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Mazda may be known for "Zoom-Zoom", but the company's midsize sedan offering has never been a big sales success in the U.S. market. However, Mazda is looking to make its Mazda6 a credible player in a market dominated by the Camry/Accord/Altima/Fusion/Sonata.
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I recall hearing an radio interview with Mark Hamill a year or so ago, and he mentioned the fact that in his Star Wars contract he gets a cut from any action figure which bears his realistic likeness. In other words, if the figure looks like Mark Hamill, he gets a cut... if it doesn't, he gets nothing. In the interview he specifically refered to some Luke Skywalker figures that look like a "Ken doll" being the ones he gets nothing from.
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After being on the boat for a few years I have picked up on some things from watching others while I am at the helm. I thought it might be useful to share some of those thoughts and get a dialogue going about fly fishing from a boat. I say that because I think there are distinct differences between using the long wand from shore and from a boat. Often I find that anglers, who dont fish from the boat very often, think it will be easier to catch fish and require less skill as you can just drive the boat to the fish. While I agree that the boat does offer distinct advantages I also feel it presents unique challenges.
The first challenge is line control. While fishing from shore the anglers feet are planted on solid ground. This is not the case in the boat, unless anchored. In the boat you will be drifting, with the rate of the drift dependent on wind and current. An angler needs to understand what the boat is doing and how it will impact the fly on the end of your line. When casting up drift your fly line will come tight on its own and stay that way with the fly being automatically retrieved at the speed of the drift. Casting down drift will achieve the opposite result with the boat over running the fly unless you retrieve faster than the rate of the drift. Casting at angles to the drift will help limit its impact and can often be a very effective way to get a good swing. While you could write volumes on the different situations you can encounter, I will address two to illustrate how different techniques can be applied to deal with the challenges associated with each situation.
The first situation, which I encounter very often while fishing for hard tails, is casting down drift. This is a very common cast as one of the best ways to get on these speedsters is to motor up wind and drift down on the pod of busting fish. This strategy allows for a long cast by the angler and quiet approach for the boat. As we discussed earlier, if the angler were to make the cast and do nothing the boat would over run the fly line and greatly reduce the chances of a hookup. The first and most important thing the angler must do in this situation is trap the line in his stripping hand before the fly hits the water. This allows the angler to begin the retrieve immediately and prevents any excess slack from forming in the line.
After that there are a few other things that can be done depending on the conditions. If you are fishing in strong winds with fish on top I advocate the use of a floating line or at least an intermediate. A sinking line creates a hinge effect that magnifies the impact of the drift with the line sinking back toward the boat. With a floater or intermediate the line will stay up in the water column and minimize the impact. An added benefit with the floater is that you can easily pick up and recast to moving fish! If you find the fish are feeding deeper in the water column and need to use a sinking line, I like to use a stripping basket and a two handed retrieve. When combined with the immediate trapping of the line this allows you to create a seamless retrieve that can easily be adjusted for the rate of drift. Using a sink tip with a floating running line should also help reduce the hinge effect.
The second situation is blind casting relatively shallow flats where I advocate casting at angles to the drift. In this situation casting in this manner achieves two objectives. The first is that you should be presenting to fish that have not been spooked by the drifting boat. The second is that you can vary your retrieve more effectively as you have minimized the impact of the drift. While this cast should be simple it does have its challenges, especially when two anglers are fishing. Most boats will drift down wind. That means that both anglers will be casting down the same side of the boat toward each other. The solution here is patience and communication. Both anglers need to wait till the other angler has made his presentation and let the other angler know if you are going to cast. This really applies to every situation but I find this is the one where most flies kiss!
Casting in general is the second biggest challenge I see on the boat. The additional variables again are moving water and wind. From shore the angler generally sets up in a single location and makes a presentation toward roughly the same area time and again with a similar cast. This may be a traditional forward cast with your dominant hand, casting off the back cast or even switching to your opposite hand. The difference on the boat is that you may need to make all three of those casts within just a few seconds while determining which one is appropriate at the same time. Further complicating this task is a boat that is rocking back and forth underneath you. While there is no substitute for time on the water, I do think there are a couple points that can be made that will help speed the learning curve for an angler stepping on a boat for the first time.
The first point is that it is better to make one good cast than three bad ones. If you need a few extra seconds to get your footing or get a feel for the wind it will be better than hooking yourself, landing on your butt, or worse hooking the captain! The second piece of advice I can offer is to do your best to find a rhythm with the boat. The guys I see having the most trouble casting in the bow are the ones that are constantly trying to fight the sway of the boat. In addition, if the boat has a good amount of freeboard, use it to your advantage by leaning against it for stability. The last suggestion deals with wind and choosing the appropriate cast. While on shore you can always adjust your cast so that the wind is coming over your opposite shoulder. On the boat this is not the case. For instance if you are in the stern and the boat is drifting toward the fish (downwind) you can not simply turn around or switch hands as you would be casting over the center of the boat and greatly increasing the risk of hooking your partner. Unless the wind is completely unmanageable, I recommend casting using water hauls and as much angle into the wind as possible. It is possible to use a steeple style cast in this situation as well but in the heat of the moment this can be very risky and I dont recommend it.
