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…
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…
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…