Dave Williams (Adam Bolonsky)

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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.
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Kayaking and kayak fishing at night require a couple of lights and a good compass equipped with a low-watt light source.
If you put in at Tucks Point or Masconomo Park or the ramp at the Manchester police station, try these three inshore striper areas.
Chubb Island lies a scant 1/8 mile off Beverly Farms and provides the gateway to the nearby beautiful and uninhabited Misery Islands in Salem Sound.
One way to gain local fishing knowledge is to download Google Earth fishing maps. Here's one for striper fishing Manchester, Ma., on the US East Coast.
Helicopter flight deck audio of Coast Guard helicopter crew rescuing a stranded whitewater paddler surfing off the coast of northern California.
By assuming that gelcoat and fiberglass repairs are the provenance of experts only, you give up a lot in terms of customizing your kayak for safety and convenience in addition to repair.
Located just a few minutes off Route 2, convenient to routes 95 and 128, the prim town of Duxbury has a well-established tradition of kitesurfing, kiteboarding, sea kayaking and windsurfing.
Plymouth Beach is a good southwest, southeast and northeast wind kiteboarding beach. Consistent surf and chop roll in on the beach during winds form the northeast.
Perhaps the most confusing element of using a mixer is also the simplest: how to connect your recording device (your laptop computer or dedicated digital recorder) to your microphone and the mixer.
Sea kayakers who want to extend day trips to overnight trips inshore and off need to invest in a camping stove. Several types are available. Here's a recommendation: white gas stoves.
Long and shortboard surfing enthusiasts drawn to the storm-driven breaks of northeast coast of Massachusetts will do well to travel to Rockport, Massachusetts, an hour from Boston.
East Coast kayak fishermen from Maine to the Carolinas interested in catching bluefin tuna do well to take a long, careful look at the North Shore Massachusetts towns of Gloucester and Rockport.
Light and use your white gas stove consistently and your white gas stove will give you years, if not decades, of reliable, trouble-free use.
Remarkably many sea kayakers, especially those for whom sea kayaking marks their first exposure to the marine environment, don't know how to read charts.
First step is to scrape and sand or rasp chipped or flaking gelcoat. Then back the area with pieces of plastic milk jugs.
For under $200 you get a DVD on which MapTech has loaded all of the current NOAA ocean charts and most NOAA river charts.
NOAA has long made their file database available online for free viewing and downloading. Destinsharks layers links for NOAA's charts on top of Earth's scalable views of the world
It's helpful to add variations to any exercise, if only to keep yourself engaged mentally. Variations on the yoga plank include turning on your side, so your chest faces out rather than the floor.
A stronger core allows the sea kayaking enthusiast to paddle faster, further and more efficiently by adding core muscles to torso rotation.
To prevent cold feet, to ensure that your primary insulating layer - whether fleece socks, the plush pile in your boots - doesn't get damp or wet with snow, sweat or water.
You can safely bring along any number of the electronic gear and devices that have become ubiquitous, low-priced and high quality these days: digital video cameras, digital voice recorder, external microphone, digital camera.
You can easily waterproof high quality kayak fishing and sea kayaking charts with two home-grown methods.
Making an emergency call on marine VHF channel 16 can be more involved than one might expect. Usually you need to switch to channel 22 after contact.
Economical and compact, easy to transport models include the Flip Ultra digital video camera, about the size of a pack of cigarettes, and the Sony ICD -UX 70 MP3 digital voice recorder,
NOAA and Wetsand.com offer excellent forecasting services for predicting local wave height and period.
Compressed air horns are your best bet for paddling in fog or reduced visibility or when a whistle or radio isn't practical.
With a rasp, sandpaper and coping saw, fiberglass sea kayak repairs are straightforward.
If the rescue is difficult, the Coast Guard will send a helicopter crew and rescue swimmer,
Sea kayaking at night poses a small host of potent logistical and psychological challenges. At the least, sea kayaking at night is disorienting.
Most writers dictating at a conversational pace can dictate a 500-word story in fifteen minutes, perfect length for the type of short-form writing the internet favors and prefers.