I hope this has been useful and look forward to hearing others insights.
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Sean, this is a great post . . . enlightening. I think anyone who regularly fishes from shore will gain a lot of insight on the nature of the sport from a boating perspective. Things are definitly different, and at times more difficult (as you describe) when fishing from a moving platform, especially insofaras casting and retrieving are concerned. These details are hard to describe - you explain them well. I would suggest polishing this up and submitting it to one of the magazines for wider availability to students of the sport. This is good stuff - thanks!
I've read this post with great interest several times and as I mentioned the other night it's not one to solicit the usual glib reply. It invokes a lot of thought and as Alan said, insight.
Although I have been landlocked since moving east I've spend decades fishing from a boat overall mostly on the pacific for salmon and over the last ten for stripers and local species.
Pacific salmon flyfishing is interesting. Tides out there were much stronger than ours, and the fishing required a very diverse range from double-handed ripping for topwater coho to depth charging lines as deep as possible updrift, passing over the sinking line, then stripping up as the boat drifts tight. Chinook salmon love an ascending fly and rowdy coho salmon will smash foam poppers. Line control is key absolutely.
Mostly stripers since, abd another point I'd add to your angle cast on a shallow drift is that fish will follow a drifting boat to take a fly. I prefer the transom if the objective is to catch more fish. There are retrieve techniques and situations where the guy stuck at the motor cleans house.
In strong winds in addition to the good advice about lines is drift technique. The outdrive always creates more drag than the bow, so the bow leads. The guy on fore deck can cast either way with the line over the water. visibility is good, but the downside is the line is along the hull in a flash.
The guy on the transom has a crosswind but the upside is his line is in the water forever. I use a water load to get my line out into the swing lane rather than bring the line over the boat. I prefer the transom when the wind is strong.
As tricky as the boat fishing can get, the coverage give the boat angler ten times the shots to blow. The shore angler's ratio of good casts to total casts must be that much more precise to hook as many fish.
I think they each have their challenges, and the complete anglers learns as much as he or she can.
GREAT thread, and I would love to see the full article in a mag as Al points out.
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Thanks for the positive feedback guys. Hopefully a few have read this and gained some insight that will help on a future trip.
As pointed out by Juro's post I think there are just too many situations to discuss each one individually. I think the one key point here is that the angler must take the movement of the boat into account when selecting a retrieve. In an extreme example I could cast up drift and pay out line, then cast down drift and strip like a mad man and yet the fly would behave the same in each situation. If you are thinking about that as you fish I think you are ahead of the game.
Drift technique is a another whole topic in my opinion. There are just as many numerous ways to skin that cat. Maybe we should outline some topics for a monthly review and address each one separately. I will try to put something together on that front.
Great post. I've discovered these challenges over the years from foot, kayak, and boat, and they're always worth discussing in the interest of uncovering nuggets of new advice or perspective.
Most of my "boat" fishing the past two years has been from a kayak, and even then I mostly use the craft to get from point A to B, then get out and wade fish. But there have been plenty of situations that have presented themselves while fishing from the kayak to learn that it doesn't behave like a typical boat, and presentation is far different because of the much lower profile. The flip side to the presentation challenges is that because of a kayak's stealth, long presentations are rarely needed.
Thanks for starting this thread.
Hi Sean, this is a great post and "article" so go for it.
Much of what you wrote is also applicable to fishing from a boat on still water (Lakes) with the obvious absence of tidal movement. However, many so called still water situations involve some form of current in the lake and wind drift is always there. I mostly fish for pike and trout on still waters but the presentation techniques and casting angle discussion you alid out is very applicable. The one point you should consider adding is the role that the "captain" plays in positioning and running the boat at specific angles. When I was out with you some time back, this aspect was critical to our success that day, as it was with other "East Coast Buddies/Captains/Guides" that I've been fortuate to get out with on their boats. In my very limited experience with fishing the salt from a boat, East & West coasts, the knowledge that the "captains" have about this element of running a boat for fly fishers/fly casting & presentation & lines being used is critical. On a few occasions, I've had to "help out" inexprerienced captains/guides understand that boat positioning and management of wind drift & current is much more critical when FFishing Vs. other forms e.g. spin & bait etc. But this has only happened in the upper NW of BC, never close to your home waters!
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Very thoughtful post. Another thing I just learned from Capt. Ray on our last outing was that the position that the skeg from the motor is left at has a lot to do with the drift. I`d like to hear more about how to fine tune my drifts.
I use skeg position very often when anchored in my boat. I anchor from the bow and let the tide/wind position the stern downcurrent. If I want the stern to shift to the port side, I turn the steering wheel to the right so that the force of current can push against the skeg and move it to the left. I do the opposite if I want the stern to shift to the starboard side.
It's not unlike wind on a sail.
Good to hear from you. I had a great time that day. Please let me know if you make it down again next season.
