth until the fish turns at an angle to the line. Then the hook will turn as the eye exits the fish’s mouth and the fish will be hooked in the mouth. Circle hooks that have the point offset from the shank of the hook are much more prone to hook the fish in the stomach, as opposed to those without the offset. Obviously a fish hooked in the mouth has a much greater chance of survival than one hooked in the stomach or other vital area. Fish are designed with a tough mouth to enable them to eat other fish, complete with spiny fins, as well as crabs and lobsters, which come complete with their own body armor, so a small hole in the mouth isn’t going to be life threatening.\r\n\r\nIf you elect to use the standard J shaped hook with either bait or a lure, you should consider reducing or removing the barb on the hook, to make it easier to unhook any fish that you catch. The barb is on the hook to help ensure that the hook stays in the fish. Unfortunately, it also makes the fish much more difficult to unhook even when it is out of the water. If you grind or file down the barbs on your hooks or simply crush them with a pair of pliers, you will make it much easier to unhook any fish that you catch and thus minimize the amount of handling of the fish, and maximize its chance of survival.\r\nYou should also consider substituting single hooks for treble hooks on any lures or jigs. Treble hooks will almost invariably hook the fish with more than one hook point, and make the job of unhooking the fish much more difficult. Single hooks without a barb will hook almost as many fish and will make the task of unhooking the fish much simpler.\r\n\r\nOnce you have your catch close to the boat or the beach, you have to accomplish the release, as quickly and with as little contact with the fish as possible. First you have to unhook it. The simplest way to accomplish that goal is simply grab the fish, and gently work the hook out of the fish’s mouth. This isn’t the ideal technique, but it does work. Be sure to avoid grabbing the fish by the gill plates or anywhere near the gills. The gills are very sensitive organs, and any damage to the gills will most likely doom your fish. A better technique would be to put on a wet cotton glove or use a wet cotton rag to grab the fish. Grabbing the fish with your hand, particularly a dry hand, will damage the fish’s slime coat, which protects it against infections much like your skin protects you. Using a wet cotton glove or wet soft rag will minimize the damage that you do to the slime coat and help insure that the fish is not infected by bacteria or fungi.\r\n\r\nAll of this works quite well with smaller fish, but what happens when you hook something much larger? The obvious difficulty with larger fish is controlling the fish while you work to remove the hook. It is generally not recommended that you use any type of gaff on a fish that you intend to release. We have all seen the pictures of Florida guides holding tarpon half way out of the water by a gaff expertly placed through the fish’s mouth. Unless you have the gaffing ability of one of those guides and are play- ing with fish that have mouths the size of buckets, keep the gaff away from the fish. A hole in the fish anywhere other than in the mouth is going to virtually guarantee that the fish will die. For the larger fish a net is a much better choice. The net will do some damage to the fish’s slime coat, but it will also do the job of controlling the fish while you remove the hook. For best results the fish and the net should not be removed from the water. Keeping the fish and the net in the water will minimize the damage to','Release Fish the Right Way','','inherit','open','open','','327-revision-2','','','2011-12-08 20:35:14','2011-12-08 20:35:14','',327,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=343',0,'revision','',0),(344,1,'2011-09-01 20:52:18','2011-09-01 20:52:18','<h2>How to Enjoy Sushi for the First Time</h2>\r\n<strong>So you want to try sushi?</strong>\r\nAre you new to sushi? Have you ever wanted to try it but were not sure where to start or what you might like? Or tried it and weren’t sure if you liked it? This guide will hopefully offer some information as to a good way to start enjoying sushi if you are a sushi beginner. Many people may say ‘why do I need a guide to try sushi?”This is not intended to be a treatise on the ‘only’ way to start eating sushi, but merely some recom- mendations for those who are unsure about eating raw fish and may be looking for some direction to ease them into something that they may learn to enjoy. This guide is presented as a list of suggestion to follow or think about when you decide the time is right to try sushi.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Try cooked items first. Until you are comfortable with raw seafood, you may want to try the cooked items available before the raw ones. Not all sushi is raw, which may come as a surprise to some, and you can make an entire meal from cooked food. Eel (unagi and anago) is always served cooked, and usually with a sweet and savory sauce. California rolls also have avocado, cucumber and cooked imitation crab meat (called kamaboko or surimi). You can get grilled squid (ika) or octopus (tako). Shrimp (ebi) is a good place to begin as unless you are ordering ‘sweet shrimp’ (ama ebi) it is always cooked. Clam is often cooked as well. Sushi restaurants also often make rolls out of items that are cooked tempura style (battered and fried). Some of these rolls (maki) are actually quite good. Some fish is ‘cooked’ in an acidic marinade, similar to ceviche, which is popular in many countries. With these items, such as mackerel (saba), the acidity of the marinade cooks the fish instead of heat, and adds a great deal of flavor to the fish as well. While a strongly flavored fish may not be to your liking, check the menu or ask to see what may be available.</li>\r\n	<li>Start with what you know. Sushi is not that different from eating any fish, it’s just not cooked. If you were to put it in the context of ‘seafood’ it should be easier on the neophyte palate. If you like a nice piece of grilled salmon, or particularly smoked or cured, then a piece of salmon sushi shouldn’t that much of a reach. The two main differences are taste and texture, and taste-wise raw salmon is not that different. It may not have the smokiness of smoked salmon or the sweetness of the cured variety, but this particular fish is not that different raw or cooked. Texture wise, it is just a little softer, which will not stand out that much against the rice. Do you like calamari? Try the squid (ika). Do you like scallops? Scallop sushi is almost unchanged from the ‘seared’ scallops served in a nice res- taurant, which is only seared on the outside and raw on the inside. Shrimp (ebi) is also widely served. While there are many fish you may not have encountered in a restaurant, there will also be plenty that you have, and will be familiar.</li>\r\n	<li>Try ‘vegetarian’ sushi. Just to get yourself in the ‘sushi mode’ you might want to try rolls without any meat in them. Kappa Maki (cucumber rolls) are a good place to start. By trying items like these you may become accustomed to the\r\nstyle of food and then decide if you would like to partake of something a bit more adventurous.</li>\r\n	<li>Start with the cut rolls (maki) instead of sushi or sashimi. One of the many ways of serving sushi, the cut roll or hand roll (temaki) is a good way to start off if the thought of eating raw fish might be off-putting. With the rolls, the items are inside and not staring you in the face, which may be a bit more appealing to some. Sashimi may be the last choice for some as being nothing more than a chunk of raw fish, it may not be the best thing to start with if you are hesitant. With a roll, and sushi, the rice will be a nice buffer, so to speak, for you to become more accustomed to the concept of eating fish raw.</li>\r\n	<li>Try the items with the least ‘fishy’ intensity. The milder items are a great place to start. Foods such as scallop (hotategai), red snapper (tai), squid (ika), and halibut (ohyo) are particularly mild, and are great for beginners. Tuna (maguro) may look strong due to it’s rich, dark colour, but it is also a very mild fish, and a very common item in sushi restaurants. Putting a hunk of mackerel (saba) in your mouth when you are not expecting something overly fishy can be a deal-breaker for some. The milder fish can still have a great flavor without being ‘fishy.’ The general rule is the less oily, the less fishy, so keep that in mind.</li>\r\n	<li>Let the itamae (chef ) help you. There is a dining choice called ‘omakase’ which essentially means‘chef’s choice.’This means that the itamae will choose what he thinks is particularly good that day and serve you items until you are finished. This is probably not a good choice if you are not sure what you like or definitely want to avoid certain items. Don’t let your friends talk you into this one unless you know what you are getting into, which I explain in my blog entry, omakase sushi.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nEveryone has different tastes and there is definitely no single way to approach su- shi if you are new to it. Always stay at your comfort level and don’t be afraid to not eat something that doesn’t appeal to you. Find your own pace and you never know, sushi may grow on you. As a youth I was told to try something three times before declaring that I didn’t like it. It has worked for me every time and I can’t think of a food that I cannot appreciate. You may not turn into a sushi fiend, but there is a lot to appreciate about sushi and Japanese food in general. Try what you think that you will like and that looks interesting. Have a little sake and relax. Meshi agare!\r\n\r\nVisit <a href=\"http://www.sushifaq.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.sushifaq.com</a> for more sushi questions and answers.','Sushi for Beginners','','publish','open','open','','sushi-for-beginners','','','2013-04-02 12:57:28','2013-04-02 16:57:28','',0,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=344',62,'post','',0),(345,1,'2011-12-08 20:52:27','2011-12-08 20:52:27','\nHow to Enjoy Sushi for the First Time\nSo you want to try sushi?\nAre you new to sushi? Have you ever wanted to try it but were not sure where to start or what you might like? Or tried it and weren’t sure if you liked it? This guide will hopefully offer some information as to a good way to start enjoying sushi if you are a sushi beginner. Many people may say ‘why do I need a guide to try sushi?”This is not intended to be a treatise on the ‘only’ way to start eating sushi, but merely some recom- mendations for those who are unsure about eating raw fish and may\nbe looking for some direction to ease them into something that they may learn to enjoy. This guide is presented as a list of suggestion to follow or think about when you decide the time is right to try sushi.\n• Try cooked items first. Until you are comfortable with raw seafood, you may want to try the cooked items available before the raw ones. Not all sushi is raw, which may come as a surprise to some, and you can make an entire meal from cooked food. Eel (unagi and anago) is always served cooked, and usually with a sweet and savory sauce. California rolls also have avocado, cucumber and cooked imitation crab meat (called kamaboko or surimi). You can get grilled squid (ika) or octopus (tako). Shrimp (ebi) is a good place to begin as unless you are ordering ‘sweet shrimp’ (ama ebi) it is always cooked. Clam is often cooked as well. Sushi restaurants also often make rolls out of items that are cooked tempura style (battered and fried). Some of these rolls (maki) are actually quite good. Some fish is ‘cooked’ in an acidic marinade, similar to ceviche, which is popular in many countries. With these items, such as mackerel (saba), the acidity of the marinade cooks the fish instead of heat, and adds a great deal of flavor to the fish as well. While a strongly flavored fish may not be to your liking, check the menu or ask to see what may be available.\n• Start with what you know. Sushi is not that different from eating any fish, it’s just not cooked. If you were to put it in the context of ‘seafood’ it should be easier on the neophyte palate. If you like a nice piece of grilled salmon, or particularly smoked or cured, then a piece of salmon sushi shouldn’t that much of a reach. The two main differences are taste and texture, and taste-wise raw salmon is not that different. It may not have the smokiness of smoked salmon or the sweetness of the cured variety, but this particular fish is not that different raw or cooked. Texture wise, it is just a little softer, which will not stand out that much against the rice. Do you like calamari? Try the squid (ika). Do you like scallops? Scallop sushi is almost unchanged from the ‘seared’ scallops served in a nice res- taurant, which is only seared on the outside and raw on the inside. Shrimp (ebi) is also widely served. While there are many fish you may not have encountered in a restaurant, there will also be plenty that you have, and will be familiar.\n• Try ‘vegetarian’ sushi. Just to get yourself in the ‘sushi mode’ you might want to try rolls without any meat in them. Kappa Maki (cucumber rolls) are a good place to start. By trying items like these you may become accustomed to the\nstyle of food and then decide if you would like to partake of something a bit more adventurous.\n• Start with the cut rolls (maki) instead of sushi or sashimi. One of the many ways of serving sushi, the cut roll or hand roll (temaki) is a good way to start off if the thought of eating raw fish might be off-putting. With the rolls, the items are inside and not staring you in the face, which may be a bit more appealing to some. Sashimi may be the last choice for some as being nothing more than a chunk of raw fish, it may not be the best thing to start with if you are hesitant. With a roll, and sushi, the rice will be a nice buffer, so to speak, for you to become more accustomed to the concept of eating fish raw.\n• Try the items with the least ‘fishy’ intensity. The milder items are a great place to start. Foods such as scallop (hotategai), red snapper (tai), squid (ika), and halibut (ohyo) are particularly mild, and are great for beginners. Tuna (maguro) may look strong due to it’s rich, dark colour, but it is also a very mild fish, and a very common item in sushi restaurants. Putting a hunk of mackerel (saba) in your mouth when you are not expecting something overly fishy can be a deal-breaker for some. The milder fish can still have a great flavor without being ‘fishy.’ The general rule is the less oily, the less fishy, so keep that in mind.\n• Let the itamae (chef ) help you. There is a dining choice called ‘omakase’ which essentially means‘chef’s choice.’This means that the itamae will choose what he thinks is particularly good that day and serve you items until you are finished. This is probably not a good choice if you are not sure what you like or definitely want to avoid certain items. Don’t let your friends talk you into this one unless you know what you are getting into, which I explain in my blog entry, omakase sushi.\nEveryone has different tastes and there is definitely no single way to approach su- shi if you are new to it. Always stay at your comfort level and don’t be afraid to not eat something that doesn’t appeal to you. Find your own pace and you never know, sushi may grow on you. As a youth I was told to try something three times before declaring that I didn’t like it. It has worked for me every time and I can’t think of a food that I cannot appreciate. You may not turn into a sushi fiend, but there is a lot to appreciate about sushi and Japanese food in general. Try what you think that you will like and that looks interesting. Have a little sake and relax. Meshi agare!\nVisit www.sushifaq.com for more sushi questions and anwers.','Sushi for Beginners','','inherit','open','open','','344-revision','','','2011-12-08 20:52:27','2011-12-08 20:52:27','',344,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=345',0,'revision','',0),(346,1,'2011-12-08 20:53:13','2011-12-08 20:53:13','<h2>How to Enjoy Sushi for the First Time</h2>\r\n\r\nSo you want to try sushi?\r\nAre you new to sushi? Have you ever wanted to try it but were not sure where to start or what you might like? Or tried it and weren’t sure if you liked it? This guide will hopefully offer some information as to a good way to start enjoying sushi if you are a sushi beginner. Many people may say ‘why do I need a guide to try sushi?”This is not intended to be a treatise on the ‘only’ way to start eating sushi, but merely some recom- mendations for those who are unsure about eating raw fish and may\r\nbe looking for some direction to ease them into something that they may learn to enjoy. This guide is presented as a list of suggestion to follow or think about when you decide the time is right to try sushi.\r\n• Try cooked items first. Until you are comfortable with raw seafood, you may want to try the cooked items available before the raw ones. Not all sushi is raw, which may come as a surprise to some, and you can make an entire meal from cooked food. Eel (unagi and anago) is always served cooked, and usually with a sweet and savory sauce. California rolls also have avocado, cucumber and cooked imitation crab meat (called kamaboko or surimi). You can get grilled squid (ika) or octopus (tako). Shrimp (ebi) is a good place to begin as unless you are ordering ‘sweet shrimp’ (ama ebi) it is always cooked. Clam is often cooked as well. Sushi restaurants also often make rolls out of items that are cooked tempura style (battered and fried). Some of these rolls (maki) are actually quite good. Some fish is ‘cooked’ in an acidic marinade, similar to ceviche, which is popular in many countries. With these items, such as mackerel (saba), the acidity of the marinade cooks the fish instead of heat, and adds a great deal of flavor to the fish as well. While a strongly flavored fish may not be to your liking, check the menu or ask to see what may be available.\r\n• Start with what you know. Sushi is not that different from eating any fish, it’s just not cooked. If you were to put it in the context of ‘seafood’ it should be easier on the neophyte palate. If you like a nice piece of grilled salmon, or particularly smoked or cured, then a piece of salmon sushi shouldn’t that much of a reach. The two main differences are taste and texture, and taste-wise raw salmon is not that different. It may not have the smokiness of smoked salmon or the sweetness of the cured variety, but this particular fish is not that different raw or cooked. Texture wise, it is just a little softer, which will not stand out that much against the rice. Do you like calamari? Try the squid (ika). Do you like scallops? Scallop sushi is almost unchanged from the ‘seared’ scallops served in a nice res- taurant, which is only seared on the outside and raw on the inside. Shrimp (ebi) is also widely served. While there are many fish you may not have encountered in a restaurant, there will also be plenty that you have, and will be familiar.\r\n• Try ‘vegetarian’ sushi. Just to get yourself in the ‘sushi mode’ you might want to try rolls without any meat in them. Kappa Maki (cucumber rolls) are a good place to start. By trying items like these you may become accustomed to the\r\nstyle of food and then decide if you would like to partake of something a bit more adventurous.\r\n• Start with the cut rolls (maki) instead of sushi or sashimi. One of the many ways of serving sushi, the cut roll or hand roll (temaki) is a good way to start off if the thought of eating raw fish might be off-putting. With the rolls, the items are inside and not staring you in the face, which may be a bit more appealing to some. Sashimi may be the last choice for some as being nothing more than a chunk of raw fish, it may not be the best thing to start with if you are hesitant. With a roll, and sushi, the rice will be a nice buffer, so to speak, for you to become more accustomed to the concept of eating fish raw.\r\n• Try the items with the least ‘fishy’ intensity. The milder items are a great place to start. Foods such as scallop (hotategai), red snapper (tai), squid (ika), and halibut (ohyo) are particularly mild, and are great for beginners. Tuna (maguro) may look strong due to it’s rich, dark colour, but it is also a very mild fish, and a very common item in sushi restaurants. Putting a hunk of mackerel (saba) in your mouth when you are not expecting something overly fishy can be a deal-breaker for some. The milder fish can still have a great flavor without being ‘fishy.’ The general rule is the less oily, the less fishy, so keep that in mind.\r\n• Let the itamae (chef ) help you. There is a dining choice called ‘omakase’ which essentially means‘chef’s choice.’This means that the itamae will choose what he thinks is particularly good that day and serve you items until you are finished. This is probably not a good choice if you are not sure what you like or definitely want to avoid certain items. Don’t let your friends talk you into this one unless you know what you are getting into, which I explain in my blog entry, omakase sushi.\r\nEveryone has different tastes and there is definitely no single way to approach su- shi if you are new to it. Always stay at your comfort level and don’t be afraid to not eat something that doesn’t appeal to you. Find your own pace and you never know, sushi may grow on you. As a youth I was told to try something three times before declaring that I didn’t like it. It has worked for me every time and I can’t think of a food that I cannot appreciate. You may not turn into a sushi fiend, but there is a lot to appreciate about sushi and Japanese food in general. Try what you think that you will like and that looks interesting. Have a little sake and relax. Meshi agare!\r\nVisit www.sushifaq.com for more sushi questions and anwers.','Sushi for Beginners','','inherit','open','open','','344-revision-2','','','2011-12-08 20:53:13','2011-12-08 20:53:13','',344,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=346',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (347,1,'2011-12-08 20:55:47','2011-12-08 20:55:47','<h2>How to Enjoy Sushi for the First Time</h2>\n<strong>So you want to try sushi?</strong>\nAre you new to sushi? Have you ever wanted to try it but were not sure where to start or what you might like? Or tried it and weren’t sure if you liked it? This guide will hopefully offer some information as to a good way to start enjoying sushi if you are a sushi beginner. Many people may say ‘why do I need a guide to try sushi?”This is not intended to be a treatise on the ‘only’ way to start eating sushi, but merely some recom- mendations for those who are unsure about eating raw fish and may be looking for some direction to ease them into something that they may learn to enjoy. This guide is presented as a list of suggestion to follow or think about when you decide the time is right to try sushi.\n<ul>\n	<li>Try cooked items first. Until you are comfortable with raw seafood, you may want to try the cooked items available before the raw ones. Not all sushi is raw, which may come as a surprise to some, and you can make an entire meal from cooked food. Eel (unagi and anago) is always served cooked, and usually with a sweet and savory sauce. California rolls also have avocado, cucumber and cooked imitation crab meat (called kamaboko or surimi). You can get grilled squid (ika) or octopus (tako). Shrimp (ebi) is a good place to begin as unless you are ordering ‘sweet shrimp’ (ama ebi) it is always cooked. Clam is often cooked as well. Sushi restaurants also often make rolls out of items that are cooked tempura style (battered and fried). Some of these rolls (maki) are actually quite good. Some fish is ‘cooked’ in an acidic marinade, similar to ceviche, which is popular in many countries. With these items, such as mackerel (saba), the acidity of the marinade cooks the fish instead of heat, and adds a great deal of flavor to the fish as well. While a strongly flavored fish may not be to your liking, check the menu or ask to see what may be available.</li>\n	<li>Start with what you know. Sushi is not that different from eating any fish, it’s just not cooked. If you were to put it in the context of ‘seafood’ it should be easier on the neophyte palate. If you like a nice piece of grilled salmon, or particularly smoked or cured, then a piece of salmon sushi shouldn’t that much of a reach. The two main differences are taste and texture, and taste-wise raw salmon is not that different. It may not have the smokiness of smoked salmon or the sweetness of the cured variety, but this particular fish is not that different raw or cooked. Texture wise, it is just a little softer, which will not stand out that much against the rice. Do you like calamari? Try the squid (ika). Do you like scallops? Scallop sushi is almost unchanged from the ‘seared’ scallops served in a nice res- taurant, which is only seared on the outside and raw on the inside. Shrimp (ebi) is also widely served. While there are many fish you may not have encountered in a restaurant, there will also be plenty that you have, and will be familiar.</li>\n	<li>Try ‘vegetarian’ sushi. Just to get yourself in the ‘sushi mode’ you might want to try rolls without any meat in them. Kappa Maki (cucumber rolls) are a good place to start. By trying items like these you may become accustomed to the\nstyle of food and then decide if you would like to partake of something a bit more adventurous.</li>\n	<li>Start with the cut rolls (maki) instead of sushi or sashimi. One of the many ways of serving sushi, the cut roll or hand roll (temaki) is a good way to start off if the thought of eating raw fish might be off-putting. With the rolls, the items are inside and not staring you in the face, which may be a bit more appealing to some. Sashimi may be the last choice for some as being nothing more than a chunk of raw fish, it may not be the best thing to start with if you are hesitant. With a roll, and sushi, the rice will be a nice buffer, so to speak, for you to become more accustomed to the concept of eating fish raw.</li>\n	<li>Try the items with the least ‘fishy’ intensity. The milder items are a great place to start. Foods such as scallop (hotategai), red snapper (tai), squid (ika), and halibut (ohyo) are particularly mild, and are great for beginners. Tuna (maguro) may look strong due to it’s rich, dark colour, but it is also a very mild fish, and a very common item in sushi restaurants. Putting a hunk of mackerel (saba) in your mouth when you are not expecting something overly fishy can be a deal-breaker for some. The milder fish can still have a great flavor without being ‘fishy.’ The general rule is the less oily, the less fishy, so keep that in mind.</li>\n	<li>Let the itamae (chef ) help you. There is a dining choice called ‘omakase’ which essentially means‘chef’s choice.’This means that the itamae will choose what he thinks is particularly good that day and serve you items until you are finished. This is probably not a good choice if you are not sure what you like or definitely want to avoid certain items. Don’t let your friends talk you into this one unless you know what you are getting into, which I explain in my blog entry, omakase sushi.</li>\n</ul>\nEveryone has different tastes and there is definitely no single way to approach su- shi if you are new to it. Always stay at your comfort level and don’t be afraid to not eat something that doesn’t appeal to you. Find your own pace and you never know, sushi may grow on you. As a youth I was told to try something three times before declaring that I didn’t like it. It has worked for me every time and I can’t think of a food that I cannot appreciate. You may not turn into a sushi fiend, but there is a lot to appreciate about sushi and Japanese food in general. Try what you think that you will like and that looks interesting. Have a little sake and relax. Meshi agare!\n\nVisit <a href=\"http://www.sushifaq.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.sushifaq.com</a> for more sushi questions and answers.','Sushi for Beginners','','inherit','open','open','','344-autosave','','','2011-12-08 20:55:47','2011-12-08 20:55:47','',344,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=347',0,'revision','',0),(348,1,'2011-12-08 20:53:22','2011-12-08 20:53:22','<h2>How to Enjoy Sushi for the First Time</h2>\r\n\r\nSo you want to try sushi?\r\nAre you new to sushi? Have you ever wanted to try it but were not sure where to start or what you might like? Or tried it and weren’t sure if you liked it? This guide will hopefully offer some information as to a good way to start enjoying sushi if you are a sushi beginner. Many people may say ‘why do I need a guide to try sushi?”This is not intended to be a treatise on the ‘only’ way to start eating sushi, but merely some recom- mendations for those who are unsure about eating raw fish and may\r\nbe looking for some direction to ease them into something that they may learn to enjoy. This guide is presented as a list of suggestion to follow or think about when you decide the time is right to try sushi.\r\n• Try cooked items first. Until you are comfortable with raw seafood, you may want to try the cooked items available before the raw ones. Not all sushi is raw, which may come as a surprise to some, and you can make an entire meal from cooked food. Eel (unagi and anago) is always served cooked, and usually with a sweet and savory sauce. California rolls also have avocado, cucumber and cooked imitation crab meat (called kamaboko or surimi). You can get grilled squid (ika) or octopus (tako). Shrimp (ebi) is a good place to begin as unless you are ordering ‘sweet shrimp’ (ama ebi) it is always cooked. Clam is often cooked as well. Sushi restaurants also often make rolls out of items that are cooked tempura style (battered and fried). Some of these rolls (maki) are actually quite good. Some fish is ‘cooked’ in an acidic marinade, similar to ceviche, which is popular in many countries. With these items, such as mackerel (saba), the acidity of the marinade cooks the fish instead of heat, and adds a great deal of flavor to the fish as well. While a strongly flavored fish may not be to your liking, check the menu or ask to see what may be available.\r\n• Start with what you know. Sushi is not that different from eating any fish, it’s just not cooked. If you were to put it in the context of ‘seafood’ it should be easier on the neophyte palate. If you like a nice piece of grilled salmon, or particularly smoked or cured, then a piece of salmon sushi shouldn’t that much of a reach. The two main differences are taste and texture, and taste-wise raw salmon is not that different. It may not have the smokiness of smoked salmon or the sweetness of the cured variety, but this particular fish is not that different raw or cooked. Texture wise, it is just a little softer, which will not stand out that much against the rice. Do you like calamari? Try the squid (ika). Do you like scallops? Scallop sushi is almost unchanged from the ‘seared’ scallops served in a nice res- taurant, which is only seared on the outside and raw on the inside. Shrimp (ebi) is also widely served. While there are many fish you may not have encountered in a restaurant, there will also be plenty that you have, and will be familiar.\r\n• Try ‘vegetarian’ sushi. Just to get yourself in the ‘sushi mode’ you might want to try rolls without any meat in them. Kappa Maki (cucumber rolls) are a good place to start. By trying items like these you may become accustomed to the\r\nstyle of food and then decide if you would like to partake of something a bit more adventurous.\r\n• Start with the cut rolls (maki) instead of sushi or sashimi. One of the many ways of serving sushi, the cut roll or hand roll (temaki) is a good way to start off if the thought of eating raw fish might be off-putting. With the rolls, the items are inside and not staring you in the face, which may be a bit more appealing to some. Sashimi may be the last choice for some as being nothing more than a chunk of raw fish, it may not be the best thing to start with if you are hesitant. With a roll, and sushi, the rice will be a nice buffer, so to speak, for you to become more accustomed to the concept of eating fish raw.\r\n• Try the items with the least ‘fishy’ intensity. The milder items are a great place to start. Foods such as scallop (hotategai), red snapper (tai), squid (ika), and halibut (ohyo) are particularly mild, and are great for beginners. Tuna (maguro) may look strong due to it’s rich, dark colour, but it is also a very mild fish, and a very common item in sushi restaurants. Putting a hunk of mackerel (saba) in your mouth when you are not expecting something overly fishy can be a deal-breaker for some. The milder fish can still have a great flavor without being ‘fishy.’ The general rule is the less oily, the less fishy, so keep that in mind.\r\n• Let the itamae (chef ) help you. There is a dining choice called ‘omakase’ which essentially means‘chef’s choice.’This means that the itamae will choose what he thinks is particularly good that day and serve you items until you are finished. This is probably not a good choice if you are not sure what you like or definitely want to avoid certain items. Don’t let your friends talk you into this one unless you know what you are getting into, which I explain in my blog entry, omakase sushi.\r\nEveryone has different tastes and there is definitely no single way to approach su- shi if you are new to it. Always stay at your comfort level and don’t be afraid to not eat something that doesn’t appeal to you. Find your own pace and you never know, sushi may grow on you. As a youth I was told to try something three times before declaring that I didn’t like it. It has worked for me every time and I can’t think of a food that I cannot appreciate. You may not turn into a sushi fiend, but there is a lot to appreciate about sushi and Japanese food in general. Try what you think that you will like and that looks interesting. Have a little sake and relax. Meshi agare!\r\nVisit www.sushifaq.com for more sushi questions and anwers.','Sushi for Beginners','','inherit','open','open','','344-revision-3','','','2011-12-08 20:53:22','2011-12-08 20:53:22','',344,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=348',0,'revision','',0),(349,1,'2011-12-08 20:57:09','2011-12-08 20:57:09','','sushi','','inherit','open','open','','sushi','','','2011-12-08 20:57:09','2011-12-08 20:57:09','',344,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/sushi.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(350,1,'2011-12-08 20:54:43','2011-12-08 20:54:43','<h2>How to Enjoy Sushi for the First Time</h2>\r\n<strong>So you want to try sushi?</strong>\r\nAre you new to sushi? Have you ever wanted to try it but were not sure where to start or what you might like? Or tried it and weren’t sure if you liked it? This guide will hopefully offer some information as to a good way to start enjoying sushi if you are a sushi beginner. Many people may say ‘why do I need a guide to try sushi?”This is not intended to be a treatise on the ‘only’ way to start eating sushi, but merely some recom- mendations for those who are unsure about eating raw fish and may be looking for some direction to ease them into something that they may learn to enjoy. This guide is presented as a list of suggestion to follow or think about when you decide the time is right to try sushi.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Try cooked items first. Until you are comfortable with raw seafood, you may want to try the cooked items available before the raw ones. Not all sushi is raw, which may come as a surprise to some, and you can make an entire meal from cooked food. Eel (unagi and anago) is always served cooked, and usually with a sweet and savory sauce. California rolls also have avocado, cucumber and cooked imitation crab meat (called kamaboko or surimi). You can get grilled squid (ika) or octopus (tako). Shrimp (ebi) is a good place to begin as unless you are ordering ‘sweet shrimp’ (ama ebi) it is always cooked. Clam is often cooked as well. Sushi restaurants also often make rolls out of items that are cooked tempura style (battered and fried). Some of these rolls (maki) are actually quite good. Some fish is ‘cooked’ in an acidic marinade, similar to ceviche, which is popular in many countries. With these items, such as mackerel (saba), the acidity of the marinade cooks the fish instead of heat, and adds a great deal of flavor to the fish as well. While a strongly flavored fish may not be to your liking, check the menu or ask to see what may be available.</li>\r\n	<li>Start with what you know. Sushi is not that different from eating any fish, it’s just not cooked. If you were to put it in the context of ‘seafood’ it should be easier on the neophyte palate. If you like a nice piece of grilled salmon, or particularly smoked or cured, then a piece of salmon sushi shouldn’t that much of a reach. The two main differences are taste and texture, and taste-wise raw salmon is not that different. It may not have the smokiness of smoked salmon or the sweetness of the cured variety, but this particular fish is not that different raw or cooked. Texture wise, it is just a little softer, which will not stand out that much against the rice. Do you like calamari? Try the squid (ika). Do you like scallops? Scallop sushi is almost unchanged from the ‘seared’ scallops served in a nice res- taurant, which is only seared on the outside and raw on the inside. Shrimp (ebi) is also widely served. While there are many fish you may not have encountered in a restaurant, there will also be plenty that you have, and will be familiar.</li>\r\n	<li>Try ‘vegetarian’ sushi. Just to get yourself in the ‘sushi mode’ you might want to try rolls without any meat in them. Kappa Maki (cucumber rolls) are a good place to start. By trying items like these you may become accustomed to the\r\nstyle of food and then decide if you would like to partake of something a bit more adventurous.</li>\r\n	<li>Start with the cut rolls (maki) instead of sushi or sashimi. One of the many ways of serving sushi, the cut roll or hand roll (temaki) is a good way to start off if the thought of eating raw fish might be off-putting. With the rolls, the items are inside and not staring you in the face, which may be a bit more appealing to some. Sashimi may be the last choice for some as being nothing more than a chunk of raw fish, it may not be the best thing to start with if you are hesitant. With a roll, and sushi, the rice will be a nice buffer, so to speak, for you to become more accustomed to the concept of eating fish raw.</li>\r\n	<li>Try the items with the least ‘fishy’ intensity. The milder items are a great place to start. Foods such as scallop (hotategai), red snapper (tai), squid (ika), and halibut (ohyo) are particularly mild, and are great for beginners. Tuna (maguro) may look strong due to it’s rich, dark colour, but it is also a very mild fish, and a very common item in sushi restaurants. Putting a hunk of mackerel (saba) in your mouth when you are not expecting something overly fishy can be a deal-breaker for some. The milder fish can still have a great flavor without being ‘fishy.’ The general rule is the less oily, the less fishy, so keep that in mind.</li>\r\n	<li>Let the itamae (chef ) help you. There is a dining choice called ‘omakase’ which essentially means‘chef’s choice.’This means that the itamae will choose what he thinks is particularly good that day and serve you items until you are finished. This is probably not a good choice if you are not sure what you like or definitely want to avoid certain items. Don’t let your friends talk you into this one unless you know what you are getting into, which I explain in my blog entry, omakase sushi.