Harbor towns and their lighthouse have value to sea kayakers as signaling devices and daytime landmarks for safe landing areas.
For sea kayakers, lighthouses have a variety of uses and values. The most obvious is their value as nighttime landmarking signals.
Swimmers and small boat operators, tubes, rafts, floats, etc. should be aware that this is an unguarded, remote rural beach and are not allowed to swim or use floats in the area
You'll need a tool to measure your clams, plus a field guide for distinguishing shellfish from another, to ensure that the clams you dig are legal-sized according to local regulations.
VHF mayday call. New Bedford scallop boat Seldom Home makes a mayday call after running aground off Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Fog signals are of high use to kayakers and boaters who need to get their bearings close to shore and off. One such signal is that at Plymouth Bay's Gurnet Point.
Of the numerous skills that have an effect on your swimming leg times in a triathlon, one of the easiest to learn is bilateral breathing.
Let what your digital movie camera records rather than what it can do impress your viewers.
Increase squelch when you went to filter out nearby and irrelevant radio chatter; decrease it when you need to hear everything being said in not only your immediate area but further away as well
Winds from the Northwest blow almost directly onshore. The chop will be steep. You'll need good upwind sailing abilities to get offshore.
Fog signals are automated. Here, at Gurnet Point Light, you'll notice about three quarters of the way up the western side of the tower two electronic eyes that take ranges of visibility and assess the dew point.
An introduction for sea kayakers and kayak fishermen to the inner and outer harbor waters of Gloucester, Massachusetts (USA). Put-ins, bait and tackle shops, breakfast greasy spoons and general caution areas.
Shooting outdoors in winter with a digital video camera has one potential trouble spot. Cold temps quickly degrade battery performance.
Few boaters take electronics more seriously than fishermen, so you'd understand why saltwater fishing and kayak fishing magazines make such an effort to keep their readers up to date on the latest offerings from marine VHF radio and GPS manufacturers.
NOAA doesn't deliberately try to make symbols mysterious or even obtuse. Rather, they've tried to make the symbols as intuitively interpretable as possible.
Squam Lake, New Hampshire's largemouth bass and smallmouth bass and trout fishing is spread out amongst varying depths that reach a maximum of about 100 feet in the lake's deepest region
Between Woods Hole, Ma., Cuttyhunk Island, and Monomoy Island, off Chatham, lie the fastest tidal waters in Massachusetts.
Which access are you use depends on what type of boat you use, whether the most modest sit-on-top plastic kayak, tinny jonboat or the sleekest, most powerful bass boat.
One way to increase core strength is with stretches and twists that involve the torso, abs hips and glutes.
Known as much for its rugged scenic beauty as its fast tidal streams, the Mawr is well-suited for the high level sea kayaker looking for new challenges.
If you're returning at night to the ramps or beaches of Squam Lake, New Hampshire after a day's fishing , be wary of the lake's ledges and channels, all marked by buoys.
Most of us spend a lot of time on our rear ends. The result is lower back pain due to tightness in the hips and hamstrings. Use this simple stretch to recover.
Among southern New Hampshire lakes, Squam Lake in Holderness is a good place to fish, particularly if you enjoy catching and releasing or catching- and-making-for-dinner a wide variety of sportfish and panfish.
The so-called abdominal hover, adapted from the plank pose in yoga, is a fine exercise core strengthening exercise in and of itself. But time will come when you'll want to try variations on this fundamental drill.
It's the very static nature of sea kayaking's seated position --- three or four or even five hours in the cockpit --- that extract as much of a toll on the lower body as any transcontinental business trip
Widgets and blidgets are easy to make if you have a few basic skills which sites like widgetbox teach and disseminate along with their widget building tools.
Anyone who wants to write about the outdoors has a wide variety of state and federal online resources to draw on for information.
The original charts were scanned at high resolution, so they yield high levels of detail even when the images are enlarged.
Telescoping fishing rods are a good alternative for the devoted freshwater fisherman, from the most devout largemouth bass enthusiast to the most humble crappie and bluegill angler
It's almost magic. You inflate the paddle float, attach it to the end of the paddle blade take a breath, wedge your fanny into the cockpit, and use the leverage of the paddle float to roll the kayak.
