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The common fishing refrain does not compute for Michael Bennett.
Zac Sunderland sits alone on his 36-foot sailboat, three days out of Majuro in the Marshall Islands, pointed toward Darwin, Australia, but with nary a breeze to fill his sails.
This is fast materializing into an ordinary summer to put El Niño summers to shame.
Matthew Espy halts near ocean's edge, plants both feet in the sand, crosses his arms, furrows his brow, and refuses to proceed one step closer.
High fuel costs and a weak economy are keeping more anglers off party boats and more vessels at the dock or with loads too light to cover the cost of fuel.
Paige White, 9, a budding kayak angler who'd grown weary of catching lowly triggerfish and puffers during a recent trip to Baja California's East Cape, met her father at water's edge the next morning and demanded "to catch something I can bring to the fish-cleaning table."
ZIHUATANEJO, Mexico -- Bruce Grimes gingerly clenches his stitched right hand, asserting as best he can that he was accompanied by angels the morning a large bull shark chomped "softly" on his arm as he paddled his surfboard.
The killer whales, at least three dozen of them, coursed through and even leaped across the wind-swept ocean.
To gaze out over the city and contemplate the almost unfathomable scope of humanity below would not rank high on a hiker's list of things to do.
As he did as a troubled youth growing up on Oahu's rugged west side, Sunny Garcia is turning to the ocean for salvation.