I think setting a drift and boat handling/positioning would make for a great discussion as well. As Mark points out it can be as simple as turning the wheel to get the boat to turn during the drift or while anchored. I think there are other nuances as well that could serve for some great discussion. I will try to put some thoughts together on that topic as well but it needs more time than I have at the moment.
Just come across this thread. Wish it was posted in the Saltwater Section for more eyes to see.
Lots of good stuff, advise and insights.
Here's an insight that might help some that comes with experience on the water.
Like Slinger said, "Using your skeg position helps with drift."
Here's a modification of that same tactic.
Lock your motor in gear than turn off the key during drifts.
Locking the prop does two things.
Slows down the drift further with more friction.
Lines can't tangle under the boat around the prop as easy.
The reason lines tangle badly around the prop is the fact that the prop is free spinning due to the drift. Think about that for a second.
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However, refueling would have been a issue and that could be their only defense. He would have to come out and state the fact and gave him a way to save some face.
This a stage show because nobody is under oath.
The ideal system for this mission was the AC-130 but those are slow-movers and there apparently wasn't one within immediate striking distance. They're normally based in the UK.
What will probably happen is that DoD will assess all aspects of the situation and be better prepared for such an instance in the future. This is as it always has been, we always plan how to better win the last war.
What is going on now is really just political posturing and I personally hold it against both sides. If Congress were intent on anything else, they'd have the Pentagon prepare an internal report on "Lessons Learned" and present it in secret.
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Belize in Late January
Fished out from Belize City the last week of January in the hopes of catching some Baby Tarpon and Snook, which, according to the lodge promos were in good numbers at this time. The first day, we stayed at the main lodge, the remaining time we spent on a really lovely Caye about 15 miles out and just inside the Belize reef. Let me say, right up front, the all personnel involved with the lodge operation were first-rate, thoroughly professional, and did every thing they could to make for a pleasant stay.
The fishing was bad beyond belief. For the entire trip, I caught one bonefish (which I didn't really want to fish for, but the guide insisted on because it was the only game in town). When we could, we cast endlessly into the mangroves for Snook and Tarpon, and, on very rare occasions, one of us (we were a party of six) would get a strike. Someone of us did land a Snook one day, and on another occasion we saw hundreds of permit, but could not get one to strike. On the very last day, two of our guys got into a mess of feeding juvenile tarpon right at last light and had fun hooking and mostly losing them on poppers. If fact, poppers seemed the most successful lure. If there was such a thing.
We made it pretty explicit that we wanted to fish solely for tarpon and snook, but as I said, we spent most of our time fishing for small bonefish, which I could care less about when there are 'poons and snook around. The bonefish did give the guides something to do besides scratch their heads wondering where the tarpon and snook were; it also gave them a wonderful opportunity to tell us, over and over again, what we were doing wrong and why we weren't catching anything. I admit, I'm a horrible bonefish angler, but I didn't enjoy having my face rubbed in the fact, day after day.
The one time I had a fair shot at some snook, which the guide spotted leaving the mangroves roots and venturing into a small pocket surrounded by said roots about fifty feet away, I screwed it up. I made one cast back into the pocket and a Snook followed the fly out and dogged it for about ten feet; then stopped. I stopped stripping the fly and the fish lost interest an swam back into the pocket. The guide helpfully explained what I'd done wrong and suggested I cast again.
I did. Straight into the mangroves. A three-wrap around an overhanging mangrove branch I had failed to allow for.
And that was it for that, and my Snook fishing for the trip.
I had been to the same place a couple of years ago and had decent fishing for baby tarpon and small snook. That was in November and we were told the fishing was much better in January.
So. What happened to all the fish?
One theory: It's an urban fishery.
Belize City is home to many thousands of desperately poor people who have very little to eat. There is a lot of netting, at night, by those who can, and the fish are sold at affordable prices to these hungry people. The City grows daily from immigration from Guatemala and other Central American countries, and the immigrants are hungry and need to be fed. It is illegal to fish for tarpon and snook commercially, but enforcement of the ban is problematical for a number of reasons. Because cruise ships are such a huge economic engine for Belize City, in-shore sport fishing is not too high in importance. The cruise ship dollars more than make up for any loss of revenue from fly-fishermen.
If this theory about the lack of fish is correct, the inshore sport-fishing near Belize City is doomed.
I know I'll never go back there again, nor will any of my party. Of course, I know fishing is fishing and you're bound to get burned every once in a while, that's just part of the game. But. I can't afford to dump $3,000 on a gamble when it looks like the odds are stacked against me.
I love Tarpon. I like Snook. I'll find them somewhere other than near Belize City.
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yikes - doesn't sound like a fun trip Eric
There are still some great DIY opportunities out there, at least you can really do what you want although the results aren't always better it would drive me totally nuts to have no choice of what to chase after.
As a guide, if the clients ask for a certain experience that I felt isn't the most promising I would accommodate as long as they understand the situation. Perhaps after a day or two one would acquiesce, but it would be your own choice and it sounds like they pushed you into doing what they wanted to do instead.
