All Things Cahill

Boston and Cape Cod Fishwire Reports for July 10

Boston…When the Going Gets Weird

I’ll try not to spoil it for you.  Basically, there’s a lot of talk how the stripers aren’t turning up inshore.  Tons of bait, and it’s going unmolested about it’s business.

The theories are many, but I question whether it’s a fundamental shift due to the declines in the cod that have allowed the stripers to take up residence as alpha dogs on Stellwagen.  At least until the bluefin really assert themselves.

Cape Cod…The Haves and Have Nots

On the Cape, much the same thing.  The Canal is deadsville.  But the outer beaches and Monomoy are looking good.  Plus, the rumors of bonito abound, but nothing I’m ready to believe yet.  Figure within the next two weeks it breaks loose.

Tags: boston fishing report, cape cod fishing report, Saltwater Fly Fishing

Reel-Time.com Acquired By NameMedia

In what has become an utterly bizarre turn of the tables, NameMedia Inc. has bought Reel-time.com - the site I have been working with since 1995 or 1996 as managing editor, head geek and general do-what-needs-to-be-done guy, is now owned by my current employer.

It’s a great thing for Thorne Sparkman, who is now able to repay the investors in the site. David Churbuck (he blogs on this story here)  and I had been almost completely disengaged and had no financial stake in the final buy out. The big winner is honestly the community which now will actually move forward, vs. being in a holding pattern.

Last September, when I posted my final Fishwire Report for the Boston Region (a report of what’s going on for saltwater fly fishermen) I swore it would be the last. Yesterday, I wrote two of them…handling both Boston and Cape Cod. The good news is that I was for the first time able to write them during normal working hours, instead of getting up at 4 in the morning.

Reel-Time.com was a niche online community before anyone had any idea that such a thing could exist. In a lot of ways we invented, identified or were afflicted by, just about anything you now hear about termed as “Social Networking” or “Social Media.”

So as things change, in many ways they stay the same for me.  I’m now back where I began, at Reel-Time.com and after 13 years, I couldn’t be happier.  Now if I can just get some fishing time in.

Tags: david churbuck, reel-time.com, social media, Social Networking, thorne sparkman