FISHING WITH THE 'NET; MANY WEB SITES OFFER HAVENS FOR ANGLERS.Byline: Michael Grossman Special to the Daily News The latest net in fishing tackle is not some special weave composed of space-age material. It is the Internet - a place filled with informational opportunities for the fisherman beyond what might have been imagined but a short time ago. The vast pool of insight and data - and the instantaneous communication that defines cyberspace Coined by William Gibson in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer," it is a futuristic computer network that people use by plugging their minds into it! The term now refers to the Internet or to the online or digital world in general. See Internet and virtual reality. Contrast with meatspace. - is stunning, all of which - in a pleasant irony - can easily hook the angler. In a typical evening, one can gather weather reports from San Pedro to Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. (via a computer at Penn State University), test knot-tying proficiency, and check out big-game fishing Big-game fishing, sometimes called offshore sport fishing or offshore game fishing, is a form of recreational fishing, targeting large bony fish such as tuna and marlin in the open sea, often some distance from land and, in some fishing grounds, out of sight of land. destinations from Baja California Baja California, state, Mexico Baja California (Span.: bä`hä kälēfōr`nyä), state (1990 pop. 1,660,855), 27,628 sq mi (71,576 sq km), NW Mexico, on the Baja California peninsula. Mexicali is the capital. to New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. - all in a matter of minutes A Matter of Minutes is an episode from the television series The New Twilight Zone. Cast
Representatives of the fishing industry have been lured by the benefits of the Internet as well. ``It's a great way to exchange information with people all over,'' said Robert Falcone at Fisherman's Landing Tackle Shop in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , which has its own site on the World Wide Web, which managers credit for improved business. ``We get inquiries about equipment and fishing conditions and fishing methods from all over the world now.'' Here is a sampling of fishing sites on the Internet and their Web addresses. Take your best cast: First off, there are several newsgroups This is a list of newsgroups that are significant for their popularity or their position in Usenet history. As of October 2002, there are about 100,000 Usenet newsgroups, of which approximately a fifth are active. - gigantic electronic bulletin boards devoted entirely to discussions of every imaginable topic related to fishing. You can read and contribute articles and participate in discussions at these newsgroups: General fishing topics: news:alt.fishing and news:rec.outdoors.fishing Saltwater fishing: news:rec.outdoors.fishing.saltwater Bass fishing: news:rec.outdoors.fishing.bass Fly-fishing: news:rec.outdoors.fishing.fly There are a number of sites dedicated to Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, fishing. The best I have found - run by local Webmaster Don Parent - is called All Coast Sportfishing sport·fish·ing n. The sport of catching fish using a rod and reel. Noun 1. sportfishing - the act of someone who fishes as a diversion fishing field sport, outdoor sport - a sport that is played outdoors : http://www/sport-fish-info.com/content.html Another good site is Southern California Marlin Online: http://www.marlinnut.com Weather information can be tremendously helpful to the angler and a mother-lode of data is available. Perhaps the most extensive source of facts and links to other weather sites is at the Scripps Web site: http://facs.scripps.edu/surf/weather.shtml Be sure to see Scripps' ``Tide Predictor,'' which offers a printable page with a color graph of the tides for a 24-hour period at select California locations. If you want to see the tide for specific dates or locations anywhere on the West or East coast, you can do so at: http://tbone.biol.sc.edu/tide/sitesel.html Actual conditions direct from weather-reporting buoys along the coast can be found at: http://www.nws.fsu.edu/buoy/sw.html A color weather satellite picture of our coastal area, updated every 90 minutes, is at: http://208.134.241.135/images/sat/wests at_756x484.gif The National Weather Service's Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and Oxnard offices provides local weather reports and forecasts, as well as El Nino updates, at: http://www.nwsla.noaa.gov Several sites are dedicated to angling-conservation groups, sport-fishing trade organizations and the state Department of Fish and Game. For United Angler's of Southern California, browse: http://www.webworldinc.com/unitedanglers-sc Visit Sportfishing Association of California at: http://www.sacemup.org The California Department of Fish and Game site is: http://www.dfg.ca.gov If you want to learn about knots or just need to brush up to paint, or make clean or bright with a brush; to cleanse or improve; to renew. See also: Brush on that palomar or uni-knot, there is more information - and diagrams - available than you could ever wish for. Grant's Guide to Fishing Knots specializes in those useful for fishermen: http://www.ozemail.com.au/-fnq/fishing Try http://www.thefishernet.com/knots.htm for more fishing knots. Another site, complete with articles, diagrams on knot-tying and extensive links to more Web sites dealing with knots, is: http://www.earlham.edu/-peters/knotlink.htm Fishing destinations from across the globe can be found on the Web. For instance, there is complete information about angling Midway Island at: http://www.midwaysf.com Voluminous New Zealand fishing locales are situated at: http://www.fish- world.com/fishingnz.htm And numerous sites for Baja California fishing, including details about boats, places to stay, weather, road conditions, fish reports, discussion groups and various links to other sites in Mexico, can be punched up at: http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/4888 and http://www.bajalinks.com/fish.html and http://www.bajaquest.com/fishing.htm Details on fishing in Loreto, Mexico, can be found at: http://www.bajabigfish.com These San Diego landings have Web sites that provide information about their boats (complete with pictures of them), schedules, prices and reservation information: Fisherman's Landing: http://www.fishermanslanding.com H&M Landing: http://www.hmlanding.com Point Loma Point Loma is a neighborhood of San Diego, California. Geographically it is a hilly peninsula that is bordered on the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, the east by the San Diego Bay and Old Town and the north by the San Diego River. Sportfishing: http://www.pointlomasportfishing.com A master list of just about every Web site related to fishing appears at John Purtell's World Wide Web Fishing List: http://www.paxp.com/fishing Other sites profile tackle shops, tackle manufacturers (Daiwa, Shimano, Abu-Garcia and Fenwick among them), fishing radio programs, boat operators and even the Fred Hall
Frederick "Fred" Lee Hall (July 24 1916 - March 18 1970) was a Republican lawyer and politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of Kansas, 1951-55 and thirty-third Governor Fishing Tackle and Boat Show. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos, Drawing PHOTO (1--Color) Locate this site at www.fishingworld.com (2--Color) Locate this site at www.penreels.com DRAWING: (Color) Fishing with 'Net Jon Gerung / Daily News |
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