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| Billfish Tournament |
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Billfish Tournament - The World Billfish Series has announced that the A.H. Riise BVI Billfish Tournament, hosted by Bitter End YC July 31-August 4, 2007, will become an official tournament of their w...
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| Do you wahoo |
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Do you wahoo? - My first fishing experience in the BVI was on a 17-foot Boston Whaler, using two rented rods and store-bought bait, trolling on the South Drop. We returned that day with a dorado...
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| A foxy Catch |
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A foxy catch - Kevin Grey, the coordinator for Ocean Fox Fishing, one of the major lobster catching enterprises in the BVI, is a grizzled 35-year veteran of the fishing industry. Ocean Fox is a ...
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| Skippers Tips 15 |
 | The Body Electric - As the towering black clouds approach and the sound of thunder fills the air, the sailor who finds himself far from shelter might be tempted to cower below in his cabin, blankets pulled over his head in a bid to muffle the clap and crash of the electric frenzy bursting around his boat. Unless he has taken precautions to protect his vessel by electrically bonding the condu...
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| Amateur Hour |
 | BVI Radio League - Ham radio, or Amateur Radio as it is properly known, is a communications tool for non-professional use (as its name implies) and hobby that in many ways was a precursor to the Internet. A group of dedicated amateurs who had passed the requisite training were able to make contact via radio waves with one another around the globe. Their correspondence might be purely s...
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| Fresh Fish |
 | Fresh Fish - The Ministry of Natural Resources and Labour is pleased that customers now have a better shopping experience when purchasing local seafood at the BVI Fishing Complex with the installation of a new $19,000 Kysor//Warren freezer. Customers complained that they had difficulty seeing the seafood for sale as fog covered the display. With proper maintenance the new freezer is ex...
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| Charlie the Chandler |
Staying in the Loop - “One of the crew sitting at the stern lets down on either side of the ship lines with hooks. On each hook he ties a bait (perhaps not a bait in our modern technical sense, but rather a lure) wrapped in wool of Laconian red, and to each hook attaches the feather of a seamew.” Aelian, Natural History, circa 200AD
It seems that fly fishing has been a popular sp...
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