Puerto Rico is a great place for tarpon, but NOT the San Juan lagoon thing unless you want to squeeze a quickie in while you're near the airport. Look into the west end, Porta Del Sol where the locals go on their vacations. There are guides, but also boat rentals and lagoons with lots of tarpon and other species. I've seen permit in the 30# class as well, although was too occupied with the tarpon to change flies.
Bahamas bonefish, or better yet Hawaiian bones might change your mind about them too - I have heard those Mexi-bones are minnows.
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I know you said you were into tarpon and snook, and that you're terrible with bones. But if you want a great, I mean GREAT trip for bones, go to Los Roques. It's the best place I've been to for bonefish. They're plentiful and on average, a nice size. Most of the fish we've caught there were in the 3-4 pound range, and there were always big ones around. It's about $4K for a week there.
Thanks, Doc,
I appreciate your reply, but, frankly, bones are not my thing. Unless fish jump out of the water, I'm not terribly interested.
Then, too, a lot of planes seem to be crashing going to and from The Rocks.
A mighty high five to you, though, because at least you replied to my post. I don't know why Juro's site is so dead. I really thought my post on my thoroughly unreliable, yet expensive, celebrity reel would get some comments.
But no.
People read this stuff. But don't comment.
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So, what's my point here? People are reading this. There's a counter going all the time. Why aren't people posting? Juro bled his life's blood to make this work. Please, if you have something to say about any of the idiotic things I post, or the very helpful things others post, please comment and keep this
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LOL - thanks Eric, but no worries my friend. People will post when things thaw out over most of the nation I'm sure.
BTW all of the years of activity with all it's peaks and valleys has made it quite the archive of knowledge! I just used the search option to research my upcoming trip.
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I generally don't like fishing flats in January. The weather makes it a crap shoot. I've fished belize two times and I thought the fishing was good with a wide range of opportunities. But I fished in march and the end of February (still a little early for my liking).
I would chalk up your experience to bad luck (no amount of money will trump luck). If you didn't like the guides, I wouldn't fish with them again. Having said that, a guide really only wants you to have a good time (catching fish). I suspect threw grew frustrated when their suggestions to catch bone fish were rebuffed. I usually go with the guides pick if things aren't going my way.
It's a big ocean with plenty of fish in the sea.
One cast can change your day...maybe your life.
Belize in January...been there done that and got the t shirt. Wouldn't go back then. Weather too unreliable. Fully understand wanting out of winter and a warm water break, but January can be tough in the northern hemisphere.
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Some interesting feedback. Thanks to all who replied. Life is a learning curve as long as we're on the planet. I'll follow the leads on the baby tarpon and snook.
I just wanted to say something about the Belize guides that may have been misunderstood.
I guided for steelhead on the Deschutes for a number of years and so, know a little bit about how a guide's mind works. People always tell you the experience is the thing and they don't care whether they catch fish or not.
Bull ****
If they didn't want to catch fish, they'd be off bird-watching somewhere.
It's fish. And it's fish (or at least action) at satisfying intervals. Steelhead are tough. Two fish a day is a respectable and desireable bag. Getting skunked is not unheard of. Landing five per day is a cause for celebration (at least in my circles).
Baby tarpon and Snook, where they are supposed to be abundant, on the other hand, are a different story. One expects action every day, landing the buggers or not. Decent probing of the mangrove pockets should pull one out every now and then. That's been my experience in Florida on Captiva/Sanibel, anyway.
So, there's the guide. Watching his sports casting their brains out for nothing and thinking, "God, where can I get these guys into fish." The guide runs here and the guide runs there with the same blank result. He's going nuts.
"Well", he thinks, "there are always bonefish. Maybe we can catch some of those they'll be happy and I'll feel better about this whole frustrating mess."
So, sort of intuiting this, I wasn't fishing for the bonefish because I wanted to. I was fishing for bonefish so the guide wouldn't feel so frustrated.
And, by the way, I have the utmost respect for the guides I fished with. They are knowledgeable, conscientious and hard working. Please understand that. They were doing their best to show us a good time; the stars just happened to be aligned against it, through no fault of theirs.
And, yes, the bone fish of Belize (at least where we were) are minis. They looked like brook trout patrolling a cirque lake.
And that's -30- for tonight, friends.
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well, in the interest of generating some posts...
What's the deal with snook? I just don't get it.
Bonefish has the beauty and strong runs, and they are often caught sight fishing in picturesque flats, leaving the angler with memories that will last a lifetime. The first time experiencing a feeding frenzy of tailing bones, where the tails reflect the low afternoon sun and light up the entire flat like Chinese lanterns, is almost a life changing event. The bigger ones can easily take 150 yards of backing from your reel, and the whole fish is essentially one big muscle, having escaped evolution with pure speed, paranoia and the ability to change their reflective color earning the name grey ghost. The perfect entry point to any tropical fishing, and when beyond the mini/size of Belize/Mexico, it's really the perfect gamefish, easily DIY-ed, and many fly fishermen, myself included, are in no hurry to advance through the ranks of species, because bonefishing can be fantastic.