If you're a kayak fishing enthusiast with an interest in striped bass, dorado, yellowfin tuna and other pelagics, chances are you've added to your collection of saltwater fishing lures a series some swimming lures
Among the sea kayaking crowd in particular, paddling from the core is very in style, especially among sea kayaking and whitewater kayaking enthusiasts who have learned how to incorporate torso rotation into their paddle strokes and Eskimo rolls.
For larger striped bass 30" long and longer in schools large enough that commercial Cape Cod striped bass typically have little trouble meeting their 40-fish bag limit, one area worth fishing is the Pollock Rip
Local fisheries for striped bass kayak fishing contiguous to Boston include the shallow, long-beleaguered waters of Belle Isle marsh between East Boston and Winthrop
A NOOA chart overview of the waters of Ipswich Bay including Crane Beach, Plum Island, and Plum Island Sound off Massachusetts reveals much about this fine rough water sea kayaking and surfcasting area.
The problem with most digital video cameras on the market is that they use internal omnidirectional microphones which can't be aimed at someone or something in particular, resulting in muddled, confusing layers of sound.
The one skill essential to navigating a sea kayak is plotting courses with a NOAA chart and a simple course-plotting tool, then using the chart and a deckmounted or handheld compass to follow your courses.
For boaters, having to negotiate a channel studded with kayaks is akin to a truck driver having to navigate a narrow highway lane littered with fallen tree trunks.
Of the numerous kayak fishing areas off Cape Ann which includes the towns of Manchester, Gloucester, Rockport, Essex and Ipswich, a few stand out for their close proximity to a variety of structure lines and fisheries.
One area in particular worth noting in the Boston area, between East Boston and Revere, is the tidal marsh and estuarine areas behind the Suffolk Downs racetrack and the vast if tortured Winthrop marshes.
For anyone interested in sea kayaking or kayak fishing, finding north can do a lot to keep you on course and aware of where you are.
The waters of Salem Sound, near Manchester and Gloucester, from Bakers Island to the entrance to Manchester Harbor, are as good a place as any for a kayak fishing enthusiast to try kayak fishing for the first time
The saltwater fishing enthusiast looking for a relatively well protected area to go kayak fishing in the Boston area for the first time will do well to fish for striped bass in the Belle Isle Marsh in East Boston,
They key is access and, if you're kayak fishing or fishing from a sea kayak, where to concentrate your efforts.
What's not surprising is how many fish, striped bass and bluefish in particular, even the moderately skilled angler can catch while kayak fishing.
If you're a surcasting or kayak fisherman looking to fish for striped bass at night, it's a given that live eels work best, but if you must, or if you like to keep things simple, you can also use large saltwater fishing lures
In the Pacific Northwest, you need to know which local hazards are treacherous, which are remote, and which run in cycles - even if they hold thousands of the salmon you're in pursuit of.
Home to the internationally recognized Blackburn Challenge, a 21-mile rowing and kayaking race, Cape Ann is worth a visit by anyone interested in kayak fishing, sea kayaking, surfing and general onwater fun and relaxation.
The trolling rig most New England kayak fishing enthusiasts prefer, and which consistently lands the largest fish, is the versatile saltwater fishing lure the tube-and-worm
A fishery which meets the criteria for varied structure, rocky shoreline, good access, and striper fishing consistent from season to season is the north shore of Massachusetts,from Marblehead to Gloucester, Rockport, Essex and Ipswich
One saying along the New England coast is to always be wary of spring nor'easters. Winter is over, the snow has melted, ice-out on many of the region's lakes and ponds are complete, and the turn of the sun shows the days are lengthening.
Given that the Tall Ships come to Boston every few years, let's have a look at the waters they elephant around in. Over twenty years ago,or until as recently as 1987, one hundred and fifty tons of solid waste was discharged into Boston Harbor daily.
Fish from a kayak in Massachusetts and the saltwater fishing areas you visit will soon comprise a long and varied list. Here's a look at several of Boston's.
