By Tim Romano

Unless you were living in a hermetically sealed and heated bubble the past couple of weeks (or reside in Hawaii) you probably experienced some of the coldest temperatures in a long time. Most of the country was under a deep freeze for days or even weeks on end.

Unfortunately for many gamefish in Florida, the ruthless cold was a brutal killer. Freezing temperatures were recorded along the coast from the central and southern part of the state for multiple nights in a row. Apparently this is not a good thing for saltwater gamefish that are used to much warmer waters. Many fish died from the extreme cold.

By Kirk Deeter

You know the drill, and in this case, the prize is a brand new 7- weight Streamer Express fly line from Scientific Anglers.

What many of you may not realize, is that there is a "Grip and Grin Institute" in Canada, where magazine editors, writers, and photographers are sent to master the form it takes to wind up on the cover, or at least in a spread, of a major fishing magazine.

By Tim Romano

In light of the current events unfolding in Haiti blogging about anything seems a bit trite to me this morning, but alas - something must go up...

Here I sit, shoulders slouched in front of my computer screen shell shocked by the the images coming in from every news and media outlet on the planet. Not unlike Mr. Merwin at the Honest Angler blog, I feel helpless and a bit depressed.

By Tim Romano

Tomorrow, January 14th the state of Massachusetts has hearings on bill H796 which would ban the commercial harvesting and sale of wild striped bass, make it illegal to kill more than one striped bass per day, and enforce stringent rules on the raising of farmed fish. This effectively would make striped bass a gamefish in the waters off of the state out to three miles. In October of 2007, president Bush signed an executive order making striped bass a gamefish only in federal waters or those waters past three miles.