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Dave Williams (paddlingtravelers.blogspot.com) is Adam Bolonsky's online penname. Adam writes for WaveLength Magazine, The Fisherman, On the Water, New England Game and Fish, Saltwater Sportsman and noreast.com. He was a founding board member of Massachusetts' North Shore Pa Education/Experience: BA, Trinity College Interests: outdoors, fishing, sea kayaking, kayak fishing, mountain biking Motto: Write early and often. Affiliations: North American Kayak Fishing, Sea Kayaking Dot Net URL RSS |
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Limiting your epoxy and resin use is the best way to ensure that you build a lightweight boat. Here's how to ensure that you use only enough to seal and waterproof the wood and bind the fiberglass to the wood.
By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 10/6/2008
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Limiting your epoxy and resin use is the best way to ensure that you build a lightweight boat. Here's how to ensure that you use only enough to seal and waterproof the wood and bind the fiberglass to the wood.
By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 10/6/2008
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The surge in the popularity of sea kayaking has seen plenty of paddlers heading out to the water in all manner of pungoes and full-blown ocean-going plastic, fiberglass, and wooden kayaks. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 10/6/2008
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Overseen by a variety of state, federal and local agencies, Plum Island is a lengthy national wildlife refuge just two miles out of Newburyport, Massachusetts. Tides run moderately fast along the southern and western the shores of the island. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 10/4/2008
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Thachers Island is a good a place as any to try kayaking for the first time. A wildlife preserve, the island has keepers and a 135-tall lighthouse you can climb. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 10/4/2008
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Boston's Neponset River where it meets Squantum Bay offers good fishing for boaters and shorefishers alike. The area includes shallows and flats, structures and
channel depths. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 10/4/2008
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Charts give the spot heights of islands, lighthouses, bluffs, etc. Though you might not be able to use the info to figure out how far away something is, you can use a distance of visibility table to make an estimate.
By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 10/3/2008
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Fishing from a sea kayak has advantages over fishing from a sit-on-top: speed, range, seaworthiness and room for camping gear. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 10/3/2008
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Often called a kayak so attuned to its environment, so evolved, so elegant as to be beyond improvement, Greenland kayaks are considered by many to be the pinnacle of boat design for sleekness, speed, beauty. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 10/3/2008
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Long-distance training is often a lonely task, and sometimes you feel it. Even if running has benefits, the physical ones come sometimes at the expense of something in the spirit. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 10/3/2008
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The Fells's wide fire roads are crisscrossed by single-track tails that wandered off into some thick woods. The single-tracks trails are narrow, steep and technical. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 10/2/2008
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Pleasant Bay's large flats rise at low tide during a new moon. The new inlet at South Beach Island provides lots of moving water and large striped bass and bluefish. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 10/2/2008
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Some days the fishing is bad from one end of Massachusetts to the other. Solution is to head to Nantucket Sound or Martha's Vineyard. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/29/2008
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We spent three days and two nights fishing Cape Cod's Muskeget and Tuckernuck Islands from our sea kayaks. The fishing was quite good, especially in the fast tidal rips that run past and between two islands. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/29/2008
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Boston Harbor has achieved a state of cleanliness far different than its state its condition twenty years ago, when the harbor was a stew so gruesomely telegenic it likely cost Mike Dukakis a presidential election. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/28/2008
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The Granite Pier-Old Garden Beach-Gap Head-Straitsmouth trip is a figure-eight route you can troll or spincast clockwise or counter. The direction you choose depends upon which stretch of shoreline you want to follow. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/26/2008
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Mohawk Mountain State Forest, tucked away in the the Berkshires outside Adams, lies adjacent to the blue-ribbon fishery the Deerfield River and its myriad of catch-and-release regulations. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/26/2008
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To enter the heart of the swamp you need a canoe and wilderness gear: drinking water, mosquito netting, stove and fuel, sleeping bag, tent. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/26/2008
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The area's islands, dents, outcroppings, boulders, shallows and ledges offer a dizzying array of chunking, spincasting, trolling options. The area is particularly productive for trolling. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/26/2008
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For generations fishermen have faced the same inconveniences and exigencies: after a day or several or on water, they have no place to offload their catch except with the local buyer.
