This year, we pretty much only shot video, using my Evo 4g with an 8 mp onboard camera. It’s really the first time I’ve edited one of my videos down for release, and I can see a few obvious problems, such as the horizontal vs. vertical issue which has got to be as rookie as you get. Still, I think it came together well enough to share. So without further ado, the 2012 New England Boat Show in 4 minutes……
I shot plenty of video as I walked around the 2011 Boat Show with my two daughters, but I haven’t had time to post edit and honestly, I’m not sure it’s all that good to begin with. My hand shake (essential tremor) has gotten bad enough that I don’t think I should be handling the lens work anymore. My initial thought was that there were a whole lot more ski and sun boats this year. The true coastal fishing machines…
I should (hopefully…fingers crossed) have a vidcast from the floor of the boat show for you tomorrow. Depending on my ability to edit it down into something approximating a coherent effort. Which is a bit of a tall order, seeing as I shot the whole thing on my iPhone. The good stuff will be in the video. But for now a few random observations: Attendance appeared to be on par with last year. Admission price was less, at $13 per…
For the past couple weeks I’ve been tweeting for the Reel-Time.com site under the Twitter handle “Reel_Time” and I’ve found some very interesting trends. Most disturbing is that Twitter doesn’t really appear to be an extension of the conversations that start on my site, it appears to be something wholly different. Similar conversations in a place where I don’t get any ad revenue. As of yet, I’m not seeing this as increasing the value of the Reel-time.com brand. Of course,…
Over the past couple months, I’ve been working nights and weekends to get Reel-time.com updated and running on WordPress. The project, while far from complete, reached critical mass this week and I was able to go live Tuesday night. This site has been around since 1995, and frankly, if you knew where to look, it was showing it’s age. The homepage was left justified, which is something designers haven’t been doing since around 2001. There were a lot of challenges. …
(Note: I wrote this on the second day of the boat show, but only now, two weeks later have I been able to find the time to process the images…) Yesterday was one of the days I look forward to for the entire year: the day I attend the New England Boat Show at the Boston Convention and Exposition Center on the pier in Boston. I’ve been attending as long as I can remember, first tagging along with my dad,…
(Update: In thinking about this, I believe my fundemental problem is that while I’ve crowd sourced content generation, I am now at a point where I need to crowd source some of the content entry, formatting and editing tasks…) I’ve been editing the Fishwire Reports at Reel-Time.com since 1995. The task has generally been hugely manual, requiring tons of my time, most of which has happened over the years between the hours of 4am and 9am on Friday mornings. In…
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…
A busy afternoon – I’ve posted new reports for Boston and for Cape Cod on Reel-Time.com In Boston, we’re still waiting on a real appearance by the bluefish. Very strange, they haven’t been so late that I can recall. It kind of reminds me of the stories the old timers told me back in the 1970’s that they remember not seeing blues in the 30s and 40s north of Cape Cod. School bluefin are showing out at Stellwagen, so the…
Peter Vican caught a 75.4 lb. striped bass off the reef at Block Island over the weekend. Well, it was the Block Island reef, as the story in the Providence Journal says, he normally fishes off Block Island, and in the tradition of real striper fishermen, he apparently wasn’t even willing to admit he was in the Atlantic Ocean. The current world record striped bass on hook and line is 78-pound 8-ounces and was caught by Al McReynolds during a…