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I never had the honor of knowing "JayB", but I've read enough on here from men I respect to get some tiny glimmer of his uniqueness. I'm quite sure Brett intended no disrespect -- overhauling a site this size and complexity is a chainsaw-juggling task whose complexity non-coders can't even...

I got so jealous of seeing all those new kayaks with the raised seats, I decided to convert my antique Tarpon, so yesterday I picked up the new X-99 Keister-Matic Elevated Seating Supplement (a Type IV boat cushion) upgraded with the new Rescue-Matic Throw Package (straps connected DIRECTLY to the c...

Florida (and this area in particular) leads the nation in lightning strikes, but only because it leads the nation in number of fishing liars. 53% of all Florida lightning strikes are caused by fishermen uttering the phrase "May God strike me dead if...". Most of the other 47% of strikes oc...

Gentlemen, I cannot tell you how deeply touched and inspired I am by your reactions to my latest humble offering. Frankly, I was down in the dumps after a long series of rejection letters from other fine publications such as yours. Just recently, after a drunken bet with a fellow paddlefishing cultu...

I owe EVERYTHING to paddlefishing -- and I truly believe that it is the greatest sport ever invented -- but I can no longer continue to post here without being TOTALLY truthful. I KNOW that there are many others like me on this forum, and I hope that my honesty will encourage them to emerge from the...

I came down the Rainbow River with my grandfather for the first time in 1953 in a beat-up canoe (and probably hastened the onset of his later heart condition with enough butt-wiggling and hull-stomping and sudden lurching and tackle-dropping and bird-startling shrieks of pure joy to instantly turn a...

Greetings, fellow Linuxian and Social Terraformer. Personally, I'd really like to see an autofocus to the login page's first formfield onLoad. Everything after that is just gravy. ^o^ ____________________ YourhusbandsalrightMrs.Meyerhesfishinghesjustcaughtacoupleofstriperswellbringeminfordinnerwewon...

Thought you fellas might need a little reading material while you're dodging thunderboomers and flying skidoos this weekend. Many sites you probably already have, but you might find a few bookmarkable treasures. General Feeds: Underwater Times -- Newsfeed with the latest fish- & fishing-related ...

Just wanted to let you guys know that, for the next five days, the fish are all yours. Mind you, this is a special, limited-time offer. When I was a young man, I distinctly remember the lurid newspaper accounts of the young father who, with his infant son nestled safely in the crook of his arm, thou...

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! My old man was pushing PROPER catch and release back in the day when you'd see a dozen huge tarpon hung on a lodgepole by "sportsmen". YOU, sir, are a SPORTSMAN.

Chilean Sea Bass? To quote Crocodile Dundee's skinny Abo friend, "Needs GAAAAH-lic!" If you think about it, the actual PORPOISE word for "porpoise" is probably "kikikiKEEKEEKEEkikikikskrick" or something. I am reminded of the old joke where a guy asks a kid what his dog...

Rik, You're 100% right, and I agree with you completely on everything you said. Seriously. However, if you could pass along my one small, teeny-weeny quibble to the good folks at Mote Marine: Porpoises, porpoises, PORPOISES!!! Please, dear God, people! They are NOT "dolphins". A dolphin is...

"Poon"? I think you spelled "porn" wrong. Jeez, I think I just.... well, you know. Somebody get me a towel! ^o^

Hit the tannic at 4 AM with the five-weight and a UL spinner, tore 'em up with Bugziller (a home-tied B&W floaty creature with bulging eyes and bungee-innard legs and antennae) and, when they started busting shad at first light, a Rapala OFM with shamefully deviant mods. Needless to say, at that...

In no particular order, here are updated links for some pretty cool data, for your bookmarking enjoyment: Detailed maps for several popular regions of Tampa Bay -- same info/look as the printed Boating and Angling Guide to Tampa Bay -- and they're PDFs, so you can zoom, or you can run them off on yo...

A Word of Warning Pool noodles are made from a roughly 1#-density polyethylene foam that is *NOT* UV stable. This foam has a gazillion tiny bubbles in it, but it is NOT cross-linked (i.e., it's like super-microscopic bubble wrap -- once a bubble pops, it's "Adios Flotato", comprende?) You ...