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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.
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Published: Jul 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.
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Published: Jul 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.
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Published: Jul 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.
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Published: Jul 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.
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Published: Jul 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 pro...
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Published: Jul 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 ...
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Published: Jul 02, 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.
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Published: May 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.
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Published: May 11, 2008
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Buy an inexpensive kayak to easily reach saltwater species that too often frustrate from shore.
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Published: Oct 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.
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Published: Aug 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.
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Published: Aug 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.
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Published: Aug 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.
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Published: Aug 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.
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Published: Aug 10, 2007
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Fishing for Sandsharks, Used in Fish-and-chips, Gloucester's Commercial Fishermen Are Restricted to Quotas
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Published: Aug 08, 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 th...
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Published: Aug 05, 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.
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Published: Jul 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 Massachu...
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Published: Jul 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.
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Published: Jul 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.
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Published: Jul 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,...
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Published: Jul 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 ...
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Published: Jul 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.
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Published: Jul 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.
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Published: Jul 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 angl...
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Published: Jul 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 n...
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Published: Jul 24, 2007
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Duxbury Bay has lots of put-ins and destinations if you enjoy offshore shoals and sandbars.
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Published: Jul 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 ...
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Published: Jul 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.
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Published: Jul 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 mak...
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Published: Jul 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 f...
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Published: Jul 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 refuge...
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Published: Jul 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 - ...
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Published: Jul 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...
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Published: Jul 06, 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 th...
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Published: Jul 03, 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.
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Published: Jul 03, 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.
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Published: Jun 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.
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Published: Jun 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 fro...
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Published: Jun 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....
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Published: Jun 08, 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.
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Published: Jun 01, 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.
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Published: Jun 01, 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 foo...
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Published: May 04, 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.
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Published: May 01, 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.
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Published: May 01, 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.
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Published: Apr 25, 2007
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Anglers can fish the pond from canoes, kayaks, or jonboats and stay in one of the cabins built on the shores of the pond in the 1930's by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
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Published: Apr 24, 2007
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One of the simplest ways to fish the tidal rip off South Monomoy Island is by drifting in the current while trolling a treble-hooked plug or swimmer. If you're not up to to paddling the entire distanc...
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Published: Apr 12, 2007
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Read about how to use the 4" shad lure and a lead jighead to fish for striped bass from a kayak during the fall and spring run. Details include where to fish in the Boston area.
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Published: Mar 31, 2007
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Using a kayak or a jonboat, the adventuresome angler can sightfish striped bass and bluefish in Duxbury Bay's intricate matrix of low-tide flats, sandbars, saltwater creeks and embayments.
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Published: Mar 30, 2007
