Follow the fishing leader

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

Surely, shadowing other boats won't help you win a popularity contest. Some may even say it's rude. Fish are our last open access resource - you don't own one until it's in your boat and you have no chance of catching what's lies dead in someone else's cooler. The best ...

Sitka Silvers

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

We arrived at Vitskari Rocks, 10 miles west of Sitka, Alaska, at 7:15 a.m. It was August 26 and my deck-hand had already departed for college, thus I was forced to do double duty - positioning the boat then racing forward in an effort to drop anchor before we drifted ...

The Art of Motor Mooching

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

To the uninitiated, the technique of motor mooching looks like a no brainer. All you do is hook a plug-cut herring to a set of tandem hooks on a seven foot leader. Tie the leader to a mooching sinker of four to eight ounces, drop it all in the water ...