The folks at Big Game Fishing Journal are publishing a new magazine called Fishing Gourmet, subtitled The Magazine for the Angling Seafood Lover. We recently received their 2005/2006 Winter Buyer's Guide, and have to say that it's an interesting read.

The editorial content is about 50% recipes, and 50% fishing articles. Aside from the great recipes, this issue featured several interesting articles:

"Dolphin Forecasting" by Capt. Jim Sharpe - has some pretty specific recommendations on how to predict when dolphin (mahi-mahi or dorado) will feed in his waters along the East Coast. He takes into account wind direction, moon phase, tides, weather systems, water clarity, salinity and water temperature.

"Attract the Pack" by Capt. Fred Archer - discusses how to set yourself up for multiple tuna hookups while trolling offshore. He covers spreader bars versus daisys chains, setting up the spread, and how to achieve and handle multiple hookups.

"Speed Kills" by Capt. George LaBonte - covers super-high speed trolling techniques for wahoo

Fishing Gourmet is available on newsstands now for $2.99. Worth a look, then a trip tot he market...

The January/February 2006 issue of Pacific Coast Sportfishing has a great article by Bob Hoose titled "Cabo Blues - Hawaiian Style". Bob had the opportunity to pre-fish the Bisbee's Black and Blue Tournament in Cabo San Lucas with Captain Steve Lassley, Pete Groesbeck, and Capt. Randy Parker from Kona. He got a chance to pass on a number of interesting tips from the team, including:

• Use clear or blue lines for fishing marlin. While Hi-Vis lines work OK for trolling, the team felt that the line will put off marlin and tuna if you have to switch to bait.
  
  
• Many Hawaiian marlin lures are rigged using skirts made with auto upholstery vinyl, rather than the more popular soft plastic octopus skirts. The lures seem to swim and smoke better with these types of skirts, and the team believes that the skirts also slide through a marlin's mouth more easily, reasulting in more hookups.
  
  
• Marlin lures should be fished on taglines to improve hookup ratios
  
  
• The Bomboy Bullet was the hot ticket for just about everything.