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nEveryone has different tastes and there is definitely no single way to approach su- shi if you are new to it. Always stay at your comfort level and don’t be afraid to not eat something that doesn’t appeal to you. Find your own pace and you never know, sushi may grow on you. As a youth I was told to try something three times before declaring that I didn’t like it. It has worked for me every time and I can’t think of a food that I cannot appreciate. You may not turn into a sushi fiend, but there is a lot to appreciate about sushi and Japanese food in general. Try what you think that you will like and that looks interesting. Have a little sake and relax. Meshi agare!\r\n\r\nVisit <a href=\"http://www.sushifaq.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.sushifaq.com</a> for more sushi questions and answers.','Sushi for Beginners','','inherit','open','open','','344-revision-4','','','2011-12-08 20:54:43','2011-12-08 20:54:43','',344,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=350',0,'revision','',0),(351,1,'2011-09-01 20:57:36','2011-09-01 20:57:36','<strong><em>By Ted Venke</em></strong>\r\n\r\nNo one has ever accused the federal fisheries management process of being too transparent. It is a Byzantine world of statistics, biology and, the murkiest ingredient of all, politics. It is a process that often yields confounding results.\r\n\r\nSome of the most perplexing results ever seen in this arena are on the horizon, as the 2006 re-authorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Act requires NOAA Fisheries to set annual catch limits on every stock of fish under management by Dec. 31, 2011. The agency is a long, long way from having science on all those stocks, meaning that it is preparing to set a slew of catch limits based on what amounts to a SWAG – a scientific wild ass guess.\r\n\r\nThe House of Representatives Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs acknowledged that the situation is ludicrous. It held an oversight hearing this week entitled, “NOAA’s Fishery Science: Is the Lack of Basic Science Costing Jobs?” which is a very telling label for a hearing. Loosely translated, it means that legislators realize that managing public resources by SWAG has real-world ramifications and, to their credit, they attempted to find what most of us involved in fisheries management are seeking: Clarity. A straight answer. Common sense.\r\n\r\nThe Committee asked a diverse group of individuals to share their views and assess the impact of NOAA Fisheries’ distinct lack of science on the vast majority of stocks it manages. It was a unique opportunity. Congress was listening. It was a chance for parties to set the record straight and work toward a solution, and that doesn’t come along very often. But just when you thought the water was clearing, the tide kicked up more mud.\r\n\r\nDuring the hearing, an outgoing member of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, George Geiger, referred to himself as a leader of Coastal Conservation Association as he attacked HR 2304, the Fishery Science Improvement Act, in his testimony. HR 2304 is a bill sponsored by Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.) that, among other provisions, states that if the agency has not assessed a stock of fish in the last five years and there is no indication that overfishing is occurring, the agency is not required to set an annual catch limit.\r\n\r\nCCA and the other leading marine conservation organizations in the country have thrown their support behind Rep. Wittman’s bill as a common-sense remedy to NOAA Fisheries ongoing science shortcomings. The bill is opposed, however, by most of the environmental community, which insists that a hodgepodge of partial bits of information that perhaps add up to an informed guess is somehow good enough to manage our marine resources. No other wildlife resource management agency operates that way, but damn the consequences and full speed ahead for marine resources, these groups say.\r\n\r\nMr. Geiger seems to believe that too, but strangely decided to cloud his affiliations and repeatedly referenced his leadership role in CCA Florida, giving Congress the impression that he was speaking for CCA despite his letter of resignation from CCA almost two years ago.\r\n\r\nIt wasn’t a passing reference – he mentioned it more than a few times in his written testimony and in his oral testimony. But he never mentioned his abrupt departure from CCA. To what purpose? To create clarity? No, if that was the case he would have articulated the philosophical differences that caused him to leave the organization in October of 2009.\r\n\r\nNo one in CCA asked Mr. Geiger to testify on our behalf. Jeff Angers, president of the Center for Coastal Conservation, carried the message for CCA as well as for American Sportfishing Association, Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation, International Game Fish Association, National Marine Manufacturers Association and The Billfish Foundation.\r\n\r\nIt remains unclear who Mr. Geiger was representing. We know it wasn’t CCA – Jeff Angers was doing that. Was it Pew? His testimony certainly aligns with their opinion on the bill. Has Pew’s credibility dropped so low that it has to rely on someone who is apparently not connected with them, in this case an ex-member of CCA, in order to have its testimony presented? Why can’t Pew represent itself at a hearing?\r\n\r\nIt appears that while anglers are calling for clarity, some other groups are content to play a shell game. Whatever game was being played, it was hard to listen to Mr. Geiger or read his testimony without concluding that he was suggesting that he represented CCA. That kind of obfuscation is similar to the questionable tactics employed by environmental groups that have also attacked HR 2304 in dramatic fashion.\r\n\r\nThe Ocean Conservancy essentially labeled supporters of the bill – which has more than two dozen bipartisan co-sponsors and the support of the 300-member-strong Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus – as pro-extinction. The Natural Resources Defense Council breathlessly said HR 2304 would “gut the nation’s fisheries law.”\r\n\r\nA bill that requires a stock assessment to set an annual catch limit for a stock of fish stands to gut the nation’s fisheries law? Gut?!\r\nRhetoric like that muddies every discussion on federal fisheries management.\r\n\r\nThe Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs is to be commended for its efforts to seek solutions for NOAA Fisheries’ inability to implement the requirements of the Magnuson-Stevens Act the way Congress envisioned in 2006. Unfortunately, at a time when everyone – Congress, anglers, commercial fishermen, the Councils, NOAA – sees the need to address those problems, there are still some who find it better to muddy the water than seek the truth.\r\n\r\n<h2>Menhaden Management moves up the food chain</h2>\r\n\r\nALEXANDRIA, VA – Tangible management of menhaden in the Atlantic moved another step closer to reality this week when the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) voted to send a series of management options for this critical forage species out to public hearings.\r\n\r\nMenhaden management has long been a sore point among conservationists as intense commercial harvest of the species in the Chesapeake Bay has added to factors believed to be negatively impacting striped bass and other gamefish all along the East Coast. The primary industrial harvester of Atlantic menhaden, Omega Protein, has never had its harvest effectively restricted and stands as one of the very few commercial fishing operations in the country to successfully avoid management measures that might impact its bottom line.\r\n\r\nThere is also a completely unregulated bait fishery that targets menhaden throughout its East Coast range. Comprised of boats of all sizes, from large mid-water trawlers to small skiffs, it supplies bait to both the commercial and recreational fishery. The quantity of menhaden harvested by that industry has never been comprehensively assessed, but it is undoubtedly significant. In addition, the fishery is believed to be expanding as northeastern lobstermen seek a substitute for the more strictly regulated, Atlantic herring, which is decreasing in abundance.\r\n\r\nThe most current menhaden stock assessment showed the stock was undergoing overfishing and abundance estimates were at the lowest level ever recorded. Current science indicates that the menhaden spawning stock biomass is at about 9 percent of a stock that is not subjected to any fishing pressure. With the vote this week, the ASMFC has put into play management options that could increase the spawning stock biomass to15 percent or more.\r\n\r\n“This is the grinding process of management,” said Richen Brame, CCA Atlantic States Fisheries Director. “The science is finally catching up with the problems anglers and conservationists have been talking about for a long time, and now the process can move forward. The fact that these options are going out for public hearing is significant, but it is a slow grind to get where we want to be with this stock. You can bet the harvesters think this is a significant development.”\r\n\r\nWhatever regulations are ultimately adopted will be interim measures that will likely be in place for three to five years until ecological reference points, generated from a Multi- Species Virtual Population Analysis can be produced, which will require stock assessment updates on bluefish, striped bass, weakfish and menhaden stock. When that analysis is conducted, it is very possible managers will have a much better idea of the population of menhaden needed to fully serve as the critical forage base for those popular sport fish.\r\n\r\n“Almost everyone who has spent time fishing in the Chesapeake has seen how the industrial boats, aided by spotter planes, can wipe out whole schools of menhaden, removing them completely from the food chain,” said Frank Kearney, chairman of CCA Virginia’s Government Affairs Committee. “For a long time, anglers have felt powerless to impact the menhaden management process against a very well-connected and financially powerful company. Now that these measures are going out for public hearing, it feels like we have a chance to inject some sanity into this fishery and begin to manage it for the greater good, not just for the good of one company.”','Distortions - Muddying the Water','','publish','open','open','','distortions','','','2013-04-02 12:57:28','2013-04-02 16:57:28','',0,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=351',63,'post','',0),(352,1,'2011-12-08 20:59:39','2011-12-08 20:59:39','<h2>Muddying the Water</h2>\n\n<strong><em>By Ted Venke</em></strong>\n\nNo one has ever accused the federal fisheries management process of being too transparent. It is a Byzantine world of statistics, biology and, the murkiest ingredient of all, politics. It is a process that often yields confounding results.\n\nSome of the most perplexing results ever seen in this arena are on the horizon, as the 2006 re-authorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Act requires NOAA Fisheries to set annual catch limits on every stock of fish under management by Dec. 31, 2011. The agency is a long, long way from having science on all those stocks, meaning that it is preparing to set a slew of catch limits based on what amounts to a SWAG – a scientific wild ass guess.\n\nThe House of Representatives Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs acknowledged that the situation is ludicrous. It held an oversight hearing this week entitled, “NOAA’s Fishery Science: Is the Lack of Basic Science Costing Jobs?” which is a very telling label for a hearing. Loosely translated, it means that legislators realize that managing public resources by SWAG has real-world ramifications and, to their credit, they attempted to find what most of us involved in fisheries management are seeking: Clarity. A straight answer. Common sense.\n\nThe Committee asked a diverse group of individuals to share their views and assess the impact of NOAA Fisheries’ distinct lack of science on the vast majority of stocks it manages. It was a unique opportunity. Congress was listening. It was a chance for parties to set the record straight and work toward a solution, and that doesn’t come along very often. But just when you thought the water was clearing, the tide kicked up more mud.\n\nDuring the hearing, an outgoing member of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, George Geiger, referred to himself as a leader of Coastal Conservation Association as he attacked HR 2304, the Fishery Science Improvement Act, in his testimony. HR 2304 is a bill sponsored by Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.) that, among other provisions, states that if the agency has not assessed a stock of fish in the last five years and there is no indication that overfishing is occurring, the agency is not required to set an annual catch limit.\n\nCCA and the other leading marine conservation organizations in the country have thrown their support behind Rep. Wittman’s bill as a common-sense remedy to NOAA Fisheries ongoing science shortcomings. The bill is opposed, however, by most of the environmental community, which insists that a hodgepodge of partial bits of information that perhaps add up to an informed guess is somehow good enough to manage our marine resources. No other wildlife resource management agency operates that way, but damn the consequences and full speed ahead for marine resources, these groups say.\n\nMr. Geiger seems to believe that too, but strangely decided to cloud his affiliations and repeatedly referenced his leadership role in CCA Florida, giving Congress the impression that he was speaking for CCA despite his letter of resignation from CCA almost two years ago.\n\nIt wasn’t a passing reference – he mentioned it more than a few times in his written testimony and in his oral testimony. But he never mentioned his abrupt departure from CCA. To what purpose? To create clarity? No, if that was the case he would have articulated the philosophical differences that caused him to leave the organization in October of 2009.\n\nNo one in CCA asked Mr. Geiger to testify on our behalf. Jeff Angers, president of the Center for Coastal Conservation, carried the message for CCA as well as for American Sportfishing Association, Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation, International Game Fish Association, National Marine Manufacturers Association and The Billfish Foundation.\n\nIt remains unclear who Mr. Geiger was representing. We know it wasn’t CCA – Jeff Angers was doing that. Was it Pew? His testimony certainly aligns with their opinion on the bill. Has Pew’s credibility dropped so low that it has to rely on someone who is apparently not connected with them, in this case an ex-member of CCA, in order to have its testimony presented? Why can’t Pew represent itself at a hearing?\n\nIt appears that while anglers are calling for clarity, some other groups are content to play a shell game. Whatever game was being played, it was hard to listen to Mr. Geiger or read his testimony without concluding that he was suggesting that he represented CCA. That kind of obfuscation is similar to the questionable tactics employed by environmental groups that have also attacked HR 2304 in dramatic fashion.\n\nThe Ocean Conservancy essentially labeled supporters of the bill – which has more than two dozen bipartisan co-sponsors and the support of the 300-member-strong Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus – as pro-extinction. The Natural Resources Defense Council breathlessly said HR 2304 would “gut the nation’s fisheries law.”\n\nA bill that requires a stock assessment to set an annual catch limit for a stock of fish stands to gut the nation’s fisheries law? Gut?!\nRhetoric like that muddies every discussion on federal fisheries management.\n\nThe Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs is to be commended for its efforts to seek solutions for NOAA Fisheries’ inability to implement the requirements of the Magnuson-Stevens Act the way Congress envisioned in 2006. Unfortunately, at a time when everyone – Congress, anglers, commercial fishermen, the Councils, NOAA – sees the need to address those problems, there are still some who find it better to muddy the water than seek the truth.','Distortions','','inherit','open','open','','351-revision','','','2011-12-08 20:59:39','2011-12-08 20:59:39','',351,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=352',0,'revision','',0),(353,1,'2011-12-08 21:00:05','2011-12-08 21:00:05','<h2>Muddying the Water</h2>\r\n\r\n<strong><em>By Ted Venke</em></strong>\r\n\r\nNo one has ever accused the federal fisheries management process of being too transparent. It is a Byzantine world of statistics, biology and, the murkiest ingredient of all, politics. It is a process that often yields confounding results.\r\n\r\nSome of the most perplexing results ever seen in this arena are on the horizon, as the 2006 re-authorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Act requires NOAA Fisheries to set annual catch limits on every stock of fish under management by Dec. 31, 2011. The agency is a long, long way from having science on all those stocks, meaning that it is preparing to set a slew of catch limits based on what amounts to a SWAG – a scientific wild ass guess.\r\n\r\nThe House of Representatives Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs acknowledged that the situation is ludicrous. It held an oversight hearing this week entitled, “NOAA’s Fishery Science: Is the Lack of Basic Science Costing Jobs?” which is a very telling label for a hearing. Loosely translated, it means that legislators realize that managing public resources by SWAG has real-world ramifications and, to their credit, they attempted to find what most of us involved in fisheries management are seeking: Clarity. A straight answer. Common sense.\r\n\r\nThe Committee asked a diverse group of individuals to share their views and assess the impact of NOAA Fisheries’ distinct lack of science on the vast majority of stocks it manages. It was a unique opportunity. Congress was listening. It was a chance for parties to set the record straight and work toward a solution, and that doesn’t come along very often. But just when you thought the water was clearing, the tide kicked up more mud.\r\n\r\nDuring the hearing, an outgoing member of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, George Geiger, referred to himself as a leader of Coastal Conservation Association as he attacked HR 2304, the Fishery Science Improvement Act, in his testimony. HR 2304 is a bill sponsored by Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.) that, among other provisions, states that if the agency has not assessed a stock of fish in the last five years and there is no indication that overfishing is occurring, the agency is not required to set an annual catch limit.\r\n\r\nCCA and the other leading marine conservation organizations in the country have thrown their support behind Rep. Wittman’s bill as a common-sense remedy to NOAA Fisheries ongoing science shortcomings. The bill is opposed, however, by most of the environmental community, which insists that a hodgepodge of partial bits of information that perhaps add up to an informed guess is somehow good enough to manage our marine resources. No other wildlife resource management agency operates that way, but damn the consequences and full speed ahead for marine resources, these groups say.\r\n\r\nMr. Geiger seems to believe that too, but strangely decided to cloud his affiliations and repeatedly referenced his leadership role in CCA Florida, giving Congress the impression that he was speaking for CCA despite his letter of resignation from CCA almost two years ago.\r\n\r\nIt wasn’t a passing reference – he mentioned it more than a few times in his written testimony and in his oral testimony. But he never mentioned his abrupt departure from CCA. To what purpose? To create clarity? No, if that was the case he would have articulated the philosophical differences that caused him to leave the organization in October of 2009.\r\n\r\nNo one in CCA asked Mr. Geiger to testify on our behalf. Jeff Angers, president of the Center for Coastal Conservation, carried the message for CCA as well as for American Sportfishing Association, Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation, International Game Fish Association, National Marine Manufacturers Association and The Billfish Foundation.\r\n\r\nIt remains unclear who Mr. Geiger was representing. We know it wasn’t CCA – Jeff Angers was doing that. Was it Pew? His testimony certainly aligns with their opinion on the bill. Has Pew’s credibility dropped so low that it has to rely on someone who is apparently not connected with them, in this case an ex-member of CCA, in order to have its testimony presented? Why can’t Pew represent itself at a hearing?\r\n\r\nIt appears that while anglers are calling for clarity, some other groups are content to play a shell game. Whatever game was being played, it was hard to listen to Mr. Geiger or read his testimony without concluding that he was suggesting that he represented CCA. That kind of obfuscation is similar to the questionable tactics employed by environmental groups that have also attacked HR 2304 in dramatic fashion.\r\n\r\nThe Ocean Conservancy essentially labeled supporters of the bill – which has more than two dozen bipartisan co-sponsors and the support of the 300-member-strong Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus – as pro-extinction. The Natural Resources Defense Council breathlessly said HR 2304 would “gut the nation’s fisheries law.”\r\n\r\nA bill that requires a stock assessment to set an annual catch limit for a stock of fish stands to gut the nation’s fisheries law? Gut?!\r\nRhetoric like that muddies every discussion on federal fisheries management.\r\n\r\nThe Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs is to be commended for its efforts to seek solutions for NOAA Fisheries’ inability to implement the requirements of the Magnuson-Stevens Act the way Congress envisioned in 2006. Unfortunately, at a time when everyone – Congress, anglers, commercial fishermen, the Councils, NOAA – sees the need to address those problems, there are still some who find it better to muddy the water than seek the truth.','Distortions','','inherit','open','open','','351-revision-2','','','2011-12-08 21:00:05','2011-12-08 21:00:05','',351,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=353',0,'revision','',0),(379,1,'2011-10-01 20:21:57','2011-10-01 20:21:57','<strong>Author:</strong> <em>Dale Burrus Senior Inspector (at the time he compiled this history and findings) Spanish Mustang Registry</em>\r\n\r\nIn order to understand the Banker Horse, one must understand the location and environment from which they developed. Until recent years, the Outer Banks of North Carolina were considered some of the most isolated and under-developed areas in the country. The banks consist of a string of sand dunes that serve to protect the mainland of North Carolina from the Atlantic Ocean. They are separated from the mainland by large bodies of water called “sounds.” The Outer Banks are approximately 175 miles long from the Virginia line to below Cape Lookout. Perhaps the islands are best described by the name of one of the Indian tribes that lived there....”Hatterasil”, an Algonquin word meaning “there is less vegetation”.\r\n\r\nThe following history was derived from historic journals of sailing vessels researched from archives in England and Spain, regarding exploration and colonization in the 16th century. The author, the late Dale Burrus,was a lifelong resident of Hatteras Island, North Carolina, and was Senior Inspector for the Spanish Mustang Registry at the time he wrote this history.\r\n<h3>Lucas Vasquez de Allyon’s Expeditions</h3>\r\nAmong the first explorers to visit the North Carolina coast was a Spaniard named Lucas Vasquez de Allyon, who had received a charter from the Spanish king which gave him the right to explore and colonize much of the eastern seaboard. In 1521, Allyon sent one of his captains, Gordilk, in charge of an expedition which landed at River John the Baptist (thought to have been Cape Fear). Other Allyon explorers spent considerable time at a place called “Chicom,” thought to be in the same vicinity.\r\n\r\nThe Spaniards had trouble with the Indians. It seems they were taking Indian children as slaves and sending them to the West Indies. There was a great Indian uprising led by Corees, and the Spaniards were forced to flee to stronger Spanish holdings in Florida, leaving behind all their livestock.\r\n<h3>Richard Greenville’s Expeditions</h3>\r\nThe next direct line of history comes from vessel logs detailing the importation of livestock to the Outer Banks by Richard Greenville’s expeditions from 1584 to 1590. For four years, Raleigh’s ships maintained a steady traffic between England and the Outer Banks, in spring of 1584, 1585, 1586, and 1587. They followed the same general route to the Canary Islands and across the Atlantic, stopping at the same places in the West Indies such as Tallaboa Bay and Puerto Rico. They reached the Outer Banks in early summer. A Spaniard concerned over these activities, could have set his calendar by the comings and goings of these vessels carrying colonists and supplies to the land the English called Virginia, in honor of their virgin queen.\r\n\r\nAlthough Spain and England were at a state of war during this period, trade was still carried on between the Spanish colonists of the West Indies and the ships of Greenville. The Spanish authorities in Puerto Rico were not passive while this was going on. The Governor, Diego Menendez de Valdez, claimed that he received news at San Juan de Puerto Rico of Commander Jones’ (commanding the Tyger) approach to the southern shore on May 10. He ordered his lieutenant at San Jerman who had 40 men, to keep watch on the English who had, he assumed, only landed to water. On May 16, a patrol of eight Spanish horsemen made their appearance at an encampment, but soon disappeared when challenged by ten of Jone’s arquebusman.\r\n\r\nOn May 22 a further party of twenty horsemen appeared, led by the commander if the local garrison. This time Greenville sent out two horsemen of his own and some footmen to arrange a parley. Two men from each side exchanged formal courtesies, the English declaring they were anxious to trade and to purchase food. A rendezvous for an exchange was arranged two days ahead. The lieutenant was now in a position to send a full report to the governor, which reached him on May 25. He at once sent off 35 arquebusmen to assist the lieutenant in harassing the English if they emerged from the encampment.\r\n\r\nThese reinforcements were only a one-day march from San Juan, when they were met by news that the English had “quitted their fort.” Greenville, after launching his pinnance on May 23, had gone to the rendezvous the next day, but the Spaniards did not appear. He returned to the camp, where he found the huts were burned and the embankments thrown down.\r\n\r\nIn a prominent place he erected a post and carved it with an inscription announcing the safe arrival and departure of the Tyger and Elizabeth as a guide to the missing vessels of the squadron, should they arrive later. The Spanish, however, uprooted the post soon after and with some difficulty had its inscription translated and forwarded to Spain.\r\n\r\nThe reason for Greenville’s desertion of the encampment was the likelihood of a Spanish attack, but he did not at once leave the coast. He lay in wait for “prizes” in the Mona Channel and he took a small frigate, but she proved to be empty. A more valuable prize was made the same night, belonging to Lorenzo de Vallejo, which had come from Spain with the flotilla carrying cloth and other merchandise. She had put into Santa Domingo and was making her way with cargo and passengers to San Juan when she was taken without struggle. Greenville put “prize crews” on board and retired to a nearby anchorage, having apparently sent word ashore to San Jerman that he again wished to trade.\r\n\r\nOne of the commanders, Commander Lane, was persuaded to take the smaller prize with some Spanish prisoners, and to bring salt from what was apparently Salinas Bay, near Cape Rojo. Finding two salt mounds ready, he enclosed them with entrenchments and began removing them, but a Spanish force came up. Lane believed this force to be commanded by the governor himself, and the force consisted of 40 horses and 300 footmen. They did not attempt to try Lane’s defenses. Lane, on rejoining the Tyger, protested violently at having been placed in jeopardy with a handful of men, and began a series of quarrels with Greenville, which destroyed the harmony of the expedition.\r\n\r\nMeanwhile, the Tyger, the Elizabeth, the pinnance and the larger prize had been trading with the Spaniards in the vicinity of Guanica or Guayanilla. Neither the English nor the Spanish documents are quite clear how this was arranged, but it appears that Greenville offered one of the frigates for sale, attempted to ransom his prisoners (“getting good round summes, but nothing at allone of the released Spaniards claimed”, he said). The ships logs show that Greenville acquired livestock, hogs sows, young cattle, mares and male horses, foodstuffs, plants of sugar cane, bananas and other fruits to supply the colony which it was intending to grow there. The governor, hearing of such exchanges, sent orders that they were to cease, but again Greenville had moved before his instructions had taken effect. The squadron (now of five vessels) sailed on May 29 for the north coast of Hispaniola.\r\n\r\nAccording to Spanish documentation, the Spaniards put in at Puerto-de-Plata and then moved on to the Bahia Isabela, the harbor immediately to the west. After two days at Isabela, Governor Alcade and Captain Regifo de Angulo made friendly overtures to Greenville, promising to come to visit him. The English ships were in an area which had a long record of illicit trade that took place with the French. On June 5, Greenville and his company were invited onshore, where an elaborate entertainment was prepared for them. Feasting was followed by a bullfight and sports by commerce. On June 6, male horses and mares (with saddles and bridles), cows and bulls, sheep and swine were purchased for the colony, together with hides, sugar, ginger, tobacco and pearls (most of which were evidently for the English market). The English had already been observed on Puerto Rico collecting banana plants and other fruit trees along the shore and they continued to do so in Hispaniola. John White, a commander, recorded a number of plants and animals on paper.\r\n\r\nWhatever Greenville’s views on the missing vessels were (and we do not know precisely how stores and men had been distributed between them) it is clear that he did not regard their absence as sufficient enough to make him abandon the projected colony. His men were well, and his supplies of livestock, plants and food improved the prospects of settlement, though the delays had sacrificed valuable planting time. He sailed from Hispaniola on June 7 northwest, being nearly lost when he visited a small island the next day to take seals. The following day, they failed to find salt on one of the Caicos Islands and entered the Bahamas, landing at Eleuthera, Guanima on June 12, and Ciguateo (Great Abaco) on June 15. Then, sailing through Providence North West Channel, he sighted the American mainland on June 20, between 27 degrees and 30 degrees north.\r\n\r\nOn June 23 they encountered the shoals of a headland which they believed to be, and most probably was Cape Fear. Rounding the shoals with difficulty, they anchored the next day in a harbor which is likely to have been that of Beaufort, North Carolina. They were now clearly probing the coast closely. On June 26, they came to an inlet through the Carolina Banks, called Wococon, which is about in the middle of the present Portsmouth Island.\r\n\r\nCommander Lane said, in his journal book, that all their ships went aground on the shallow bar, but were floated off without too much difficulty. However, the Tyger had been lying offshore, and when an attempt was made on June 29 to bring her into harbor, serious disaster occurred. She struck, according to the Tyger journal. Two hours of struggle went on to prevent her from breaking up. Finally she was beached. The damage was a severe blow to the intended colony, since all the corn, salt, meal, rice, biscuits, and other provisions were destroyed or damaged by the salt water. Livestock was either lost, or swam ashore. This was a first and salutary example of the dangers which threatened shipping along this most risky stretch of coast.\r\nFor many years, it has been very difficult to put together the needed information concerning the early exploration and colonization attempts by Sir Walter Raleigh’s ships, especially the parts dealing with his exploits and trading in the West Indies, but in 1955 the Halkuyt Society published a two volume set which included all of the old material, plus considerable new information, most of it located in archives in England and Spain.\r\n<h3>John Lawson’s Observations (early 1700’s)</h3>\r\nA quote from an English historian, John Lawson (who explored and documented southeastern North Carolina from 1700 until his death at the hands of the Tuscaroras in 1711) says, “The horses are well-shaped and swift. The best of them would sell for ten or twelve pounds in England. They prove excellent drudges, and will travel incredible journeys. They are troubled with very few distempers, neither do the cloudy-faced grey horses go blind here as in Europe. As for sprains, splints and ringbones, they are here never met withal, as I can learn. Were we to have our stallions and choice of mares from England, or any other of a good sort, and careful to keep them on the highlands, we could not fail of a good breed; but having been supplied with our first horses from the neighboring plantations, which were but mean, they do not as yet come up to the Excellency of the English horses; tho we generally find that the colts exceed in beauty and strength....”\r\nJohn Lawson also reported how well the horses were treated by the Indians.... “These creatures they continually cram and feed with maize, and what the horse will eat—‘til he is as fat as a hog, never making any farther use of him than to fetch a deer home”.\r\n<h3>Edmund Ruffin’s Report on Banker Horses (mid-1800’s)</h3>\r\nIn 1856, another historian visited the Outer Banks. His name was Edmund Ruffin, famous as an authority on agriculture and as an editor (but more usually credited with firing the first shot in the Civil War). He said “Twice a year on the Banks, the stock owners hold a wild horse penning, at which time all of the wild horses on the island were corralled and the colts branded. The horses pennings are much attended, and are very interesting festivals for all the residents of the neigh-boring mainland. There are few adults residing within a days sailing of the horse pen that have not attended one or more of these exciting scenes. A strong enclosure, called the horse pen, is made at a narrow part of the reef and suitable in other respects for the purpose---with a connected strong fence stretching quite across the reef. All of the many proprietors of the horses, and many assistants, drive the horses from the remote extremities of the reef, and easily encircle and bring all the horses to the fence and near to the pen”.\r\n\r\nRuffin said that all of the horses in use on the reef, and on many of the nearest farms on the mainland are of these previously wild “banks “horses. He described them as “all of small size, with rough shaggy coats, and long manes; their hoofs in many cases grow to unusual lengths, they are capable of great endurance of labor and hardship, and live so roughly that any others from abroad seldom live a year on such food and other such great exposure. By the same token, he said when the banks horses were removed to the mainland, away from the salt marshes, many die before learning to eat grain or other strange provider, while other injure or kill themselves in struggling in vain efforts to break through the stables or enclosures in which they are subsequently confined. The horses fed entirely on the coarse salt grasses of the marshes and supply their want of fresh water by pawing away the sand deep enough to reach the fresh water which oozes into the excavation, and which reservoir serves for this use while it remains open”.\r\n<h3>Federal Writers Project (late 1930’s)</h3>\r\nIn 1939 a book was compiled and written by the Federal Writers Project of the Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration for the state of North Carolina. They write “On Cape Hatteras, wildlife is abundant. For years herds of wild horses, cattle, and hogs ranged at will, until the Federal Program of Sand Fixation by Grass Plantings necessitated a strict stock law. In 1938, the county placed a bounty on the few remaining wild horses, traditional descendants of Barbary horses brought over by the Raleigh colonists or saved from wrecked Portuguese ships. In winter, the waters are dotted with ducks and geese, and there is frequently the gleam of a white swan. Sandpipers and gulls feed in flocks, undisturbed by scurrying sandfiddlers. Eagles and Ospreys wheel above the water on the lookout for prey, and schools of porpoises sport just beyond the breakers of the roaring Atlantic.”\r\n<h3>Spanish Mustang Registry Observation (early 1980’s)</h3>\r\nDare County is only one of the counties that make up the North Carolina Outer Banks. Currituck County borders Dare on the north, and Hyde County on the south. In more remote areas of these counties, some of the pure Banker Horses were able to survive. In June, 1982, members of the Spanish Mustang Registry came to the Outer Banks and “due to feats of great endurance”, were able to observe the last known remaining bands of Banker Horses still existing in the natural state as they have been for the past 500 years---on the Currituck County Outer Banks.\r\n<h3>Conclusions</h3>\r\nAlthough the Ocracoke strain of Spanish mustang cannot be directly traced to a single breeder, importer, or sire, certain physiological features of present day horses, and historical data lead strongly to the conclusion that the ancestors of these horses were escapees from Spanish stock brought to the Outer Banks of North Carolina in the first part of the 16th century.\r\n\r\nAccounts of Spanish explorations and colonization attempts in the early 1500’s state that Spanish Barb and Arabian horses were imported. One colony, d’Allyon’s, describes topographical features which Lefler and Newsome (A History of North Carolina, UNC Press, 1973) believe were around Cape Fear, North Carolina. The colony failed and the Spaniards retreated to their stronger holdings in Florida. The circumstances of the retreat, manner of travel and the coastal topography offer a combination of events conducive to the establishment of feral herds along the barrier islands.\r\nPresent day Ocracoke and Corolla wild horses carry the distinguishing features of Spanish type horses. One striking similarity to the Arabian ancestry is the number of vertebra (one less than most breeds) which occurs in the Banker Horse Breed. Their even temperament, endurance, size, and the startling beauty which crops up frequently in the Banker Horses all point strongly to their dramatic history...these are the remnants of once numerous herds of Spanish stock which ran free along the sandy islands of our coast.\r\n\r\nThe Spanish Mustang Registry is satisfied that the Banker Horses, in particular the Corolla strain, are as lineally pure to the 16th century Spanish importations as can be found in North America today, and that they compare closely to the selectively bred South American Spanish derivative stock.