Then of course the Permit, the elusive and notoriously difficult jack derivative, causing grey hairs in fishermen for years, often regarded as the top prize for any fisherman with single-digit AFTM class rod. Still of course sight fishing, that makes every fish special, and in permit circles one counts the spottings and attempts, and not just the caught ones. Catching a permit is a big deal, and its reluctance to eat a fly just makes it more interesting to the circle of addicts. Again this truly is a game of skill as cast, presentation and fly must be perfect, conceptually it is very similar to nymphing for a very selective brown trout, it really is the fisherman outsmarting a fish in a very specific way. Catching a big permit would crown any fly fishing career.
And continuing, there is of course the tarpon, the giant herring that grows to ridiculous sizes for any sane person to attempt with a fly rod, but apparently that only makes it more addictive. The tarpon is infamous for wild jumping, in an attempt to lose the fly, it can dance across the surface like nothing else, an excellent showman that grow so large that if one should manage to land a big one, you need to wide-angle camera to fit the fish in a picture. Very addictive fishing, and mostly sight fishing at that.
And then, of course the barracuda. I am in complete awe of this fish, the speed and predatory instincts of this species are truely amazing. They can jump like tarpon, and they can snag any prey in two with the precision and speed unmatched in the flats environments, even by sharks. And you can find them pretty much anywhere. Not very easy to catch on a fly, unless you can make long casts, but stripping your line when you see big cuda racing after your fly is fantastic fun, and their take is often so hard that hook-shank, wired leader and any knot would be lucky to survive it. Not as well suited for fly fishing and not usually a whole-day thing, but still, yeah I love the cudas.
and so on...
But what about the snook? In my mind, it has has absolutely nothing to offer. No blistering runs. No predatory instinct and ability like the cuda. It does not have the size of permit and tarpon, and as far as I know you blind fish after it around mangroves, and 99% of the time from a boat. And when you get one on the line, it remains utterly unspectacular, a little splashing at best, no strong runs, it's not a fish made for high speed swimming or acrobatics, it's made to lurk around mangroves unwilling to explore the its surroundings full of adventure. It's a fish that has given up the moment it is born. And after an unspectacular fight, you can land the thing. And it looks like a cod, which also describes how it fights. At least you can eat the cod...
Surely the snook is nothing more than a bi-product from real fishing. It's the equivalent of hunting seagulls with a gun, it's just not something you do, except as a distraction when opportunity finds you, not the other way around.
Never fished for snook in my life, but I'm headed for Ascension Bay a little later this month, and after I fail to catch permit, I might go snook fishing. I do not expect to like it.
I get the feeling that the last three paragraphs were all tongue-in-cheek. If so, well done, as you had me going for awhile. They need to come up with a true tongue-in-cheek emoticom (or not.)
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Sorry to hear your experience of fishing in Belize was not all it panned out to be, but off the coast of Belize in the Turneffe Atol is where you will get a great chance to catch Tarpon, Snook and of course Bonefish. email@example.com
New to this forum but I will delve into my Belize experiences. I have fished down there for the past 7 years for primarily permit. For the first 5 years, I fished for 7-10 days in April or May, and had success on each trip. One thing I noticed though is that this correlated to the peak season and while the flats were not over crowded you were often not alone. Last year I decided to fish for 8 days with Lincoln Westby in January. He was upfront on the weather and let me know that I could loose a day or two to weather. It was a gamble I was willing to take in return for some solitude. They day I arrived was overcast and rainy as a strong front approached and the next day was less than desirable weather wise; however, we were able to sneak in a quick fish in between squalls and bring a permit to the boat. The next 6 days the weather was perfect and we experienced numerous shots everyday with 3 more permit landed for a total of 4 for the 8day trip.
Based on this experience, I am heading back again in January in 2014. For me, I am willing to take the gamble of bad weather in return for the possible reward of fish that have seen relatively little pressure over the past several months.
A couple of things to keep in mind with Belize. If tarpon are your primary target then look at May into the summer when the migratory fish show up. There are residents that can be found year round but I would plan to fish for other species if outside of the migratory season. The Pelican range that I have fished with Lincoln/Blue Horizon has tons of permit but very few bonefish. Tarpon are around but it depends on whether or not the bait is around...if concentrated the fishing can be lights out for tarpon in the 40-60-lb range. Decide what you want to fish for and then do the research on the desirable areas. For example, the Turneffe Atoll has lots of bones on the Oceanside reefs that run larger than the small runts you often hear Belize associated with. Permit are also plentiful on the Oceanside flats as well as the inner lagoon. You will find tarpon in the cuts there and some large ones at that but it is primarily blind casting with an intermediate or sinking line. This could be a disappointment if you have your heart set on sight fishing the flats for them there. I would be hesitant with fishing around Belize City with the exception maybe being the Belize River for tarpon, and I would not devote a whole trip to that personally. Lots of gill netting in the past and closer to a big population center so it will receive more pressure. Never targeted snook down there so I can't really weigh in on the quality of fishing for them in Belize.