By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/26/2008
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Cousins Peter Morini and David Williams fish for bluefish off Rockport, Massachusetts By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/25/2008
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Brown and brook trout require finesse and a patient, subtle approach. Best gear on them is fly gear: dry flies in the 12-18 size, one-and-a-half pound tippets, long leaders. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/25/2008
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The single greatest concentration of estuarine marshland in the US lies off southeastern coastal Georgia. To explore this area by car or in a small boat, you enter a wet landscape flat and sprawling. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/25/2008
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One place to catch tiger muskie in the Boston area is 245-acre Lake Quanipowett, convenient to routes 128 and 95. Ice-fishing here is particularly productive. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/25/2008
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Although Billingsgate is part of Cape Cod's heavily-fished east-facing National Seashore, its flats on Cape Cod Bay are very much underutilized - you'll often have the fishery to yourself. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/24/2008
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Trolled with a seaworm, less bulky than a tube-and-worm, a Cape Cod Spinner is simplicity itself:18" of leader, two egg sinkers, some colored beads, a willowleaf spinner and a bait hook. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/24/2008
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The bottom line with gps: which is more likely to cause navigaiton errors? The likely cold and tired navigator who has made a series of serious chart reading and data input errors or an infatiguable pocket computer?
By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/24/2008
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Ponkapoag and Houghtons Ponds, nestled away in the Blue Hills Reservation outside Bosotn, are good places year 'round to fish for pickerel, one of freshwater's more active sportfish. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/24/2008
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NOAA charts are simple and easy to read once you learn a a handful of symbols and understand the difference between latitude and longitude. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/24/2008
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Answer these fifteen or so yes/no and short answer questions to assess your gps needs, guide your purchase, and take stock of how you plan to use your gps. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/24/2008
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The beauty of Wasque Point is that, pristine and rolling landscape aside, the surf-casting is fine any time of day, lasts from the first arrival of stripers and blues to the later arrival of the two species that make Vineyarders shift focus, bonito and false albacore. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/24/2008
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To find out whether you're making it difficult for boats to cruise with you safely, look around. If you are in a channel you'll see red nun buoys, painted red and shaped like cones, and green can buoys, painted green and shaped like "D" cell batteries. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/23/2008
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Unlike rods and reels, handlines don't require maintenance that would be tough to find in the Inside Passage towns of Ketchikan, Wrangell, Sitka, Angoon, Hoonah, Tenakee Springs By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/23/2008
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One Boston area winter ice fishery productive for pike is the Charles River Lakes District, a natural, three-mile-long impoundment that lies between route 30 and the Moody Street Dam and convenient to routes 2, 95 and 128. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/22/2008
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Savoy Mountain State Forest in the Massachusetts Berkshires has good fishing for brown trout and brook trout. One good place to try is Savoy Mountain State Forest. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/20/2008
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One issue sea kayakers face in unfamiliar waters is how to get familiar with and suss the unmarked and unofficial transit routes favored by commercial fishermen, local sailors and powerboaters. The knowledge is helpful for avoiding collisions in times of low visibility. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/20/2008
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Billington Sea Kayaks in Plymouth rents kayaks and gives instruction from its shop on the shores of an inland pond the Pilgrims mistook for the sea. The shop is one hour from Boston, convenient to routes 95, 128, 3, 3A, and 44. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/18/2008
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Tiger muskie -- a carnivore so bruisingly aggressive and opportunistic they're known to pick off the occasional shore bird - are located in a number of ponds in the Boston area. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/18/2008
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Ponkapoag Pond, in the Blue Hills Reservation outside Boston, is a good place to take a kidto catch one of the area's more responsive, easily-caught fish: perch, a small and kid-friendly species that becomes easier to catch as the temperatures go up. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/17/2008
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Short rods are a good choice for kayak anglers. Short relative to most, two-piece 5'10" rods are not unwieldy on a boat, especially in the confines of a small cockpit. Broken down, they easily in the fore or aft hatch. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/16/2008
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A sea kayak's speed, seaworthiness and capacity for camping equipment make it an excellent alternative to the more popular sit-on-top. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/16/2008
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Made in Hood River, Oregon, the WindPaddle is a new take on an old concept: a round sail that luffs in gusts of wind. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/11/2008
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An anchor need not conjure up the image of a large hook strapped to the foredeck, with the kayaker as tidbit if a wave tosses the anchor into his chest. You can make an anchor soft enough to store in your cockpit from a couple of lobsterman's bait bags.