\r\n\r\n<strong>COROLLA WILD HORSE FUND</strong>\r\nP.O. Box 361 / 1126 Old Schoolhouse Ln\r\nCorolla, NC. 27927\r\n(252) 453-8002\r\n<a href=\"http://www.corollawildhorses.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.corollawildhorses.com</a>','History of the Banker Horses','','publish','open','open','','history-of-the-banker-horses','','','2013-04-02 12:57:29','2013-04-02 16:57:29','',0,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=379',66,'post','',0),(356,1,'2011-12-08 21:02:16','2011-12-08 21:02:16','<strong><em>By Ted Venke</em></strong>\n\nNo one has ever accused the federal fisheries management process of being too transparent. It is a Byzantine world of statistics, biology and, the murkiest ingredient of all, politics. It is a process that often yields confounding results.\n\nSome of the most perplexing results ever seen in this arena are on the horizon, as the 2006 re-authorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Act requires NOAA Fisheries to set annual catch limits on every stock of fish under management by Dec. 31, 2011. The agency is a long, long way from having science on all those stocks, meaning that it is preparing to set a slew of catch limits based on what amounts to a SWAG – a scientific wild ass guess.\n\nThe House of Representatives Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs acknowledged that the situation is ludicrous. It held an oversight hearing this week entitled, “NOAA’s Fishery Science: Is the Lack of Basic Science Costing Jobs?” which is a very telling label for a hearing. Loosely translated, it means that legislators realize that managing public resources by SWAG has real-world ramifications and, to their credit, they attempted to find what most of us involved in fisheries management are seeking: Clarity. A straight answer. Common sense.\n\nThe Committee asked a diverse group of individuals to share their views and assess the impact of NOAA Fisheries’ distinct lack of science on the vast majority of stocks it manages. It was a unique opportunity. Congress was listening. It was a chance for parties to set the record straight and work toward a solution, and that doesn’t come along very often. But just when you thought the water was clearing, the tide kicked up more mud.\n\nDuring the hearing, an outgoing member of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, George Geiger, referred to himself as a leader of Coastal Conservation Association as he attacked HR 2304, the Fishery Science Improvement Act, in his testimony. HR 2304 is a bill sponsored by Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.) that, among other provisions, states that if the agency has not assessed a stock of fish in the last five years and there is no indication that overfishing is occurring, the agency is not required to set an annual catch limit.\n\nCCA and the other leading marine conservation organizations in the country have thrown their support behind Rep. Wittman’s bill as a common-sense remedy to NOAA Fisheries ongoing science shortcomings. The bill is opposed, however, by most of the environmental community, which insists that a hodgepodge of partial bits of information that perhaps add up to an informed guess is somehow good enough to manage our marine resources. No other wildlife resource management agency operates that way, but damn the consequences and full speed ahead for marine resources, these groups say.\n\nMr. Geiger seems to believe that too, but strangely decided to cloud his affiliations and repeatedly referenced his leadership role in CCA Florida, giving Congress the impression that he was speaking for CCA despite his letter of resignation from CCA almost two years ago.\n\nIt wasn’t a passing reference – he mentioned it more than a few times in his written testimony and in his oral testimony. But he never mentioned his abrupt departure from CCA. To what purpose? To create clarity? No, if that was the case he would have articulated the philosophical differences that caused him to leave the organization in October of 2009.\n\nNo one in CCA asked Mr. Geiger to testify on our behalf. Jeff Angers, president of the Center for Coastal Conservation, carried the message for CCA as well as for American Sportfishing Association, Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation, International Game Fish Association, National Marine Manufacturers Association and The Billfish Foundation.\n\nIt remains unclear who Mr. Geiger was representing. We know it wasn’t CCA – Jeff Angers was doing that. Was it Pew? His testimony certainly aligns with their opinion on the bill. Has Pew’s credibility dropped so low that it has to rely on someone who is apparently not connected with them, in this case an ex-member of CCA, in order to have its testimony presented? Why can’t Pew represent itself at a hearing?\n\nIt appears that while anglers are calling for clarity, some other groups are content to play a shell game. Whatever game was being played, it was hard to listen to Mr. Geiger or read his testimony without concluding that he was suggesting that he represented CCA. That kind of obfuscation is similar to the questionable tactics employed by environmental groups that have also attacked HR 2304 in dramatic fashion.\n\nThe Ocean Conservancy essentially labeled supporters of the bill – which has more than two dozen bipartisan co-sponsors and the support of the 300-member-strong Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus – as pro-extinction. The Natural Resources Defense Council breathlessly said HR 2304 would “gut the nation’s fisheries law.”\n\nA bill that requires a stock assessment to set an annual catch limit for a stock of fish stands to gut the nation’s fisheries law? Gut?!\nRhetoric like that muddies every discussion on federal fisheries management.\n\nThe Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs is to be commended for its efforts to seek solutions for NOAA Fisheries’ inability to implement the requirements of the Magnuson-Stevens Act the way Congress envisioned in 2006. Unfortunately, at a time when everyone – Congress, anglers, commercial fishermen, the Councils, NOAA – sees the need to address those problems, there are still some who find it better to muddy the water than seek the truth.\n\n<h2>Menhaden Management moves up the food chain</h2>\n\nALEXANDRIA, VA – Tangible management of menhaden in the Atlantic moved another step closer to reality this week when the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) voted to send a series of management options for this critical forage species out to public hearings.\n\nMenhaden management has long been a sore point among conservationists as intense commercial harvest of the species in the Chesapeake Bay has added to factors believed to be negatively impacting striped bass and other gamefish all along the East Coast. The primary industrial harvester of Atlantic menhaden, Omega Protein, has never had its harvest effectively restricted and stands as one of the very few commercial fishing operations in the country to successfully avoid management measures that might impact its bottom line.\n\nThere is also a completely unregulated bait fishery that targets menhaden throughout its East Coast range. Comprised of boats of all sizes, from large mid-water trawlers to small skiffs, it supplies bait to both the commercial and recreational fishery. The quantity of menhaden harvested by that industry has never been comprehensively assessed, but it is undoubtedly significant. In addition, the fishery is believed to be expanding as northeastern lobstermen seek a substitute for the more strictly regulated, Atlantic herring, which is decreasing in abundance.\n\nThe most current menhaden stock assessment showed the stock was undergoing overfishing and abundance estimates were at the lowest level ever recorded. Current science indicates that the menhaden spawning stock biomass is at about 9 percent of a stock that is not subjected to any fishing pressure. With the vote this week, the ASMFC has put into play management options that could increase the spawning stock biomass to15 percent or more.\n\n“This is the grinding process of management,” said Richen Brame, CCA Atlantic States Fisheries Director. “The science is finally catching up with the problems anglers and conservationists have been talking about for a long time, and now the process can move forward. The fact that these options are going out for public hearing is significant, but it is a slow grind to get where we want to be with this stock. You can bet the harvesters think this is a significant development.”\n\nWhatever regulations are ultimately adopted will be interim measures that will likely be in place for three to five years until ecological reference points, generated from a Multi- Species Virtual Population Analysis can be produced, which will require stock assessment updates on bluefish, striped bass, weakfish and menhaden stock. When that analysis is conducted, it is very possible managers will have a much better idea of the population of menhaden needed to fully serve as the critical forage base for those popular sport fish.\n\n“Almost everyone who has spent time fishing in the Chesapeake has seen how the industrial boats, aided by spotter planes, can wipe out whole schools of menhaden, removing them completely from the food chain,” said Frank Kearney, chairman of CCA Virginia’s Government Affairs Committee. “For a long time, anglers have felt powerless to impact the menhaden management process against a very well-connected and financially powerful company. Now that these measures are going out for public hearing, it feels like we have a chance to inject some sanity into this fishery and begin to manage it for the greater good, not just for the good of one company.”','Distortions - Muddying the Water','','inherit','open','open','','351-autosave','','','2011-12-08 21:02:16','2011-12-08 21:02:16','',351,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=356',0,'revision','',0),(357,1,'2011-12-08 21:00:21','2011-12-08 21:00:21','<h2>Muddying the Water</h2>\r\n\r\n<strong><em>By Ted Venke</em></strong>\r\n\r\nNo one has ever accused the federal fisheries management process of being too transparent. It is a Byzantine world of statistics, biology and, the murkiest ingredient of all, politics. It is a process that often yields confounding results.\r\n\r\nSome of the most perplexing results ever seen in this arena are on the horizon, as the 2006 re-authorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Act requires NOAA Fisheries to set annual catch limits on every stock of fish under management by Dec. 31, 2011. The agency is a long, long way from having science on all those stocks, meaning that it is preparing to set a slew of catch limits based on what amounts to a SWAG – a scientific wild ass guess.\r\n\r\nThe House of Representatives Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs acknowledged that the situation is ludicrous. It held an oversight hearing this week entitled, “NOAA’s Fishery Science: Is the Lack of Basic Science Costing Jobs?” which is a very telling label for a hearing. Loosely translated, it means that legislators realize that managing public resources by SWAG has real-world ramifications and, to their credit, they attempted to find what most of us involved in fisheries management are seeking: Clarity. A straight answer. Common sense.\r\n\r\nThe Committee asked a diverse group of individuals to share their views and assess the impact of NOAA Fisheries’ distinct lack of science on the vast majority of stocks it manages. It was a unique opportunity. Congress was listening. It was a chance for parties to set the record straight and work toward a solution, and that doesn’t come along very often. But just when you thought the water was clearing, the tide kicked up more mud.\r\n\r\nDuring the hearing, an outgoing member of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, George Geiger, referred to himself as a leader of Coastal Conservation Association as he attacked HR 2304, the Fishery Science Improvement Act, in his testimony. HR 2304 is a bill sponsored by Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.) that, among other provisions, states that if the agency has not assessed a stock of fish in the last five years and there is no indication that overfishing is occurring, the agency is not required to set an annual catch limit.\r\n\r\nCCA and the other leading marine conservation organizations in the country have thrown their support behind Rep. Wittman’s bill as a common-sense remedy to NOAA Fisheries ongoing science shortcomings. The bill is opposed, however, by most of the environmental community, which insists that a hodgepodge of partial bits of information that perhaps add up to an informed guess is somehow good enough to manage our marine resources. No other wildlife resource management agency operates that way, but damn the consequences and full speed ahead for marine resources, these groups say.\r\n\r\nMr. Geiger seems to believe that too, but strangely decided to cloud his affiliations and repeatedly referenced his leadership role in CCA Florida, giving Congress the impression that he was speaking for CCA despite his letter of resignation from CCA almost two years ago.\r\n\r\nIt wasn’t a passing reference – he mentioned it more than a few times in his written testimony and in his oral testimony. But he never mentioned his abrupt departure from CCA. To what purpose? To create clarity? No, if that was the case he would have articulated the philosophical differences that caused him to leave the organization in October of 2009.\r\n\r\nNo one in CCA asked Mr. Geiger to testify on our behalf. Jeff Angers, president of the Center for Coastal Conservation, carried the message for CCA as well as for American Sportfishing Association, Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation, International Game Fish Association, National Marine Manufacturers Association and The Billfish Foundation.\r\n\r\nIt remains unclear who Mr. Geiger was representing. We know it wasn’t CCA – Jeff Angers was doing that. Was it Pew? His testimony certainly aligns with their opinion on the bill. Has Pew’s credibility dropped so low that it has to rely on someone who is apparently not connected with them, in this case an ex-member of CCA, in order to have its testimony presented? Why can’t Pew represent itself at a hearing?\r\n\r\nIt appears that while anglers are calling for clarity, some other groups are content to play a shell game. Whatever game was being played, it was hard to listen to Mr. Geiger or read his testimony without concluding that he was suggesting that he represented CCA. That kind of obfuscation is similar to the questionable tactics employed by environmental groups that have also attacked HR 2304 in dramatic fashion.\r\n\r\nThe Ocean Conservancy essentially labeled supporters of the bill – which has more than two dozen bipartisan co-sponsors and the support of the 300-member-strong Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus – as pro-extinction. The Natural Resources Defense Council breathlessly said HR 2304 would “gut the nation’s fisheries law.”\r\n\r\nA bill that requires a stock assessment to set an annual catch limit for a stock of fish stands to gut the nation’s fisheries law? Gut?!\r\nRhetoric like that muddies every discussion on federal fisheries management.\r\n\r\nThe Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs is to be commended for its efforts to seek solutions for NOAA Fisheries’ inability to implement the requirements of the Magnuson-Stevens Act the way Congress envisioned in 2006. Unfortunately, at a time when everyone – Congress, anglers, commercial fishermen, the Councils, NOAA – sees the need to address those problems, there are still some who find it better to muddy the water than seek the truth.','Distortions','','inherit','open','open','','351-revision-3','','','2011-12-08 21:00:21','2011-12-08 21:00:21','',351,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=357',0,'revision','',0),(358,1,'2011-09-01 21:02:56','2011-09-01 21:02:56','<h2>Winner of 2011 ICAST Fishing Accessory</h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-359\" title=\"sparrow Hawk\" src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/sparrowHawk-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"sparrow Hawk\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" />The most exciting introduction into the tackle accessory market in years is the P-Line Sparrowhawk. At a feather light weight of 2.1 ounces and a compact size of just more than five inches, this machine cut aluminum pair of pliers will nest into your favorite fishing vest or fit comfortably on your belt. Don’t let the Sparrowhawk’s small size fool you, it has a mean set of tungsten carbide cutters that slice through braided line with ease. 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double stitched for durability and seam-sealed to keep moisture out\r\n• Durable nylon reinforced elbows, knees and seat\r\n• Ergonomic design for superior comfort and range of motion\r\n• Brushed tricot handwarmer pockets \r\n• Large cargo pockets plus dual internal mesh jacket pockets and internal zipper bib pocket \r\n• Oversized collar is separate from hood providing enhanced protection from nasty elements \r\n• Adjustable bunker-gear style bib straps with stretch \r\n• Full-length ankle to hip leg zippers \r\n• Oversized patterning allows many layering options for changing conditions','Frabill Suit','','inherit','open','open','','361-revision-4','','','2011-12-08 21:08:37','2011-12-08 21:08:37','',361,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=366',0,'revision','',0),(367,1,'2011-12-08 21:05:49','2011-12-08 21:05:49','<h2>Winner of 2011 ICAST Fishing Accessory</h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-359\" title=\"sparrow Hawk\" src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/sparrowHawk-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"sparrow Hawk\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" />The most exciting introduction into the tackle accessory market in years is the P-Line Sparrowhawk. At a feather light weight of 2.1 ounces and a compact size of just more than five inches, this machine cut aluminum pair of pliers will nest into your favorite fishing vest or fit comfortably on your belt. Don’t let the Sparrowhawk’s small size fool you, it has a mean set of tungsten carbide cutters that slice through braided line with ease. 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Although some of the firm–textured fish is higher in fat than more delicate types of fish, the fat in fish is a kind of heart–healthy fat.\r\n\r\n<h3>Seafood That Can Take the Heat</h3>\r\n<strong>Grouper</strong>: This white–meat fish is sold in fillets and steaks. If you can’t find grouper, you can use sea bass or mahi mahi.\r\n\r\n<strong>Halibut: </strong>The meat of this fish is white and mild–flavored and comes in steaks and fillets. It’s a bit more delicate than some of this other fish in this list, so be careful when you’re turning it on the grill.\r\n\r\n<strong>Salmon:</strong> With a range of flavors from rich to mild, salmon can take on a char and still keep its distinct taste. You can buy salmon in either steaks or fillets.\r\n\r\n<strong>Scallops:</strong> There are two groups of scallops–bay and sea. The larger sea scallops are best for grilling because they have a meatier texture and can be easily skewered.\r\n\r\n<strong>Shrimp: </strong>Large or jumbo shrimp are the best for grilling. They cook quickly and are easily skewered.\r\n\r\n<strong>Swordfish:</strong> The mild fish has a firm, gray-white flesh and a meaty texture and is usually sold as steaks. Its natural oil content keeps it moist while grilling.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tuna:</strong> If you’re new to grilling fish, fresh tuna is a good place to start. It cooks more like beef and its deep red meat almost never sticks to the grill.\r\n<h3>Checking for Doneness</h3>\r\nTo avoid overcooking fish, it’s generally best to go with a medium–hot fire rather than a really hot one. You should start checking the fish several minutes before you think it’s done. There are two ways to test doneness:\r\n(1) pull a little of the flesh out with a fork and see if it flakes, or\r\n(2) make a small slit in the thickest part of the fish with a sharp knife. Cooked fish will be firm to the touch and opaque; undercooked fish will appear shiny and semi-translucent.\r\n\r\n<h3>Tips for Grilling Fish</h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Make sure the grill rack is very clean. Any residue on the rack could interfere with the fish’s delicate flavor, plus, a clean rack helps prevent sticking.</li>\r\n	<li>Lightly coat the grill rack with cooking spray or brush it with oil before placing it over the heat source. This keeps the food from sticking and makes the grill rack easier to clean.</li>\r\n	<li>Place the seafood on a hot grill rack and leave it there for several minutes before you try to move it. This way, a sear will develop between the fish and the grill rack, and this prevents further sticking.</li>\r\n	<li>Watch the time. Seafood cooks quickly and you don’t want to overcook. The cooking time will depend on the thickness of the fish as well as its texture, but most fish cooks in about 10 minutes or less.</li>\r\n	<li>If you have a grill basket, use it for grilling more delicate types of fish such as catfish. With a basket, you turn the whole basket over instead of turning individual pieces of fish, so you don’t have to worry about tearing the fish or about small pieces falling through the grill rack.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n<h3>The Right Fire for the Fish</h3>\r\nTo get the best results when you’re grilling seafood, be sure to use the right level of heat for the food. Here’s what works best.\r\n\r\n<strong>Medium-High Heat:</strong> most fish and shellfish\r\n<strong>High Heat:</strong> Salmon fillets and steaks; Scallops; Shrimp (peeled)\r\n<strong>Sear on High Heat/Finish on Medium Heat:</strong> Tuna steaks','Seafood Grilling Guide','','publish','open','open','','seafood-grilling-guide','','','2013-04-02 12:57:29','2013-04-02 16:57:29','',0,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=368',67,'post','',0),(369,1,'2011-12-08 21:13:02','2011-12-08 21:13:02','<h2>The most important thing to know when grilling seafood is what types of fish and shellfish are best to use.</h2>\nSuccessful seafood grilling depends on the fish’s texture. You want fish that has a thick, firm, meaty texture so that it won’t fall apart while it’s cooking. Although some of the firm–textured fish is higher in fat than more delicate types of fish, the fat in fish is a kind of heart–healthy fat.\n<h3>Seafood That Can Take the Heat</h3>\n<strong>Grouper</strong>: This white–meat fish is sold in fillets and steaks. If you can’t find\ngrouper, you can use sea bass or mahi mahi.\n\n<strong>Halibut: </strong>The meat of this fish is white and mild–flavored and comes in steaks and fillets. It’s a bit more delicate than some of this other fish in this list, so be careful when you’re turning it on the grill.\n\n<strong>Salmon:</strong> With a range of flavors from rich to mild, salmon can take on a char and still keep its distinct taste. You can buy salmon in either steaks or fillets.\n\n<strong>Scallops:</strong> There are two groups of scallops–bay and sea. The larger sea scal- lops are best for grilling because they have a meatier texture and can be easily skewered.\n\n<strong>Shrimp: </strong>Large or jumbo shrimp are the best for grilling. They cook quickly and are easily skewered.\nSwordfish: The mild fish has a firm, gray-white flesh and a meaty texture and is usually sold as steaks. Its natural oil content keeps it moist while grilling.\n\n<strong>Tuna:</strong> If you’re new to grilling fish, fresh tuna is a good place to start. It cooks more like beef and its deep red meat almost never sticks to the grill.\n<h3>Checking for Doneness</h3>\nTo avoid overcooking fish, it’s generally best to go with a medium–hot fire rather than a really hot one. You should start checking the fish several minutes before you think it’s done. There are two ways to test doneness:\n(1) pull a little of the flesh out with a fork and see if it flakes, or\n(2) make a small slit in the thickest part of the fish with a sharp knife. Cooked fish will be firm to the touch and opaque; undercooked fish will appear shiny and semi-translucent.\n\n<strong>Tips for Grilling Fish</strong>\n<ul>\n	<li>Make sure the grill rack is very clean. Any residue on the rack could interfere with the fish’s delicate flavor, plus, a clean rack helps prevent sticking.</li>\n	<li>Lightly coat the grill rack with cooking spray or brush it with oil before placing it over the heat source. This keeps the food from sticking and makes the grill rack easier to clean.</li>\n	<li>Place the seafood on a hot grill rack and leave it there for several minutes before you try to move it. This way, a sear will develop between the fish and the grill rack, and this prevents further sticking.</li>\n	<li>Watch the time. Seafood cooks quickly and you don’t want to overcook. The cooking time will depend on the thickness of the fish as well as its texture, but most fish cooks in about 10 minutes or less.</li>\n	<li>If you have a grill basket, use it for grilling more delicate types of fish such as catfish. With a basket, you turn the whole basket over instead of turning individual pieces of fish, so you don’t have to worry about tearing the fish or about small pieces falling through the grill rack.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>The Right Fire for the Fish</strong>\nTo get the best results when you’re grilling seafood, be sure to use the right level of heat for the food. Here’s what works best.\n\nMedium-High Heat: most fish and shellfish\nHigh Heat: Salmon fillets and steaks; Scallops; Shrimp (peeled)\nSear on High Heat/Finish on Medium Heat: Tuna steaks','Seafood Grilling Guide','','inherit','open','open','','368-revision','','','2011-12-08 21:13:02','2011-12-08 21:13:02','',368,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=369',0,'revision','',0),(370,1,'2011-12-08 21:13:59','2011-12-08 21:13:59','<h2>The most important thing to know when grilling seafood is what types of fish and shellfish are best to use.</h2>\r\nSuccessful seafood grilling depends on the fish’s texture. You want fish that has a thick, firm, meaty texture so that it won’t fall apart while it’s cooking. Although some of the firm–textured fish is higher in fat than more delicate types of fish, the fat in fish is a kind of heart–healthy fat.\r\n<h3>Seafood That Can Take the Heat</h3>\r\n<strong>Grouper</strong>: This white–meat fish is sold in fillets and steaks. If you can’t find\r\ngrouper, you can use sea bass or mahi mahi.\r\n\r\n<strong>Halibut: </strong>The meat of this fish is white and mild–flavored and comes in steaks and fillets. It’s a bit more delicate than some of this other fish in this list, so be careful when you’re turning it on the grill.\r\n\r\n<strong>Salmon:</strong> With a range of flavors from rich to mild, salmon can take on a char and still keep its distinct taste. You can buy salmon in either steaks or fillets.\r\n\r\n<strong>Scallops:</strong> There are two groups of scallops–bay and sea. The larger sea scal- lops are best for grilling because they have a meatier texture and can be easily skewered.\r\n\r\n<strong>Shrimp: </strong>Large or jumbo shrimp are the best for grilling. They cook quickly and are easily skewered.\r\nSwordfish: The mild fish has a firm, gray-white flesh and a meaty texture and is usually sold as steaks. Its natural oil content keeps it moist while grilling.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tuna:</strong> If you’re new to grilling fish, fresh tuna is a good place to start. It cooks more like beef and its deep red meat almost never sticks to the grill.\r\n<h3>Checking for Doneness</h3>\r\nTo avoid overcooking fish, it’s generally best to go with a medium–hot fire rather than a really hot one. You should start checking the fish several minutes before you think it’s done. There are two ways to test doneness:\r\n(1) pull a little of the flesh out with a fork and see if it flakes, or\r\n(2) make a small slit in the thickest part of the fish with a sharp knife. Cooked fish will be firm to the touch and opaque; undercooked fish will appear shiny and semi-translucent.\r\n\r\n<h3>Tips for Grilling Fish</h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Make sure the grill rack is very clean. Any residue on the rack could interfere with the fish’s delicate flavor, plus, a clean rack helps prevent sticking.</li>\r\n	<li>Lightly coat the grill rack with cooking spray or brush it with oil before placing it over the heat source. This keeps the food from sticking and makes the grill rack easier to clean.</li>\r\n	<li>Place the seafood on a hot grill rack and leave it there for several minutes before you try to move it. This way, a sear will develop between the fish and the grill rack, and this prevents further sticking.</li>\r\n	<li>Watch the time. Seafood cooks quickly and you don’t want to overcook. The cooking time will depend on the thickness of the fish as well as its texture, but most fish cooks in about 10 minutes or less.</li>\r\n	<li>If you have a grill basket, use it for grilling more delicate types of fish such as catfish. With a basket, you turn the whole basket over instead of turning individual pieces of fish, so you don’t have to worry about tearing the fish or about small pieces falling through the grill rack.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n<h3>The Right Fire for the Fish</h3>\r\nTo get the best results when you’re grilling seafood, be sure to use the right level of heat for the food. Here’s what works best.\r\n\r\n<strong>Medium-High Heat:</strong> most fish and shellfish\r\n<strong>High Heat:</strong> Salmon fillets and steaks; Scallops; Shrimp (peeled)\r\n<strong>Sear on High Heat/Finish on Medium Heat:</strong> Tuna steaks','Seafood Grilling Guide','','inherit','open','open','','368-revision-2','','','2011-12-08 21:13:59','2011-12-08 21:13:59','',368,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=370',0,'revision','',0),(371,1,'2011-12-08 21:16:26','2011-12-08 21:16:26','','grilled Seafood','','inherit','open','open','','grilledseafood','','','2011-12-08 21:16:26','2011-12-08 21:16:26','',368,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/grilledSeafood.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(372,1,'2011-12-08 21:14:44','2011-12-08 21:14:44','<h2>The most important thing to know when grilling seafood is what types of fish and shellfish are best to use.</h2>\r\nSuccessful seafood grilling depends on the fish’s texture. You want fish that has a thick, firm, meaty texture so that it won’t fall apart while it’s cooking. Although some of the firm–textured fish is higher in fat than more delicate types of fish, the fat in fish is a kind of heart–healthy fat.\r\n<h3>Seafood That Can Take the Heat</h3>\r\n<strong>Grouper</strong>: This white–meat fish is sold in fillets and steaks. If you can’t find grouper, you can use sea bass or mahi mahi.\r\n\r\n<strong>Halibut: </strong>The meat of this fish is white and mild–flavored and comes in steaks and fillets. It’s a bit more delicate than some of this other fish in this list, so be careful when you’re turning it on the grill.\r\n\r\n<strong>Salmon:</strong> With a range of flavors from rich to mild, salmon can take on a char and still keep its distinct taste. You can buy salmon in either steaks or fillets.\r\n\r\n<strong>Scallops:</strong> There are two groups of scallops–bay and sea. The larger sea scallops are best for grilling because they have a meatier texture and can be easily skewered.\r\n\r\n<strong>Shrimp: </strong>Large or jumbo shrimp are the best for grilling. They cook quickly and are easily skewered.\r\n\r\n<strong>Swordfish:</strong> The mild fish has a firm, gray-white flesh and a meaty texture and is usually sold as steaks. Its natural oil content keeps it moist while grilling.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tuna:</strong> If you’re new to grilling fish, fresh tuna is a good place to start. It cooks more like beef and its deep red meat almost never sticks to the grill.\r\n<h3>Checking for Doneness</h3>\r\nTo avoid overcooking fish, it’s generally best to go with a medium–hot fire rather than a really hot one. You should start checking the fish several minutes before you think it’s done. There are two ways to test doneness:\r\n(1) pull a little of the flesh out with a fork and see if it flakes, or\r\n(2) make a small slit in the thickest part of the fish with a sharp knife. Cooked fish will be firm to the touch and opaque; undercooked fish will appear shiny and semi-translucent.\r\n\r\n<h3>Tips for Grilling Fish</h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Make sure the grill rack is very clean. Any residue on the rack could interfere with the fish’s delicate flavor, plus, a clean rack helps prevent sticking.</li>\r\n	<li>Lightly coat the grill rack with cooking spray or brush it with oil before placing it over the heat source. This keeps the food from sticking and makes the grill rack easier to clean.</li>\r\n	<li>Place the seafood on a hot grill rack and leave it there for several minutes before you try to move it. This way, a sear will develop between the fish and the grill rack, and this prevents further sticking.</li>\r\n	<li>Watch the time. Seafood cooks quickly and you don’t want to overcook. The cooking time will depend on the thickness of the fish as well as its texture, but most fish cooks in about 10 minutes or less.</li>\r\n	<li>If you have a grill basket, use it for grilling more delicate types of fish such as catfish. With a basket, you turn the whole basket over instead of turning individual pieces of fish, so you don’t have to worry about tearing the fish or about small pieces falling through the grill rack.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n<h3>The Right Fire for the Fish</h3>\r\nTo get the best results when you’re grilling seafood, be sure to use the right level of heat for the food. Here’s what works best.\r\n\r\n<strong>Medium-High Heat:</strong> most fish and shellfish\r\n<strong>High Heat:</strong> Salmon fillets and steaks; Scallops; Shrimp (peeled)\r\n<strong>Sear on High Heat/Finish on Medium Heat:</strong> Tuna steaks','Seafood Grilling Guide','','inherit','open','open','','368-revision-3','','','2011-12-08 21:14:44','2011-12-08 21:14:44','',368,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=372',0,'revision','',0),(373,1,'2011-10-01 21:17:26','2011-10-01 21:17:26','<h2>Best of Show – Electronics</h2>\r\n\r\nThe Humminbird 1158c HD features a brilliant color 600V x 800H 10.4” display and best-in-class, HD screen resolution, Dual Beam sonar with 8000 Watts PTP power output, Side Imaging for a 180 degree view of the lake bottom, with picture-like images up to 240 feet on either side of your boat. The new design also allows drop-in replacement for competitive in-dash models. Along with built-in ContourXD mapping system maximize your angling experience with the Humminbird 1158c HD fish finder.\r\n\r\n1158c HD Features:\r\n• Color Fishing System \r\n• 10.4” Color TFT Display - 600V x 800H \r\n• SwitchFire Sonar (More Details) \r\n• DualBeam PLUS (More Details)\r\n• Selectable Broad 60° & Precision 20° Beams - Dual Frequency\r\n- 200 kHz/20x @-10db - 83 kHz/60x @-10db\r\n• Depth Capability - 1500 ft (3000 ft)\r\n- 8000 W (PTP), 1000 W (RMS) \r\n• 50 Channel GPS ContourXD\r\n• Dual SD Card Slots / Upgradeable Software \r\n• Fully Waterproof','Humminbird 1158c DI Combo','','publish','open','open','','humminbird-1158c-di-combo','','','2013-04-02 12:57:29','2013-04-02 16:57:29','',0,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=373',68,'post','',0),(374,1,'2011-12-08 21:18:27','2011-12-08 21:18:27','<h2>Best of Show – Electronics</h2>\n\nThe Humminbird 1158c HD features a brilliant color 600V x 800H 10.4” display and best-in-class, HD screen resolution, Dual Beam sonar with 8000 Watts PTP power output, Side Imaging for a 180 degree view of the lake bottom, with picture-like images up to 240 feet on either side of your boat. The new design also allows drop-in replacement for competitive in-dash models. Along with built-in ContourXD mapping system maximize your angling experience with the Humminbird 1158c HD fish finder.\n\n1158c HD Features:\n• Color Fishing System \n• 10.4” Color TFT Display - 600V x 800H \n• SwitchFire Sonar (More Details) \n• DualBeam PLUS (More Details)\n• Selectable Broad 60° & Precision 20° Beams - Dual Frequency\n- 200 kHz/20x @-10db - 83 kHz/60x @-10db\n• Depth Capability - 1500 ft (3000 ft)\n- 8000 W (PTP), 1000 W (RMS) \n• 50 Channel GPS ContourXD\n• Dual SD Card Slots / Upgradeable Software \n• Fully Waterproof','Humminbird 1158c DI Combo','','inherit','open','open','','373-revision','','','2011-12-08 21:18:27','2011-12-08 21:18:27','',373,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=374',0,'revision','',0),(375,1,'2011-12-08 21:19:41','2011-12-08 21:19:41','','hummingbird','','inherit','open','open','','hummingbird','','','2011-12-08 21:19:41','2011-12-08 21:19:41','',373,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/hummingbird.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(376,1,'2011-12-08 21:18:42','2011-12-08 21:18:42','<h2>Best of Show – Electronics</h2>\r\n\r\nThe Humminbird 1158c HD features a brilliant color 600V x 800H 10.4” display and best-in-class, HD screen resolution, Dual Beam sonar with 8000 Watts PTP power output, Side Imaging for a 180 degree view of the lake bottom, with picture-like images up to 240 feet on either side of your boat. The new design also allows drop-in replacement for competitive in-dash models. Along with built-in ContourXD mapping system maximize your angling experience with the Humminbird 1158c HD fish finder.\r\n\r\n1158c HD Features:\r\n• Color Fishing System \r\n• 10.4” Color TFT Display - 600V x 800H \r\n• SwitchFire Sonar (More Details) \r\n• DualBeam PLUS (More Details)\r\n• Selectable Broad 60° & Precision 20° Beams - Dual Frequency\r\n- 200 kHz/20x @-10db - 83 kHz/60x @-10db\r\n• Depth Capability - 1500 ft (3000 ft)\r\n- 8000 W (PTP), 1000 W (RMS) \r\n• 50 Channel GPS ContourXD\r\n• Dual SD Card Slots / Upgradeable Software \r\n• Fully Waterproof','Humminbird 1158c DI Combo','','inherit','open','open','','373-revision-2','','','2011-12-08 21:18:42','2011-12-08 21:18:42','',373,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=376',0,'revision','',0),(377,1,'2011-10-01 21:20:35','2011-10-01 21:20:35','<strong><em>by Erik Deckers American Reporter Humor Writer Indianapolis, Indiana</em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Would you eat a kitten?</strong>\r\nIf People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) had their way you would. They’ve launched a campaign to show the world how stupid they can be - I mean, to rename fish as \"sea kittens.\" Those crazy kids over at PETA want to improve the fish’s image, and get us to stop eating them. “People don’t seem to like fish,” says the PETA website, which features cartoon fish with kitten faces and whiskers. “They’re slithery and slimy, and they have eyes on either side of their pointy little heads.\"\r\n\r\nPointy heads? Slimy? Are they talking about fish or lawyers? Besides, people like fish just fine. The small ones make great pets, and the big ones taste great grilled with some lemon and butter. What about cat lovers? They’ll be upset to learn that their little furry bundles of joy are now being equated with something that’s slithery, slimy, and eats worms If you think a deranged animal rights activist is something to worry about, wait until you get a pissed- off cat lover narrowing its eyes and arching its back. I’d sooner stand between a mother bear and her cub.