There have been a great many technological advances in popper casting and jigging fishing gear in the past few years. Nowadays a popping and jigging expedition with a few mates to some far flung tropical destination requires more than a few Stellas on Hots Gipangs and a bag full of expensive lures that would qualify for a wall space in a museum of modern art.
The sun. Nice though it is to bask in its warming rays, the damn things can kill you. Pretty much everybody knows now about the sun's harmfull UVB radiation that at best will cook you to wrinkled bronze colour and at worst, can cause malignant melanoma that if not caught quickly will absolutely terminate your fishing activities and probably you.
Fortunately a range of products are now available to keep anglers popping like Englishmen in the mid-day sun.
Here are some examples seen recently aboard Bite Me :
The good old original Baseball cap and PFG / Colombia spf shirt
The Panama Look
Masau displays the traditional Fijian T-Shirt on the head trick
The just cover everything and try not to die from heat exhaustion option
The wouldn't be seen dead in that (good job it covers my face) accessory
and last but not least, the I don't give a stuff, I'm on holiday look
I just had a
solar keratosis burnt off my nose by a doc wielding a 20,000v zapper thingy. (that's a technical term by the way). The sun needs to be taken seriously.
If you can see the sky.......you are getting a dose of UV radiation.
How to impress the Skipper !
Wahoo
Still schoolie Yellowfin around
Good Wahoo are now thick in certain places
Still time to throw a popper or two
Terry with a trophy Narrow Barred (Spanish) Mackerel
Another big Mackerel for Terry the Mackerel Slayer....
He was pretty handy with a jig as well