By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/11/2008
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Outdoors enthusiasts who venture beyond the pale - past the channel marker, into the wilderness, across the desert -- have some matters to deal with once their distance from home attains the remote. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/11/2008
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Often overlooked, even obscure, inner Boston harbor's Tompson Island has plenty to offer the small-boat angler: a plenitude of fish, a short haul from three put-ins, plenty of protection from the boat traffic that clots the harbor's better-known outer fishing areas. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/11/2008
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Dispatching the issue altogether with the swipe of a grease pencil or Sharpie Pen is the simplest way to compensate for the differences between true and magnetic north. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/11/2008
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Bait costs drop for saltwater fishermen during the fall run: stripers become so aggressive that summer's once finicky keepers respond to pretty much anything artificial and that wriggles, spins or turns. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/11/2008
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Though some small-boat anglers may prefer a console VHF radio, most will find a handheld radio more than adequate for all but truly remote trips. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/10/2008
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Usually located on the face of a handheld GPS as a single-function key or touch-sensitive screen icon, MARK is pretty straightforward yet to misuse. Here's how to avoid its most common usage error.
By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/10/2008
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Usually located on the face of a handheld GPS as a single-function key or as a touch-sensitive screen icon, GOTO is pretty straightforward yet easy to screw up.
By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/5/2008
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Straight out of the box, a handheld gps (global positioning system) can present to the fist-time user a confusing array of buttons, toggles, screen options and ports whose usage and utility aren't immediately clear By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/5/2008
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The most consistent source of gps error is the user. The errors usually result from incorrectly reading latitude and longitude coordinates from a chart or map. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 9/5/2008
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The western shores of outer Gloucester Harbor are often overlooked by; here's how to fish them with the trolling Rig known as the Cape Cod Spinner By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 8/26/2008
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pending By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 8/22/2008
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pending By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 8/21/2008
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Learning to launch safely in shorebreak will make you a more skilled paddler better aware of sea state and conditions. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 8/21/2008
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Run three simple drills designed to teach you how to reduce your stroke count without sacrificing speed, stability or endurance. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 8/21/2008
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on the way By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 8/15/2008
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Sit-in and sea kayaks require a couple changes in gear setup if you want to fish. Similalry, making a switch from only sea kayaking to fishing from a sea kayak requires changes. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 8/15/2008
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Fishing the mouth of the Saugus River from the Edwards Bridge to Point of Pines, Revere and inland to Route 1 is productive from shore and small boats. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 8/14/2008
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A scant nine miles from Martha's Vineyard but a world away from the congestion and confusion of Cape Cod, Tuckernuck Island is a worthy and remote sportfishing location. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 8/11/2008
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Of the variety of stability techniques for sit-in kayakers, none is more valuable and than knee-hangs. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 8/11/2008
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Manchester, Massachusetts's southwestern shores hold productive offshore rock clusters, ledges, submerged boulders and islands attractive to a variety of groundfish and pelagic sportfish By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 8/11/2008
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The southwestern shores of Cape Ann off Magnolia offer access to several distinct fisheries on striped bass, bluefish, cod, flounder and mackerel. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 8/11/2008
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A review, originally published in WaveLength Magazine, of the WaveWalk kayak By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 8/7/2008
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Protected from open water by the long arm of Provincetown, the waters lie adjacent to the fast tides and rich fishing grounds of Race Point and Stellwaggen Bank. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/31/2008
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The western shores of Cape Ann (Gloucester, MA), from Lanesville to Halibut Point, are accessible via small boat and kayak from a small number of ramps and put-ins, most notably Dun Fudgin' ramp behind Gloucester High School. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/31/2008
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Distant, remote and well-preserved, the group of mid-Atlantic barrier islands and the Florida Everglades are worth a trip by sea kayakers looking to camp in the widlerness. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/31/2008
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In boating terms, length equals speed. Learn how to use your maximum body length and the power of glide to swim faster, further and with less energy. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/30/2008
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Cape Ann and Cod Cod, Massachusetts offer to the sea kayaker two distinct and separate sea kayaking environments: rocky vs. sandy, slow tides vs. powerful and fast-moving. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/30/2008