\r\n\r\nAnd of course, PETA makes no distinction between the fish we eat and the fish that eat us. Are we supposed to call sharks sea kittens? Is sea tigers more appropriate? And what about freshwater fish? “Sea” means saltwater, so this presents its problems.\r\n\r\n“(W)hat all this really means is that fish need to fire their PR guy - stat,” they continue, ignoring their sexism. “(W)e’re going to start by retiring the old name for good. When your name can also be used as a verb that means driving a hook through your head, it’s time for a serious image makeover.”	It’s obvious the PETA people have never fished, since fishing doesn’t mean putting a hook through a fish’s head. That’s called “baiting the hook.” Fishing is the act of getting a fish to bite a hook to get it driven through its lip. “And who could possibly want to put a hook through a sea kitten?” Me, because then I can catch bigger sea kittens and eat them.\r\n\r\nWhat does this new term do to our language? Will we change commonly used words and phrases, just to suit their misguided efforts? Are we now sea kittening for compliments? Is the card game now called Go Sea Kitten? Will people drink like a sea kitten? Will Fishkill, New York now be called Sea Kitten Kill instead? And are catfish going to be called “cat sea kittens?”	\r\n\r\nAnd what about high school mascots? Apparently they’re not safe either. According to the Missoulian (Montana) newspaper, PETA even went so far as to write a letter to Whitefish high school principal Kent Paulson (and what were these letter printed on? Harvested and pulped “forest kittens?!). “Neurobiologists tell us that fish have complex nervous systems that comprehend and respond to pain,” they said. “Fish communicate and develop relationships with one another, show affection by gently rubbing against other fish, and even grieve when their companions die.”\r\n\r\nIf that’s the case, then shouldn’t I also catch the grieving spouse to help put an end to its misery. It’s the only thing decent thing to do. PETA has also asked Spearfish High School in Spearfish, South Dakota to change their name to “Sea Kitten High School.” And they want Palm Beach Atlantic University to change the mascot from the fearsome Sailfish to, you guessed it, more sea kittens. They have even gone global with their lunacy. John Cobb, Opposition party fisheries spokesman, is very unimpressed with the group. “It is hard to take an organisation which wants to change the name of fish seriously,” Cobb told the Australia News website. But it was Whitefish school superintendent Jerry House who gave the best response. He told the Missoulian he thinks all of Whitefish, Montana should try the new name, although he likes White Kitten better, since the town is so far from the ocean. “White Kitten High School, the White Kitten City Council, the White Kitten Fire Department,” House said. “It has a certain ring to it, don’t you think?”\r\n\r\nIn White Kitten, House says, criminals would be “arrested by the White Kitten Police Department, and taken to the White Kitten Jail, where you’ll be treated with soft, furry paws and a purr of compassion.”	\r\n\r\nHe also believes the town of Spearfish is taking the letter seriously.	“Of course they are,” he said. “After all, who wants to be on the hook for being insensitive to kittens?” I love this guy’s sense of humor. It’s a real kick in the pants. Sure beats getting a hook to the head. Kitten better, since the town is so far from the ocean. “White Kitten High School, the White Kitten City Council, the White Kitten Fire Department,” House said. “It has a certain ring to it, don’t you think?”\r\n\r\nIn White Kitten, House says, criminals would be “arrested by the White Kitten Police Department, and taken to the White Kitten Jail, where you’ll be treated with soft, furry paws and a purr of compassion.”	\r\n\r\nHe also believes the town of Spearfish is taking the letter seriously.	“Of course they are,” he said. “After all, who wants to be on the hook for being insensitive to kittens?” I love this guy’s sense of humor. It’s a real kick in the pants. Sure beats getting a hook to the head.','PEATA Renames Fish, World Rolls Its Eyes','','publish','open','open','','peata-renames-fish-world-rolls-its-eyes','','','2013-04-02 12:57:29','2013-04-02 16:57:29','',0,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=377',69,'post','',0),(378,1,'2011-12-08 21:22:37','2011-12-08 21:22:37','<strong><em>by Erik Deckers American Reporter Humor Writer Indianapolis, Indiana</em></strong>\n\n<strong>Would you eat a kitten?</strong>\nIf People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) had their way you would. They’ve launched a campaign to show the world how stupid they can be - I mean, to rename fish as \"sea kittens.\" Those crazy kids over at PETA want to improve the fish’s image, and get us to stop eating them. “People don’t seem to like fish,” says the PETA website, which features cartoon fish with kitten faces and whiskers. “They’re slithery and slimy, and they have eyes on either side of their pointy little heads.\"\n\nPointy heads? Slimy? Are they talking about fish or lawyers? Besides, people like fish just fine. The small ones make great pets, and the big ones taste great grilled with some lemon and butter. What about cat lovers? They’ll be upset to learn that their little furry bundles of joy are now being equated with something that’s slithery, slimy, and eats worms If you think a deranged animal rights activist is something to worry about, wait until you get a pissed- off cat lover narrowing its eyes and arching its back. I’d sooner stand between a mother bear and her cub.\n\nAnd of course, PETA makes no distinction between the fish we eat and the fish that eat us. Are we supposed to call sharks sea kittens? Is sea tigers more appropriate? And what about freshwater fish? “Sea” means saltwater, so this presents its problems.\n\n“(W)hat all this really means is that fish need to fire their PR guy - stat,” they continue, ignoring their sexism. “(W)e’re going to start by retiring the old name for good. When your name can also be used as a verb that means driving a hook through your head, it’s time for a serious image makeover.”	It’s obvious the PETA people have never fished, since fishing doesn’t mean putting a hook through a fish’s head. That’s called “baiting the hook.” Fishing is the act of getting a fish to bite a hook to get it driven through its lip. “And who could possibly want to put a hook through a sea kitten?” Me, because then I can catch bigger sea kittens and eat them.\n\nWhat does this new term do to our language? Will we change commonly used words and phrases, just to suit their misguided efforts? Are we now sea kittening for compliments? Is the card game now called Go Sea Kitten? Will people drink like a sea kitten? Will Fishkill, New York now be called Sea Kitten Kill instead? And are catfish going to be called “cat sea kittens?”	\n\nAnd what about high school mascots? Apparently they’re not safe either. According to the Missoulian (Montana) newspaper, PETA even went so far as to write a letter to Whitefish high school principal Kent Paulson (and what were these letter printed on? Harvested and pulped “forest kittens?!). “Neurobiologists tell us that fish have complex nervous systems that comprehend and respond to pain,” they said. “Fish communicate and develop relationships with one another, show affection by gently rubbing against other fish, and even grieve when their companions die.”\n\nIf that’s the case, then shouldn’t I also catch the grieving spouse to help put an end to its misery. It’s the only thing decent thing to do. PETA has also asked Spearfish High School in Spearfish, South Dakota to change their name to “Sea Kitten High School.” And they want Palm Beach Atlantic University to change the mascot from the fearsome Sailfish to, you guessed it, more sea kittens. They have even gone global with their lunacy. John Cobb, Opposition party fisheries spokesman, is very unimpressed with the group. “It is hard to take an organisation which wants to change the name of fish seriously,” Cobb told the Australia News website. But it was Whitefish school superintendent Jerry House who gave the best response. He told the Missoulian he thinks all of Whitefish, Montana should try the new name, although he likes White Kitten better, since the town is so far from the ocean. “White Kitten High School, the White Kitten City Council, the White Kitten Fire Department,” House said. “It has a certain ring to it, don’t you think?”\n\nIn White Kitten, House says, criminals would be “arrested by the White Kitten Police Department, and taken to the White Kitten Jail, where you’ll be treated with soft, furry paws and a purr of compassion.”	\n\nHe also believes the town of Spearfish is taking the letter seriously.	“Of course they are,” he said. “After all, who wants to be on the hook for being insensitive to kittens?” I love this guy’s sense of humor. It’s a real kick in the pants. Sure beats getting a hook to the head. Kitten better, since the town is so far from the ocean. “White Kitten High School, the White Kitten City Council, the White Kitten Fire Department,” House said. “It has a certain ring to it, don’t you think?”\n\nIn White Kitten, House says, criminals would be “arrested by the White Kitten Police Department, and taken to the White Kitten Jail, where you’ll be treated with soft, furry paws and a purr of compassion.”	\n\nHe also believes the town of Spearfish is taking the letter seriously.	“Of course they are,” he said. “After all, who wants to be on the hook for being insensitive to kittens?” I love this guy’s sense of humor. It’s a real kick in the pants. Sure beats getting a hook to the head.','PEATA Renames Fish, World Rolls Its Eyes','','inherit','open','open','','377-revision','','','2011-12-08 21:22:37','2011-12-08 21:22:37','',377,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=378',0,'revision','',0),(380,1,'2011-12-16 20:27:59','2011-12-16 20:27:59','<strong>Author:</strong> <em>Dale Burrus Senior Inspector (at the time he compiled this history and findings) Spanish Mustang Registry</em>\n\nIn order to understand the Banker Horse, one must understand the location and environment from which they developed. Until recent years, the Outer Banks of North Carolina were considered some of the most isolated and under-developed areas in the country. The banks consist of a string of sand dunes that serve to protect the mainland of North Carolina from the Atlantic Ocean. They are separated from the mainland by large bodies of water called “sounds.” The Outer Banks are approximately 175 miles long from the Virginia line to below Cape Lookout. Perhaps the islands are best described by the name of one of the Indian tribes that lived there....”Hatterasil”, an Algonquin word meaning “there is less vegetation”.\n\nThe following history was derived from historic journals of sailing vessels researched from archives in England and Spain, regarding exploration and colonization in the 16th century. The author, the late Dale Burrus,was a lifelong resident of Hatteras Island, North Carolina, and was Senior Inspector for the Spanish Mustang Registry at the time he wrote this history.\n<h3>Lucas Vasquez de Allyon’s Expeditions</h3>\nAmong the first explorers to visit the North Carolina coast was a Spaniard named Lucas Vasquez de Allyon, who had received a charter from the Spanish king which gave him the right to explore and colonize much of the eastern seaboard. In 1521, Allyon sent one of his captains, Gordilk, in charge of an expedition which landed at River John the Baptist (thought to have been Cape Fear). Other Allyon explorers spent considerable time at a place called “Chicom,” thought to be in the same vicinity.\n\nThe Spaniards had trouble with the Indians. It seems they were taking Indian children as slaves and sending them to the West Indies. There was a great Indian uprising led by Corees, and the Spaniards were forced to flee to stronger Spanish holdings in Florida, leaving behind all their livestock.\n<h3>Richard Greenville’s Expeditions</h3>\nThe next direct line of history comes from vessel logs detailing the importation of livestock to the Outer Banks by Richard Greenville’s expeditions from 1584 to 1590. For four years, Raleigh’s ships maintained a steady traffic between England and the Outer Banks, in spring of 1584, 1585, 1586, and 1587. They followed the same general route to the Canary Islands and across the Atlantic, stopping at the same places in the West Indies such as Tallaboa Bay and Puerto Rico. They reached the Outer Banks in early summer. A Spaniard concerned over these activities, could have set his calendar by the comings and goings of these vessels carrying colonists and supplies to the land the English called Virginia, in honor of their virgin queen.\n\nAlthough Spain and England were at a state of war during this period, trade was still carried on between the Spanish colonists of the West Indies and the ships of Greenville. The Spanish authorities in Puerto Rico were not passive while this was going on. The Governor, Diego Menendez de Valdez, claimed that he received news at San Juan de Puerto Rico of Commander Jones’ (commanding the Tyger) approach to the southern shore on May 10. He ordered his lieutenant at San Jerman who had 40 men, to keep watch on the English who had, he assumed, only landed to water. On May 16, a patrol of eight Spanish horsemen made their appearance at an encampment, but soon disappeared when challenged by ten of Jone’s arquebusman.\n\nOn May 22 a further party of twenty horsemen appeared, led by the commander if the local garrison. This time Greenville sent out two horsemen of his own and some footmen to arrange a parley. Two men from each side exchanged formal courtesies, the English declaring they were anxious to trade and to purchase food. A rendezvous for an exchange was arranged two days ahead. The lieutenant was now in a position to send a full report to the governor, which reached him on May 25. He at once sent off 35 arquebusmen to assist the lieutenant in harassing the English if they emerged from the encampment.\n\nThese reinforcements were only a one-day march from San Juan, when they were met by news that the English had “quitted their fort.” Greenville, after launching his pinnance on May 23, had gone to the rendezvous the next day, but the Spaniards did not appear. He returned to the camp, where he found the huts were burned and the embankments thrown down.\n\nIn a prominent place he erected a post and carved it with an inscription announcing the safe arrival and departure of the Tyger and Elizabeth as a guide to the missing vessels of the squadron, should they arrive later. The Spanish, however, uprooted the post soon after and with some difficulty had its inscription translated and forwarded to Spain.\n\nThe reason for Greenville’s desertion of the encampment was the likelihood of a Spanish attack, but he did not at once leave the coast. He lay in wait for “prizes” in the Mona Channel and he took a small frigate, but she proved to be empty. A more valuable prize was made the same night, belonging to Lorenzo de Vallejo, which had come from Spain with the flotilla carrying cloth and other merchandise. She had put into Santa Domingo and was making her way with cargo and passengers to San Juan when she was taken without struggle. Greenville put “prize crews” on board and retired to a nearby anchorage, having apparently sent word ashore to San Jerman that he again wished to trade.\n\nOne of the commanders, Commander Lane, was persuaded to take the smaller prize with some Spanish prisoners, and to bring salt from what was apparently Salinas Bay, near Cape Rojo. Finding two salt mounds ready, he enclosed them with entrenchments and began removing them, but a Spanish force came up. Lane believed this force to be commanded by the governor himself, and the force consisted of 40 horses and 300 footmen. They did not attempt to try Lane’s defenses. Lane, on rejoining the Tyger, protested violently at having been placed in jeopardy with a handful of men, and began a series of quarrels with Greenville, which destroyed the harmony of the expedition.\n\nMeanwhile, the Tyger, the Elizabeth, the pinnance and the larger prize had been trading with the Spaniards in the vicinity of Guanica or Guayanilla. Neither the English nor the Spanish documents are quite clear how this was arranged, but it appears that Greenville offered one of the frigates for sale, attempted to ransom his prisoners (“getting good round summes, but nothing at allone of the released Spaniards claimed”, he said). The ships logs show that Greenville acquired livestock, hogs sows, young cattle, mares and male horses, foodstuffs, plants of sugar cane, bananas and other fruits to supply the colony which it was intending to grow there. The governor, hearing of such exchanges, sent orders that they were to cease, but again Greenville had moved before his instructions had taken effect. The squadron (now of five vessels) sailed on May 29 for the north coast of Hispaniola.\n\nAccording to Spanish documentation, the Spaniards put in at Puerto-de-Plata and then moved on to the Bahia Isabela, the harbor immediately to the west. After two days at Isabela, Governor Alcade and Captain Regifo de Angulo made friendly overtures to Greenville, promising to come to visit him. The English ships were in an area which had a long record of illicit trade that took place with the French. On June 5, Greenville and his company were invited onshore, where an elaborate entertainment was prepared for them. Feasting was followed by a bullfight and sports by commerce. On June 6, male horses and mares (with saddles and bridles), cows and bulls, sheep and swine were purchased for the colony, together with hides, sugar, ginger, tobacco and pearls (most of which were evidently for the English market). The English had already been observed on Puerto Rico collecting banana plants and other fruit trees along the shore and they continued to do so in Hispaniola. John White, a commander, recorded a number of plants and animals on paper.\n\nWhatever Greenville’s views on the missing vessels were (and we do not know precisely how stores and men had been distributed between them) it is clear that he did not regard their absence as sufficient enough to make him abandon the projected colony. His men were well, and his supplies of livestock, plants and food improved the prospects of settlement, though the delays had sacrificed valuable planting time. He sailed from Hispaniola on June 7 northwest, being nearly lost when he visited a small island the next day to take seals. The following day, they failed to find salt on one of the Caicos Islands and entered the Bahamas, landing at Eleuthera, Guanima on June 12, and Ciguateo (Great Abaco) on June 15. Then, sailing through Providence North West Channel, he sighted the American mainland on June 20, between 27 degrees and 30 degrees north.\n\nOn June 23 they encountered the shoals of a headland which they believed to be, and most probably was Cape Fear. Rounding the shoals with difficulty, they anchored the next day in a harbor which is likely to have been that of Beaufort, North Carolina. They were now clearly probing the coast closely. On June 26, they came to an inlet through the Carolina Banks, called Wococon, which is about in the middle of the present Portsmouth Island.\n\nCommander Lane said, in his journal book, that all their ships went aground on the shallow bar, but were floated off without too much difficulty. However, the Tyger had been lying offshore, and when an attempt was made on June 29 to bring her into harbor, serious disaster occurred. She struck, according to the Tyger journal. Two hours of struggle went on to prevent her from breaking up. Finally she was beached. The damage was a severe blow to the intended colony, since all the corn, salt, meal, rice, biscuits, and other provisions were destroyed or damaged by the salt water. Livestock was either lost, or swam ashore. This was a first and salutary example of the dangers which threatened shipping along this most risky stretch of coast.\nFor many years, it has been very difficult to put together the needed information concerning the early exploration and colonization attempts by Sir Walter Raleigh’s ships, especially the parts dealing with his exploits and trading in the West Indies, but in 1955 the Halkuyt Society published a two volume set which included all of the old material, plus considerable new information, most of it located in archives in England and Spain.\n<h3>John Lawson’s Observations (early 1700’s)</h3>\nA quote from an English historian, John Lawson (who explored and documented southeastern North Carolina from 1700 until his death at the hands of the Tuscaroras in 1711) says, “The horses are well-shaped and swift. The best of them would sell for ten or twelve pounds in England. They prove excellent drudges, and will travel incredible journeys. They are troubled with very few distempers, neither do the cloudy-faced grey horses go blind here as in Europe. As for sprains, splints and ringbones, they are here never met withal, as I can learn. Were we to have our stallions and choice of mares from England, or any other of a good sort, and careful to keep them on the highlands, we could not fail of a good breed; but having been supplied with our first horses from the neighboring plantations, which were but mean, they do not as yet come up to the Excellency of the English horses; tho we generally find that the colts exceed in beauty and strength....”\nJohn Lawson also reported how well the horses were treated by the Indians.... “These creatures they continually cram and feed with maize, and what the horse will eat—‘til he is as fat as a hog, never making any farther use of him than to fetch a deer home”.\n<h3>Edmund Ruffin’s Report on Banker Horses (mid-1800’s)</h3>\nIn 1856, another historian visited the Outer Banks. His name was Edmund Ruffin, famous as an authority on agriculture and as an editor (but more usually credited with firing the first shot in the Civil War). He said “Twice a year on the Banks, the stock owners hold a wild horse penning, at which time all of the wild horses on the island were corralled and the colts branded. The horses pennings are much attended, and are very interesting festivals for all the residents of the neigh-boring mainland. There are few adults residing within a days sailing of the horse pen that have not attended one or more of these exciting scenes. A strong enclosure, called the horse pen, is made at a narrow part of the reef and suitable in other respects for the purpose---with a connected strong fence stretching quite across the reef. All of the many proprietors of the horses, and many assistants, drive the horses from the remote extremities of the reef, and easily encircle and bring all the horses to the fence and near to the pen”.\n\nRuffin said that all of the horses in use on the reef, and on many of the nearest farms on the mainland are of these previously wild “banks “horses. He described them as “all of small size, with rough shaggy coats, and long manes; their hoofs in many cases grow to unusual lengths, they are capable of great endurance of labor and hardship, and live so roughly that any others from abroad seldom live a year on such food and other such great exposure. By the same token, he said when the banks horses were removed to the mainland, away from the salt marshes, many die before learning to eat grain or other strange provider, while other injure or kill themselves in struggling in vain efforts to break through the stables or enclosures in which they are subsequently confined. The horses fed entirely on the coarse salt grasses of the marshes and supply their want of fresh water by pawing away the sand deep enough to reach the fresh water which oozes into the excavation, and which reservoir serves for this use while it remains open”.\n<h3>Federal Writers Project (late 1930’s)</h3>\nIn 1939 a book was compiled and written by the Federal Writers Project of the Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration for the state of North Carolina. They write “On Cape Hatteras, wildlife is abundant. For years herds of wild horses, cattle, and hogs ranged at will, until the Federal Program of Sand Fixation by Grass Plantings necessitated a strict stock law. In 1938, the county placed a bounty on the few remaining wild horses, traditional descendants of Barbary horses brought over by the Raleigh colonists or saved from wrecked Portuguese ships. In winter, the waters are dotted with ducks and geese, and there is frequently the gleam of a white swan. Sandpipers and gulls feed in flocks, undisturbed by scurrying sandfiddlers. Eagles and Ospreys wheel above the water on the lookout for prey, and schools of porpoises sport just beyond the breakers of the roaring Atlantic.”\n<h3>Spanish Mustang Registry Observation (early 1980’s)</h3>\nDare County is only one of the counties that make up the North Carolina Outer Banks. Currituck County borders Dare on the north, and Hyde County on the south. In more remote areas of these counties, some of the pure Banker Horses were able to survive. In June, 1982, members of the Spanish Mustang Registry came to the Outer Banks and “due to feats of great endurance”, were able to observe the last known remaining bands of Banker Horses still existing in the natural state as they have been for the past 500 years---on the Currituck County Outer Banks.\n<h3>Conclusions</h3>\nAlthough the Ocracoke strain of Spanish mustang cannot be directly traced to a single breeder, importer, or sire, certain physiological features of present day horses, and historical data lead strongly to the conclusion that the ancestors of these horses were escapees from Spanish stock brought to the Outer Banks of North Carolina in the first part of the 16th century.\n\nAccounts of Spanish explorations and colonization attempts in the early 1500’s state that Spanish Barb and Arabian horses were imported. One colony, d’Allyon’s, describes topographical features which Lefler and Newsome (A History of North Carolina, UNC Press, 1973) believe were around Cape Fear, North Carolina. The colony failed and the Spaniards retreated to their stronger holdings in Florida. The circumstances of the retreat, manner of travel and the coastal topography offer a combination of events conducive to the establishment of feral herds along the barrier islands.\nPresent day Ocracoke and Corolla wild horses carry the distinguishing features of Spanish type horses. One striking similarity to the Arabian ancestry is the number of vertebra (one less than most breeds) which occurs in the Banker Horse Breed. Their even temperament, endurance, size, and the startling beauty which crops up frequently in the Banker Horses all point strongly to their dramatic history...these are the remnants of once numerous herds of Spanish stock which ran free along the sandy islands of our coast.\n\nThe Spanish Mustang Registry is satisfied that the Banker Horses, in particular the Corolla strain, are as lineally pure to the 16th century Spanish importations as can be found in North America today, and that they compare closely to the selectively bred South American Spanish derivative stock.\n\n<strong>COROLLA WILD HORSE FUND</strong>\nP.O. Box 361 / 1126 Old Schoolhouse Ln\nCorolla, NC. 27927\n(252) 453-8002\n<a href=\"http://www.corollawildhorses.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.corollawildhorses.com</a>','History of the Banker Horses','','inherit','open','open','','379-revision','','','2011-12-16 20:27:59','2011-12-16 20:27:59','',379,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=380',0,'revision','',0),(381,1,'2011-12-16 20:28:10','2011-12-16 20:28:10','<strong>Author:</strong> <em>Dale Burrus Senior Inspector (at the time he compiled this history and findings) Spanish Mustang Registry</em>\r\n\r\nIn order to understand the Banker Horse, one must understand the location and environment from which they developed. Until recent years, the Outer Banks of North Carolina were considered some of the most isolated and under-developed areas in the country. The banks consist of a string of sand dunes that serve to protect the mainland of North Carolina from the Atlantic Ocean. They are separated from the mainland by large bodies of water called “sounds.” The Outer Banks are approximately 175 miles long from the Virginia line to below Cape Lookout. Perhaps the islands are best described by the name of one of the Indian tribes that lived there....”Hatterasil”, an Algonquin word meaning “there is less vegetation”.\r\n\r\nThe following history was derived from historic journals of sailing vessels researched from archives in England and Spain, regarding exploration and colonization in the 16th century. The author, the late Dale Burrus,was a lifelong resident of Hatteras Island, North Carolina, and was Senior Inspector for the Spanish Mustang Registry at the time he wrote this history.\r\n<h3>Lucas Vasquez de Allyon’s Expeditions</h3>\r\nAmong the first explorers to visit the North Carolina coast was a Spaniard named Lucas Vasquez de Allyon, who had received a charter from the Spanish king which gave him the right to explore and colonize much of the eastern seaboard. In 1521, Allyon sent one of his captains, Gordilk, in charge of an expedition which landed at River John the Baptist (thought to have been Cape Fear). Other Allyon explorers spent considerable time at a place called “Chicom,” thought to be in the same vicinity.\r\n\r\nThe Spaniards had trouble with the Indians. It seems they were taking Indian children as slaves and sending them to the West Indies. There was a great Indian uprising led by Corees, and the Spaniards were forced to flee to stronger Spanish holdings in Florida, leaving behind all their livestock.\r\n<h3>Richard Greenville’s Expeditions</h3>\r\nThe next direct line of history comes from vessel logs detailing the importation of livestock to the Outer Banks by Richard Greenville’s expeditions from 1584 to 1590. For four years, Raleigh’s ships maintained a steady traffic between England and the Outer Banks, in spring of 1584, 1585, 1586, and 1587. They followed the same general route to the Canary Islands and across the Atlantic, stopping at the same places in the West Indies such as Tallaboa Bay and Puerto Rico. They reached the Outer Banks in early summer. A Spaniard concerned over these activities, could have set his calendar by the comings and goings of these vessels carrying colonists and supplies to the land the English called Virginia, in honor of their virgin queen.\r\n\r\nAlthough Spain and England were at a state of war during this period, trade was still carried on between the Spanish colonists of the West Indies and the ships of Greenville. The Spanish authorities in Puerto Rico were not passive while this was going on. The Governor, Diego Menendez de Valdez, claimed that he received news at San Juan de Puerto Rico of Commander Jones’ (commanding the Tyger) approach to the southern shore on May 10. He ordered his lieutenant at San Jerman who had 40 men, to keep watch on the English who had, he assumed, only landed to water. On May 16, a patrol of eight Spanish horsemen made their appearance at an encampment, but soon disappeared when challenged by ten of Jone’s arquebusman.\r\n\r\nOn May 22 a further party of twenty horsemen appeared, led by the commander if the local garrison. This time Greenville sent out two horsemen of his own and some footmen to arrange a parley. Two men from each side exchanged formal courtesies, the English declaring they were anxious to trade and to purchase food. A rendezvous for an exchange was arranged two days ahead. The lieutenant was now in a position to send a full report to the governor, which reached him on May 25. He at once sent off 35 arquebusmen to assist the lieutenant in harassing the English if they emerged from the encampment.\r\n\r\nThese reinforcements were only a one-day march from San Juan, when they were met by news that the English had “quitted their fort.” Greenville, after launching his pinnance on May 23, had gone to the rendezvous the next day, but the Spaniards did not appear. He returned to the camp, where he found the huts were burned and the embankments thrown down.\r\n\r\nIn a prominent place he erected a post and carved it with an inscription announcing the safe arrival and departure of the Tyger and Elizabeth as a guide to the missing vessels of the squadron, should they arrive later. The Spanish, however, uprooted the post soon after and with some difficulty had its inscription translated and forwarded to Spain.\r\n\r\nThe reason for Greenville’s desertion of the encampment was the likelihood of a Spanish attack, but he did not at once leave the coast. He lay in wait for “prizes” in the Mona Channel and he took a small frigate, but she proved to be empty. A more valuable prize was made the same night, belonging to Lorenzo de Vallejo, which had come from Spain with the flotilla carrying cloth and other merchandise. She had put into Santa Domingo and was making her way with cargo and passengers to San Juan when she was taken without struggle. Greenville put “prize crews” on board and retired to a nearby anchorage, having apparently sent word ashore to San Jerman that he again wished to trade.\r\n\r\nOne of the commanders, Commander Lane, was persuaded to take the smaller prize with some Spanish prisoners, and to bring salt from what was apparently Salinas Bay, near Cape Rojo. Finding two salt mounds ready, he enclosed them with entrenchments and began removing them, but a Spanish force came up. Lane believed this force to be commanded by the governor himself, and the force consisted of 40 horses and 300 footmen. They did not attempt to try Lane’s defenses. Lane, on rejoining the Tyger, protested violently at having been placed in jeopardy with a handful of men, and began a series of quarrels with Greenville, which destroyed the harmony of the expedition.\r\n\r\nMeanwhile, the Tyger, the Elizabeth, the pinnance and the larger prize had been trading with the Spaniards in the vicinity of Guanica or Guayanilla. Neither the English nor the Spanish documents are quite clear how this was arranged, but it appears that Greenville offered one of the frigates for sale, attempted to ransom his prisoners (“getting good round summes, but nothing at allone of the released Spaniards claimed”, he said). The ships logs show that Greenville acquired livestock, hogs sows, young cattle, mares and male horses, foodstuffs, plants of sugar cane, bananas and other fruits to supply the colony which it was intending to grow there. The governor, hearing of such exchanges, sent orders that they were to cease, but again Greenville had moved before his instructions had taken effect. The squadron (now of five vessels) sailed on May 29 for the north coast of Hispaniola.\r\n\r\nAccording to Spanish documentation, the Spaniards put in at Puerto-de-Plata and then moved on to the Bahia Isabela, the harbor immediately to the west. After two days at Isabela, Governor Alcade and Captain Regifo de Angulo made friendly overtures to Greenville, promising to come to visit him. The English ships were in an area which had a long record of illicit trade that took place with the French. On June 5, Greenville and his company were invited onshore, where an elaborate entertainment was prepared for them. Feasting was followed by a bullfight and sports by commerce. On June 6, male horses and mares (with saddles and bridles), cows and bulls, sheep and swine were purchased for the colony, together with hides, sugar, ginger, tobacco and pearls (most of which were evidently for the English market). The English had already been observed on Puerto Rico collecting banana plants and other fruit trees along the shore and they continued to do so in Hispaniola. John White, a commander, recorded a number of plants and animals on paper.\r\n\r\nWhatever Greenville’s views on the missing vessels were (and we do not know precisely how stores and men had been distributed between them) it is clear that he did not regard their absence as sufficient enough to make him abandon the projected colony. His men were well, and his supplies of livestock, plants and food improved the prospects of settlement, though the delays had sacrificed valuable planting time. He sailed from Hispaniola on June 7 northwest, being nearly lost when he visited a small island the next day to take seals. The following day, they failed to find salt on one of the Caicos Islands and entered the Bahamas, landing at Eleuthera, Guanima on June 12, and Ciguateo (Great Abaco) on June 15. Then, sailing through Providence North West Channel, he sighted the American mainland on June 20, between 27 degrees and 30 degrees north.\r\n\r\nOn June 23 they encountered the shoals of a headland which they believed to be, and most probably was Cape Fear. Rounding the shoals with difficulty, they anchored the next day in a harbor which is likely to have been that of Beaufort, North Carolina. They were now clearly probing the coast closely. On June 26, they came to an inlet through the Carolina Banks, called Wococon, which is about in the middle of the present Portsmouth Island.\r\n\r\nCommander Lane said, in his journal book, that all their ships went aground on the shallow bar, but were floated off without too much difficulty. However, the Tyger had been lying offshore, and when an attempt was made on June 29 to bring her into harbor, serious disaster occurred. She struck, according to the Tyger journal. Two hours of struggle went on to prevent her from breaking up. Finally she was beached. The damage was a severe blow to the intended colony, since all the corn, salt, meal, rice, biscuits, and other provisions were destroyed or damaged by the salt water. Livestock was either lost, or swam ashore. This was a first and salutary example of the dangers which threatened shipping along this most risky stretch of coast.\r\nFor many years, it has been very difficult to put together the needed information concerning the early exploration and colonization attempts by Sir Walter Raleigh’s ships, especially the parts dealing with his exploits and trading in the West Indies, but in 1955 the Halkuyt Society published a two volume set which included all of the old material, plus considerable new information, most of it located in archives in England and Spain.\r\n<h3>John Lawson’s Observations (early 1700’s)</h3>\r\nA quote from an English historian, John Lawson (who explored and documented southeastern North Carolina from 1700 until his death at the hands of the Tuscaroras in 1711) says, “The horses are well-shaped and swift. The best of them would sell for ten or twelve pounds in England. They prove excellent drudges, and will travel incredible journeys. They are troubled with very few distempers, neither do the cloudy-faced grey horses go blind here as in Europe. As for sprains, splints and ringbones, they are here never met withal, as I can learn. Were we to have our stallions and choice of mares from England, or any other of a good sort, and careful to keep them on the highlands, we could not fail of a good breed; but having been supplied with our first horses from the neighboring plantations, which were but mean, they do not as yet come up to the Excellency of the English horses; tho we generally find that the colts exceed in beauty and strength....”\r\nJohn Lawson also reported how well the horses were treated by the Indians.... “These creatures they continually cram and feed with maize, and what the horse will eat—‘til he is as fat as a hog, never making any farther use of him than to fetch a deer home”.