From the Flybridge
  • Welcome
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  • Game Fishing
    • Put Yourself Here...
    • Teaser Dredges?
    • Wiring Big Fish
    • Big Game Fishing - Another day at the office
    • The Solitary Coast >
      • Fishing the Solitary Coast
      • Finding the core of the East Australian Current
      • The Ekman Transport Phenomenon
      • BOM and Other Coastal Weather Forecasts
      • Bar and harbour webcams
      • BOM rain radar
    • A Lure Story >
      • BLUE MARLIN MAGIC
    • How's this for a Wind-on Leader...?!
    • Ethical Handling of Billfish
    • Gamefish Research Paper - 2003 to 2013 Landed Fish
    • Nick's Page >
      • The 300-kilogram Blue Marlin
      • Fishing the 2014 Golden Lure
      • The Hunt for Mr. McGoo
    • Thoughts on Setting the Drag
    • To Tease, or not to Tease...?
    • What game fish...?
    • Moon Phases and the Hot Marlin Bite
    • What is a "Normal" Fishing Year?
    • What kind of Crewmember are you?
    • So you want to own a Game Boat?
    • The Golden Minute
    • Striped Marlin Techniques
    • Wahoo Parasites
    • Eye and Brain Heating in Billfish
    • Game Flags - Do you know how to fly them?
    • Sportfish Hawaii and Fish University
    • Report from the International Billfish Symposium - 2013
    • NSW Striped Marlin Fishery Interactions
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  • Propspeed
  • Specific Fuel Range and your Boat
  • Be a Better Skipper
  • The mAIS app - MarineTraffic.com
  • Crewing a Game Boat.... read this first
  • So you want to be on the Committee...?
  • Boat Speed and Lure Performance - The Myths and the Facts
  • The Marlin Bite, Scumlines, and the EAC
  • Contact
  • Coastal Venturi Effects

The Good Crewmember Quiz...

Once you've seen a couple of professional or even highly experienced amateur deckies doing their thing on a game boat, you start to appreciate what years of experience, and an eye for a myriad of details can do for a smooth-running and highly productive game boat. Things happen without even talking, let alone yelling . . . stuff gets done before you have to ask . . . adjustments are made the minute the need for them arises . . . and it's all like a seamless piece of highly choreographed activity that appears to be directed more by telepathy than spoken commands. This culminates in perfectly co-ordinated activity that works like a Swiss watch when the chips are down and there's a big marlin going mental on the end of a leader just a few metres off the transom of a boat.
Of course, after you read this, any deckie who feels like contributing a guide to skippers something along the lines of "How well do you look after your crew...?" can do so, and I'll get it up next to this just to balance things out a bit.  
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