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New England Regional Fishing with Tim Coleman | Soundings Online Column

Side-scan sonar for the Everyman

Every angler can become a little more perceptive with the newest line of high-tech side scanners

This screen from a Humminbird unit is looking out 125 feet on each side of a moving boat, showing an area where softer bottom changes to rocky ledges with a school of fish also shoiwing up. This unit features GPS interface along with depth, water temperature, boat speed and date and time. Mark Bertini of Big Coppitt Key, Fla., has one in his 27-foot Contender to find wrecks in the Gulf of Mexico near Key West. Capt. Joe Huckemeyer of Hyannis, Mass., has one in his 100-foot party boat, Helen H, to find rocks, wrecks and fishy lumps in Nantucket Sound.

A new opportunity arises in the Keys

Regulations on grouper are a downer, but the chance to drop a hook in some new places is a good one

My dear departed mom used to say the only thing permanent in our fast world is change. Well, fishermen heading to the Florida Keys this winter will have to deal with change in the form of new conservation measures the fishery powers say are necessary to conserve a dwindling supply of groupers.

Heading south is well worth the travel

It’s about time to flee the cold weather by hitching up your boat and heading to the Florida Keys

We were on the last cod trip of the year, 15 miles off Gloucester, Mass., in an open 26-footer. The sea was calm, the air very cool, the anglers all bundled up in hooded-this and heavy-that.

Angling for one last chance out there

You have a choice: either go with the flow, pull the boat and prepare for another l-o-n-g winter … or bundle up, watch the wind and squeeze another couple trips out of the season.

Up and down the Northeast coast, there are fishing opportunities as we approach Thanksgiving.

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Tim Coleman

Tim Coleman has been fishing New England and Long Island waters for more than 30 years. He was managing editor of The Fisherman magazine's New England edition until 2001, and is now a freelance writer based in Rhode Island.