\r\n<h3>Edmund Ruffin’s Report on Banker Horses (mid-1800’s)</h3>\r\nIn 1856, another historian visited the Outer Banks. His name was Edmund Ruffin, famous as an authority on agriculture and as an editor (but more usually credited with firing the first shot in the Civil War). He said “Twice a year on the Banks, the stock owners hold a wild horse penning, at which time all of the wild horses on the island were corralled and the colts branded. The horses pennings are much attended, and are very interesting festivals for all the residents of the neigh-boring mainland. There are few adults residing within a days sailing of the horse pen that have not attended one or more of these exciting scenes. A strong enclosure, called the horse pen, is made at a narrow part of the reef and suitable in other respects for the purpose---with a connected strong fence stretching quite across the reef. All of the many proprietors of the horses, and many assistants, drive the horses from the remote extremities of the reef, and easily encircle and bring all the horses to the fence and near to the pen”.\r\n\r\nRuffin said that all of the horses in use on the reef, and on many of the nearest farms on the mainland are of these previously wild “banks “horses. He described them as “all of small size, with rough shaggy coats, and long manes; their hoofs in many cases grow to unusual lengths, they are capable of great endurance of labor and hardship, and live so roughly that any others from abroad seldom live a year on such food and other such great exposure. By the same token, he said when the banks horses were removed to the mainland, away from the salt marshes, many die before learning to eat grain or other strange provider, while other injure or kill themselves in struggling in vain efforts to break through the stables or enclosures in which they are subsequently confined. The horses fed entirely on the coarse salt grasses of the marshes and supply their want of fresh water by pawing away the sand deep enough to reach the fresh water which oozes into the excavation, and which reservoir serves for this use while it remains open”.\r\n<h3>Federal Writers Project (late 1930’s)</h3>\r\nIn 1939 a book was compiled and written by the Federal Writers Project of the Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration for the state of North Carolina. They write “On Cape Hatteras, wildlife is abundant. For years herds of wild horses, cattle, and hogs ranged at will, until the Federal Program of Sand Fixation by Grass Plantings necessitated a strict stock law. In 1938, the county placed a bounty on the few remaining wild horses, traditional descendants of Barbary horses brought over by the Raleigh colonists or saved from wrecked Portuguese ships. In winter, the waters are dotted with ducks and geese, and there is frequently the gleam of a white swan. Sandpipers and gulls feed in flocks, undisturbed by scurrying sandfiddlers. Eagles and Ospreys wheel above the water on the lookout for prey, and schools of porpoises sport just beyond the breakers of the roaring Atlantic.”\r\n<h3>Spanish Mustang Registry Observation (early 1980’s)</h3>\r\nDare County is only one of the counties that make up the North Carolina Outer Banks. Currituck County borders Dare on the north, and Hyde County on the south. In more remote areas of these counties, some of the pure Banker Horses were able to survive. In June, 1982, members of the Spanish Mustang Registry came to the Outer Banks and “due to feats of great endurance”, were able to observe the last known remaining bands of Banker Horses still existing in the natural state as they have been for the past 500 years---on the Currituck County Outer Banks.\r\n<h3>Conclusions</h3>\r\nAlthough the Ocracoke strain of Spanish mustang cannot be directly traced to a single breeder, importer, or sire, certain physiological features of present day horses, and historical data lead strongly to the conclusion that the ancestors of these horses were escapees from Spanish stock brought to the Outer Banks of North Carolina in the first part of the 16th century.\r\n\r\nAccounts of Spanish explorations and colonization attempts in the early 1500’s state that Spanish Barb and Arabian horses were imported. One colony, d’Allyon’s, describes topographical features which Lefler and Newsome (A History of North Carolina, UNC Press, 1973) believe were around Cape Fear, North Carolina. The colony failed and the Spaniards retreated to their stronger holdings in Florida. The circumstances of the retreat, manner of travel and the coastal topography offer a combination of events conducive to the establishment of feral herds along the barrier islands.\r\nPresent day Ocracoke and Corolla wild horses carry the distinguishing features of Spanish type horses. One striking similarity to the Arabian ancestry is the number of vertebra (one less than most breeds) which occurs in the Banker Horse Breed. Their even temperament, endurance, size, and the startling beauty which crops up frequently in the Banker Horses all point strongly to their dramatic history...these are the remnants of once numerous herds of Spanish stock which ran free along the sandy islands of our coast.\r\n\r\nThe Spanish Mustang Registry is satisfied that the Banker Horses, in particular the Corolla strain, are as lineally pure to the 16th century Spanish importations as can be found in North America today, and that they compare closely to the selectively bred South American Spanish derivative stock.\r\n\r\n<strong>COROLLA WILD HORSE FUND</strong>\r\nP.O. Box 361 / 1126 Old Schoolhouse Ln\r\nCorolla, NC. 27927\r\n(252) 453-8002\r\n<a href=\"http://www.corollawildhorses.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.corollawildhorses.com</a>','History of the Banker Horses','','inherit','open','open','','379-revision-2','','','2011-12-16 20:28:10','2011-12-16 20:28:10','',379,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=381',0,'revision','',0),(384,1,'2011-12-16 20:30:02','2011-12-16 20:30:02','','banker horses','','inherit','open','open','','horses','','','2011-12-16 20:30:02','2011-12-16 20:30:02','',379,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/horses.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(385,1,'2011-12-16 20:28:25','2011-12-16 20:28:25','<strong>Author:</strong> <em>Dale Burrus Senior Inspector (at the time he compiled this history and findings) Spanish Mustang Registry</em>\r\n\r\nIn order to understand the Banker Horse, one must understand the location and environment from which they developed. Until recent years, the Outer Banks of North Carolina were considered some of the most isolated and under-developed areas in the country. The banks consist of a string of sand dunes that serve to protect the mainland of North Carolina from the Atlantic Ocean. They are separated from the mainland by large bodies of water called “sounds.” The Outer Banks are approximately 175 miles long from the Virginia line to below Cape Lookout. Perhaps the islands are best described by the name of one of the Indian tribes that lived there....”Hatterasil”, an Algonquin word meaning “there is less vegetation”.\r\n\r\nThe following history was derived from historic journals of sailing vessels researched from archives in England and Spain, regarding exploration and colonization in the 16th century. The author, the late Dale Burrus,was a lifelong resident of Hatteras Island, North Carolina, and was Senior Inspector for the Spanish Mustang Registry at the time he wrote this history.\r\n<h3>Lucas Vasquez de Allyon’s Expeditions</h3>\r\nAmong the first explorers to visit the North Carolina coast was a Spaniard named Lucas Vasquez de Allyon, who had received a charter from the Spanish king which gave him the right to explore and colonize much of the eastern seaboard. In 1521, Allyon sent one of his captains, Gordilk, in charge of an expedition which landed at River John the Baptist (thought to have been Cape Fear). Other Allyon explorers spent considerable time at a place called “Chicom,” thought to be in the same vicinity.\r\n\r\nThe Spaniards had trouble with the Indians. It seems they were taking Indian children as slaves and sending them to the West Indies. There was a great Indian uprising led by Corees, and the Spaniards were forced to flee to stronger Spanish holdings in Florida, leaving behind all their livestock.\r\n<h3>Richard Greenville’s Expeditions</h3>\r\nThe next direct line of history comes from vessel logs detailing the importation of livestock to the Outer Banks by Richard Greenville’s expeditions from 1584 to 1590. For four years, Raleigh’s ships maintained a steady traffic between England and the Outer Banks, in spring of 1584, 1585, 1586, and 1587. They followed the same general route to the Canary Islands and across the Atlantic, stopping at the same places in the West Indies such as Tallaboa Bay and Puerto Rico. They reached the Outer Banks in early summer. A Spaniard concerned over these activities, could have set his calendar by the comings and goings of these vessels carrying colonists and supplies to the land the English called Virginia, in honor of their virgin queen.\r\n\r\nAlthough Spain and England were at a state of war during this period, trade was still carried on between the Spanish colonists of the West Indies and the ships of Greenville. The Spanish authorities in Puerto Rico were not passive while this was going on. The Governor, Diego Menendez de Valdez, claimed that he received news at San Juan de Puerto Rico of Commander Jones’ (commanding the Tyger) approach to the southern shore on May 10. He ordered his lieutenant at San Jerman who had 40 men, to keep watch on the English who had, he assumed, only landed to water. On May 16, a patrol of eight Spanish horsemen made their appearance at an encampment, but soon disappeared when challenged by ten of Jone’s arquebusman.\r\n\r\nOn May 22 a further party of twenty horsemen appeared, led by the commander if the local garrison. This time Greenville sent out two horsemen of his own and some footmen to arrange a parley. Two men from each side exchanged formal courtesies, the English declaring they were anxious to trade and to purchase food. A rendezvous for an exchange was arranged two days ahead. The lieutenant was now in a position to send a full report to the governor, which reached him on May 25. He at once sent off 35 arquebusmen to assist the lieutenant in harassing the English if they emerged from the encampment.\r\n\r\nThese reinforcements were only a one-day march from San Juan, when they were met by news that the English had “quitted their fort.” Greenville, after launching his pinnance on May 23, had gone to the rendezvous the next day, but the Spaniards did not appear. He returned to the camp, where he found the huts were burned and the embankments thrown down.\r\n\r\nIn a prominent place he erected a post and carved it with an inscription announcing the safe arrival and departure of the Tyger and Elizabeth as a guide to the missing vessels of the squadron, should they arrive later. The Spanish, however, uprooted the post soon after and with some difficulty had its inscription translated and forwarded to Spain.\r\n\r\nThe reason for Greenville’s desertion of the encampment was the likelihood of a Spanish attack, but he did not at once leave the coast. He lay in wait for “prizes” in the Mona Channel and he took a small frigate, but she proved to be empty. A more valuable prize was made the same night, belonging to Lorenzo de Vallejo, which had come from Spain with the flotilla carrying cloth and other merchandise. She had put into Santa Domingo and was making her way with cargo and passengers to San Juan when she was taken without struggle. Greenville put “prize crews” on board and retired to a nearby anchorage, having apparently sent word ashore to San Jerman that he again wished to trade.\r\n\r\nOne of the commanders, Commander Lane, was persuaded to take the smaller prize with some Spanish prisoners, and to bring salt from what was apparently Salinas Bay, near Cape Rojo. Finding two salt mounds ready, he enclosed them with entrenchments and began removing them, but a Spanish force came up. Lane believed this force to be commanded by the governor himself, and the force consisted of 40 horses and 300 footmen. They did not attempt to try Lane’s defenses. Lane, on rejoining the Tyger, protested violently at having been placed in jeopardy with a handful of men, and began a series of quarrels with Greenville, which destroyed the harmony of the expedition.\r\n\r\nMeanwhile, the Tyger, the Elizabeth, the pinnance and the larger prize had been trading with the Spaniards in the vicinity of Guanica or Guayanilla. Neither the English nor the Spanish documents are quite clear how this was arranged, but it appears that Greenville offered one of the frigates for sale, attempted to ransom his prisoners (“getting good round summes, but nothing at allone of the released Spaniards claimed”, he said). The ships logs show that Greenville acquired livestock, hogs sows, young cattle, mares and male horses, foodstuffs, plants of sugar cane, bananas and other fruits to supply the colony which it was intending to grow there. The governor, hearing of such exchanges, sent orders that they were to cease, but again Greenville had moved before his instructions had taken effect. The squadron (now of five vessels) sailed on May 29 for the north coast of Hispaniola.\r\n\r\nAccording to Spanish documentation, the Spaniards put in at Puerto-de-Plata and then moved on to the Bahia Isabela, the harbor immediately to the west. After two days at Isabela, Governor Alcade and Captain Regifo de Angulo made friendly overtures to Greenville, promising to come to visit him. The English ships were in an area which had a long record of illicit trade that took place with the French. On June 5, Greenville and his company were invited onshore, where an elaborate entertainment was prepared for them. Feasting was followed by a bullfight and sports by commerce. On June 6, male horses and mares (with saddles and bridles), cows and bulls, sheep and swine were purchased for the colony, together with hides, sugar, ginger, tobacco and pearls (most of which were evidently for the English market). The English had already been observed on Puerto Rico collecting banana plants and other fruit trees along the shore and they continued to do so in Hispaniola. John White, a commander, recorded a number of plants and animals on paper.\r\n\r\nWhatever Greenville’s views on the missing vessels were (and we do not know precisely how stores and men had been distributed between them) it is clear that he did not regard their absence as sufficient enough to make him abandon the projected colony. His men were well, and his supplies of livestock, plants and food improved the prospects of settlement, though the delays had sacrificed valuable planting time. He sailed from Hispaniola on June 7 northwest, being nearly lost when he visited a small island the next day to take seals. The following day, they failed to find salt on one of the Caicos Islands and entered the Bahamas, landing at Eleuthera, Guanima on June 12, and Ciguateo (Great Abaco) on June 15. Then, sailing through Providence North West Channel, he sighted the American mainland on June 20, between 27 degrees and 30 degrees north.\r\n\r\nOn June 23 they encountered the shoals of a headland which they believed to be, and most probably was Cape Fear. Rounding the shoals with difficulty, they anchored the next day in a harbor which is likely to have been that of Beaufort, North Carolina. They were now clearly probing the coast closely. On June 26, they came to an inlet through the Carolina Banks, called Wococon, which is about in the middle of the present Portsmouth Island.\r\n\r\nCommander Lane said, in his journal book, that all their ships went aground on the shallow bar, but were floated off without too much difficulty. However, the Tyger had been lying offshore, and when an attempt was made on June 29 to bring her into harbor, serious disaster occurred. She struck, according to the Tyger journal. Two hours of struggle went on to prevent her from breaking up. Finally she was beached. The damage was a severe blow to the intended colony, since all the corn, salt, meal, rice, biscuits, and other provisions were destroyed or damaged by the salt water. Livestock was either lost, or swam ashore. This was a first and salutary example of the dangers which threatened shipping along this most risky stretch of coast.\r\nFor many years, it has been very difficult to put together the needed information concerning the early exploration and colonization attempts by Sir Walter Raleigh’s ships, especially the parts dealing with his exploits and trading in the West Indies, but in 1955 the Halkuyt Society published a two volume set which included all of the old material, plus considerable new information, most of it located in archives in England and Spain.\r\n<h3>John Lawson’s Observations (early 1700’s)</h3>\r\nA quote from an English historian, John Lawson (who explored and documented southeastern North Carolina from 1700 until his death at the hands of the Tuscaroras in 1711) says, “The horses are well-shaped and swift. The best of them would sell for ten or twelve pounds in England. They prove excellent drudges, and will travel incredible journeys. They are troubled with very few distempers, neither do the cloudy-faced grey horses go blind here as in Europe. As for sprains, splints and ringbones, they are here never met withal, as I can learn. Were we to have our stallions and choice of mares from England, or any other of a good sort, and careful to keep them on the highlands, we could not fail of a good breed; but having been supplied with our first horses from the neighboring plantations, which were but mean, they do not as yet come up to the Excellency of the English horses; tho we generally find that the colts exceed in beauty and strength....”\r\nJohn Lawson also reported how well the horses were treated by the Indians.... “These creatures they continually cram and feed with maize, and what the horse will eat—‘til he is as fat as a hog, never making any farther use of him than to fetch a deer home”.\r\n<h3>Edmund Ruffin’s Report on Banker Horses (mid-1800’s)</h3>\r\nIn 1856, another historian visited the Outer Banks. His name was Edmund Ruffin, famous as an authority on agriculture and as an editor (but more usually credited with firing the first shot in the Civil War). He said “Twice a year on the Banks, the stock owners hold a wild horse penning, at which time all of the wild horses on the island were corralled and the colts branded. The horses pennings are much attended, and are very interesting festivals for all the residents of the neigh-boring mainland. There are few adults residing within a days sailing of the horse pen that have not attended one or more of these exciting scenes. A strong enclosure, called the horse pen, is made at a narrow part of the reef and suitable in other respects for the purpose---with a connected strong fence stretching quite across the reef. All of the many proprietors of the horses, and many assistants, drive the horses from the remote extremities of the reef, and easily encircle and bring all the horses to the fence and near to the pen”.\r\n\r\nRuffin said that all of the horses in use on the reef, and on many of the nearest farms on the mainland are of these previously wild “banks “horses. He described them as “all of small size, with rough shaggy coats, and long manes; their hoofs in many cases grow to unusual lengths, they are capable of great endurance of labor and hardship, and live so roughly that any others from abroad seldom live a year on such food and other such great exposure. By the same token, he said when the banks horses were removed to the mainland, away from the salt marshes, many die before learning to eat grain or other strange provider, while other injure or kill themselves in struggling in vain efforts to break through the stables or enclosures in which they are subsequently confined. The horses fed entirely on the coarse salt grasses of the marshes and supply their want of fresh water by pawing away the sand deep enough to reach the fresh water which oozes into the excavation, and which reservoir serves for this use while it remains open”.\r\n<h3>Federal Writers Project (late 1930’s)</h3>\r\nIn 1939 a book was compiled and written by the Federal Writers Project of the Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration for the state of North Carolina. They write “On Cape Hatteras, wildlife is abundant. For years herds of wild horses, cattle, and hogs ranged at will, until the Federal Program of Sand Fixation by Grass Plantings necessitated a strict stock law. In 1938, the county placed a bounty on the few remaining wild horses, traditional descendants of Barbary horses brought over by the Raleigh colonists or saved from wrecked Portuguese ships. In winter, the waters are dotted with ducks and geese, and there is frequently the gleam of a white swan. Sandpipers and gulls feed in flocks, undisturbed by scurrying sandfiddlers. Eagles and Ospreys wheel above the water on the lookout for prey, and schools of porpoises sport just beyond the breakers of the roaring Atlantic.”\r\n<h3>Spanish Mustang Registry Observation (early 1980’s)</h3>\r\nDare County is only one of the counties that make up the North Carolina Outer Banks. Currituck County borders Dare on the north, and Hyde County on the south. In more remote areas of these counties, some of the pure Banker Horses were able to survive. In June, 1982, members of the Spanish Mustang Registry came to the Outer Banks and “due to feats of great endurance”, were able to observe the last known remaining bands of Banker Horses still existing in the natural state as they have been for the past 500 years---on the Currituck County Outer Banks.\r\n<h3>Conclusions</h3>\r\nAlthough the Ocracoke strain of Spanish mustang cannot be directly traced to a single breeder, importer, or sire, certain physiological features of present day horses, and historical data lead strongly to the conclusion that the ancestors of these horses were escapees from Spanish stock brought to the Outer Banks of North Carolina in the first part of the 16th century.\r\n\r\nAccounts of Spanish explorations and colonization attempts in the early 1500’s state that Spanish Barb and Arabian horses were imported. One colony, d’Allyon’s, describes topographical features which Lefler and Newsome (A History of North Carolina, UNC Press, 1973) believe were around Cape Fear, North Carolina. The colony failed and the Spaniards retreated to their stronger holdings in Florida. The circumstances of the retreat, manner of travel and the coastal topography offer a combination of events conducive to the establishment of feral herds along the barrier islands.\r\nPresent day Ocracoke and Corolla wild horses carry the distinguishing features of Spanish type horses. One striking similarity to the Arabian ancestry is the number of vertebra (one less than most breeds) which occurs in the Banker Horse Breed. Their even temperament, endurance, size, and the startling beauty which crops up frequently in the Banker Horses all point strongly to their dramatic history...these are the remnants of once numerous herds of Spanish stock which ran free along the sandy islands of our coast.\r\n\r\nThe Spanish Mustang Registry is satisfied that the Banker Horses, in particular the Corolla strain, are as lineally pure to the 16th century Spanish importations as can be found in North America today, and that they compare closely to the selectively bred South American Spanish derivative stock.\r\n\r\n<strong>COROLLA WILD HORSE FUND</strong>\r\nP.O. Box 361 / 1126 Old Schoolhouse Ln\r\nCorolla, NC. 27927\r\n(252) 453-8002\r\n<a href=\"http://www.corollawildhorses.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.corollawildhorses.com</a>','History of the Banker Horses','','inherit','open','open','','379-revision-3','','','2011-12-16 20:28:25','2011-12-16 20:28:25','',379,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=385',0,'revision','',0),(386,1,'2011-10-18 18:45:44','2011-10-18 18:45:44','Ghost ships, or phantom ships, make up a big part of the seafaring lore that has been passed down by sailors and fisherman throughout the years. The ships are said to be spectral apparitions that materialize on the horizon before quickly disappearing, and they are believed to be a sign of bad things to come. The term is also used to describe abandoned vessels that are found adrift with no crew or passengers, often under frightening and mysterious circumstances. Whether real stories of these derelict ships or legends about phantom craft trawling the seas, the following are the ten most famous ghost ships that continue to provoke speculation and mystery in the nautical world.\r\n<h2>1. The Flying Dutchman</h2>\r\nIn maritime folklore, no ghost ship is more famous than the Flying Dutchman, which has inspired numerous paintings, horror stories, films, and even an opera. The ship was first mentioned in the late 1700s in George Barrington\'s seafaring book Voyage to Botany Bay, and since then its legend has continued to grow, thanks to numerous sightings of it by fisherman and sailors. As the story goes, the Flying Dutchman was a vessel out of Amsterdam that was captained by a man named Van der Decken. The ship was making its way toward the East Indies when it encountered dangerous weather near the Cape of Good Hope. Determined to make the crossing, Van der Decken supposedly went mad, murdered his first mate, and vowed that he would cross the Cape, “even if God would let me sail to Judgment Day!” Despite his best efforts, the ship sank in the storm, and as the legend goes, Van der Decken and his ghost ship are now cursed to sail the oceans for all eternity. To this day, the Flying Dutchman continues to be one of the most-sighted of all ghost ships, and people from deep-sea fishermen to the Prince of Wales have all claimed to have spotted it making its never- ending voyage across the oceans.\r\n<h2>2. The Mary Celeste</h2>\r\nUndoubtedly the most famous of all the real-life ghost ships, the Mary Celeste was a merchant ship that was found derelict and adrift in the Atlantic Ocean in 1872. The ship was in a seaworthy condition, with all its sails still up and a full store of food in its cargo hold, but its life boat, captain’s log book and, more importantly, the entire crew, had mysteriously vanished. There was no sign of a struggle, and the personal belongings of the crew and cargo of over 1500 barrels of alcohol were untouched, seemingly ruling out piracy as a possible explanation. In the years since its bizarre discovery, a number of theories have been proposed regarding the possible fate of the Mary Celeste’s crew. These include that those aboard were killed by a waterspout, that the crew mutinied, or even that eating flour contaminated with fungus led all the passengers to hallucinate and go mad. The most probable theory remains that a storm or some kind of technical is- sue led the crew to prematurely abandon the ship in the lifeboat, and that they later died at sea. Still, the mystery surrounding the Mary Celeste has led to much wild speculation, and others have proposed everything from ghosts to sea monsters and alien abduction as possible explanations.\r\n<h2>3. The Lady Lovibond</h2>\r\nThe UK has a long tradition of legends about ghost ships, and of these the Lady Lovibond is perhaps the most famous. As the story goes, the Lady Lovibond\'s captain, Simon Peel, had just gotten married, and decided to take his ship out on a cruise to celebrate. He brought his new bride along—going against a longstanding seafaring belief that bringing a woman on board a boat is bad luck—and set sail on Feb. 13, 1748. Unfortunately for Peel, his first mate was also in love with his new wife, and after watching the celebrations, the man became overwhelmed with rage and jealousy and intentionally steered the boat into the deadly Goodwind Sands, a sand bar notorious for causing ship wrecks. The Lady Lovibond sank, killing all those aboard. As the legend goes, ever since the wreck the Lady Lovibond can be seen sailing the waters around Kent every 50 years. It was sighted in 1798 by a few different ship captains, as well as in 1848 and 1898, when it supposedly appeared to be so real that some boats, thinking it a vessel in distress, actually sent out life rafts to help it. The Lady Lovibond was again seen in 1948, and while there were no confirmed sightings on its most recent anniversary in 1998, it continues to be one of the most well-known ghost ship legends in Europe.\r\n<h2>4. The Joyita</h2>\r\nThe Joyita was a fishing and charter boat that was found abandoned in the South Pacific in 1955. The ship, along with its 25 passengers and crew, were en route to the Tokelau Islands when something happened, and it was not until hours later that the Joyita was reportedoverdue and a rescue attempt launched. A massive air search was undertaken, but it failed to find the missing ship, and it was not until five weeks later that a merchant ship stumbled upon the Joyita drifting some 600 miles off its original course. There was no sign of any of the passengers, crew, cargo, or life rafts, and the ship was damaged and listing quite badly to one side. Further inspection by authorities found that the ship’s radio was tuned to the universal distress signal, and a search of the deck uncovered a doctor’s bag and several bloody bandages. None of the crew or passengers was ever seen again, and the mystery of what happened has never been revealed. The most popular theory is that pirates killed the passengers and threw their bodies overboard, but other claims have included everything from mutiny and kidnapping to insurance fraud.\r\n<h2>5. The Octavius</h2>\r\nAlthough it is now considered more legend than anything, the story of the Octavius remains one of the most famous of all ghost ship stories. The tale dates back to 1775, when it is said that a whaling ship called the Herald stumbled across the Octavius floating aimlessly off the coast of Greenland. Crewmembers from the Herald boarded the Octavius, where they discovered the bodies of the crew and passengers all frozen solid by the arctic cold. Most notably, the crew found the ship\'s captain still sitting at his desk, midway through finishing a log entry from 1762, which meant the Octavius had been adrift for 13 years. According to the legend, it was eventually discovered that the captain had gambled on making a quick return to England from the Orient via the Northwest Passage, but that the ship had become trapped in the ice. If true, this would mean the Octavius had completed its passage to the Atlantic as a ghost ship, its crew and captain long dead from exposure to the elements.\r\n<h2>6. The Baychimo</h2>\r\nOne of the most amazing cases of a real-life ghost ship concerns the Baychimo, a cargo steamer that was abandoned and left to drift the seas near Alaska for nearly forty years. The ship was owned by the Hudson Bay Company, and was launched in the early 1920s and used to trade pelts and furs with the Inuit in northern Canada. But in 1931, the Baychimo became trapped in pack ice near Alaska, and after many attempts to break it free, its crew were eventually airlifted out of the area to safety. After a heavy blizzard, the ship managed to break free of the ice, but it was badly damaged and was abandoned by the Hudson Bay Com- pany, who assumed it would not last the winter. Amazingly, the Baychimo managed to stay afloat, and for the next 38 years, it remained adrift in the waters off Alaska. The ship became something of a local legend, and was frequently sighted aimlessly floating near the frozen ice packs by Eskimos and other vessels. It was boarded several times, but weather conditions always made salvaging it nearly impossible. The Baychimo was last sighted in 1969, again frozen in the ice off of Alaska, but it has since disappeared. The ship is believed to have sunk in the intervening years, but recently a number of expeditions have been launched in search of now nearly 80-year-old ghost ship.\r\n<h2>7. The Carroll A. Deering</h2>\r\nPerhaps the most famous ghost ship of the Eastern Seaboard is the Carroll A. Deering, a schooner that ran aground near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in 1921. The ship had just returned from a commercial voyage to deliver coal in South America, and had last been spotted just south of Hatteras by a lightship near Cape Lookout. It ran aground in the notori- ous Diamond Shoals, an area famous for causing shipwrecks, and sat there for several days before any help was able to reach it. When they did arrive, the Coast Guard found that the ship was completely abandoned. The navigation equipment and logbook were missing, as were the two lifeboats, but otherwise there were no signs of any kind of foul play. A massive investigation by the U.S. government followed, which discovered that several other ships had disappeared under mysterious circumstances around the same time. Several theories were eventually put forth, the most popular being that the ship fell victim to pirates or rumrunners. Others suggested that mutiny might have been the cause, as the Deering’s first mate was known to bear some animosity toward its Captain, but no definitive proof has even been discovered. The mystery surrounding the ghost ship has encouraged wild speculation, and many have argued that paranormal activity might have been responsible, citing the ship’s passage through the infamous Bermuda triangle as proof that some kind of otherworldly phenomena might be to blame.\r\n<h2>8. The Ourang Medan</h2>\r\nThe story of the Ourang Medan begins in 1947, when two American ships received a distress call while navigating the Strait of Malacca, off the coast of Malaysia. The caller identified himself as a member of the crew of the Ourang Medan, a Dutch vessel, and supposedly claimed that the ship’s captain and crew were all dead or dying. The messages became jumbled and bizarre before trailing off and ending with the words: “I die.” The ships quickly raced to the scene to help. When they arrived, they found that the Ourang Medan was undamaged, but that the entire crew—even the ship’s dog— was dead, their bodies and faces locked in terrified poses and expressions, and many pointing at something that was not there. Before the rescuers could investigate further, the ship mysteriously caught on fire, and they had to evacuate. Soon after, the Ourang Medan is said to have exploded and then sank. While the details and the overall veracity of the Ourang Medan story are still widely debated, there have been a number of theories proposed about what might have caused the death of the crew. The most popular of these is that the ship was illegally transporting nitroglycerin or some kind of illegal nerve agent, which was not properly secured and seeped out into the air. Others, meanwhile, have claimed the ship was a victim of a UFO attack or some other kind of paranormal event.\r\n<h2>9. The SS Valencia</h2>\r\nThe SS Valencia was steamer ship that sank off the coast of Vancouver, British Columbia in 1906. The ship had encountered bad weather near Cape Mendocino, and after drifting off course, struck a reef and began taking on water. The crew quickly began lowering lifeboats holding the ship’s 108 passengers into the water, but several of these capsized, and one simply disappeared. The Valencia eventually sank, and only 37 of the roughly 180 people on board survived. Five months later, a fisherman claimed he had found a life raft with 8 skeletons in it in a nearby cave. A search was launched, but it found nothing. Thanks to its dramatic end, the Valencia eventually became the source of numerous ghost ship stories. Sailors would often claim they could see the specter of the steamer drifting near the reef in Pachena Point, and to this day the ship is the source of frequent wild theories and ghost ship sightings. In a bizarre twist, 27 years after the sinking of the Valencia, one of its life rafts was found floating peacefully in nearby Barkley Sound. The “ghost raft” was said to be in remarkable condition, and even still had most of its original coat of paint.\r\n<h2>10. The Caleuche</h2>\r\nOne of the most well known legends of the Chilota mythology of southern Chile describes the Caleuche, a ghost ship that appears every night near the island of Chiloe. According to local legend, the ship is a kind of conscious being that sails the waters around the area, carrying with it the spirits of all the people who have drowned at sea. When spotted, the Caleuche is said to be strikingly beautiful and bright, and is always accompanied by the sounds of party music and people laughing. After appearing for a few moments, the ship is then said to disappear or submerge itself under the water. According to Chilota mythology, the spirits of the drowned are summoned to the ship by the Sirena Chilota, the Pincoya, and the Picoy, three Chilota \"water spirits\" who resemble mermaids. Once aboard the phantom ship, the drowned are said to be able to resume their life as it was before they died.','Top 10 Ghost Ships','','inherit','open','open','','32-revision-7','','','2011-10-18 18:45:44','2011-10-18 18:45:44','',32,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=386',0,'revision','',0),(387,1,'2011-12-05 20:01:01','2011-12-05 20:01:01','Many phrases that have been adopted into everyday use originate from seafaring - in particular from the days of sail. Virtually all of these are metaphorical and the original nautical meanings are now forgotten. That association of travel and metaphor is significant in that the word metaphor derives from ancient Greek for ‘to carry’ or ‘to travel’. The influence of other languages and other cultures is evident in many of the long list of English phrases that have nautical origins.\r\n\r\nIt is an undoubted fact that seafaring is also the source of more false etymology than any other sphere. This can be attributed to the attractiveness of the romantic image of horny-handed sailors singing shanties and living a hearty and rough life at sea. After all, it sounds plausible that ‘cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey’ comes from brass ship’s fittings and that POSH means ‘Port out, starboard home’, but neither of these is correct. CANOE, theCommittee to Ascribe a Naval Origin to Everything, doesn’t really exist, but the number of these folk myths makes it seem as though they do.\r\n\r\nIt is lucky for us, in our endeavors’ to distinguish truth from false- hood, that activities at sea have been scrupulously recorded over the centuries, in insurance records, newspaper accounts and, not least, in ships’ log books. The term log-book has an interesting derivation in itself. An early form of measuring a ship’s progress was by casting overboard a wooden board (the log) with a string attached. The rate at which the string was payed out as the ship moved away from the stationary log was measured by counting how long it took between knots in the string. These measurements were later transcribed into a book. Hence we get the term ‘log-book’ and also the name ‘knot’as the unit of speed at sea.\r\n\r\n<strong><em>Over the Barrel</em></strong>\r\nThe most common method of punishment aboard ship was flogging. The unfor- tunate sailor was tied to a grating, mast or over a barrel. Kissing the gunner’s daughter was being tied over the barrel of a deck cannon whilst it was fired.\r\n\r\n<strong><em>To Know the Ropes</em></strong>\r\nThere are miles rope in the rigging of a square rigged ship. The only way of keeping track of the function of all of these lines was to memorize (know) where they were located. It took an experienced seaman to know the ropes.\r\n\r\n<strong><em>Dressing Down</em></strong>\r\nThin and worn sails were often treated with oil or wax to renew their effective- ness. This was called dressing down. An officer or sailor who was reprimanded or scolded received a dressing down.\r\n\r\n<strong><em>Footloose</em></strong>\r\nThe bottom portion of a sail is called the foot. If it is not secured, it is footloose and it dances randomly in the wind. Also known for a sail with no boom.