Tag: August Blues Nantucket Fishing Tournament

Women line the shoreline casting at sunset during Tammy King's annual women's fishing seminar on Nantucket.
Nantucket Events, Nantucket Voices

A Vision Realized

Jesse Cole is a visionary. Wait, you don’t know who Jesse Cole is? I bet you do. Or, at least, I bet you’ve seen him. Jesse is the tall guy in the bright yellow tuxedo and top hat who formed the Savannah Bananas baseball team and subsequently created Banana Ball. Yes, that’s the game that is selling out major league baseball (and football) stadiums across the country. It started because Jesse Cole had a vision that baseball could be so much more than it is. It was a vision that became his passion.

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Liliana Small holds her 28.75 inch bluefish, the top junior catch in the August Blues Nantucket Fishing Tournament.
An Island Point of View

Carrying on Tradition

“Leave me alone, I’m just carrying on an old family tradition…” these sardonic lyrics from the Hank Williams Jr. classic 1979 song Family Tradition still punch hard after all these years. Hank Jr. didn’t have an easy road. He had to climb past the enormous shadow of his dad, a man who had died when Jr. was only three years old. But climb he did. Hank Jr. developed his own style and sound. He lived his own life. And yes, he’s always been proud of his father and what the original Hank Williams had left for him. Both men have become true American country music icons.

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Two young anglers proudly hold up a bluefish caught during the August Blues Nantucket Fishing Tournament.
Nantucket Voices

Dog Days of Summer

Ah yes, the dog days of summer. The fishing has been, well, tough. My friend and boat charter captain Corey Gammon says that the fishing has been “opportunistic.” We spoke recently, and Corey told me, “Yesterday we did nothing at Great Point, and today it just went off. Fish everywhere!” Yes, Corey is right. I’ve had good days and bad days and going half-mad days, to borrow a lyric from the late, great Jimmy Buffett. My best day of the past week was when I had to cancel my charter clients due to extreme wind and rain. I went out and fished into that wind on an empty beach and caught some big, fat bluefish. You can’t catch ‘em from the couch, right?

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