Coastal piscatores in pursuit of striped bass, largemouth bass, lake trout, bluefish, bonito, red drum, etc., might consider renting or buying and fitting out one of these small and maneuverable, reasonably seaworthy boats.
Downhill mountain biking requires four skills: strength and fitness to ride fast; agility, to jump from high places; the nerve to take long airborne jumps; finally a small handful of braking and turning skills to prevent crashes and wipeouts.
Fish this fastwater area with care, deliberation and purpose. The conditions that attract pelagics like striped bass also pose hazards to saltwater fishing and kayak fishing enthusiasts in small boats.
Squibnocket at Martha's Vineyard is obvious by its three distinct groups of rock clusters with good-sized coves between each and surf that is constant. The best striped bass and bluefish fishing takes place here at night.
A US medical team recently surveyed the cause and effect of 100 mountain biker visits to local hospitals. Mean age of injured riders, no surprise, was 28; of 100 riders, 78% were male. Of 100 crashes, 85% took place while riding downhill.
Although most digital video cameras provide good if not excellent picture quality, almost all digital video cameras suffer from very poor if not distracting audio quality.
Talk to kayak fishing nuts about how to kayak fish new areas and you'll get two different answers. Best way to go fishing in a new area, one will argue, is with the careful and deliberate, foot-by-foot pre-planning of the amateur ichthyologist.
You have a choice between the calm inner harbor waters of Manchester's mooring areas, including its sand flats near House Island and Gales Point, and rougher, wilder waters east and south, towards Bakers Island and the Misery Islands.
The Cape Ann towns of Gloucester, Rockport, Ipswich and Essex, as well as Manchester, have a lot to offer anyone interested in sea kayaking (ocean kayaking), kayak fishing, mountain biking.
The entrance to inner Gloucester Harbor provides of fishing and sea kayaking. Along the western shores: Stage Fort Park, Magnolia, lovely Freshwater Cove; to the north, the mouth of the Annisquam River, Stacy Boulevard, the Man at the Wheel.
Here's how to set up a sea kayak for kayak fishing -- suggestions useful for saltwater fishing on species ranging from yellowfin tuna to halibut to bluefish to striped bass to grouper.
Short, plastic recreational kayaks are outpacing the sale of fiberglass sea kayaks and ocean kayaks by a factor of ten, with the largest area of growth in sales of fishing kayaks from the likes of Hobie, Wilderness Systems, etc.
At first glance, space on a kayak might seem a consideration come time to bring along safety gear and electronics. With that in mind, consider some of the gear worth taking along if your plan to fish and camp from your sea kayak.
One recently rediscovered trend in saltwater fishing lures productive for the trolling for striped bass is the lapstrake spinner, also known as a Cape Cod rig.
Your best source of local information on local transit routes is the harbormaster, other boaters, and your own ability to detect unmarked transits between local harbors and destinations offshore and downcoast.
Fishing spots here range from calm inner harbor near Manchester's mooring areas, including its sand flats at House Island and Gales Point, and the rougher, wilder waters east and south, towards Bakers Island and the Misery Islands.
In many Massachusetts fisheries such as Worlds End's and Salem Sound, incoming migratory schools of mackerel can prove to be the salvation of the fall run anyone who enjoys kayak fishing.
Lght-tackle enthusiasts find it productive to catch mackerel on diamond jigs, drop them in a bucket, switch gear, and live-line tinkers 10-20 feet down to tempt the striped bass who made the mackerel rise to the surface.
Of the many areas in Boston Harbor known for their good striped bass fishing, one area often overlooked is the Long Island bridge area, from Spectacle Island to Moon Island and Squaw Rock.
Warm water, lots of alligators, well-run national and state parks and preserves are your choices for kayaking the southeast US states from Delaware to Florida.
Plum Island at Newburyport is a national wildlife refuge and barrier island spined by a dirt road that can accommodate the plushest sedan. Windswept but hardly delicate, the beach was deposited at the outer edges of the Rowley marshes by glaciers.
Skiers who first take to snowboarding quickly discover the astonishing power of a carved turn, and, almost as quickly, that toeside turns are easier.