\r\n\r\n<strong><em>First Rate</em></strong>\r\nImplies excellence. From the sixteenth century until steam powered ships took over, British naval ships were rated as to the number of heavy cannon they carried. A ship of 100 or more guns was a First Rate line-of-battle ship. Second rates carried 90 to 98 guns; Third Rates, 64 to 89 guns; Fourth Rates, 50 to 60 guns. Frigates carrying 20 to 48 guns were fifth and sixth rated.\r\n\r\n<strong><em>Pipe Down</em></strong>\r\nMeans stop talking and be quiet. The Pipe Down was the last signal from the Boson’s pipe each day which meant lights out and silence.\r\n\r\n<strong><em>Feeling Blue</em></strong>\r\nWhen a ship’s captain died during a voyage, his ship would return to port flying a blue flag and bearing a blue stripe on its hull. The term “feeling blue” signifies depression or sadness today.\r\n\r\n<strong><em>Three Sheets to the Wind</em></strong>\r\nA sheet is a rope line which controls the tension on corners of a square sail. If, on a three masted ship, the sheets of the three lower course sails are loose, the sails will flap and flutter and are said to be in the wind. A ship in this condition would stagger and wander aimlessly downwind acting much like a drunken sailor.\r\n\r\n<strong><em>Pooped</em></strong>\r\nThe poop is the stern section of a ship. To be pooped is to be struck by a high, following sea or wave on the stern.\r\n\r\n<strong><em>As the Crow Flies</em></strong>\r\nWhen lost or unsure of their position in coastal waters, ships would re- lease a caged crow. The crow would fly straight towards the nearest land thus giving the vessel some sort of a navigational fix. The tallest lookout platform on a ship came to be known as the crow’s nest.\r\n\r\n<strong><em>Cut and Run</em></strong>\r\nIf a smaller ship at anchor was discovered by a larger enemy vessel, the smaller ship might decide that discretion is the better part of valor, and so would order the crew to cut the anchor cable and sail off in a hurry.\r\n\r\n<strong><em>The Bitter End</em></strong>\r\nThe end of an anchor cable is fastened to the bits at the ship’s bow. If all of the anchor cable has been paid out you have come to the bitter end.\r\n\r\nToe the Line\r\nWhen called to line up at attention, the ship’s crew would form up with their toes touching a seam in the deck planking.\r\n\r\nBear Down\r\nTo sail downwind rapidly towards another ship or landmark.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Under the Weather</strong></em>\r\nIf a crewman is standing watch on the weather side of the bow, he will be subject to the constant beating of the sea and the ocean spray. He will be under the weather.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea</strong></em>\r\nThe devil seam was the curved seam in the deck planking closest to the side of the ship and next to the scupper gutters. If a sailor were hanging off the side in a boatswains chair you would be between the devil and the deep blue sea.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>The Devil to Pay</strong></em>\r\nTo pay the deck seams meant to seal them with tar. The devil seam was the most difficult to pay because it was curved and intersected with the straight deck planking. Paying the Devil was considered to be a most difficult and unpleasant task, sometimes used as mild punishment.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>A Square Meal</strong></em>\r\nThe crews’ mess was a warm meal served on square wooden platters. They were not nutritionally balanced.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Son of a Gun</strong></em>\r\nWhen in port, and with the crew restricted to the ship for any extended period of time, wives and ladies of easy virtue often were allowed to visit or even live aboard along with the crew. Infrequently, but not uncom- monly, children were born aboard, and a convenient place for this was between guns on the gun deck. If the child’s father was unknown, they were entered in the ship’s log as son of a gun.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Taking the wind out of his sails</strong></em>\r\nSailing in a manner so as to steal or divert wind from another ship’s sails.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Let the Cat Out of the Bag</strong></em>\r\nAboard ship the punishment prescribed for most serious crimes was flogging. This was administered by the Boson’s Mate using a whip called a cat o’ nine tails. The cat was kept in a red dyed bag. It was considered bad news indeed when the cat was let out of the bag.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Fly-by-Night</strong></em>\r\nThe word fly means “to sail” in nautical jargon. Sailing at night was a difficult and dangerous task. Therefore, when the night watch began, the elaborate sails used during the day were replaced by one large sail requir- ing rather little attention. This was the easiest sail to set and take down thus it could be put up and taken down quickly.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Give (someone) a Wide Berth</strong></em>\r\nTo anchor a ship far enough away from another ship so that they did not hit each other when they swung with the wind or tide.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>High and dry</strong></em>\r\nStranded, without help or hope of recovery. This term originally referred to ships that were beached. The ‘dry’ implies that, not only were they out of the water, but had been for some time and could be expected to remain so.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Garbled</strong></em>\r\nGarbling was the prohibited practice of mixing rubbish with the cargo. A distorted or mixed up signal or message was said to be garbled.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Press Into Service</strong></em>\r\nThe British navy filled their ships’ crew quotas by kidnapping men off the streets and forcing them into service. This was called Pressment and was done by Press Gangs.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Touch and Go</strong></em>\r\nThis referred to a ship’s keel touching the bottom and getting right off again.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Scuttlebutt</strong></em>\r\nA butt was a large barrel. Scuttle meant to chop a hole in something. The scuttlebutt was a water barrel with a hole cut into it so that sailors could reach in and dip out drinking water. The scuttlebutt was the place where the ship’s gossip was exchanged.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Batten down the hatches</strong></em>\r\nPrepare for trouble. The securing of property, especially the covering with protective sheeting (tarpaulin), is called ‘battening down’. A batten is a strip of wood used to secure the sheeting. It has a nautical origin and ‘battening down’ was done on ships when bad weather was expected.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>True colors</strong></em>\r\nEarly warships often carried flags from many nations on board in order to elude or deceive the enemy. The rules of civilized warfare called for all ships to hoist their true national ensigns before firing a shot.','Nautical Sayings','','inherit','open','open','','218-revision-5','','','2011-12-05 20:01:01','2011-12-05 20:01:01','',218,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=387',0,'revision','',0),(388,1,'2011-11-01 20:35:51','2011-11-01 20:35:51','<strong>Ingredients:</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>1 pint shucked oysters, drained, reserve 1/2 cup liquid</li>\r\n	<li>4 tablespoons butter, divided</li>\r\n	<li>1 cup chopped onion</li>\r\n	<li>Southern Cornbread and Oyster Dressing</li>\r\n	<li>4 green onions, chopped</li>\r\n	<li>2 stalks celery, chopped</li>\r\n	<li>3 cups crumbled cornbread</li>\r\n	<li>3 cups soft bread crumbs</li>\r\n	<li>1/2 cup minced fresh parsley</li>\r\n	<li>salt and pepper, to taste</li>\r\n	<li>2 large eggs, lightly beaten</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Directions:</strong>\r\nPreheat oven to 350°. Heat 2 tablespoons of the butter in a large skillet over medium-low heat. Sauté onions and celery in the butter until tender, not browned. Combine cornbread and bread crumbs in a large bowl; mix in sautéed onions, salt, pepper, and parsley. Add beaten eggs and toss more; moisten with the oyster liquid until moist but not soggy. Gently stir in the oysters. Pat the mixture into a large lightly buttered rectangular baking pan (it should make a 1-inch layer in the pan). Dot with remaining butter and bake about 45 minutes, until golden brown and set in the center. Enjoy!','Thanksgiving Oyster Cornbread','','publish','open','open','','thanksgiving-oyster-cornbread','','','2013-04-02 12:57:29','2013-04-02 16:57:29','',0,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=388',70,'post','',0),(389,1,'2011-12-16 20:35:10','2011-12-16 20:35:10','Ingredients:\n\n1 pint shucked oysters, drained, reserve 1/2 cup liquid\n\n4 tablespoons butter, divided\n\n1 cup chopped onion\n\nSouthern Cornbread and Oyster Dressing\n\n4 green onions, chopped\n\n2 stalks celery, chopped\n\n3 cups crumbled cornbread\n\n3 cups soft bread crumbs\n\n1/2 cup minced fresh parsley\n\nsalt and pepper, to taste\n\n2 large eggs, lightly beaten\n\nDirections:\nPreheat oven to 350°.\nHeat 2 tablespoons of the butter in a large skillet over medium-low heat. Sauté onions and celery in the butter until tender, not browned. Combine cornbread and bread crumbs in a large bowl; mix in sautéed onions, salt, pepper, and parsley. Add beaten eggs and toss more; moisten with the oyster liquid until moist but not soggy. Gently stir in the oysters. Pat the mixture into a large lightly buttered rectangular baking pan (it should make a 1-inch layer in the pan). Dot with remaining butter and bake about 45 minutes, until golden brown and set in the center. Enjoy!','Thanksgiving Oyster Cornbread','','inherit','open','open','','388-revision','','','2011-12-16 20:35:10','2011-12-16 20:35:10','',388,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=389',0,'revision','',0),(390,1,'2011-12-16 20:36:54','2011-12-16 20:36:54','<strong>Ingredients:</strong>\n<ul>\n	<li>1 pint shucked oysters, drained, reserve 1/2 cup liquid</li>\n	<li>4 tablespoons butter, divided</li>\n	<li>1 cup chopped onion</li>\n	<li>Southern Cornbread and Oyster Dressing</li>\n	<li>4 green onions, chopped</li>\n	<li>2 stalks celery, chopped</li>\n	<li>3 cups crumbled cornbread</li>\n	<li>3 cups soft bread crumbs</li>\n	<li>1/2 cup minced fresh parsley</li>\n	<li>salt and pepper, to taste</li>\n	<li>2 large eggs, lightly beaten</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>Directions:</strong>\nPreheat oven to 350°. Heat 2 tablespoons of the butter in a large skillet over medium-low heat. Sauté onions and celery in the butter until tender, not browned. Combine cornbread and bread crumbs in a large bowl; mix in sautéed onions, salt, pepper, and parsley. Add beaten eggs and toss more; moisten with the oyster liquid until moist but not soggy. Gently stir in the oysters. Pat the mixture into a large lightly buttered rectangular baking pan (it should make a 1-inch layer in the pan). Dot with remaining butter and bake about 45 minutes, until golden brown and set in the center. Enjoy!','Thanksgiving Oyster Cornbread','','inherit','open','open','','388-autosave','','','2011-12-16 20:36:54','2011-12-16 20:36:54','',388,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=390',0,'revision','',0),(391,1,'2011-12-16 20:35:51','2011-12-16 20:35:51','<strong>Ingredients:</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>1 pint shucked oysters, drained, reserve 1/2 cup liquid</li>\r\n	<li>4 tablespoons butter, divided</li>\r\n	<li>1 cup chopped onion</li>\r\n	<li>Southern Cornbread and Oyster Dressing</li>\r\n	<li>4 green onions, chopped</li>\r\n	<li>2 stalks celery, chopped</li>\r\n	<li>3 cups crumbled cornbread</li>\r\n	<li>3 cups soft bread crumbs</li>\r\n	<li>1/2 cup minced fresh parsley</li>\r\n	<li>salt and pepper, to taste</li>\r\n	<li>2 large eggs, lightly beaten</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Directions:</strong>\r\nPreheat oven to 350°. Heat 2 tablespoons of the butter in a large skillet over medium-low heat. Sauté onions and celery in the butter until tender, not browned. Combine cornbread and bread crumbs in a large bowl; mix in sautéed onions, salt, pepper, and parsley. Add beaten eggs and toss more; moisten with the oyster liquid until moist but not soggy. Gently stir in the oysters. Pat the mixture into a large lightly buttered rectangular baking pan (it should make a 1-inch layer in the pan). Dot with remaining butter and bake about 45 minutes, until golden brown and set in the center. Enjoy!','Thanksgiving Oyster Cornbread','','inherit','open','open','','388-revision-2','','','2011-12-16 20:35:51','2011-12-16 20:35:51','',388,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=391',0,'revision','',0),(392,1,'2011-11-01 20:44:08','2011-11-01 20:44:08','<em><strong>by Capt. Carl Miller</strong></em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-397\" title=\"trout fishing\" src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/trout-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"trout fishing\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" /></strong></em>The 21 ft. bay boat streaked across the water like the driver was on an emergency mission. As he abruptly slammed the throttle into neutral, turned the ignition off, and headed toward the bow, he shouted, “Get me the net!”\r\n\r\nAs soon as he stepped up onto the bow platform—eyes hypnotically fixed ahead and upon the water—a casting tray loaded with a large cast net was handed to him. Wasting no time he pitched it into the air. When the net was pulled aboard, a mother lode of “white gold” spilled onto the deck— beautiful, hand-sized gulf menhaden (porgies) glimmered in the early-morning sunlight. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that Capt. Carl Miller is a man torn between two addictions. The only problem is figuring out which is the most compelling, the pursuit of the bait or that which feeds on it.\r\n\r\nIt no secret to big-trout specialist that porgies are considered the number one bait for catching monster specks. That’s why those in the know will spend hours just locating and catching porgies. “Sometimes it can take me all day to locate bait the size that I want,” Miller said. This day, however, was an exception, because it only took him about an hour.\r\n\r\nUndeniably, catching and keeping porgies alive can be an arduous task, even for an experienced 10-year veteran guide like Miller. “I use a ten-foot net with about 161bs. of lead,” he pointed out. These specialized cast nets open wide and fall fast, something very crucial if you want to catch the larger, faster swimming porgies.\r\n\r\nThrough the years Miller has gotten the technique down to a science, using two different type approaches to sneak upon the porgies. One is with the use of a trolling motor, and the other is the high-speed entry method, as previously described. The latter technique allows the boat’s momen- tum to quietly glide into the intended location. Once the porgies are located—sporadic splashes and slaps on the water’s surface—the large and heavy net is launched from a specially designed casting tray. The casting tray makes throwing such a large net easy in a confined area like a boat.\r\nYet even with the proper gear and technique, locating porgies can present a real challenge. For example, on an overcast day porgies won’t make the normal surface commotion that usually gives them away. “If a cloud passes over,” Miller exclaimed, “these baits quit flipping, move and go deep.” Another dreaded problem is that certain times of the day they will move deep into the marsh where you cannot catch them.\r\n\r\nAdmittedly, catching porgies is one thing; keeping them alive is another. Anyone that has ever tried to keep porgies alive knows that they are very fragile and will die quickly without the proper bait tank and care. This where a round 25 gallon plastic container with two Rex-Air pumps will keep the porgies alive for 3-5 hours; depending on the number of baits contained at one time.\r\n\r\n“One thing about catching big trout, you gotta fish for big trout,” Miller said. “People who catch one every once in a while—they’re fishing for small fish. There’s big fish everywhere, but you have to fish for ‘em. If you fish for `em, you’ll catch `em. Everybody says they want to catch a big trout, but they don’t want to spend the time and the effort. You have to have the patience to do it.”\r\n\r\nIronically, while many other professional guides resort to fishing inconspicuous locations off the beaten path, this is not the case with Miller, who can be seen even on busy weekends fishing right along side other boats in his favorite territory—the barrier rocks of East Timbalier Island or Belle Pass. The main thing is to have the right bait and then look for fishable water. This does not mean you have to have a good tide. Big trout can still be caught even on bad tides, so long as you find clean water.\r\n\r\nMiller fishes with porgies from springtime to late fall and consistently puts big trout in the boat while others look on in total astonishment. “At any given time there’s big fish along this beach,” he said of the rock boulder barrier sporadically lining the Gulf side of the island. This is a favorite haunt for speckled trout and other species, since they can get deep inside the hurricane-damaged barrier and hide in ambush. Some trout have been living inside of these slim-coated boulders for so long that their bellies have turned from white to black as a result.\r\n\r\nAnother secret to successfully catching big speckled trout is to cover as much territory along the rocks as possible—particularly as the weather heats up. According to Miller, the big fish spread out more in summer than in spring. That is why at times he will slip through certain openings in the rocks to get to the back side of the barrier to fish. This, however, is not recommend for those new to the area because rock boulders lurk inches below the surface and have wreaked serious havoc on many a lower unit.\r\n\r\nPersistence is perhaps Miller’s most notable quality and one that does not come easily to most anglers in such a grueling environment. Therefore, it’s not unusual for him to stay out all day long hunting for bait and big speckled trout in the sun’s unbearable heat. In some cases—depending on how many people are fishing and how the fish are striking—bait has to be pursued twice or more each day.\r\n\r\nA 7-foot rod armed with a bait casting reel works well for hooking these big boys, but there is a lot more technique involved than what meets the eye. Big speckled trout don’t just come up and swallow the porgy all at once on the initial strike.\r\n\r\nThe systematic approach involves casting and allowing the bait to swim on a free and slack line, usually no weight, depending on the current. However, if the current is moving and the fish are deep, a 1/16 to 1/4 oz. split shot or rubber grip weight should be placed 2-3 ft. above the bait. The key is using only enough weight to slowly bring the bait down. When the line is all set up right and the water is calm and clear, the porgy can be seen swimming around near the subsurface.\r\n\r\nA watchful eye is needed for any fluctuation in the line while keeping the rod tip high and toward the bait. Strike sensitivity can be enhanced by pinching the line ahead of the reel. When a trout is in hot pursuit, the line will start to shudder like a catfish nibbling. This is the signal to feed line out for several seconds until it starts to run out on its own. At this point it is necessary to wait a couple of more seconds before setting the hook.\r\n\r\nIn order to successfully hook the fish, the rod has to be lifted over your head with a brisk sweeping action. Miller admits that even with such orchestration and calculation the fish sometimes is not hooked, depending on the trout’s attack approach. Sometimes the trout will only bite and release the bait, in an attempt to kill it, and then turn right back around and engulf it.\r\nOnce the fish is on the line and fighting, Miller says “You can’t go to pulling too hard on the trout or you’ll rip his lips. You have to keep him coming from the rocks but not jerking on him. Do it gradually.”\r\n\r\nOf further significance is the type of hook and the placement of it in the porgy. That’s where a no. 3 Kahle horizontal hook placed through the nose section can be prove most effective. Too large of a hook can weigh the porgy down and hinder its natural swimming ability. If strikes are missed more than usual, hookup ratio can be improved by moving up one hook size or placing the hook in a different location. Miller claims that it is not a good idea to hook the porgy in the back because the bait will out maneuver the trout, making it a harder target.\r\n\r\nIt is most amazing how effective live porgies of such size drive speckled trout, into an uncontrol- lable response to strike. Even trout not much larger than the bait will try to take a swipe. On a few occasions specks came right to the side of the boat when the porgy hung over the side. It was as if the trout went into some sort of fixed trance, unhindered and unconcerned by our presence, upon catching sight of the porgy.\r\n\r\n“I’ve seen trout come out of those rock flats and wop!— take that bait and go right back down,” Miller excitedly exclaimed. However, when the fish is not hooked, the bait is immediately reeled in and examined for any sign of bites, which inconspicuously show up as two small pin-hole punctures from the trout’s two fang-like front teeth. If there’s any evidence of the aforesaid, the porgy is replaced with a fresh one.\r\n\r\nMiller’s biggest speckled trout have been caught at night, fishing only by the light of a full moon. The protected shallow lagoons on the back side of the rocks, according to Miller, make for good nighttime fishing. This is when the big, skittish trout come out to feed.\r\n\r\nBut all of the right bait and techniques won’t do much good if there’s a lot of noise aboard, Miller claims. Slamming ice chest lids or dropping tackle on the deck are things not conducive to catching the bigger trout. Like he says, “These fish don’t get this big by accident!”','Big Trout Secrets','','publish','open','open','','big-trout-secrets','','','2013-04-02 12:57:28','2013-04-02 16:57:28','',0,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=392',61,'post','',0),(393,1,'2011-12-16 20:44:19','2011-12-16 20:44:19','\nby Capt. Carl Miller\nThe 21 ft. bay boat streaked across the water like the driver was on an emergency mission. As he abruptly slammed the throttle into neutral, turned the ignition off, and headed toward the bow, he shouted, “Get me the net!”\nAs soon as he stepped up onto the bow platform—eyes hypnotically fixed ahead and upon the water—a casting tray loaded with a large cast net was handed to him. Wasting no time he pitched it into the air. When the net was pulled aboard, a mother lode of “white gold” spilled onto the deck— beautiful, hand-sized gulf menhaden (porgies) glimmered in the early-morning sunlight. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that Capt. Carl Miller is a man torn between two addictions. The only problem is figuring out which is the most compelling, the pursuit of the bait or that which feeds on it.\nIt no secret to big-trout specialist that porgies are considered the number one bait for catching monster specks. That’s why those in the know will spend hours just locating and catching porgies. “Sometimes it can take me all day to locate bait the size that I want,” Miller said. This day, however, was an exception, because it only took him about an hour.\nUndeniably, catching and keeping porgies alive can be an arduous task, even for an experienced 10-year veteran guide like Miller. “I use a ten-foot net with about 161bs. of lead,” he pointed out. These specialized cast nets open wide and fall fast, something very crucial if you want to catch the larger, faster swimming porgies.\nThrough the years Miller has gotten the technique down to a science, using two different type approaches to sneak upon the porgies. One is with the use of a trolling motor, and the other is the high-speed entry method, as previously described. The latter technique allows the boat’s momen- tum to quietly glide into the intended location. Once the porgies are located—sporadic splashes and slaps on the water’s surface—the large and heavy net is launched from a specially designed casting tray. The casting tray makes throwing such a large net easy in a confined area like a boat.\nYet even with the proper gear and technique, locating porgies can present a real challenge. For example, on an overcast day porgies won’t make the normal surface commotion that usually gives them away. “If a cloud passes over,” Miller exclaimed, “these baits quit flipping, move and go deep.” Another dreaded problem is that certain times of the day they will move deep into the marsh where you cannot catch them.\nAdmittedly, catching porgies is one thing; keeping them alive is another. Anyone that has ever tried to keep porgies alive knows that they are very fragile and will die quickly without the proper bait tank and care. This where a round 25 gallon plastic container with two Rex-Air pumps will keep the porgies alive for 3-5 hours; depending on the number of baits contained at one time.\n“One thing about catching big trout, you gotta fish for big trout,” Miller said. “People who catch one every once in a while—they’re fishing for small fish. There’s big fish everywhere, but you have to fish for ‘em. If you fish for `em, you’ll catch `em. Everybody says they want to catch a big trout, but they don’t want to spend the time and the effort. You have to have the patience to do it.”\nIronically, while many other professional guides resort to fishing inconspicuous locations off the beaten path, this is not the case with Miller, who can be seen even on busy weekends fishing right along side other boats in his favorite territory—the barrier rocks of East Timbalier Island or Belle Pass. The main thing is to have the right bait and then look for fishable water. This does not mean you have to have a good tide. Big trout can still be caught even on bad tides, so long as you find clean water.\nMiller fishes with porgies from springtime to late fall and consistently puts big trout in the boat while others look on in total astonishment. “At any given time there’s big fish along this beach,” he said of the rock boulder barrier sporadically lining the Gulf side of the island. This is a favorite haunt for speckled trout and other species, since they can get deep inside the hurricane-damaged barrier and hide in ambush. Some trout have been living inside of these slim-coated boulders for so long that their bellies have turned from white to black as a result.\nAnother secret to successfully catching big speckled trout is to cover as much territory along the rocks as possible—particularly as the weather heats up. According to Miller, the big fish spread out more in summer than in spring. That is why at times he will slip through certain openings in the rocks to get to the back side of the barrier to fish. This, however, is not recommend for those new to the area because rock boulders lurk inches below the surface and have wreaked serious havoc on many a lower unit.\nPersistence is perhaps Miller’s most notable quality and one that does not come easily to most anglers in such a grueling environment. Therefore, it’s not unusual for him to stay out all day long hunting for bait and big speckled trout in the sun’s unbearable heat. In some cases—depending on how many people are fishing and how the fish are striking—bait has to be pursued twice or more each day.\nA 7-foot rod armed with a bait casting reel works well for hooking these big boys, but there is a lot more technique involved than what meets the eye. Big speckled trout don’t just come up and swallow the porgy all at once on the initial strike.\nThe systematic approach involves casting and allowing the bait to swim on a free and slack line, usually no weight, depending on the current. However, if the current is moving and the fish are deep, a 1/16 to 1/4 oz. split shot or rubber grip weight should be placed 2-3 ft. above the bait. The key is using only enough weight to slowly bring the bait down. When the line is all set up right and the water is calm and clear, the porgy can be seen swimming around near the subsurface.\nA watchful eye is needed for any fluctuation in the line while keeping the rod tip high and toward the bait. Strike sensitivity can be enhanced by pinching the line ahead of the reel. When a trout is in hot pursuit, the line will start to shudder like a catfish nibbling. This is the signal to feed line out for several seconds until it starts to run out on its own. At this point it is necessary to wait a couple of more seconds before setting the hook.\nIn order to successfully hook the fish, the rod has to be lifted over your head with a brisk sweeping action. Miller admits that even with such orchestration and calculation the fish sometimes is not hooked, depending on the trout’s attack approach. Sometimes the trout will only bite and release the bait, in an attempt to kill it, and then turn right back around and engulf it.\nOnce the fish is on the line and fighting, Miller says “You can’t go to pulling too hard on the trout or you’ll rip his lips. You have to keep him coming from the rocks but not jerking on him. Do it gradually.”\nOf further significance is the type of hook and the placement of it in the porgy. That’s where a no. 3 Kahle horizontal hook placed through the nose section can be prove most effective. Too large of a hook can weigh the porgy down and hinder its natural swimming ability. If strikes are missed more than usual, hookup ratio can be improved by moving up one hook size or placing the hook in a different location. Miller claims that it is not a good idea to hook the porgy in the back because the bait will out maneuver the trout, making it a harder target.\nIt is most amazing how effective live porgies of such size drive speckled trout, into an uncontrol- lable response to strike. Even trout not much larger than the bait will try to take a swipe. On a few occasions specks came right to the side of the boat when the porgy hung over the side. It was as if the trout went into some sort of fixed trance, unhindered and unconcerned by our presence, upon catching sight of the porgy.\n“I’ve seen trout come out of those rock flats and wop!— take that bait and go right back down,” Miller excitedly exclaimed. However, when the fish is not hooked, the bait is immediately reeled in and examined for any sign of bites, which inconspicuously show up as two small pin-hole punctures from the trout’s two fang-like front teeth. If there’s any evidence of the aforesaid, the porgy is replaced with a fresh one.\nMiller’s biggest speckled trout have been caught at night, fishing only by the light of a full moon. The protected shallow lagoons on the back side of the rocks, according to Miller, make for good nighttime fishing. This is when the big, skittish trout come out to feed.\nBut all of the right bait and techniques won’t do much good if there’s a lot of noise aboard, Miller claims. Slamming ice chest lids or dropping tackle on the deck are things not conducive to catching the bigger trout. Like he says, “These fish don’t get this big by accident!”','Big Trout Secrets','','inherit','open','open','','392-revision','','','2011-12-16 20:44:19','2011-12-16 20:44:19','',392,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=393',0,'revision','',0),(394,1,'2011-12-16 20:44:45','2011-12-16 20:44:45','by Capt. Carl Miller\r\n\r\nThe 21 ft. bay boat streaked across the water like the driver was on an emergency mission. As he abruptly slammed the throttle into neutral, turned the ignition off, and headed toward the bow, he shouted, “Get me the net!”\r\nAs soon as he stepped up onto the bow platform—eyes hypnotically fixed ahead and upon the water—a casting tray loaded with a large cast net was handed to him. Wasting no time he pitched it into the air. When the net was pulled aboard, a mother lode of “white gold” spilled onto the deck— beautiful, hand-sized gulf menhaden (porgies) glimmered in the early-morning sunlight. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that Capt. Carl Miller is a man torn between two addictions. The only problem is figuring out which is the most compelling, the pursuit of the bait or that which feeds on it.\r\nIt no secret to big-trout specialist that porgies are considered the number one bait for catching monster specks. That’s why those in the know will spend hours just locating and catching porgies. “Sometimes it can take me all day to locate bait the size that I want,” Miller said. This day, however, was an exception, because it only took him about an hour.\r\nUndeniably, catching and keeping porgies alive can be an arduous task, even for an experienced 10-year veteran guide like Miller. “I use a ten-foot net with about 161bs. of lead,” he pointed out. These specialized cast nets open wide and fall fast, something very crucial if you want to catch the larger, faster swimming porgies.\r\nThrough the years Miller has gotten the technique down to a science, using two different type approaches to sneak upon the porgies. One is with the use of a trolling motor, and the other is the high-speed entry method, as previously described. The latter technique allows the boat’s momen- tum to quietly glide into the intended location. Once the porgies are located—sporadic splashes and slaps on the water’s surface—the large and heavy net is launched from a specially designed casting tray. The casting tray makes throwing such a large net easy in a confined area like a boat.\r\nYet even with the proper gear and technique, locating porgies can present a real challenge. For example, on an overcast day porgies won’t make the normal surface commotion that usually gives them away. “If a cloud passes over,” Miller exclaimed, “these baits quit flipping, move and go deep.” Another dreaded problem is that certain times of the day they will move deep into the marsh where you cannot catch them.\r\nAdmittedly, catching porgies is one thing; keeping them alive is another. Anyone that has ever tried to keep porgies alive knows that they are very fragile and will die quickly without the proper bait tank and care. This where a round 25 gallon plastic container with two Rex-Air pumps will keep the porgies alive for 3-5 hours; depending on the number of baits contained at one time.\r\n“One thing about catching big trout, you gotta fish for big trout,” Miller said. “People who catch one every once in a while—they’re fishing for small fish. There’s big fish everywhere, but you have to fish for ‘em. If you fish for `em, you’ll catch `em. Everybody says they want to catch a big trout, but they don’t want to spend the time and the effort. You have to have the patience to do it.”\r\nIronically, while many other professional guides resort to fishing inconspicuous locations off the beaten path, this is not the case with Miller, who can be seen even on busy weekends fishing right along side other boats in his favorite territory—the barrier rocks of East Timbalier Island or Belle Pass. The main thing is to have the right bait and then look for fishable water. This does not mean you have to have a good tide. Big trout can still be caught even on bad tides, so long as you find clean water.\r\nMiller fishes with porgies from springtime to late fall and consistently puts big trout in the boat while others look on in total astonishment. “At any given time there’s big fish along this beach,” he said of the rock boulder barrier sporadically lining the Gulf side of the island. This is a favorite haunt for speckled trout and other species, since they can get deep inside the hurricane-damaged barrier and hide in ambush. Some trout have been living inside of these slim-coated boulders for so long that their bellies have turned from white to black as a result.\r\nAnother secret to successfully catching big speckled trout is to cover as much territory along the rocks as possible—particularly as the weather heats up. According to Miller, the big fish spread out more in summer than in spring. That is why at times he will slip through certain openings in the rocks to get to the back side of the barrier to fish. This, however, is not recommend for those new to the area because rock boulders lurk inches below the surface and have wreaked serious havoc on many a lower unit.\r\nPersistence is perhaps Miller’s most notable quality and one that does not come easily to most anglers in such a grueling environment. Therefore, it’s not unusual for him to stay out all day long hunting for bait and big speckled trout in the sun’s unbearable heat. In some cases—depending on how many people are fishing and how the fish are striking—bait has to be pursued twice or more each day.\r\nA 7-foot rod armed with a bait casting reel works well for hooking these big boys, but there is a lot more technique involved than what meets the eye. Big speckled trout don’t just come up and swallow the porgy all at once on the initial strike.\r\nThe systematic approach involves casting and allowing the bait to swim on a free and slack line, usually no weight, depending on the current. However, if the current is moving and the fish are deep, a 1/16 to 1/4 oz. split shot or rubber grip weight should be placed 2-3 ft. above the bait. The key is using only enough weight to slowly bring the bait down. When the line is all set up right and the water is calm and clear, the porgy can be seen swimming around near the subsurface.\r\nA watchful eye is needed for any fluctuation in the line while keeping the rod tip high and toward the bait. Strike sensitivity can be enhanced by pinching the line ahead of the reel. When a trout is in hot pursuit, the line will start to shudder like a catfish nibbling. This is the signal to feed line out for several seconds until it starts to run out on its own. At this point it is necessary to wait a couple of more seconds before setting the hook.\r\nIn order to successfully hook the fish, the rod has to be lifted over your head with a brisk sweeping action. Miller admits that even with such orchestration and calculation the fish sometimes is not hooked, depending on the trout’s attack approach. Sometimes the trout will only bite and release the bait, in an attempt to kill it, and then turn right back around and engulf it.\r\nOnce the fish is on the line and fighting, Miller says “You can’t go to pulling too hard on the trout or you’ll rip his lips. You have to keep him coming from the rocks but not jerking on him. Do it gradually.”\r\nOf further significance is the type of hook and the placement of it in the porgy. That’s where a no. 3 Kahle horizontal hook placed through the nose section can be prove most effective. Too large of a hook can weigh the porgy down and hinder its natural swimming ability. If strikes are missed more than usual, hookup ratio can be improved by moving up one hook size or placing the hook in a different location. Miller claims that it is not a good idea to hook the porgy in the back because the bait will out maneuver the trout, making it a harder target.\r\nIt is most amazing how effective live porgies of such size drive speckled trout, into an uncontrol- lable response to strike. Even trout not much larger than the bait will try to take a swipe. On a few occasions specks came right to the side of the boat when the porgy hung over the side. It was as if the trout went into some sort of fixed trance, unhindered and unconcerned by our presence, upon catching sight of the porgy.\r\n“I’ve seen trout come out of those rock flats and wop!