***PRE-SEASON DISCOUNTS NOW AVAILABLE ON PREMIUM FISHING PLANS*** PRE-PAY BEFORE 01 MARCH 2018 AND SAVE UP TO 29% – YOU MUST PURCHASE YOUR PLAN PRIOR TO MARCH 1, 2018 TO GET THE PRESEASON PRICES! Time, fuel, and other costs are always important considerations when trying to locate and catch fish. Before you leave the dock ROFFS™ will show you where the fish concentrations are located by sending you the most comprehensive oceanographic analysis for fishing available today. You will travel directly to the concentrations of fish faster and because your search time will be reduced, you will be saving fuel and money. The locally focused fishing forecast analyses are accomplished by ROFFS™ expert fisheries oceanographers who evaluate the local and regional oceanographic conditions using their knowledge and experience on fish migration, feeding behavior, and catchability (availability and vulnerability). The analyses are genuine science-based decision making tools that show you where your best chances occur for catching fish. Day after day, season after season, and year after year our clients tell us that ROFFS™ provides the roadmaps to the fish that are critical to their catch successes. Simply stated ROFFS™ will put you on the fish. WE ARE THE DIFFERENCE MAKERS YOU WANT ON YOUR FISHING TEAM ROFFS™ is a field proven and time tested service in providing fishing forecasting analyses. Six IGFA world records, two United States records, one Bahamas record, one Gulf of Mexico record, and 27 state records have been set by our clients when using our analyses (please click here to view records online). If winning tournaments is any indication of how accurate and reliable we are, then the results that our clients have achieved clearly show that our analyses make a difference. During the 2017 fishing season, our clients won 425 different final categories in just 102 major tournaments (reported to us) while using our analyses for that event. Over the last 27 years the total numbers of reported winners tallies at 8339 (please click here to view 2017 ROFFS™ winners). You do not have to fish tournaments to use ROFFS™. Our clients still tell us that they fish our ROFFS™ Hot Spot selections and catch fish 85% of the time with plenty more fish when the conditions are particularly good. Please click here for more information and to purchase your 2018 pre-season discounted analyses plans now! New/Updated Videos on ROFFS™.com – Click the “Hot News” Button on ROFFS™ Homepage Frozen Ride!                Who says it’s too cold to fish? Video Courtesy: Hammer Down Boating | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! That’s Gotta Hurt!         Before you jump in make sure it’s not frozen. Video Courtesy: America’s Funniest Home Videos | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Blown Off the Tracks!         Storm “Burglind” hit Switzerland on January 3rd, causing a lot of forest damage, overturned trucks and even a derailed train (latter was caught on tape by a bystander). The video shows the exact moment, the train gets blown off the tracks into the snow nearby. Several people were injured in this incident. Video Courtesy: DonQuijoteTV | YouTube Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Elk Fall Through Ice!          Rescuers walked onto thin ice to save elk that were in freezing water. Video Courtesy: Animalkind Stories | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! I think I Can Grab It!      Raccoons on a fishing trip. Video Courtesy: John Hunt-Fan Page | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Icy Ferry Ride!         Talk about a bumpy ride! The Cape May Lewes Ferry was cruising through icy waters today. Video Courtesy: NJ.com | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Manatee Madness!          Check out the hundreds of manatees migrating to warm water in Brevard County! Video Courtesy: News 6 WKMG / ClickOrlando | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now!

Check Out What’s New At The 2018 Castafari Big Game Fishing Seminar!

WHAT’S BRAND NEW FOR 2018!!

1. Joe Shute Lure Rigging Workshop (Learn first hand what skirts work with what baits, how, and why) 2. Where Do Yellowfin & Bigeye Tuna Go (Learn all about the northeast bluewater tuna tagging project research) 3. Using Chum Bombs (Learn how to make and use chum bombs to target deep water tuna and swordfish 4. Catching Chatham Bluefin (Learn how the Chatham tuna fishery has evolved and what works now) 5. Spreadar Bar Hookbaits Are Key Workshop (Learn hands on what works behind a spreadar bar…how, and why) 6. Canyon Swordfish Tricks Tokatomist Style (Learn some proven swordfish methods from one of the best in northeast) 7. Slow Trolling With A Kite (Learn how deadly effective kite trolling live bait can be…especially on bluefin) 8.The Importance Of Teasers (Learn from 3 different captains how important teasers are when trolling…how, and why) 9. Getting Into The Bluefin Tuna Game (Learn what you need, why, and how to get catching bluefin tuna from 2 captains) 10. Breakaway Systems Workshop (Learn how to use conventional rod/reel while using a deep drop rig to position baits) 11. Attaching Weights, Lights, & Balloons To Mainline Workshop (Learn hands on how to attach gear to your main line) 12. Rigging Up For Topwater Tuna Workshop (Learn knots/splicing and building topwater leaders for casting/jigging tuna) 13. How To Rig A Trolling Dredge Workshop (Learn hands on how to build, assemble, and fish a trolling dredge) 14. Chasing Hard Tails In The Fall (Learn All About Catching Bonito & False Albacore…what you need, how, and why) 15. Finding and Staying On Top Of Fast Moving Schools Of Tuna (Learn how to capitalize on your next topwater tuna trip) 16. Trolling Big Game Lures In The Canyons (Learn what works, when, how, and why from one of the best in the game) 17. How To Read Water…Not Just Temperature (Learn how to read water to find fish…very important!) 18. How To Correctly Crimp & Rig Your Terminal Gear Workshop (Learn first hand how to crimp & rig all terminal tackle)

Please click here for more information! 2018 SALT WATER SPORTSMAN NATIONAL SEMINAR SERIES America’s legendary salt water fishing seminar tour takes to the road for year 31 The Salt Water Sportsman National Seminar Series, the nation’s most popular and longest-running seminar tour on recreational marine fishing tactics and techniques, heads to eight major cities in 2018: Fort Myers (FL), Hampton (VA), Myrtle Beach (SC), Islamorada (FL Keys), Long Island (NY), Bridgeport (CT), Atlantic City (NJ), and Daytona Beach (FL). What’s the secret to packing auditoriums going on 31 years?  “It’s the amount of cutting edge information we dispatch at each stop”, says National Seminar Series host George Poveromo. “The purpose of having nationally-recognized angling authorities and leading local pros at each seminar location is to provide the short cuts to catching more and bigger fish within the waters of the respective seminar regions.  Regardless of one’s level of experience, be it beginner, intermediate or advanced, they’ll learn where to go, the best lures and baits, and – most importantly – the subtleties and adjustments our pros employ to keep on top of the fish and the strikes coming. The fact that the tour enters into its 31st year of touring is its best endorsement.” Please click here for more information! The Museum of Modern Art is very pleased to announce: In the Studio: an exhibition of artworks created in the styles of the Postwar Abstractionist painters.

The exhibition will be held from January 5–22, 2018 in the  Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building of The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

If you’re going to be in the NYC area, please stop by to see the show.

Grey Over Blue ©  Carol Wickenhiser-Schaudt Oil paint and walnut oil on primed linen 14″ x 14″ – In the style of Philip Guston

QUOTE: Corey d’Augustine (professor/art conservator MoMA, NY) ”Very cool, you’ve really accentuated one of Guston’s principle influences, the Italian Giorgio Morandi! only now having taken the step into abstraction that he never dared…I hope you have a nice spot on the wall for this one, I know I would!”

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