Typically selling for under $800 new, $400 used, and weighing in at around 55 pounds, a plastic kayak is an inexpensive way to get started kayaking. A fiberglass sea kayak will cost considerably more.
Spincast fishing rods and reels are handy in a kayak. Their primary advantage is agility. If you fish go kayak fishing often, consider a short two-piece spincast fishing rod under 6' in length.
When considering what length fishing rod to buy for kayak fishing, consider a shorter rod first. Shorter rods are easier to deal with in the confines of the cockpit. For one, you can the butt of the rod with one hand, clear the rod tip with the other.
One particularly good Massachusetts fishing for striped bass area are Inner and Dry Breakers of Salem Sound, accessible from Marblehead, Gloucester, Beverly, Salem, Manchester and about a mile southeast of Bakers Island.
To determine which foot should face forward while snowboarding, you have two choices. One is a matter of thinking about how you play other sports; the second involves a simple test.
Maple Cove, north of Sandy Hook on the Charles River outside Newton, Massachusetts, is one place to start regardless of whether you are fishing for northern pike in Massachusetts in the winter or at other times of the year.
Recent tests show that your best bet, if a poor one, is to wear a hat wrapped in tin foil. Helps keep away the aliens too.
Striped bass fishermen looking for keepers 28"-plus in waters close to structure deep and shallow, roiled with whitewater swell and subject to good current, do well to fish outer Boston Harbor's Great Brewster Island.
Black sea bass are delicate, sweet-tasting fish indigenous to Massachusetts: Duxbury and Plymouth Bay, Cape Cod Bay offshore, the rock-strewn waters of Woods Hole on mid Cape Cod, off the Elizabeth Islands and around and about Buzzards Bay.
Walking the length Massachusetts barrier beaches after nor'east storms is one way to fill your saltwater fishing bait bucket with surf clams, a large and heavy, densely-packed shellfish that makes a good bait for striped bass
Massachusetts' downhill mountain bike races are run on steep trails more demanding than the fire roads of races a decade ago. Races send riders down trails rated for skiing, snowboarding and from gentle green to double black diamond.
Massachusetts' Plymouth's Browns Bank has several put-ins and lots to offer in the way of fishing striped bass, bluefish, flounder and distant cod if you're comfortable fishing shallow water and sandbars close to open water.
During the spring and fall, striped bass and bluefish get trapped in the shallows on the flats. As the draining tide brings up from the river mouth wider sand bunkers, so begins a magic hour: dusk. Read on for fishing tips for Massachusetts North River.
No saltwater fishing bait is as easy to take, to harvest, and prepare as the lowly and ubiquitous mussel - the black-shelled, seed-shaped shellfish familiar to seafood aficionados who have dined on bouillabaisse, Manhattan clam chowder.
Sea and surf clams, as they are commonly referred to, have long been the favored saltwater fishing bait among New England recreational saltwater and commercial fishermen alike.
Many of Massachusetts fishing areas are difficult to get to, because Massachusetts restricts access to many areas through a tradition of private coastal landownership.
Cape Cod's distinct bodies of water are worth exploring by kayak. Nantucket and Vineyard Sounds, which separate Cape Cod from Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard have fast running tidal waters whose temperatures rival that of the Gulf Stream and Florida.
Learning how to launch and land a sea kayak increases the number of days you can enjoy on the water, makes you a better kayaker, and increases your awareness of sea conditions.
Like its kissing cousin Good Harbor Beach a half mile away in Gloucester, the best surfing at Long Beach is in late spring and early to late fall: during April, May, June, then from mid-September through October, and November.
For skiers making the transition from skiing to snowboarding, the simplest stance, and most versatile stance to choose, is toes angled slightly downhill, towards the front of the board, with heels and toes angled towards the rear of the snowboard.
Using the steel edge of the snowboard exclusively to carve an arc across the snow's surface, your snowboard's sharpened edge cutting deeply, the carved turn combines speed with power, grace, control.
There are two clean and consistent breaks at Cape Ann's two primary surfing beaches, Good Harbor Beach in Gloucester and Long Beach in Rockport.