— take that bait and go right back down,” Miller excitedly exclaimed. However, when the fish is not hooked, the bait is immediately reeled in and examined for any sign of bites, which inconspicuously show up as two small pin-hole punctures from the trout’s two fang-like front teeth. If there’s any evidence of the aforesaid, the porgy is replaced with a fresh one.\r\nMiller’s biggest speckled trout have been caught at night, fishing only by the light of a full moon. The protected shallow lagoons on the back side of the rocks, according to Miller, make for good nighttime fishing. This is when the big, skittish trout come out to feed.\r\nBut all of the right bait and techniques won’t do much good if there’s a lot of noise aboard, Miller claims. Slamming ice chest lids or dropping tackle on the deck are things not conducive to catching the bigger trout. Like he says, “These fish don’t get this big by accident!”','Big Trout Secrets','','inherit','open','open','','392-revision-2','','','2011-12-16 20:44:45','2011-12-16 20:44:45','',392,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=394',0,'revision','',0),(395,6,'2013-03-10 17:56:24','2013-03-10 21:56:24','<em><strong>by Capt. Carl Miller</strong></em>\n\n<em><strong><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-397\" title=\"trout fishing\" alt=\"trout fishing\" src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/trout-300x175.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" /></strong></em>The 21 ft. bay boat streaked across the water like the driver was on an emergency mission. As he abruptly slammed the throttle into neutral, turned the ignition off, and headed toward the bow, he shouted, “Get me the net!”\n\nAs soon as he stepped up onto the bow platform—eyes hypnotically fixed ahead and upon the water—a casting tray loaded with a large cast net was handed to him. Wasting no time he pitched it into the air. When the net was pulled aboard, a mother lode of “white gold” spilled onto the deck— beautiful, hand-sized gulf menhaden (porgies) glimmered in the early-morning sunlight. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that Capt. Carl Miller is a man torn between two addictions. The only problem is figuring out which is the most compelling, the pursuit of the bait or that which feeds on it.\n\nIt no secret to big-trout specialist that porgies are considered the number one bait for catching monster specks. That’s why those in the know will spend hours just locating and catching porgies. “Sometimes it can take me all day to locate bait the size that I want,” Miller said. This day, however, was an exception, because it only took him about an hour.\n\nUndeniably, catching and keeping porgies alive can be an arduous task, even for an experienced 10-year veteran guide like Miller. “I use a ten-foot net with about 161bs. of lead,” he pointed out. These specialized cast nets open wide and fall fast, something very crucial if you want to catch the larger, faster swimming porgies.\n\nThrough the years Miller has gotten the technique down to a science, using two different type approaches to sneak upon the porgies. One is with the use of a trolling motor, and the other is the high-speed entry method, as previously described. The latter technique allows the boat’s momen- tum to quietly glide into the intended location. Once the porgies are located—sporadic splashes and slaps on the water’s surface—the large and heavy net is launched from a specially designed casting tray. The casting tray makes throwing such a large net easy in a confined area like a boat.\nYet even with the proper gear and technique, locating porgies can present a real challenge. For example, on an overcast day porgies won’t make the normal surface commotion that usually gives them away. “If a cloud passes over,” Miller exclaimed, “these baits quit flipping, move and go deep.” Another dreaded problem is that certain times of the day they will move deep into the marsh where you cannot catch them.\n\nAdmittedly, catching porgies is one thing; keeping them alive is another. Anyone that has ever tried to keep porgies alive knows that they are very fragile and will die quickly without the proper bait tank and care. This where a round 25 gallon plastic container with two Rex-Air pumps will keep the porgies alive for 3-5 hours; depending on the number of baits contained at one time.\n\n“One thing about catching big trout, you gotta fish for big trout,” Miller said. “People who catch one every once in a while—they’re fishing for small fish. There’s big fish everywhere, but you have to fish for ‘em. If you fish for `em, you’ll catch `em. Everybody says they want to catch a big trout, but they don’t want to spend the time and the effort. You have to have the patience to do it.”\n\nIronically, while many other professional guides resort to fishing inconspicuous locations off the beaten path, this is not the case with Miller, who can be seen even on busy weekends fishing right along side other boats in his favorite territory—the barrier rocks of East Timbalier Island or Belle Pass. The main thing is to have the right bait and then look for fishable water. This does not mean you have to have a good tide. Big trout can still be caught even on bad tides, so long as you find clean water.\n\nMiller fishes with porgies from springtime to late fall and consistently puts big trout in the boat while others look on in total astonishment. “At any given time there’s big fish along this beach,” he said of the rock boulder barrier sporadically lining the Gulf side of the island. This is a favorite haunt for speckled trout and other species, since they can get deep inside the hurricane-damaged barrier and hide in ambush. Some trout have been living inside of these slim-coated boulders for so long that their bellies have turned from white to black as a result.\n\nAnother secret to successfully catching big speckled trout is to cover as much territory along the rocks as possible—particularly as the weather heats up. According to Miller, the big fish spread out more in summer than in spring. That is why at times he will slip through certain openings in the rocks to get to the back side of the barrier to fish. This, however, is not recommend for those new to the area because rock boulders lurk inches below the surface and have wreaked serious havoc on many a lower unit.\n\nPersistence is perhaps Miller’s most notable quality and one that does not come easily to most anglers in such a grueling environment. Therefore, it’s not unusual for him to stay out all day long hunting for bait and big speckled trout in the sun’s unbearable heat. In some cases—depending on how many people are fishing and how the fish are striking—bait has to be pursued twice or more each day.\n\nA 7-foot rod armed with a bait casting reel works well for hooking these big boys, but there is a lot more technique involved than what meets the eye. Big speckled trout don’t just come up and swallow the porgy all at once on the initial strike.\n\nThe systematic approach involves casting and allowing the bait to swim on a free and slack line, usually no weight, depending on the current. However, if the current is moving and the fish are deep, a 1/16 to 1/4 oz. split shot or rubber grip weight should be placed 2-3 ft. above the bait. The key is using only enough weight to slowly bring the bait down. When the line is all set up right and the water is calm and clear, the porgy can be seen swimming around near the subsurface.\n\nA watchful eye is needed for any fluctuation in the line while keeping the rod tip high and toward the bait. Strike sensitivity can be enhanced by pinching the line ahead of the reel. When a trout is in hot pursuit, the line will start to shudder like a catfish nibbling. This is the signal to feed line out for several seconds until it starts to run out on its own. At this point it is necessary to wait a couple of more seconds before setting the hook.\n\nIn order to successfully hook the fish, the rod has to be lifted over your head with a brisk sweeping action. Miller admits that even with such orchestration and calculation the fish sometimes is not hooked, depending on the trout’s attack approach. Sometimes the trout will only bite and release the bait, in an attempt to kill it, and then turn right back around and engulf it.\nOnce the fish is on the line and fighting, Miller says “You can’t go to pulling too hard on the trout or you’ll rip his lips. You have to keep him coming from the rocks but not jerking on him. Do it gradually.”\n\nOf further significance is the type of hook and the placement of it in the porgy. That’s where a no. 3 Kahle horizontal hook placed through the nose section can be prove most effective. Too large of a hook can weigh the porgy down and hinder its natural swimming ability. If strikes are missed more than usual, hookup ratio can be improved by moving up one hook size or placing the hook in a different location. Miller claims that it is not a good idea to hook the porgy in the back because the bait will out maneuver the trout, making it a harder target.\n\nIt is most amazing how effective live porgies of such size drive speckled trout, into an uncontrol- lable response to strike. Even trout not much larger than the bait will try to take a swipe. On a few occasions specks came right to the side of the boat when the porgy hung over the side. It was as if the trout went into some sort of fixed trance, unhindered and unconcerned by our presence, upon catching sight of the porgy.\n\n“I’ve seen trout come out of those rock flats and wop!— take that bait and go right back down,” Miller excitedly exclaimed. However, when the fish is not hooked, the bait is immediately reeled in and examined for any sign of bites, which inconspicuously show up as two small pin-hole punctures from the trout’s two fang-like front teeth. If there’s any evidence of the aforesaid, the porgy is replaced with a fresh one.\n\nMiller’s biggest speckled trout have been caught at night, fishing only by the light of a full moon. The protected shallow lagoons on the back side of the rocks, according to Miller, make for good nighttime fishing. This is when the big, skittish trout come out to feed.\n\nBut all of the right bait and techniques won’t do much good if there’s a lot of noise aboard, Miller claims. Slamming ice chest lids or dropping tackle on the deck are things not conducive to catching the bigger trout. Like he says, “These fish don’t get this big by accident!”','Big Trout Secrets','','inherit','open','open','','392-autosave','','','2013-03-10 17:56:24','2013-03-10 21:56:24','',392,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=395',0,'revision','',0),(396,1,'2011-12-16 20:45:42','2011-12-16 20:45:42','<em><strong>by Capt. Carl Miller</strong></em>\r\n\r\nThe 21 ft. bay boat streaked across the water like the driver was on an emergency mission. As he abruptly slammed the throttle into neutral, turned the ignition off, and headed toward the bow, he shouted, “Get me the net!”\r\n\r\nAs soon as he stepped up onto the bow platform—eyes hypnotically fixed ahead and upon the water—a casting tray loaded with a large cast net was handed to him. Wasting no time he pitched it into the air. When the net was pulled aboard, a mother lode of “white gold” spilled onto the deck— beautiful, hand-sized gulf menhaden (porgies) glimmered in the early-morning sunlight. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that Capt. Carl Miller is a man torn between two addictions. The only problem is figuring out which is the most compelling, the pursuit of the bait or that which feeds on it.\r\n\r\nIt no secret to big-trout specialist that porgies are considered the number one bait for catching monster specks. That’s why those in the know will spend hours just locating and catching porgies. “Sometimes it can take me all day to locate bait the size that I want,” Miller said. This day, however, was an exception, because it only took him about an hour.\r\n\r\nUndeniably, catching and keeping porgies alive can be an arduous task, even for an experienced 10-year veteran guide like Miller. “I use a ten-foot net with about 161bs. of lead,” he pointed out. These specialized cast nets open wide and fall fast, something very crucial if you want to catch the larger, faster swimming porgies.\r\n\r\nThrough the years Miller has gotten the technique down to a science, using two different type approaches to sneak upon the porgies. One is with the use of a trolling motor, and the other is the high-speed entry method, as previously described. The latter technique allows the boat’s momen- tum to quietly glide into the intended location. Once the porgies are located—sporadic splashes and slaps on the water’s surface—the large and heavy net is launched from a specially designed casting tray. The casting tray makes throwing such a large net easy in a confined area like a boat.\r\nYet even with the proper gear and technique, locating porgies can present a real challenge. For example, on an overcast day porgies won’t make the normal surface commotion that usually gives them away. “If a cloud passes over,” Miller exclaimed, “these baits quit flipping, move and go deep.” Another dreaded problem is that certain times of the day they will move deep into the marsh where you cannot catch them.\r\n\r\nAdmittedly, catching porgies is one thing; keeping them alive is another. Anyone that has ever tried to keep porgies alive knows that they are very fragile and will die quickly without the proper bait tank and care. This where a round 25 gallon plastic container with two Rex-Air pumps will keep the porgies alive for 3-5 hours; depending on the number of baits contained at one time.\r\n\r\n“One thing about catching big trout, you gotta fish for big trout,” Miller said. “People who catch one every once in a while—they’re fishing for small fish. There’s big fish everywhere, but you have to fish for ‘em. If you fish for `em, you’ll catch `em. Everybody says they want to catch a big trout, but they don’t want to spend the time and the effort. You have to have the patience to do it.”\r\nIronically, while many other professional guides resort to fishing inconspicuous locations off the beaten path, this is not the case with Miller, who can be seen even on busy weekends fishing right along side other boats in his favorite territory—the barrier rocks of East Timbalier Island or Belle Pass. The main thing is to have the right bait and then look for fishable water. This does not mean you have to have a good tide. Big trout can still be caught even on bad tides, so long as you find clean water.\r\nMiller fishes with porgies from springtime to late fall and consistently puts big trout in the boat while others look on in total astonishment. “At any given time there’s big fish along this beach,” he said of the rock boulder barrier sporadically lining the Gulf side of the island. This is a favorite haunt for speckled trout and other species, since they can get deep inside the hurricane-damaged barrier and hide in ambush. Some trout have been living inside of these slim-coated boulders for so long that their bellies have turned from white to black as a result.\r\nAnother secret to successfully catching big speckled trout is to cover as much territory along the rocks as possible—particularly as the weather heats up. According to Miller, the big fish spread out more in summer than in spring. That is why at times he will slip through certain openings in the rocks to get to the back side of the barrier to fish. This, however, is not recommend for those new to the area because rock boulders lurk inches below the surface and have wreaked serious havoc on many a lower unit.\r\n\r\nPersistence is perhaps Miller’s most notable quality and one that does not come easily to most anglers in such a grueling environment. Therefore, it’s not unusual for him to stay out all day long hunting for bait and big speckled trout in the sun’s unbearable heat. In some cases—depending on how many people are fishing and how the fish are striking—bait has to be pursued twice or more each day.\r\n\r\nA 7-foot rod armed with a bait casting reel works well for hooking these big boys, but there is a lot more technique involved than what meets the eye. Big speckled trout don’t just come up and swallow the porgy all at once on the initial strike.\r\n\r\nThe systematic approach involves casting and allowing the bait to swim on a free and slack line, usually no weight, depending on the current. However, if the current is moving and the fish are deep, a 1/16 to 1/4 oz. split shot or rubber grip weight should be placed 2-3 ft. above the bait. The key is using only enough weight to slowly bring the bait down. When the line is all set up right and the water is calm and clear, the porgy can be seen swimming around near the subsurface.\r\n\r\nA watchful eye is needed for any fluctuation in the line while keeping the rod tip high and toward the bait. Strike sensitivity can be enhanced by pinching the line ahead of the reel. When a trout is in hot pursuit, the line will start to shudder like a catfish nibbling. This is the signal to feed line out for several seconds until it starts to run out on its own. At this point it is necessary to wait a couple of more seconds before setting the hook.\r\n\r\nIn order to successfully hook the fish, the rod has to be lifted over your head with a brisk sweeping action. Miller admits that even with such orchestration and calculation the fish sometimes is not hooked, depending on the trout’s attack approach. Sometimes the trout will only bite and release the bait, in an attempt to kill it, and then turn right back around and engulf it.\r\nOnce the fish is on the line and fighting, Miller says “You can’t go to pulling too hard on the trout or you’ll rip his lips. You have to keep him coming from the rocks but not jerking on him. Do it gradually.”\r\n\r\nOf further significance is the type of hook and the placement of it in the porgy. That’s where a no. 3 Kahle horizontal hook placed through the nose section can be prove most effective. Too large of a hook can weigh the porgy down and hinder its natural swimming ability. If strikes are missed more than usual, hookup ratio can be improved by moving up one hook size or placing the hook in a different location. Miller claims that it is not a good idea to hook the porgy in the back because the bait will out maneuver the trout, making it a harder target.\r\n\r\nIt is most amazing how effective live porgies of such size drive speckled trout, into an uncontrol- lable response to strike. Even trout not much larger than the bait will try to take a swipe. On a few occasions specks came right to the side of the boat when the porgy hung over the side. It was as if the trout went into some sort of fixed trance, unhindered and unconcerned by our presence, upon catching sight of the porgy.\r\n\r\n“I’ve seen trout come out of those rock flats and wop!— take that bait and go right back down,” Miller excitedly exclaimed. However, when the fish is not hooked, the bait is immediately reeled in and examined for any sign of bites, which inconspicuously show up as two small pin-hole punctures from the trout’s two fang-like front teeth. If there’s any evidence of the aforesaid, the porgy is replaced with a fresh one.\r\n\r\nMiller’s biggest speckled trout have been caught at night, fishing only by the light of a full moon. The protected shallow lagoons on the back side of the rocks, according to Miller, make for good nighttime fishing. This is when the big, skittish trout come out to feed.\r\n\r\nBut all of the right bait and techniques won’t do much good if there’s a lot of noise aboard, Miller claims. Slamming ice chest lids or dropping tackle on the deck are things not conducive to catching the bigger trout. Like he says, “These fish don’t get this big by accident!”','Big Trout Secrets','','inherit','open','open','','392-revision-3','','','2011-12-16 20:45:42','2011-12-16 20:45:42','',392,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=396',0,'revision','',0),(397,1,'2011-12-16 20:54:29','2011-12-16 20:54:29','','trout fishing','','inherit','open','open','','trout','','','2011-12-16 20:54:29','2011-12-16 20:54:29','',392,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/trout.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(398,1,'2011-12-16 20:53:24','2011-12-16 20:53:24','<em><strong>by Capt. Carl Miller</strong></em>\r\n\r\nThe 21 ft. bay boat streaked across the water like the driver was on an emergency mission. As he abruptly slammed the throttle into neutral, turned the ignition off, and headed toward the bow, he shouted, “Get me the net!”\r\n\r\nAs soon as he stepped up onto the bow platform—eyes hypnotically fixed ahead and upon the water—a casting tray loaded with a large cast net was handed to him. Wasting no time he pitched it into the air. When the net was pulled aboard, a mother lode of “white gold” spilled onto the deck— beautiful, hand-sized gulf menhaden (porgies) glimmered in the early-morning sunlight. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that Capt. Carl Miller is a man torn between two addictions. The only problem is figuring out which is the most compelling, the pursuit of the bait or that which feeds on it.\r\n\r\nIt no secret to big-trout specialist that porgies are considered the number one bait for catching monster specks. That’s why those in the know will spend hours just locating and catching porgies. “Sometimes it can take me all day to locate bait the size that I want,” Miller said. This day, however, was an exception, because it only took him about an hour.\r\n\r\nUndeniably, catching and keeping porgies alive can be an arduous task, even for an experienced 10-year veteran guide like Miller. “I use a ten-foot net with about 161bs. of lead,” he pointed out. These specialized cast nets open wide and fall fast, something very crucial if you want to catch the larger, faster swimming porgies.\r\n\r\nThrough the years Miller has gotten the technique down to a science, using two different type approaches to sneak upon the porgies. One is with the use of a trolling motor, and the other is the high-speed entry method, as previously described. The latter technique allows the boat’s momen- tum to quietly glide into the intended location. Once the porgies are located—sporadic splashes and slaps on the water’s surface—the large and heavy net is launched from a specially designed casting tray. The casting tray makes throwing such a large net easy in a confined area like a boat.\r\nYet even with the proper gear and technique, locating porgies can present a real challenge. For example, on an overcast day porgies won’t make the normal surface commotion that usually gives them away. “If a cloud passes over,” Miller exclaimed, “these baits quit flipping, move and go deep.” Another dreaded problem is that certain times of the day they will move deep into the marsh where you cannot catch them.\r\n\r\nAdmittedly, catching porgies is one thing; keeping them alive is another. Anyone that has ever tried to keep porgies alive knows that they are very fragile and will die quickly without the proper bait tank and care. This where a round 25 gallon plastic container with two Rex-Air pumps will keep the porgies alive for 3-5 hours; depending on the number of baits contained at one time.\r\n\r\n“One thing about catching big trout, you gotta fish for big trout,” Miller said. “People who catch one every once in a while—they’re fishing for small fish. There’s big fish everywhere, but you have to fish for ‘em. If you fish for `em, you’ll catch `em. Everybody says they want to catch a big trout, but they don’t want to spend the time and the effort. You have to have the patience to do it.”\r\n\r\nIronically, while many other professional guides resort to fishing inconspicuous locations off the beaten path, this is not the case with Miller, who can be seen even on busy weekends fishing right along side other boats in his favorite territory—the barrier rocks of East Timbalier Island or Belle Pass. The main thing is to have the right bait and then look for fishable water. This does not mean you have to have a good tide. Big trout can still be caught even on bad tides, so long as you find clean water.\r\n\r\nMiller fishes with porgies from springtime to late fall and consistently puts big trout in the boat while others look on in total astonishment. “At any given time there’s big fish along this beach,” he said of the rock boulder barrier sporadically lining the Gulf side of the island. This is a favorite haunt for speckled trout and other species, since they can get deep inside the hurricane-damaged barrier and hide in ambush. Some trout have been living inside of these slim-coated boulders for so long that their bellies have turned from white to black as a result.\r\n\r\nAnother secret to successfully catching big speckled trout is to cover as much territory along the rocks as possible—particularly as the weather heats up. According to Miller, the big fish spread out more in summer than in spring. That is why at times he will slip through certain openings in the rocks to get to the back side of the barrier to fish. This, however, is not recommend for those new to the area because rock boulders lurk inches below the surface and have wreaked serious havoc on many a lower unit.\r\n\r\nPersistence is perhaps Miller’s most notable quality and one that does not come easily to most anglers in such a grueling environment. Therefore, it’s not unusual for him to stay out all day long hunting for bait and big speckled trout in the sun’s unbearable heat. In some cases—depending on how many people are fishing and how the fish are striking—bait has to be pursued twice or more each day.\r\n\r\nA 7-foot rod armed with a bait casting reel works well for hooking these big boys, but there is a lot more technique involved than what meets the eye. Big speckled trout don’t just come up and swallow the porgy all at once on the initial strike.\r\n\r\nThe systematic approach involves casting and allowing the bait to swim on a free and slack line, usually no weight, depending on the current. However, if the current is moving and the fish are deep, a 1/16 to 1/4 oz. split shot or rubber grip weight should be placed 2-3 ft. above the bait. The key is using only enough weight to slowly bring the bait down. When the line is all set up right and the water is calm and clear, the porgy can be seen swimming around near the subsurface.\r\n\r\nA watchful eye is needed for any fluctuation in the line while keeping the rod tip high and toward the bait. Strike sensitivity can be enhanced by pinching the line ahead of the reel. When a trout is in hot pursuit, the line will start to shudder like a catfish nibbling. This is the signal to feed line out for several seconds until it starts to run out on its own. At this point it is necessary to wait a couple of more seconds before setting the hook.\r\n\r\nIn order to successfully hook the fish, the rod has to be lifted over your head with a brisk sweeping action. Miller admits that even with such orchestration and calculation the fish sometimes is not hooked, depending on the trout’s attack approach. Sometimes the trout will only bite and release the bait, in an attempt to kill it, and then turn right back around and engulf it.\r\nOnce the fish is on the line and fighting, Miller says “You can’t go to pulling too hard on the trout or you’ll rip his lips. You have to keep him coming from the rocks but not jerking on him. Do it gradually.”\r\n\r\nOf further significance is the type of hook and the placement of it in the porgy. That’s where a no. 3 Kahle horizontal hook placed through the nose section can be prove most effective. Too large of a hook can weigh the porgy down and hinder its natural swimming ability. If strikes are missed more than usual, hookup ratio can be improved by moving up one hook size or placing the hook in a different location. Miller claims that it is not a good idea to hook the porgy in the back because the bait will out maneuver the trout, making it a harder target.\r\n\r\nIt is most amazing how effective live porgies of such size drive speckled trout, into an uncontrol- lable response to strike. Even trout not much larger than the bait will try to take a swipe. On a few occasions specks came right to the side of the boat when the porgy hung over the side. It was as if the trout went into some sort of fixed trance, unhindered and unconcerned by our presence, upon catching sight of the porgy.\r\n\r\n“I’ve seen trout come out of those rock flats and wop!— take that bait and go right back down,” Miller excitedly exclaimed. 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Make them ahead of time and freeze so all you have to do is the final steps. They make wonderful appetizers for your Thanksgiving and Christmas guests. They can be taken directly from the freezer and fried but allow a little extra time to cook.\r\n\r\n<strong>Ingredients:</strong>\r\n• 1.5lb shrimp, peeled, deveined and finely chopped \r\n• 2 cups cabbage, finely chopped \r\n• 1 teaspoon salt \r\n• 2 tablespoons light soy sauce\r\n• 2 tablespoons rice wine, sherry or 2 tablespoons white wine \r\n• 1 tablespoon green onion, chopped • 1 tablespoon sesame oil \r\n• 2 teaspoons fresh ginger, chopped\r\n• 2 garlic cloves, minced \r\n• 64 wonton wrappers (usually 1 pkg) \r\n• 1/4 cup vegetable oil \r\n• 1 cup chicken stock\r\n\r\n<strong>Directions:</strong>\r\nSprinkle salt over the shredded cabbage and let stand for 5 minutes, then squeeze out liquid. Squeeze out any liquid from the shrimp. Mix cabbage, shrimp, soy, wine, onion, oil, ginger and garlic (filling can be mixed and refrigerated for up to 6 hours in advance). On each wrapper (keep them covered with a damp cloth so they do no dry out) place about 2 tsp of the mix and seal the edges, use a bit of water on the edge, try to press out all the air and ensure they are tightly sealed (At this point you can freeze them individually on a cookie sheet and them place in a plastic bag. They will keep for a month. Defrost in fridge before continuing). In 2 large skillets heat 1 tbsp oil, fry 16 dumplings for 1 minute or until golden on one side add 1/4 cup of stock into the pan, reduce heat to low, cover and cook, without turning for about 7 minutes or until the dumpling is translucent and most of the liquid has evaporated Uncover and on higher heat cook for another 5-7 minutes or until the bottoms are dark brown, drain put on a platter and keep warm. 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They can be taken directly from the freezer and fried but allow a little extra time to cook.\n\nIngredients:\n• 1.5lb shrimp, peeled, deveined and finely chopped \n• 2 cups cabbage, finely chopped \n• 1 teaspoon salt \n• 2 tablespoons light soy sauce\n• 2 tablespoons rice wine, sherry or 2 tablespoons white wine \n• 1 tablespoon green onion, chopped • 1 tablespoon sesame oil \n• 2 teaspoons fresh ginger, chopped\n• 2 garlic cloves, minced \n• 64 wonton wrappers (usually 1 pkg) \n• 1/4 cup vegetable oil \n• 1 cup chicken stock\n\nDirections:\n• Sprinkle salt over the shredded cabbage and let stand for 5 minutes, then squeeze out liquid. Squeeze out any liquid from the shrimp. Mix cabbage, shrimp, soy, wine, onion, oil, ginger and garlic (filling can be mixed and refrigerated for up to 6 hours in advance). On each wrapper (keep them covered with a damp cloth so they do no dry out) place about 2 tsp of the mix and seal the edges, use a bit of water on the edge, try to press out all the air and ensure they are tightly sealed (At this point you can freeze them individually on a cookie sheet and them place in a plastic bag. They will keep for a month. Defrost in fridge before continuing). In 2 large skillets heat 1 tbsp oil, fry 16 dumplings for 1 minute or until golden on one side add 1/4 cup of stock into the pan, reduce heat to low, cover and cook, without turning for about 7 minutes or until the dumpling is translucent and most of the liquid has evaporated Uncover and on higher heat cook for another 5-7 minutes or until the bottoms are dark brown, drain put on a platter and keep warm. 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They can be taken directly from the freezer and fried but allow a little extra time to cook.\r\n\r\n<strong>Ingredients:</strong>\r\n• 1.5lb shrimp, peeled, deveined and finely chopped \r\n• 2 cups cabbage, finely chopped \r\n• 1 teaspoon salt \r\n• 2 tablespoons light soy sauce\r\n• 2 tablespoons rice wine, sherry or 2 tablespoons white wine \r\n• 1 tablespoon green onion, chopped • 1 tablespoon sesame oil \r\n• 2 teaspoons fresh ginger, chopped\r\n• 2 garlic cloves, minced \r\n• 64 wonton wrappers (usually 1 pkg) \r\n• 1/4 cup vegetable oil \r\n• 1 cup chicken stock\r\n\r\n<strong>Directions:</strong>\r\nSprinkle salt over the shredded cabbage and let stand for 5 minutes, then squeeze out liquid. Squeeze out any liquid from the shrimp. Mix cabbage, shrimp, soy, wine, onion, oil, ginger and garlic (filling can be mixed and refrigerated for up to 6 hours in advance). On each wrapper (keep them covered with a damp cloth so they do no dry out) place about 2 tsp of the mix and seal the edges, use a bit of water on the edge, try to press out all the air and ensure they are tightly sealed (At this point you can freeze them individually on a cookie sheet and them place in a plastic bag. They will keep for a month. Defrost in fridge before continuing). In 2 large skillets heat 1 tbsp oil, fry 16 dumplings for 1 minute or until golden on one side add 1/4 cup of stock into the pan, reduce heat to low, cover and cook, without turning for about 7 minutes or until the dumpling is translucent and most of the liquid has evaporated Uncover and on higher heat cook for another 5-7 minutes or until the bottoms are dark brown, drain put on a platter and keep warm. 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The inside water around Harkers Island, NC, Middle marsh and North river should still have some bait around as long as the water temperatures don’t fall too quickly and the best live bait to use for Red Fish is mud minnows. Since there was not a very good shrimp season this year, it’s going to be hard to find live shrimp, but the mud minnows should work just fine. The best rigs to use for live bait this time of year are a popping cork with about a 2 ft. 20 lb. test leader and also the good old Carolina Rig fished on the bottom. Also the use of scented baits such as Deep Creek scented baits, Berkley gulp, Blurp scented baits, as well as Honey Hole lures, are sure to catch some nice Speckled as well as Gray Trout.\r\n\r\nSome really good fall tackle offered in the tackle shops on and near Harkers Island is the new Penn Battle reels; they come in several sizes and they are some of the best that I have seen in a while. 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The inside water around Harkers Island, NC, Middle marsh and North river should still have some bait around as long as the water temperatures don’t fall too quickly and the best live bait to use for Red Fish is mud minnows. Since there was not a very good shrimp season this year, it’s going to be hard to find live shrimp, but the mud minnows should work just fine. The best rigs to use for live bait this time of year are a popping cork with about a 2 ft. 20 lb. test leader and also the good old Carolina Rig fished on the bottom. Also the use of scented baits such as Deep Creek scented baits, Berkley gulp, Blurp scented baits, as well as Honey Hole lures, are sure to catch some nice Speckled as well as Gray Trout.\n\nSome really good fall tackle offered in the tackle shops on and near Harkers Island is the new Penn Battle reels; they come in several sizes and they are some of the best that I have seen in a while. 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Since there was not a very good shrimp season this year, it’s going to be hard to find live shrimp, but the mud minnows should work just fine. The best rigs to use for live bait this time of year are a popping cork with about a 2 ft. 20 lb. test leader and also the good old Carolina Rig fished on the bottom. Also the use of scented baits such as Deep Creek scented baits, Berkley gulp, Blurp scented baits, as well as Honey Hole lures, are sure to catch some nice Speckled as well as Gray Trout.\r\n\r\nSome really good fall tackle offered in the tackle shops on and near Harkers Island is the new Penn Battle reels; they come in several sizes and they are some of the best that I have seen in a while. If you’re in the market for a rod, you might try the new Custom Blair Wiggins Rods, which are also really good, and the company offers a good variety to choose from.\r\n\r\nAnyone who happens to be over at Atlantic Beach should really stop by the new Southland Outfitters store and check out their new selections of fishing gear and apparel as they have a great selection for the fall fishing season with several new lines to choose from.\r\n\r\nDecember usually brings favorable weather conditions and the first two weeks are gener- ally the best. So, visit your local tackle shops, gear up, and get out on the water for some great Fall Fishing. If you are looking for charters, call now, because fall fishing charters book quickly. See you on the water. Visit Captain Noah Lynk at <a href=\"http://www.noahsarkfishingcharters.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.noahsarkfishingcharters.com</a> to book a trip.','Fall Fishing at Cape Lookout NC with Capt. 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The Illusion had just been purchased from a brokerage firm in Grasonville, MD and was on a voyage to her\nnew home somewhere in Florida. To safely cross the shoals you must know how to run what is known as the slot to local mariners. The slot is a slough that runs west to east through the shoals but you must be experi- enced at making that crossing. It is difficult at best for the inexperienced to make this crossing during daylight hours but to attempt it at night is only for the more experienced captains who know this area. The safest alternative would have been to travel 12 miles south of Cape Lookout and made their eastward turn at the Knuckle buoy which marks the end of the shoals. Either way it’s not known why the crew decided to make the fate- ful choice of crossing the shoals only 300 yards off the Cape Lookout point.\nA distress call from the Illusion went out Sunday October, 9 to the Coast Guard Sector North Carolina watchstanders at 7:37pm. The crew of two reported they had lost all power, were taking water over the stern, and rising water had drowned out the Generator.	A Coast Guard boatcrew from Station Fort Macon launched a 47’ lifeboat to assist, but due to\nshoreline surf condi- tions, was unable to approach the vessel. A local towboat company also heard the distress call\nand dispatched a rescue boat but was unable to reach the grounded Illusion.\nHard aground\nA MH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter was deployed from Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C. The two man crew from the Illusion was rescued from the vessel at 9:45 p.m. A big “GREAT JOB” goes out to the Coast Guard crew that performed the rescue operation. The Illusion crew was taken to the Coast Guard Station Fort Macon, NC where they were met by emergency medical services. Neither man required medical services. 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It is difficult at best for the inexperienced to make this crossing during daylight hours but to attempt it at night is only for the more experienced captains who know this area. The safest alternative would have been to travel 12 miles south of Cape Lookout and made their eastward turn at the Knuckle buoy which marks the end of the shoals. Either way it’s not known why the crew decided to make the fate- ful choice of crossing the shoals only 300 yards off the Cape Lookout point.