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Reel-Time Fishwires Updated

A Bonito

In the Cape Cod Fishwire for Reel-Time.com this week I spent a little more time than usual actually delving into the issue of rotten inshore catches of striped bass off the Boston coast. Basically I note (with statistics) that two of the past 4 years have been some of the worst spawning years since the 1980′s, when the fish almost ceased to exist. Not a good thing…

To the North in the Boston Fishwire, I have good reports of tuna and even some bluefish showing off Plum Island. The stripers are making a better show of it in both Boston and Plymouth Harbors, but its still a dog of a season for most of us. Check out the commercial catch stats I posted in the Cape Cod report…very interesting.

Tags: bluefish, bonito, reel-time.com, Saltwater Fly Fishing, Striped Bass, striped bass spawing statistics

07 Aug 08 | Fishing, Striped Bass, bonito | Comments (0)

My Reel-Time Fishwire Reports are Up…

Cape Cod Fishwire for July 3, 2008

Boston Fishwire for July 3, 2008

I’d sworn last September I was done writing the Reel-Time Fishwires (weekly fishing reports). When NameMedia bought Reel-Time.com I realized that just wasn’t in the cards. So I’m now finding the fun in the reports again. A couple things I noted as I posted this week:

The Fishwire management system is antiquated. It was a nice try in 2001 when it was built, and frankly I hated it then. It has not improved with time.
Flush left page templates look like 1999.
Lots of broken links. Tons of them.

The long and the short of the story is that I’ve got a lot of work to do.

Tags: boston fishing report, cape cod fishing report, reel-time.com, Saltwater Fly Fishing

04 Jul 08 | Fishing, Striped Bass | Comment (1)

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