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Sleazeball "product liability" suits will commence in 3..... 2..... On a slightly more positive note, bear in mind that --- IF you can find NO other field-expedient cover while on the water during a severe lightning storm --- one of the BEST places you can be is DIRECTLY under multiple hig...

Todd: Author! AUTHOR!! I've long maintained that a simple test for how well your catch-and-release is going is to simply start holding your breath the minute the fish comes to hand. And the reason I don't watch most of those TV-fishing-show blowhards is that I want to leap through the screen and bea...

Yeeeeee-HAW! Let's go blowin' 'cross this-here flat, Cletus! I have a personal theory that, with males, gasoline has the same effect that makeup and hair dyes do on women. It slowly seeps into the brain, causing massive retardation. This is why, when you look at a sat photo or DOQQ of our dying flat...

Being handicapped, the biggest problem for me is handicapped parking for my trailer. Between being able to simply roll my Tarpon off the back of my trailer, and having a cart, I can get it to the water and back OK. But if I then have to drive uphill to a distant parking area and walk back, and then ...

Dear Fellers, A bunch o' us former members of the Yak Basswards Kayakfishin' Club an' Pole-Dancin' Academy took a river trip on the Withlacoochee last week, an' I figgered I'd write you fellers about it. Mind ya, with all that paper out on our members ever since that Attorney General joker de-cided ...

Like so many other things, I suppose it mostly depends upon WHERE you're wading with your pants off. Way out on some flat? Yeah, sure. That pond at the golf course or a city fountain? We-e-e-l-l-l-l-l-l-l...... That would definitely put the term "lizardfish" in a whole different context, n...

Hey, we'll call it even. If you Long Knives hadn't invented fly rods, steel
hooks and PBR, my retirement would probably suck a whole lot more.

Joe, OK, look, "The Green Medicines" are very hard to understand from a white perspective. And when I say "white", I don't mean racially, I mean culturally. Not all of the medicines are the same "level". You've got one type we call the Creator Medicines, and the only wa...

No set boiling time. The general rule for mashkiki-wabo (medicine teas) is if you're gonna drink it, just steep it, if you're gonna apply it externally, boil it till it LOOKS like a very weak "tea". The Anishinabe concept of "medicine tea" isn't necessarily STRICTLY "pharmac...

#1 There's only one insect repellent that WORKS on everything (yes, including no-see-ums), WON'T screw with your DNA, AND won't melt your fly line: Get yourself a few mangrove pods. Mash 'em up and boil 'em down in water, then strain through a paper towel or coffee filter and ditch the pulp. You'll ...

Wellsir, I cain't begin to tell you fellers what a honor it was to be self-inducted as a SEPSMOTPFDCKACAC. 'Course, I done a little o' that innernet research stuff, an' learnt almost immediately that that particular arcony.... acryno.... er, abbreviation..... unfortunately means "ladyfish turd&...

Thought I'd pass along some links to a few flytying pattern databases (some of which are immensely better than others, of course), to help further fritter away any crappy-weather afternoons/evenings in your future. Many contain saltwater & warmwater patterns, and a few are largely for those poor...

What You'll Hear: "Ah, roger, Osprey One, we have a yellow Tarpon up on a sandbar here, no visible occupants, and there's dragmarks and a blood trail leading into the mangroves." "Osprey One, have a man rappel down and check that registration number." "Already did that, Six....

You're sick, and everybody in town knows it. The ladies in the dollar store and the sewing store and the Walmart know. They've seen you nervously shuffling out the door with huge bags chock full of nail polish and feathered boas and pantie elastic and sequins. Your nervous "Fishing supplies, he...

Well, I wrote a bookmarklet for Google Maps a long time ago that works fine. Right-click the location you want, click "Center map here", and then run the bookmarklet. The full code, line-broken for readability, is: javascript:/*Name_&_LatLong_for_GMaps_Center;Coded2008byP.Louys*/void(s...

I'd like to share with you some incredible resources for visual scouting, personal map/chartmaking, etc., which might be of some possible interest to kayakfishermen along the West Florida Shelf: First, there's the mapping tool at Florida's Marine Resources Geographic Information System (MRGIS): http...