\n\nA distress call from the Illusion went out Sunday October, 9 to the Coast Guard Sector North Carolina watchstanders at 7:37pm. The crew of two reported they had lost all power, were taking water over the stern, and rising water had drowned out the Generator. A Coast Guard boatcrew from Station Fort Macon launched a 47’ lifeboat to assist, but due to shoreline surf condi- tions, was unable to approach the vessel. A local towboat company also heard the distress call and dispatched a rescue boat but was unable to reach the grounded Illusion.\n<h3>Hard aground</h3>\nA MH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter was deployed from Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C. The two man crew from the Illusion was rescued from the vessel at 9:45 p.m. A big “GREAT JOB” goes out to the Coast Guard crew that performed the rescue operation. The Illusion crew was taken to the Coast Guard Station Fort Macon, NC where they were met by emergency medical services. Neither man required medical services. If you would like to see video of the daring rescue....\n\n[youtube id=\"29Xsw2Wi0Vo\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\"]\n\nThe following day it was determined there could be no salvage operation because the stern had been completely torn away by the powerful surf. At this point there was no choice but to dismantle the boat and remove it from the Cape Lookout National Seashore. 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In addition to known flaws with the MRFSS data, independent scientists have also been critical of the assessment models used by the federal fisheries service.\r\n\r\nCiting new findings, the Mid Atlantic Fishery Management Council (MAFMC) warns that harvest limits originally recommended by council members for 2012 are actually too high and may need to be reduced. On top of recent reports from the South Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico regional fishery management councils that sea bass and red snapper fisheries have also been closed to anglers due to flawed data, the Recreational Fishing Alliance (RFA) said they are moving forward with another rally in Washington DC later this winter like the one held during the winter of 2010.\r\n\r\n“In conducting stock assessments, NOAA Fisheries is using recreational harvest data deemed fatally flawed and woefully inaccurate by the National Academy of Sciences, which is exactly why Congress told them to stop using MRFSS as of 2009,” said Jim Donofrio, RFA’s executive director. “Whether it’s sea bass, red snapper or fluke, annual or semi-annual stock assessments don’t mean squat when you’re using illicit data and questionable models.”\r\n\r\n“Five years is long enough to wait for Congress to react, so if they’re not coming to us then it looks like we’ll be heading back to see them this winter,” he added.\r\n\r\nReauthorized in 2006 by unanimous consent with support from ‘green’ groups like Pew Charitable Trusts and their Pew-funded affiliates including Marine Fish Conservation Network and Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, the Magnuson Stevens Act calls for rigid rebuilding deadlines while incorporating annual catch limits (ACLs) and accountability measures like catch shares to help ratchet down regulatory controls on fishermen.\r\n\r\n“RFA has taken our lumps by some in the industry because we’ve been so openly vocal about the issues with Magnuson while also rallying for more accountability from our federal government, but who can sit back quietly while this injustice continues,” Donofrio asked, adding “this is a jobs issue.”\r\n\r\nLast week, Donofrio appeared before a House Resource Committee hearing on behalf of America’s coastal anglers, and specifically brought up the issue of NOAA’s inattention to meeting require- ments set forth by Congress. “We don’t have a data collection program that Congress mandated in the 2007 reauthorization for marine recreational statistics, the new MRIP program, they’re still using the MRFSS data and they’re shutting down fisheries,” Donofrio told committee members,” adding “they told the judge we’re not using MRFSS data anymore.”\r\n\r\nTwo years ago, RFA brought a federal lawsuit against NOAA for closing the black sea bass fishery using data compiled through MRFSS. Based on the NOAA testimony, a federal judge determined that there would no future fishing closures based on MRFSS data given the fact that NOAA was no longer using MRFSS, rendering RFA’s lawsuit moot. That’s a concern which Donofrio and the RFA have specifically brought to the attention of Congress.\r\n\r\n“NOAA’s legal team essentially showed a copy of the Magnuson reauthorization of 2007 showing where Congress mandated that MRFSS be replaced as of January 1, 2009,” Donofrio said. “While NOAA has yet to meet their congressional obligation three full seasons later, our recreational fishing community is being forced to adhere to a broken law enforced by an overzealous and contentious enforcement office.”\r\n\r\nDonofrio told House Resource Committee members that coastal businesses are having a bad enough time staying open in a down economy, but when combined with burdensome regulations based on hopelessly flawed harvest data, many recreational fishing professionals have been get- ting out of the business entirely. “They’re disgusted with federal regulations that are not allowing them to fish on rebuilt stocks and NOAA’s not doing a thing about it, what they want to do is add more layers of bureaucracy that costs more money when they’re not spending the money to keep us fishing,” Donofrio said.\r\n\r\nIn response to a question from Rep. Jon Runyan (R-NJ) Donofrio said issues experienced within the New Jersey congressman’s home district were the same as those down in the southeastern United States and throughout the Gulf, “all the way down to Mr. Southerland’s district,” he added, referencing committee member Rep. Steve Southerland who also took NOAA to task at the recent hearing. “We have people sitting at the dock can’t catch red snapper because the stock assessments and the data that NOAA’s been using is flawed, we’re literally tripping over red snapper, tripping over them” Donofrio said.\r\n\r\nSince 2007, RFA and their coastal allies have vocally pressed forth with support for legislation to reform the Magnuson Stevens Act to rewrite the fouled language which has allowed NOAA to shirk its responsibilities while punishing coastal fishing communities. Donofrio said it’s been an uphill battle because of congressional gridlock and an industry divided. “A handful of legislators were led to believe that Magnuson was just fine back in 2006, but that’s obviously not the case,” Donofrio said.\r\n\r\nAccording to MAFMC chairman Rick Robins, part of the problem with summer flounder is the fact that NOAA Fisheries is taking important scientific funding away from his council and shifting the spending up north. “The current situation is an unfortunate consequence resulting from the redirection of Science Center resources to New England groundfish,” Robins said. While the MAFMC is in the process of scheduling meetings with the science and statistical committees to review the information before their December meetings, independent scientists including Brian Rothschild and Mark Maunder have openly challenged the data used by NOAA scientists in their assessments models.\r\n\r\n“There are scientists in the field who have critical data with regard to summer flounder to chal- lenge the government’s unreasonable findings, but the only way to shake some sense into this government bureaucracy is through an act of Congress,” Donofrio said. “Without a new benchmark assessment or peer review of the government data, there’s no way for individual anglers and independent scientists to challenge the data,” he said.\r\n\r\nDonofrio said the best option for protecting the future of saltwater angling opportunities is to fix a broken law while securing legislative commitments to overhauling a big government bureaucracy which he says “has gone rogue” in the past 3-1/2 years. “Comprehensive reform of the law is the only choice right now, and the quicker the industry realizes that they’ve been hoodwinked by anti- fishingintereststhequickerwecanaddressourcoastalaccessissuesinfrontofCongress,” headded.\r\n\r\n“There are several different Magnuson reform bills in Congress right now, including the more comprehensive version in HR3061,” Donofrio said, adding “what we need is get the whole suite of legislation into committee for review and debate so that we can get the law fixed now to protect jobs.”\r\n\r\n<strong>About Recreational Fishing Alliance</strong>\r\n<em>The Recreational Fishing Alliance is a national, grassroots political action organization representing recreational fishermen and the recreational fishing industry on marine fisheries issues. The RFA Mis- sion is to safeguard the rights of saltwater anglers, protect marine, boat and tackle industry jobs, and ensure the long-term sustainability of our Nation’s saltwater fisheries. For more information, call 888-JOIN-RFA or visit <a href=\"http://www.joinrfa.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.joinrfa.org</a>.</em>','RFA Calls on Fishermen to Unite','','publish','open','open','','rfa-calls-on-fishermen-to-unite','','','2013-04-02 12:57:28','2013-04-02 16:57:28','',0,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=425',41,'post','',0),(418,1,'2011-12-16 21:11:26','2011-12-16 21:11:26','<a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/2011_battle_2.png\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-416\" title=\"penn battle reel\" src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/2011_battle_2-300x239.png\" alt=\"penn battle reel\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" /></a>The Penn Battle Spinning Reels boasts a solid metal body, keeping gears aligned while under a large load. The Superline Spool prevents the need for backing and the rubberized gasket eliminates slippage. The HT-100 drag washers create smooth resistance. With six stainless steel ball bearings, Techno-Balanced spool, and handle this reel features smooth retrieves. Features: Full metal body and sideplate keep precise gear alignment under heavy loads.','Penn Battle Reels','','inherit','open','open','','415-revision-2','','','2011-12-16 21:11:26','2011-12-16 21:11:26','',415,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=418',0,'revision','',0),(419,1,'2011-12-16 21:11:38','2011-12-16 21:11:38','<a href=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/2011_battle_2.png\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-416\" title=\"penn battle reel\" src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/2011_battle_2-300x239.png\" alt=\"penn battle reel\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" /></a>The Penn Battle Spinning Reels boasts a solid metal body, keeping gears aligned while under a large load. The Superline Spool prevents the need for backing and the rubberized gasket eliminates slippage. The HT-100 drag washers create smooth resistance. With six stainless steel ball bearings, Techno-Balanced spool, and handle this reel features smooth retrieves. Features: Full metal body and sideplate keep precise gear alignment under heavy loads.','Penn Battle Reels','','inherit','open','open','','415-revision-3','','','2011-12-16 21:11:38','2011-12-16 21:11:38','',415,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=419',0,'revision','',0),(420,1,'2011-12-01 21:12:15','2011-12-01 21:12:15','<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-422\" title=\"folding scooters\" src=\"http://www.coastalmariner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/folding-scooters-275157.jpg\" alt=\"folding scooters\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" />The mod R70 folding moped is powered by an electric motor powered by a battery. The maximum speed is 40 km/h; its range 50 km measured in realistic condition of use. The frame of mod. R70 takes advantage of the experience made with the production of all the models produced since 1974. Its basic structure is still made as articulated quadrilaterals linked each other. This structure distinguish all DI BLASI vehicles and allows their folding and unfolding in a very easy and a very quick way. However in the mod. R70 this structure is completed by a new (patented) mechanism which allows, when folding the moped, to pull back the front fork automatically. Therefore this mechanism allows, on the one hand, to reduce the sizes of the folded moped to only 69 x 36 x 63(h) cm, on the other hand to increase the length of the unfolded moped (wheelbase 97,5 cm). This last feature increases ride comfort and stability of the moped.','Electric Folding Scooter DI BLASI','','publish','open','open','','electric-folding-scooter-di-blasi','','','2013-04-02 12:57:27','2013-04-02 16:57:27','',0,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=420',19,'post','',0),(421,1,'2011-12-16 21:12:28','2011-12-16 21:12:28','\nThe mod R70 folding moped is powered by an electric motor powered by a battery. The maximum speed is 40 km/h; its range 50 km measured in realistic condition of use.\nThe frame of mod. R70 takes advantage of the experience made with the production of all the models produced since 1974. Its basic structure is still made as articulated quadrilaterals linked each other. This structure distinguish all DI BLASI vehicles and allows their folding and unfolding in a very easy and a very quick way. However in the mod. R70 this structure\nis completed by a new (patented) mechanism which allows, when folding the moped, to pull back the front fork automatically. Therefore this mechanism allows, on the one hand, to reduce the sizes of the folded moped to only 69 x 36 x 63(h) cm, on the other hand to increase the length of the unfolded moped (wheelbase 97,5 cm). 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This structure distinguish all DI BLASI vehicles and allows their folding and unfolding in a very easy and a very quick way. However in the mod. R70 this structure is completed by a new (patented) mechanism which allows, when folding the moped, to pull back the front fork automatically. Therefore this mechanism allows, on the one hand, to reduce the sizes of the folded moped to only 69 x 36 x 63(h) cm, on the other hand to increase the length of the unfolded moped (wheelbase 97,5 cm). 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Features: Full metal body and sideplate keep precise gear alignment under heavy loads.','Penn Battle Reels','','inherit','open','open','','415-revision-4','','','2011-12-16 21:11:55','2011-12-16 21:11:55','',415,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=424',0,'revision','',0),(426,1,'2011-12-16 16:18:01','2011-12-16 21:18:01','Because of obsolete NOAA harvest statistics and questionable assessment data, summer flounder (fluke) fishermen will take another hit in 2012 - in turn, coastal fishermen are planning to hit back at Washington DC sometime later this winter! A Northeast Fisheries Science Center report indicates that while the summer flounder stock was successfully rebuilt in 2010, angler harvest data compiled through the Marine Recreational Fishing Statistical Survey (MRFSS) and applied to NOAA assessment models predicts fishing mortality rate will be exceeded in 2011, once again causing statutory overfishing to occur. In addition to known flaws with the MRFSS data, independent scientists have also been critical of the assessment models used by the federal fisheries service.\n\nCiting new findings, the Mid Atlantic Fishery Management Council (MAFMC) warns that harvest limits originally recommended by council members for 2012 are actually too high and may need to be reduced. On top of recent reports from the South Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico regional fishery management councils that sea bass and red snapper fisheries have also been closed to anglers due to flawed data, the Recreational Fishing Alliance (RFA) said they are moving forward with another rally in Washington DC later this winter like the one held during the winter of 2010.\n\n“In conducting stock assessments, NOAA Fisheries is using recreational harvest data deemed fatally flawed and woefully inaccurate by the National Academy of Sciences, which is exactly why Congress told them to stop using MRFSS as of 2009,” said Jim Donofrio, RFA’s executive director. “Whether it’s sea bass, red snapper or fluke, annual or semi-annual stock assessments don’t mean squat when you’re using illicit data and questionable models.”\n\n“Five years is long enough to wait for Congress to react, so if they’re not coming to us then it looks like we’ll be heading back to see them this winter,” he added.\n\nReauthorized in 2006 by unanimous consent with support from ‘green’ groups like Pew Charitable Trusts and their Pew-funded affiliates including Marine Fish Conservation Network and Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, the Magnuson Stevens Act calls for rigid rebuilding deadlines while incorporating annual catch limits (ACLs) and accountability measures like catch shares to help ratchet down regulatory controls on fishermen.\n\n“RFA has taken our lumps by some in the industry because we’ve been so openly vocal about the issues with Magnuson while also rallying for more accountability from our federal government, but who can sit back quietly while this injustice continues,” Donofrio asked, adding “this is a jobs issue.”\n\nLast week, Donofrio appeared before a House Resource Committee hearing on behalf of America’s coastal anglers, and specifically brought up the issue of NOAA’s inattention to meeting require- ments set forth by Congress. “We don’t have a data collection program that Congress mandated in the 2007 reauthorization for marine recreational statistics, the new MRIP program, they’re still using the MRFSS data and they’re shutting down fisheries,” Donofrio told committee members,” adding “they told the judge we’re not using MRFSS data anymore.”\n\nTwo years ago, RFA brought a federal lawsuit against NOAA for closing the black sea bass fishery using data compiled through MRFSS. Based on the NOAA testimony, a federal judge determined that there would no future fishing closures based on MRFSS data given the fact that NOAA was no longer using MRFSS, rendering RFA’s lawsuit moot. That’s a concern which Donofrio and the RFA have specifically brought to the attention of Congress.\n\n“NOAA’s legal team essentially showed a copy of the Magnuson reauthorization of 2007 showing where Congress mandated that MRFSS be replaced as of January 1, 2009,” Donofrio said. “While NOAA has yet to meet their congressional obligation three full seasons later, our recreational fishing community is being forced to adhere to a broken law enforced by an overzealous and contentious enforcement office.”\n\nDonofrio told House Resource Committee members that coastal businesses are having a bad enough time staying open in a down economy, but when combined with burdensome regulations based on hopelessly flawed harvest data, many recreational fishing professionals have been get- ting out of the business entirely. “They’re disgusted with federal regulations that are not allowing them to fish on rebuilt stocks and NOAA’s not doing a thing about it, what they want to do is add more layers of bureaucracy that costs more money when they’re not spending the money to keep us fishing,” Donofrio said.\n\nIn response to a question from Rep. Jon Runyan (R-NJ) Donofrio said issues experienced within the New Jersey congressman’s home district were the same as those down in the southeastern United States and throughout the Gulf, “all the way down to Mr. Southerland’s district,” he added, referencing committee member Rep. Steve Southerland who also took NOAA to task at the recent hearing. “We have people sitting at the dock can’t catch red snapper because the stock assessments and the data that NOAA’s been using is flawed, we’re literally tripping over red snapper, tripping over them” Donofrio said.\n\nSince 2007, RFA and their coastal allies have vocally pressed forth with support for legislation to reform the Magnuson Stevens Act to rewrite the fouled language which has allowed NOAA to shirk its responsibilities while punishing coastal fishing communities. Donofrio said it’s been an uphill battle because of congressional gridlock and an industry divided. “A handful of legislators were led to believe that Magnuson was just fine back in 2006, but that’s obviously not the case,” Donofrio said.\nAccording to MAFMC chairman Rick Robins, part of the problem with summer flounder is the fact that NOAA Fisheries is taking important scientific funding away from his council and shifting the spending up north. “The current situation is an unfortunate consequence resulting from the redirection of Science Center resources to New England groundfish,” Robins said. While the MAFMC is in the process of scheduling meetings with the science and statistical committees to review the information before their December meetings, independent scientists including Brian Rothschild and Mark Maunder have openly challenged the data used by NOAA scientists in their assessments models.\n“There are scientists in the field who have critical data with regard to summer flounder to chal- lenge the government’s unreasonable findings, but the only way to shake some sense into this government bureaucracy is through an act of Congress,” Donofrio said. “Without a new benchmark assessment or peer review of the government data, there’s no way for individual anglers and independent scientists to challenge the data,” he said.\n\nDonofrio said the best option for protecting the future of saltwater angling opportunities is to fix a broken law while securing legislative commitments to overhauling a big government bureaucracy which he says “has gone rogue” in the past 3-1/2 years. “Comprehensive reform of the law is the only choice right now, and the quicker the industry realizes that they’ve been hoodwinked by anti- fishingintereststhequickerwecanaddressourcoastalaccessissuesinfrontofCongress,” headded.\n“There are several different Magnuson reform bills in Congress right now, including the more comprehensive version in HR3061,” Donofrio said, adding “what we need is get the whole suite of legislation into committee for review and debate so that we can get the law fixed now to protect jobs.”\n\n<strong>About Recreational Fishing Alliance</strong>\n<em>The Recreational Fishing Alliance is a national, grassroots political action organization representing recreational fishermen and the recreational fishing industry on marine fisheries issues. The RFA Mis- sion is to safeguard the rights of saltwater anglers, protect marine, boat and tackle industry jobs, and ensure the long-term sustainability of our Nation’s saltwater fisheries. For more information, call 888-JOIN-RFA or visit <a href=\"http://www.joinrfa.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.joinrfa.org</a>.</em>','RFA Calls on Fishermen to Unite','','inherit','open','open','','425-revision','','','2011-12-16 16:18:01','2011-12-16 21:18:01','',425,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=426',0,'revision','',0),(427,1,'2011-12-16 16:18:23','2011-12-16 21:18:23','Because of obsolete NOAA harvest statistics and questionable assessment data, summer flounder (fluke) fishermen will take another hit in 2012 - in turn, coastal fishermen are planning to hit back at Washington DC sometime later this winter! A Northeast Fisheries Science Center report indicates that while the summer flounder stock was successfully rebuilt in 2010, angler harvest data compiled through the Marine Recreational Fishing Statistical Survey (MRFSS) and applied to NOAA assessment models predicts fishing mortality rate will be exceeded in 2011, once again causing statutory overfishing to occur. In addition to known flaws with the MRFSS data, independent scientists have also been critical of the assessment models used by the federal fisheries service.\r\n\r\nCiting new findings, the Mid Atlantic Fishery Management Council (MAFMC) warns that harvest limits originally recommended by council members for 2012 are actually too high and may need to be reduced. On top of recent reports from the South Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico regional fishery management councils that sea bass and red snapper fisheries have also been closed to anglers due to flawed data, the Recreational Fishing Alliance (RFA) said they are moving forward with another rally in Washington DC later this winter like the one held during the winter of 2010.\r\n\r\n“In conducting stock assessments, NOAA Fisheries is using recreational harvest data deemed fatally flawed and woefully inaccurate by the National Academy of Sciences, which is exactly why Congress told them to stop using MRFSS as of 2009,” said Jim Donofrio, RFA’s executive director. “Whether it’s sea bass, red snapper or fluke, annual or semi-annual stock assessments don’t mean squat when you’re using illicit data and questionable models.”\r\n\r\n“Five years is long enough to wait for Congress to react, so if they’re not coming to us then it looks like we’ll be heading back to see them this winter,” he added.\r\n\r\nReauthorized in 2006 by unanimous consent with support from ‘green’ groups like Pew Charitable Trusts and their Pew-funded affiliates including Marine Fish Conservation Network and Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, the Magnuson Stevens Act calls for rigid rebuilding deadlines while incorporating annual catch limits (ACLs) and accountability measures like catch shares to help ratchet down regulatory controls on fishermen.\r\n\r\n“RFA has taken our lumps by some in the industry because we’ve been so openly vocal about the issues with Magnuson while also rallying for more accountability from our federal government, but who can sit back quietly while this injustice continues,” Donofrio asked, adding “this is a jobs issue.”\r\n\r\nLast week, Donofrio appeared before a House Resource Committee hearing on behalf of America’s coastal anglers, and specifically brought up the issue of NOAA’s inattention to meeting require- ments set forth by Congress. “We don’t have a data collection program that Congress mandated in the 2007 reauthorization for marine recreational statistics, the new MRIP program, they’re still using the MRFSS data and they’re shutting down fisheries,” Donofrio told committee members,” adding “they told the judge we’re not using MRFSS data anymore.”\r\n\r\nTwo years ago, RFA brought a federal lawsuit against NOAA for closing the black sea bass fishery using data compiled through MRFSS. Based on the NOAA testimony, a federal judge determined that there would no future fishing closures based on MRFSS data given the fact that NOAA was no longer using MRFSS, rendering RFA’s lawsuit moot. That’s a concern which Donofrio and the RFA have specifically brought to the attention of Congress.\r\n\r\n“NOAA’s legal team essentially showed a copy of the Magnuson reauthorization of 2007 showing where Congress mandated that MRFSS be replaced as of January 1, 2009,” Donofrio said. “While NOAA has yet to meet their congressional obligation three full seasons later, our recreational fishing community is being forced to adhere to a broken law enforced by an overzealous and contentious enforcement office.”\r\n\r\nDonofrio told House Resource Committee members that coastal businesses are having a bad enough time staying open in a down economy, but when combined with burdensome regulations based on hopelessly flawed harvest data, many recreational fishing professionals have been get- ting out of the business entirely. “They’re disgusted with federal regulations that are not allowing them to fish on rebuilt stocks and NOAA’s not doing a thing about it, what they want to do is add more layers of bureaucracy that costs more money when they’re not spending the money to keep us fishing,” Donofrio said.\r\n\r\nIn response to a question from Rep. Jon Runyan (R-NJ) Donofrio said issues experienced within the New Jersey congressman’s home district were the same as those down in the southeastern United States and throughout the Gulf, “all the way down to Mr. Southerland’s district,” he added, referencing committee member Rep. Steve Southerland who also took NOAA to task at the recent hearing. “We have people sitting at the dock can’t catch red snapper because the stock assessments and the data that NOAA’s been using is flawed, we’re literally tripping over red snapper, tripping over them” Donofrio said.\r\n\r\nSince 2007, RFA and their coastal allies have vocally pressed forth with support for legislation to reform the Magnuson Stevens Act to rewrite the fouled language which has allowed NOAA to shirk its responsibilities while punishing coastal fishing communities. Donofrio said it’s been an uphill battle because of congressional gridlock and an industry divided. “A handful of legislators were led to believe that Magnuson was just fine back in 2006, but that’s obviously not the case,” Donofrio said.\r\nAccording to MAFMC chairman Rick Robins, part of the problem with summer flounder is the fact that NOAA Fisheries is taking important scientific funding away from his council and shifting the spending up north. “The current situation is an unfortunate consequence resulting from the redirection of Science Center resources to New England groundfish,” Robins said. While the MAFMC is in the process of scheduling meetings with the science and statistical committees to review the information before their December meetings, independent scientists including Brian Rothschild and Mark Maunder have openly challenged the data used by NOAA scientists in their assessments models.\r\n“There are scientists in the field who have critical data with regard to summer flounder to chal- lenge the government’s unreasonable findings, but the only way to shake some sense into this government bureaucracy is through an act of Congress,” Donofrio said. “Without a new benchmark assessment or peer review of the government data, there’s no way for individual anglers and independent scientists to challenge the data,” he said.\r\n\r\nDonofrio said the best option for protecting the future of saltwater angling opportunities is to fix a broken law while securing legislative commitments to overhauling a big government bureaucracy which he says “has gone rogue” in the past 3-1/2 years. “Comprehensive reform of the law is the only choice right now, and the quicker the industry realizes that they’ve been hoodwinked by anti- fishingintereststhequickerwecanaddressourcoastalaccessissuesinfrontofCongress,” headded.\r\n\r\n“There are several different Magnuson reform bills in Congress right now, including the more comprehensive version in HR3061,” Donofrio said, adding “what we need is get the whole suite of legislation into committee for review and debate so that we can get the law fixed now to protect jobs.”\r\n\r\n<strong>About Recreational Fishing Alliance</strong>\r\n<em>The Recreational Fishing Alliance is a national, grassroots political action organization representing recreational fishermen and the recreational fishing industry on marine fisheries issues. The RFA Mis- sion is to safeguard the rights of saltwater anglers, protect marine, boat and tackle industry jobs, and ensure the long-term sustainability of our Nation’s saltwater fisheries. For more information, call 888-JOIN-RFA or visit <a href=\"http://www.joinrfa.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.joinrfa.org</a>.</em>','RFA Calls on Fishermen to Unite','','inherit','open','open','','425-revision-2','','','2011-12-16 16:18:23','2011-12-16 21:18:23','',425,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=427',0,'revision','',0),(428,1,'2011-12-01 16:19:22','2011-12-01 21:19:22','<h2>Park officials shun stakeholders and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission by proposing large marine reserves.</h2>\r\nNational Park Service officials at Biscayne National Park released a draft General Management Plan (GMP) which, despite opposition from numerous stakeholders and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), proposes to close over 20 percent of the park’s public waters to recreational fishing and other activities.\r\n\r\n“The Biscayne National Park management plan is just another example of the National Park Service viewing the public as an inconvenience,” said ASA Vice President Gordon Robertson. “Rather than attempting to balance resource conservation with public access, park officials apparently find it more convenient to simply close off massive areas of the park to the taxpay- ing public.”\r\n\r\nLocated adjacent to Miami, Fla., Biscayne National Park is the largest marine park in the National Park system and one of the country’s largest urban recreational fishing areas, sup- porting approximately 10 million angler trips per year. After several years of development, the draft GMP, which directs park uses and operations, was released on August 19, 2011. The current preferred alternative that is endorsed by park managers would establish a 10,522 acre marine reserve, or no fishing zone, and several “no combustion engine zones” which act as de facto no-fishing zones because their large size makes most of the waters inaccessible.\r\n\r\nManagement of the park’s fish and aquatic resources falls under a separate, but complimen- tary, Fishery Management Plan, which is guided by a partnership with the FWC to manage fisheries within the park. That partnership is defined in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), in which the FWC states their belief that marine reserves are overly restrictive and that less-restrictive management measures should be implemented in the park.\r\n\r\n“Park officials are attempting an end- around maneuver on the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission by claiming that the MOU does not apply to the park’s General Manage- ment Plan, even though marine reserves and other components of the GMP clearly affect fish and aquatic resource activities,”noted Robertson.“Florida’s anglers trust the FWC to effectively manage fisheries resources, and the Park Service’s blatant disregard of the commission should not be tolerated.”\r\n\r\nRobertson further said, “Unfortunately, this isn’t the only instance of Biscayne National Park of- ficials operating autonomously in developing the GMP. Several years ago, a working group was brought together to develop recommendations for managing the park’s fisheries. However, because these recommendations did not include marine reserves, park officials decided to, essentially, throw them out.”\r\n\r\n“It is ASA’s position that the most significant concern facing Biscayne National Park’s natural resources is inadequate enforcement of current regulations,” said Mike Leonard, ASA’s Ocean Resource Policy director. “Traditional fisheries management measures currently in place could effectively sustain healthy fisheries, but these are not being adequately enforced. Recreational anglers and the businesses they support should not be penalized because park managers view marine reserves as a quick and easy fix.”\r\n\r\nAnglers are encouraged to submit comments on the Biscayne National Park GMP. Suggested talking points and information on how to comment are available on <a href=\"http://www.KeepAmericaFishing.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.KeepAmericaFishing.org</a>.','National Park Service Plans to Shut Anglers Out of Biscayne National Park','','publish','open','open','','national-park-service-plans-to-shut-anglers-out-of-biscayne-national-park','','','2013-04-02 12:57:27','2013-04-02 16:57:27','',0,'http://www.coastalmariner.com/?p=428',24,'post','',0),(429,1,'2011-12-16 16:19:31','2011-12-16 21:19:31','\nPark officials shun stakeholders and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission by proposing large marine reserves.\nNational Park Service officials at Biscayne National Park released a draft General Management Plan (GMP) which, despite opposition from numerous stakeholders and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), proposes to close over 20 percent of the park’s public waters to recreational fishing and other activities.\n“The Biscayne National Park management plan is just another example of the National Park Service viewing the public as an inconvenience,” said ASA Vice President Gordon Robertson. “Rather than attempting to balance resource conservation with public access, park officials apparently find it more convenient to simply close off massive areas of the park to the taxpay- ing public.”\nLocated adjacent to Miami, Fla., Biscayne National Park is the largest marine park in the National Park system and one of the country’s largest urban recreational fishing areas, sup- porting approximately 10 million angler trips per year. After several years of development, the draft GMP, which directs park uses and operations, was released on August 19, 2011. The current preferred alternative that is endorsed by park managers would establish a 10,522 acre marine reserve, or no fishing zone, and several “no combustion engine zones” which act as de facto no-fishing zones because their large size makes most of the waters inaccessible.\nManagement of the park’s fish and aquatic resources falls under a separate, but complimen- tary, Fishery Management Plan, which is guided by a partnership with the FWC to manage fisheries within the park. That partnership is defined in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), in which the FWC states their belief that marine reserves are overly restrictive and that less-restrictive management measures should be implemented in the park.\n“Park officials are attempting an end- around maneuver on the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission by claiming that the MOU does not apply to the park’s General Manage- ment Plan, even though marine reserves and other components of the GMP clearly affect fish and aquatic resource activities,”noted Robertson.“Florida’s anglers trust the FWC to effectively manage fisheries resources, and the Park Service’s blatant disregard of the commission should not be tolerated.”\nRobertson further said, “Unfortunately, this isn’t the only instance of Biscayne National Park of- ficials operating autonomously in developing the GMP. Several years ago, a working group was brought together to develop recommendations for managing the park’s fisheries. However, because these recommendations did not include marine reserves, park officials decided to, essentially, throw them out.”\n“It is ASA’s position that the most significant concern facing Biscayne National Park’s natural resources is inadequate enforcement of current regulations,” said Mike Leonard, ASA’s Ocean Resource Policy director. “Traditional fisheries management measures currently in place could effectively sustain healthy fisheries, but these are not being adequately enforced. Recreational anglers and the businesses they support should not be penalized because park managers view marine reserves as a quick and easy fix.”\nAnglers are encouraged to submit comments on the Biscayne National Park GMP. 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You put a reel on the rod and went fishing but some- thing just didn’t feel right. The rod and reel combo did not perform to your expectations. The distance and accuracy fell short of your requirements, and the sensitivity was poor or non-existent.\r\n\r\nSo, what went wrong? You thought you did your homework and checked with your fishing friends to get their input. You researched different manufactures on-line, and you wore the print off the pages of your favorite mail-order catalog. So off you go to your favorite tackle store armed with all the info you thought you needed. Talking to the salesperson they agree and say, “That’s what I use” or something along that line.\r\n\r\nThe facts are: most rod manufactures mark the rod specs and actions ALMOST the same. For example, a medium action rod with an extra fast tip from one manufacturer is a medium action with a fast tip from another, even though both specify, extra-fast. 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