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Kayaking the US New England east coast requires the willingness to accept sometimes abrupt changes in landscape, weather and terrain By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/30/2008
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The collarbone is about as thick as your thumb and only needs about seven foot pounds of force to snap. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/30/2008
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A typical newbie mountain biker mistake is descending steep sections seated or with weight forward. unlevel cranks. Here's how to avoid that error. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/23/2008
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A typical newbie mountain biker mistake is to fear the front brake unlevel cranks. Here's how to use the front brake's stopping power on descents. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/23/2008
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A typical newbie mountain biker mistake is descending with unlevel cranks. Here's how to avoid that error and how to discover your chocolate foot. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/23/2008
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Learn the basics of chop hopping downwind to double your kayak speed. Or use a small sail to go faster with half as much effort. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/18/2008
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Made of wood, thin bladed and flexible, Greenland style paddles reduce strain on the wrists and elbows, allow three stroke styles and nearly forty types of capsize recoveries. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/18/2008
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Sea kayakers are often plagued by sore heels, feet that fall asleep, and an inability to contact friends and family to let them know that they are okay. They also have to overload their boats with provisions while camping. Here are solutions. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/15/2008
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Sailing a kayak downwind is a surefire way to gain speed and increase speed on expeditions. One design, the WindPaddle, doesn't require a mast and stores on the foredeck in a package no larger than a newspaper. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/2/2008
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Adjacent to deep water and beaches, surrounded by ledges Cape Ann's Salt and Thachers Islands are productive on striped bass, pollock and inshore cod. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 5/21/2008
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Located a scant half-mile off the coast of Rockport, Massachusetts's Pebble Beach, Milk Island is a productive, lightly-pressured area to fish for striped bass during the fall run. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 5/11/2008
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Buy an inexpensive kayak to easily reach saltwater species that too often frustrate from shore. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 10/10/2007
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Massachusetts commercial fishermen have to be resourceful, able to fish one species one season, another the next, requiring frequent retrofits. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 8/27/2007
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Setting of the well-loved children's story Misty of Chincoteauge, Chincoteague and Assateauge Islands are migratory flyovers frequented by hunters and the occasional backcountry camper. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 8/21/2007
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Whiting are the favored bait of tuna anglers working the 120-fathom line off Gloucester, Massachusetts. On a good day you bring home a shipper. On a bad day you just go home. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 8/17/2007
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Clarks Island, in Massachusetts, is a long way from the setting of In Cold Blood and worlds away from the New York literary scene Capote moved into after his bestseller was published. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 8/10/2007
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Sixteen years after the Perfect Storm, the Lady Grace, the swordfishing boat that stood in for the Andrea Gail in the film, lies dockside on the Gloucester, Massachusetts waterfront. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 8/10/2007
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Fishing for Sandsharks, Used in Fish-and-chips, Gloucester's Commercial Fishermen Are Restricted to Quotas By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 8/8/2007
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The owner of the local herring plant has just gotten pilloried in the national fishing press for exploiting the fishery: some 400,000 pounds can be landed daily, sucked up through vacuum hoses from the hold of his hired fishing vessels. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 8/5/2007
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Fishing the waters of Boston Harbor during the striped bass fall run, one writer takes his first keeper and promptly spoils it. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/29/2007
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Known as spring tides not for the season but for their extremity, the lowest tides of the month, on the full moon, can be an enchanting time to fish for striped bass on the saltwater flats of Massachusetts. Here's one angler's South Shore kayak fishing story. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/29/2007
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Fall in Massachusetts and the Boston area is the time of year when even the most congested stretch of urban shoreline becomes prime fishing area. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/27/2007
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Safety is paramount, and of the many ways to enjoy a safe and successful offshore trip, none is more important than using a trip monitor. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/27/2007
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After spring's striper blitzes along Cape Ann and the North Shore of Massachusetts begin to calm down, you'll have to work a little harder if you're looking for fish off spots like Manchester, Boston, and Cape Ann. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/27/2007
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With waters as vast as those off Cape Cod and many more islands to fish around and land on, the waters of Salem Sound from Marblehead to Manchester, Massachusetts are productive on stripers, bluefish and flounder. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/27/2007
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The striper technique known as chum-and-chunk is dirt simple: buy a bucket of herring, chop several herring into bits, toss the bits overboard followed by a herring chunk on a bare hook. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/27/2007
