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A SHARK HUNTER RETIRES
Mundus's Last Summer
Frank Mundus has been sportfishing for sharks longer than anyone else on the planet. That’s because he essentially invented the sport. In 1986, over a decade after Steven Spielberg’s summer blockbuster hit “Jaws” terrified audiences, Mundus caught a 16-foot, 8-inch, 3,450-pound great white shark 40 miles off the beaches of Montauk. ....
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21st CENTURY PIRATES
Violence on the high seas and how to avoid it
The Word "Pirate" conjures romantic images of tall-masted sailing ships, peg legs, parrots and broadside ship battles. It’s fun to think of swashbucklers stealing from one oppressive monarchy or another. At one time, pirates were even sanctioned by the U.S. government to raid foreign ships.....
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BOUNCER IN ST. THOMAS
Bouncer Smith Soaks up the St. Thomas Boy Scouts Tournament
The big diesels roared. The boat came back hard. Seas poured over the transom like Niagara Falls had come to the tropics. The swivel touched the rod tip and I hollered, “Caught fish!” This was the last fish on the last day of my dream vacation. After 41 years as a fishing guide, I was experiencing the best fishing action of my life, except I wasn’t fishing, I was observing!.... |
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THE 2007 MIAMI INVITATIONAL RAFT TOURNAMENTy
Rafts, Rivalries, and the Burning Dot.
Roger Rex woke up with one thing on his mind: BEAT RAY ROSHER.. He repeated the mantra again and again under his breath. For more than a decade a burning dot of frustration had grown in Roger, and Ray’s outlandish string of successes at the Miami Invitational Raft Tournament had only made it worse. Ray had not only won the prestigious event since its creation three years ago, he had embarrassed the field..... |
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BIMINI: ISLAND IN THE STREAM?
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly in Bimini Developement.
“As your driver, I advise you that this is a bad neighborhood,” said Matt Choufany as he let me out at the Opa Locka Executive Airport. He sped away and I thought, Bimini can’t be any worse than this. I’d spent the past five years as a journalist covering the volatile streets of Miami and had lan-guished the three years before that as a writer in rough Central American venues...... |
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The Making of the Strike Zone
Capturing the secret life of gamefish isn’t always smooth sailing.
Working as a fulltime fishing journalist I’m always on a quest to learn more about gamefish. Like most anglers, I wonder what really goes on under the surface. Do marlin really whack the bait with their bill? Do yellowtails turn the bait around and swallow it headfirst? .... |
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Sea Karma
TBF Board Members Get First-Hand Look at Mag Bay
Harry Tellam’s home office is covered floor-to- ceiling with photos: fish, fishing buddies, boats, more fish, plaques for released fish, and then more fish. It’s an apt setting in which to relay a life on the water. He had just returned from St. Thomas where he and the crew of the Reel Tight (Jim Lambert, his brother-in-law’s, boat) had spent nine days fishing the September full moon.... |
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