Thanks for the report. It's good have great details about the species, best fishing season and some locations for futuer reference.
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Spent a week at Blue Horizon, we did see a few permit but the fishing was very tough. The food was good and the guides were good but I wonder if the fishing pressure has had an affect on available permit or the shrimp boats that use to clean the shrimp and then hand line for permit in that area have, supposedly that activity has stopped.
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Homeowners who have been given the runaround by a contractor — "We'll be there next week to finish the job," they told you a month ago — can take comfort, sort of, in the knowledge that none of the lies and ineptitude were their fault.
After all, if Joey Smallwood's government could be ripped off by lazy, incompetent contractors, there's not much chance a Newfoundland (or Labrador) livyer would experience anything different.
The ongoing renovations at Confederation Building have uncovered shoddy workmanship on Smallwood's flagship phallic symbol. There is water leakage into the building, and rot. The estimated cost of replacing the windows has jumped to $56 million from $40 million.
Transportation and Works Minister Nick McGrath wins this week's award for Most Expressive Euphemism with his statement that renovators have found "significant structural inappropriateness."
In common language, some workers a half century ago apparently had the masonry skills of five-year-olds in a sandbox.
Imagine a scene from 1958. Workers are 200 feet up on scaffolding, applying bricks to the façade.
"There's a big gap here," says one.
"Just plug it," says another.
A deputy minister described it this week as "very messy construction." If even the provincial government can be susceptible to inept workmen, any hope that your contractor didn't or won't cut corners can pretty well be tossed out the window.
Of course, it is unfair to taint an entire industry because of a few leaks in political offices. But notice the strange silence of the builders' association. At times like this, a wise approach is to shut up and hope nobody notices.
The trouble is, hundreds — perhaps thousands — of homeowners probably did notice. It's not as if Joey was the first guy to have lousy caulking around his windows.
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"Messy construction" isn't limited to buildings, unfortunately. Anyone who regularly uses the Outer Ring Road or the Prince Philip Parkway must marvel at the ruts that grab wheels as if they're magnetized.
The Romans built roads that lasted centuries, but apparently Newfoundland (and Labrador) engineers are incapable of putting down pavement that won't sink within a decade or two.
Some people have erroneously blamed the ruts on studded tires. This is illogical and false. If studded tires created them, the ruts would run the entire length of the pavement; i.e., where studded tires went, ruts would follow.
But the ruts appear only in certain sections of road.
The cause is not on the pavement, but below it. Roads, like buildings, need a good, solid foundation. Ruts appear when a section of road has a faulty foundation — or "structural inappropriateness," as Nick McGrath might put it.
The people's representatives have good cause to haul some road-builders into court for negligence, dereliction of duty, etc., but — as we have seen lately — the government has a bad habit of letting paving companies skip out on their obligations.
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Nalcor Energy is supposedly only three years away from throwing the switch at the spanking new Muskrat Falls hydroelectric plant.
And yet, at this late stage, the Crown agency can't — or won't — tell ratepayers how much their monthly power bills are estimated to rise when Muskrat's juice begins to flow.
Nor can — or will — Nalcor tell the public how much its cost estimates for construction of the project have gone up.
Such secrecy is indefensible. But taxpayers can figure a few things out from experience. As with the renovations at the Confederation Building, and as with the construction of your back deck and/or additional room, building Muskrat Falls will cost considerably more than originally planned.
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VWs are 3-D environments where users' graphical representations, called avatars can interact with other avatars as well as objects within the environment. Additionally, users are allowed to create new objects. What particularly makes VWs highly attractive for many users is its similarity to the real world's appearance, coupled with its varied possibilities of interaction.Interaction is here seen as a multidirectional process in which students cooperate with instructors as well as other learners in real time activities, getting furthermore the opportunity to perform tasks in a collaborative way. The fact that a huge number of real-life activities can be reproduced or simulated makes VWs a highly immersive environment (Helmer, 20 07; Melchor Couto, 2010; Molka-Danielsen, 2009).While VWs have already been recognized by many educational institutions (universities, high schools, language academies, etc.) for having great potential for teaching and learning purposes (Consortium, 2007; Nardi, Ly, & Harris, 2007), Game-like language learning in 3-D virtual environments (PDF Download Available). Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234000674_Game-like_language_learning_in_3-D_virtual_environments [accessed Mar 24, 2017].
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If the location could be logged continuously, even draw a route on a google map, we could trace the thief easily by the street cameras on the route. https://twitter.com/#!/Commandor
I sometimes have my location "OFF" so i was wondering if the app would turn on location automatically? If that's not possible then i'll make sure to leave the location "ON" from now on. Twitter
ahem, a bit useless, as in the moment u take out SIM card, device has no connectivity, thus this application is rendered useless. i actually would not show a thief any warning messages, i would just trace the location and send it to the rightful owner with all the other data, including records of sound and picture...
Yawnzorz. Call me when a dev let's you password lock the ability to put the device in DFU. Find an iPhone? Power off. Remove SIM. Go home. Launch iTunes on computer. DFU. Restore.