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After spending a season fishing from a commercial striped bass boat out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, here are some of the keeper tricks the writer learned. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/26/2007
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Wood End and Race Point at Cape Cod Ma.'s Provincetown, are reliable keeper striper hotspots so long as the water is warm, full of bait, and if the winds are down. But what about the day when the angler gets skunked? By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/24/2007
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Rigging with soft plastics is a handy, economical way to fish for striped bass, especially from a kayak. They're easy to store and easy to make. Moreover they work on a variety of species including not only striped bass but bluefish, pollock and cod. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/24/2007
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Duxbury Bay has lots of put-ins and destinations if you enjoy offshore shoals and sandbars. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/23/2007
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The northern and western shores of Cape Ann, from Annisquam to Rockport, hold large schools of stripers along rocky shorelines, within numerous inlets and coves and in the mouths of tidal rivers that empty onto large shoals. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/17/2007
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Winter sea kayaking in New England can be a pleasure if you prepare and carry the right gear. You need towlines, drysuits, vhf radios, and rescue skills. Here's how one trip almost went wrong. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/17/2007
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Between Sandwich and Barnstable, Cape Cod lies Sandy Neck, a barrier beach whose waters and shoals are rough, ridden with tidal currents, and frequently filled with bluefish. Paddling the area can make you a better kayaker and fill your fridge with fish. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/12/2007
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Plymouth Bay's most prominent feature is Browns Bank, a centuries-old shoal that lies beneath the waters of Plymouth Beach and which, at low tide rises to cover nearly a dozen dry acres. It can be a fine place to kayak surf, picnic and fish. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/12/2007
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One of the largest deepwater ports in Massahuchusetts, Sandy Bay, Rockport is home to an offshore breakwater, TS Eliot's poem subject the off shore rocks the Salvages, and two national wildlife refuges, one with an open lighthouse tower. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/11/2007
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Accessible by several put-ins and trailer ramps, the productive fall striper waters of Rockport's Straitsmouth Island, Avery Ledge, Loblolly and Whale Coves all lie within a half mile of each other - good fishing during September and October. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/11/2007
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A tiny and obscure sand island located in the southwest corner of Nantucket Sound off Nantucket, Muskeget is surrounded by vast sandbars, fast tidal currents and difficult-to-navigate waters. Two sea kayakers make the trip during the fall. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/6/2007
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One of the lesser-known urgency calls to make on a VHF radio is the securite call. It's used to inform other boaters of your presence at night or in fog and during times of lowered visibility. Like the mayday and pan-pan call, the securite call is made on channel 16, By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/3/2007
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An anadromous, fastwater-loving fish, striped bass are drawn to the tidal Merrimack River's Joppa Flats by the flats' forage, tidal currents and mixture of structure and deep water. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 7/3/2007
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Use a variety of dumbbell and medicine ball drills to strengthen your core for faster sea kayaking and increased boat control. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 6/18/2007
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One of the better ways to handle a sea kayak rescue in an onshore wind is with so-called bulldog and a tandem-rafted tow. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 6/15/2007
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Brewster's saltwater flats, off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a striped bass hotpot during the spring and fall runs, are mostly inaccessible to powerboats during low water. Here's how to fish the flats from a kayak, tin skiff, or other small boat. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 6/15/2007
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Billingsgate Shoals' striped bass feed on the area's thick biomass of sandeels. Fish the area's shallows and structures with spincast gear and trolling rigs or the wire jigs known locally as hoochies. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 6/8/2007
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Black sea bass require the simplest of techniques and gear: chopped sea clams, a bank sinker and a small hook or two. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 6/1/2007
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With a few simple hand tools, a few lengths of surgical tubing and fifteen minutes time, you can build for about $2.00 striper tubes that ordinarily retail for $10.00 or more. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 6/1/2007
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Plum Island Sound's flats' intricate matrix of channels, embankments and guzzles hold large schools of striped bass during the fall migration. Fish here with a kayak and you can stalk the flats on foot. Here's where and how. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 5/4/2007
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Fish for flounder late in the spring off Manchester - you'll need simple gear, a few sea worms, and an old-timers rig known as a flounder-pounder. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 5/1/2007
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Located in the 7,000-acre Blue Hills Reservation outside Boston, Ponkapoag Pond offers good ice fishing and rustic cabins all year. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 5/1/2007
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A kayaker who launches into the waters off Chatham from Morris Island or Hardings Beach gains good access to the bonito grounds in northeastern Nantucket Sound off Monomoy Island. By Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky) | Published 4/25/2007
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