Fishing

Use this technique to remove bird's nests in your revolving spool reel.

You've heard and read a thousand times what to do with your baits. Cut them at an nth-degree angle, hook them this way, fish them that way. But do you know what not to do? Here are a few things I've learned the hard way.

[1] Don't soak ballyhoo in formaldehyde. Sure it toughens them, but I've seen too many rejected to ever do it again.

[2] Don't put leftover live eels in a fish tank. They can slither out, which can be frightening at 3 a.m.

Deep jigs for big game.

They may be one of the smallest members of the tuna clan, but blackfin tuna are among the tastiest, too. Like albacore, blackfin is "white meat" tuna, with flesh that's far whiter than the red or pink meat found on bluefin or yellowfin.

But the question of the day is: What makes the white meat white? For some answers, we went to Glenda Kelley, biologist for the International Game Fish Association.