What does this cute picture taking app do to prevent this? Nothing. No SIM? No location. No password attempt? No picture. $5 wasted, iPhone just as stolen as ever.
Want security? Code an app that prevents DFU without password. Also, make a website. Log in, report it lost/stolen, and no matter the SIM in the device, the phone constantly "phones home" GPS data, even if only on WiFi. Combine these features with the picture capture feature and the fact that VZW and Sprint ban ESN numbers and AT&T is cracking down heavily on ECID numbers will greatly improve the security.
But, I suppose this works against the run of the mill crackhead.
I've disabled powering off on my iPhone via the switch altogether, so it's impossible to power it off w/o knowing the passcode. And Find My iPhone is active. I'm sure most people don't have the pentalobular screwdriver, so it should be safe for long enough to get it back. Still like the idea of these apps, as long as they aren't battery/ram hogs.
Do we have to enter on twitter too? Or can I just enter the giveaway on here?
This is a cool app. But whats the point of "Texting you an alert" when your phone is stolen? I guess to your like, brother/sister/boy/girlfriends phone?
And ya... You can get a location of the phone and go knock on their door, but thats way more awkward if they just say sorry I don't have it lol
And what about the GOOD SAMARITANS of the country? I've found about 4 iPhones so far int he last year and I've rummaged through it and called the last person they called and traced it back to the owner successfully. With this layer of protection, you pretty much lose that good human ability. They can't do anything about it until you call them, or show up at their house.


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By Bobby Harrison/NEMS Daily Journal
JACKSON – Much of Gov. Phil Bryant's education package, including a proposal that would take funds from the state general fund to pay for private school tuition, passed the House Education Committee Wednesday.
The package passed in two bills. The Education Works bill includes a proposal that would stop many promotions at the third and seventh grade levels if students are not reading on grade level, a pilot merit teacher pay plan and a scholarship program to attract top students to the teaching profession.
The proposal will cost at least $17 million that still must be obtained through the state budgeting process even if the Education Works proposal is eventually passed by both chambers. Language in the bill was added by Appropriations Chair Herb Frierson, R-Poplarville, to say its enactment was contingent on state funding.
"The governor recognizes we don't want to mandate in K, first, second and third grades to districts if we don't pass the money to go with it," said Rep. John Moore, R-Brandon.
The bill will now be considered by the full House. A proposal that would allow students to cross district lines to attend school with the permission of the accepting district was stripped from the bill. It could be taken up separately at a later date.
Private School Aid
Also taken up and passed Wednesday in a separate bill was the governor's Opportunity Scholarship Program. It provides scholarships to attend private schools for students living in families earning up to 250 percent of the federal poverty level or $57,000 per year for a family of four.
The program would be available for students living in poor performing districts. To participate in the program, a private school must meet certain state guidelines for academic performance. The scholarships would be funded through corporations and people who would receive a state tax credit for their contribution. The program would be capped at $10 million.
The proposal passed with little debate.
Rep. Randy Boyd, R-Mantachie, pointed out, "If they are getting tax credits, less money is going into the general fund."
In proposing the program, Bryant said it would give students trapped in poor performing school districts another option.
The Mississippi Economic Policy Center said the program would take $10 million from struggling, underfunded schools while providing money to send 2,570 students to private schools. The Policy Center said there are more than 100,000 students in families earning less than 185 percent of the federal poverty level in poor performing districts.
Under the program, the Policy Center said parents of a student entering kindergarten who already planned to send the child to private school could take advantage of the scholarship.
The bill was amended in the Education Committee to allow the scholarships to also be used in prekindergarten programs.
Some have argued the scholarship program would be unconstitutional because a section of the Constitution prohibits state funds from being given to non-free schools. Bryant has argued the proposal is constitutional. The Education Committee did not discuss the constitutionality of the bill.
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Whether you call it connecting or bonding, women do it remarkably well. Certainly, this has been my experience. A recent shopping trip overwhelmingly confirmed my theory.
"Oooh, that looks lovely on you. You should get it!" my admirer told me. It was 7:30 a.m., and my favorite store was having a knock-down, drag-out sale. Take 80 percent off everything!
Oooh, Mama, I was in my glory! And so were my sisters--women I had never seen before in my life.
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"That color is very becoming."
"You really think so?"
"Oh, yes, but then again, everything you've tried on looks good on you."
As I headed back to my dressing room, I thought to myself, If only women could treat one another this way all the time.
In that crowd there were no masks, no pretenses. We were one, all on the same mission--to secure as many bargains as we could.
Every woman's coup was to be celebrated. All of us were giggling and twirling in front of the mirror, nurturing one another, pointing out one another's best assets.
So where does the image we have of catty women come from? From that ole serpent, that's who. Who else knows better the fact that a house divided against itself will not stand?
The word that came to Eve in the garden--that woman would have an overwhelming desire toward man--also gave birth to competition among women. Amazingly early we begin to compare notes. Hmm, let's see, who's got prettier hair, prettier eyes, a better figure?