If you want to get your licks in windsurfing or kiteboarding here (or sea kayaking, for that matter), you've got two spots to choose from: Hardings Beach, off Route 28, or Stage Harbor Beach, around the corner from the Chatham Lighthouse.
American Youth Hostel's quiet, spacious, sea breeze cooled hostel on the South Shore of Nantucket is situated near the Nantucket bike bath, and is a twenty-minute ride from the ferry dock.
To dig clams you'll need, in addition to a license from the local shellfish warden, a ratty old pair of pants, an T-shirt, a hat, sunscreen, a bottle of water, a pair of old shoes or sandals, and a can of good bug repellent.
Like nothing else, even more the weather, knowing the times of low tide is the most important factor. When you dig your own clams, you need to go to the flats when the tide is down, when the shellfish flats and beds are exposed, slick, goopy and wet.
Kettle Island and the sandy Magnolia Beach are two of your fishing alternatives: to the left of the beach lies Magnolia's extensive rocky shores; to the right, the cliffs and heights of the northern shores of Manchester, past Coolidge Point.
When striped bass prove few and far between, digging striped bass out of Massachusetts Bay requires depth, tubes-and-worms, eels, chunk mackerel, herring. The keeper bass there alright. But it takes is patience to find them.
The crossing to Martha's Vineyard from Falmouth should take about an hour-and-half; if you time the tides correctly you will round East Chop when the tidal stream begins its fast run south for Cape Poge, Wasque Point and the Muskeget Channel.
To make the crossing from Nantucket to Martha's Vineyard in a sea kayak, you'll want at least two visible landmarks that provide the easiest-to-asses, indication of whether you've drifted off course due to the wind or tidal set and drift.
It's for a lot of reasons- fast tidal waters, remote fishing flats miles out to sea, big striped bass and bluefish and the idea of navigating challenging waters - that kayak fishing enthusiasts with sea kayaking skills fish Nantucket and Vineyard Sounds.
Skiers and snowboarders interested in increasing their skills, stamina and power of edged and carved turns do well to strengthen their core, that set of muscles between the thighs and chest.
One of the more economical ways to enjoyable shellfish like oysters, mussels, littleneck clams and surf clams, is to dig them yourself, especially if you're on vacation on Cape Ann, the South Shore or Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
Even the briefest, shortest two-and-a-half mile stretch of New England water, say the coastline of Cape Ann, contains microcosms of every type of fish habitat and sea conditions kayak fishermen can expect to find in New England.
Extending as far as Brant Point and Coatue Point from the wilds and barrens of the Nantucket Wildlife Refuge at Wauwinet and Pocomo, the flats of Nantucket Harbor, from Shimmo to Coskata Pond, are extensive: they cover about 1,000 acres.
Had the local commercial market for striped bass, by pre-determined state fisheries limit, not just closed, our trip would have been that much the richer. Instead we have landed instead a negligible bluefish catch of about 125 pounds.
Low water striped bass and bluefish feeds take place on Massachusetts's sand flats each season, especially during fall, when the fish fatten up for their migration back to their mid-Atlantic spawning grounds. The feeds can persist for several weeks.
Use a combination of rest, guile, selenium tablets and evasions to ensure that you recover fully between races and training sessions.
Keep in mind that your legs, hips and knees are the only tools you have to stabilize you kayak if, while you are landing your fish, a wave rolls in, a boat wake bears down, or a heavy fish pulls repeatedly on one side.
To fish these striped bass fishing flats at their best, whether kayak fishing or otherwise, check the tide tables beforehand. Any other time it's a good plan to fish first the deeper channels, guzzles, and tidal streams.
The shallow embayments that form in the sand and mudflats of the Essex River marshes are one of the east coast's fishing marvels, yet its daily tidal change leads sea kayakers and fishermen to interpret the area as unnavigable.
SOLAS tape makes you more visible at night and during daylight. If the Coast Guard or local harbormasters is searching for you, you'll be easier to spot. It will be easier for other boaters to see you as well.
The shallow embayments that form in on Crane Beach's sand and mudflats are one of the East coast's fishing marvels, yet its daily tidal change leads many local paddlers to interpret the area as unnavigable once the tide goes out.
