Before I get to very earthy stuff, including a Reader’s Digest version of the LBI beach replenishment project, I have to haul all ya’ll back into the freaky realm of engaging gamefish.

MARRIED TO A SAILFISH: Here’s a soap-operatic tale of angler/divorcee Eric Bartos.

In December 2002, Bartos was in the throes of an ugly marital matter. Down and out, he grudgingly accepted an invitation from his buddies to go trolling billfish off Fort Lauderdale, as a way to clear his achin’ head. In nothing flat, it was “Fish on!”