Instead we should protect ourselves and one another. Collectively, we set the standard for how we are to be treated based on the respect we render to one another.
When we exhibit a competitive attitude toward another sister, we are sending powerful messages about ourselves. Rather than giving us any kind of edge, covetousness, envy and jealousy always cause us to lose.
SHUN EVIL COMPARISONS The book of 1 Samuel relates the story of Peninnah and Hannah. They were both married to the same man.
Peninnah had children. Hannah had been barren for quite some time. Peninnah took it upon herself to irritate and provoke Hannah because she was childless.
But Hannah got on her face before God, and she was blessed with a beautiful son, Samuel, whom she dedicated to the Lord. According to Scripture, Hannah's son went on to become a very important person in Israel. But there is no further mention of Peninnah's children.
God honors a heart that is in the right place. It is never wise to celebrate the seeming misfortunes or shortcomings of others.
Envy hardens the heart. Once hardened, it is filled with "every evil thing" (James 3:14-16, NKJV).
These thoughts can lead a woman to seek the emotional or physical harm of anyone who stands between her and what she wants. They are the bridge to sins she once swore she would never commit and things she said she would never do or say.
These things don't occur just in adulterous affairs. They can arise over desire for a particular man's attention or for influence in his life that now seems threatened by someone new.
This was the case with Miriam. She became upset that her brother Moses went and married an Ethiopian woman (see Num. 12:1).
The new wife was an unwelcome influence who had her brother's ear. She was black, different, an outsider.
It seems that Miriam had lost her standing, at least in her mind, and wanted it back badly. Unwilling to give up the reins, she instead began to resent the newcomer. So she talked against Moses and his wife.
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The family of a man, who was buried in a place against his partner's wishes, has lost a five-year legal battle to have his body buried with his ancestors, the Supreme Court has ruled.
James Takamore was interred at a marae in Bay of Plenty in accordance with tikanga, or Maori customs and traditions, after he died from an aneurism in 2007.
Since then his partner and executor of the will, Denise Clarke, has been fighting to have his body returned to Christchurch, where he lived with her and their two children for 20 years.
Both the High Court and the Court of Appeal ruled it was unlawful of Mr Takamore's family to take his body, but his sister Josephine Takamore appealed to the Supreme Court.
The case centred on whether the Court of Appeal was correct that the executor was entitled to decide on where a body should be buried.
Ms Clarke was entitled to proceed and have the body exhumed for a reburial in a place of her choosing.
Mr Takamore was buried in August 2007 in Kutarere in Bay of Plenty, alongside his father and other family members.
His family believed their actions were justified according to tikanga.
The Supreme Court today said there was "significant cross-cultural misunderstanding'' between Ms Clarke and Mr Takamore's sister and extended whanau.
The justices unanimously dismissed Ms Takamore's appeal.
Three of the justices said there was common law rule under which personal representatives had both the right and duty to attend to disposal of the body of a dead person.
"The rule becomes operative where there is no agreement or acquiescence among the family on what is to be done, where arrangements have broken down, or where nothing is happening.''
They said the representative should take into account the views of those close to the person.
Mr Takamore was originally from Taneatua, in Bay of Plenty, and had returned to the North Island only twice in 20 years since moving to Christchurch.
He had specified in his will that he wanted to be buried, but did not say where.
Ms Clarke had intended for him to be buried in Christchurch, but before that could happen the Takamore family collected his body and buried it in Bay of Plenty.


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The crunch of tortilla chips contrasts perfectly with this comforting Mexican soup. In addition to the chips, serve the posole with sour cream and cheese or even pomegranate seeds. Canned hominy, a natural thickener, can be found in the Latin section of the grocery store. The pork shoulder will fit snugly in your slow cooker; for ease, use turkey lifters to remove the meat from the insert, remove the bones and break up the meat, and place it back in the slow cooker (without burning your hands).
Place the first three ingredients on a small piece of cheesecloth, bundle up into a "purse," and secure with a piece of kitchen twine. Place in the slow cooker.
Combine the next four ingredients in a small bowl. Rub the spices all over the trimmed pork. Heat the oil in a 10-inch, heavy sauté pan over medium-high heat. When the oil is hot but not smoking, add the meat and cook on the first side until golden brown, about 5 minutes. Turn over and brown the other side, about another 4 minutes. Transfer to the slow cooker, and pour the hominy on top and around it.
Add the onions and garlic to the hot pan, and sauté until softened, about 3 minutes. Add the stock, tomatillos, orange and lime juices, and jalapeños and raise the heat to high. Cook, whisking occasionally, for 5 minutes. Pour over the pork-hominy mixture in the slow cooker. Cover and cook on low until the pork is tender and cooked through, about 8-1⁄2 hours.
Carefully remove the meat from the slow cooker and place on a cutting board. Remove and discard the spice bag. Discard any bones and gummy cartilage and shred the meat. Return the shredded meat to the slow cooker and mix into the liquid. Divide the stew among serving bowls, and top each portion with diced avocado, scallions, cilantro, lime, and chips. Serve.
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