As when practicing any type of sea kayaking and ocean kayaking rescues, the key is to be careful when lifting the bow of capsized sea kayak or ocean kayak to drain the cockpit.
To triangulate your position when backpacking, hiking, sea kayaking, ocean kayaking or kayak fishing, use a handbearing compass, the kind with a mirror.
One of the basics of using gps while backpacking, hiking, sea kayaking or ocean kayaking, is learning to use the MARK function. Using MARK correctly will help you avoid gps errors that render this navigation system useless.
In most right-of-way situations, we are by law least burdened. It's easy, however, to be dead right. While a sea kayaker often has the highest level of right-of-way, you shouldn't assert. It's best policy yield to a powerboat.
Keep in mind that kitesailing (kiteboarding) or windsurfing the eastern shore of Duxbury Beach presents an offshore breeze when winds are from the southwest.
Kayak fishing for bluefin tuna in this area requires a fair amount of preplanning, some basic safety equipment, and an anticipation of fishing waters that are relatively remote.
Visit NOAA's website for downloadable coastal pilot, nautical charts and images of charts dating back two centuries.
Monofilament fishing line is inexpensive and ubiquitous. Sold in large spools, it's readily available at any bait and tackle shop you'll walk into, and in most of the larger department stores in the US.
Fishing, New Hampshire's Isles of Shoals has several advantages: not much in the way of on-water congestion, or what anglers call pressure, an ample supply of fish,and numerous ledges, outcropping and coves.
One way to enjoy lobster, whether boiled or steamed, is to catch them yourself with mask, snorkel, lobster license, wet suit and fins and a handy little device known as a lobster tickle stick.
Former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan has finally 'fessed up. Testifying before Congress three years after he stepped down as chairman of the Federal Reserve, Greenspan admits his irrational belief in the power of free markets.
Long known for its coverage of the arts and sciences, business, real estate, economics, the New York Times, the worlds most powerful newspaper, has a long-standing practice of inviting the well-known and well-regarded to its editorial page.
With snowboard's popularity have come a rise snowboarding accidents and injuries. If your preteen or teen wants to take up snowboarding, here are some safety tips to keep in mind.
21 companies throughout the United Sates are seeking permission and permits to build 34 nuclear power plants, mostly along the eastern seaboard of the United States, from New York to Florida.
If simple fatigue indicates you aren't using torso rotation and that your aren't paddling from the core, here are some on water drills designed to add torso rotation to your sea kayaking paddle stroke.
Newburyport's Plum Island is located north of Ipswich, Essex, and Gloucester, Massachusetts. It's south of Hampton Beach, New Hampshire. It's also influenced by the powerful Merrimack River.
As you wander this vast flats fishing area in a shallow craft, you'll see bass and baitfish finning and collecting in the shallow flats areas. Some days the mats of baitfish are so thick the water turns color.
Spear guns are of two types: sling spear guns that use a surgical tubing hooked to give the spear punch, more expensive rigs powered with CO2 cartridges. Which type you buy and prefer depends upon your budget.
Here are pointers, hints, gear considerations and VHF radio recommendations for kayaking at night, whether by intention or because you happen to make a mistake in your trip planning and find yourself out after dark
If you're interested in groundfish such as fluke, cod, haddock and pollock, here are some guidelines on where to find them in Massachusetts, both from shore and from a boat.
Luckily for me, my significant other, Yvonne, loves yogurt. Lots of it. So much, in fact, that her back pantry shelves teeter with what I'd estimate at 200-300 plastic quart yogurt containers.
Monomoy Island National Wildlife Refuge, off Chatham, Massachusetts on Cape Cod is home to excellent birdwatching, striped bass fishing, and beach hiking.
Bring towbelts, throwbags, contact tows and wear either a neoprene or Gore-Tex drysuit.
One of the surprises of a sea kayaking vacation to tropical or distant waters is now that you're far from home, your database of timetables and paddling distances doesn't apply to where you are.
First you'll need a float plan, like the one shown below, and the ability to secure permission to camp on Tuckernuck Island, about 3 miles off Nantucket.
There are many advantages to the Dun Fudgin' ramp behind Gloucester high school in the seaside port of Gloucester, Massachusetts, if you're an aspiring commercial bluefin tuna fisherman.
What's remarkable is how the baitfish are visually and audibly chased into the shallows by stripers who, with schools of bluefish, create feeding frenzies in the flats' depressions and embayments.
Billingsgate Shoal is located on Cape Cod Bay, a fishery so vast it sees an influx of tuna boats in the fall even as bass anglers prowl Billingsgate Shoals, Billingsgate Island, and Jeremy Point's flats on foot.
The "buy now", two decades-long surge in the popularity of snowboarding among teens, 'tweens, college students and adults has brought with it an increase in snowboarding injuries.
Kayak fishing Cape Ann's western shores advantages: little on-water congestion, or what anglers call pressure, an ample supply of fish, numerous ledges and outcroppings and coves and inlets that attract numerous species of fish.
The big story will be the keeper striped bass, up to 36" and 25 lbs., gliding over the low-water flats by the drain creek between Squaw Rock and Thompson Island.
After the initial frenzy of striped bass arriving in Massachusetts calms from the surface-break chaos of boiling water and diving birds, anglers have to fish a little smarter.
Rockport, Massachusetts's Granite Pier serves the bluefin tuna angler well, whether commercial or recreational, and for a handful of reasons.
An implausibly designed bone, your collarbone's purpose is to break if you fall on your shoulder. It needs only ten foot-pounds of force to break -- what it takes to knock over a toddler.
Tucked away in the $800 billion package is a an extension of the federal tax credit, created in 1992, that gives wind power project owners a sizable tax break for every kilowatt hour of energy they generate.
The world at large, including recent newly developing countries, is taking green power seriously enough to throw some serious development cash its way.
The key is to hit the area before low tide and work the flats as their 8 billion gallons of water begin to pour back in, bringing both striped bass and baitfish.
From Quincy's Fore and Back Rivers to the Cape Cod Canal, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, autumn puts migratory and local fish on the feed and on the move.
One factor which makes the mouth of the North River consistent is the amount of water which flows in and out of it. Be wary of fast currents and standing waves when an incoming wind meets an outgoing tide.
Keep a few tricks up your sleeve: scheduled rest days and supplements to help you body flush lactic acids away.
After your final epoxy coat has cured, sand the entire hull. Use four grits: 80, 120, 180, 220. Then wetsand the hull with 300 grit.
Workboat is a classy alternative to the overly refined if hackneyed look of bright. Workboat sets off the beauty of the grain and wood in the deck with a complementary color on the hull.
Building the drive is nowhere near as complex as it may sound: it's a matter of placing an internal drive inside an and sealing it shut with a screwdriver. Attach a firewire cable and you're done.
This choppy warm-water oasis has much to recommend it to shore and boat-borne fishermen alike who seek a taste of Cape Cod and islands fishing without enduring weekend traffic between Memorial and Labor Day.
It's called the gateway to Cape Cod yet is overlooked by shore fishermen intent on Cape Cod. The area is the head of Buzzards Bay, from the Wareham sandspit at Little Harbor to the Weweantic River and Hog Island above Pocasset.
The best way to find the put-ins to these areas is by poring over Delorme Publishing's atlas of Massachusetts: a map book that offers extensive topographic, recreational, and historic highlights for the state.
Here's one way to create a beautiful finish well-protected from everyday abuse: apply over your six coats of varnish two to four coats of two-part linear polyurethane clearcoat.
If like most boaters you spend time on the Gulf of Maine, that vast expanse between Eastport, Maine and Boston. You soon learn what the prevailing winds are, where they come from when, and how hard they blow.
One indication of an approaching storm offshore is what the waves look like, particularly if you start to see what's referred to as long swell.
The little town of Wareham, Massachusetts, just north of Cape Cod, has a long summer cottage and vacation history, most notably in its gingerbread-cottage village Onset.
Here I in addition to birds resting for the fall migration you can watch striped bass engaged in behavior that marks the beginning of their migration to the waters of the Mid-Atlantic and the Hudson River.
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