FoulHooked...(how'd that get there?)

My role Saturday was getting to the spot, hooking the fish, getting back to shore, and landing it. Brian's role was trying not to fall down, staying off my leader, cutting off the escape route, and snapping photos. Mr. Chrome's role was being dumb and docile enough to make it all possible yet spunky and bright enough to make it that much more enjoyable. A tall order, well performed. And for that I am thankful.

It's a very important skill when fishing. One of the more easily discernable (from the surface) places to likely find fish is along "foam" or "bubble" lines, where current seams trap and hold bubbles formed by turbulent water upstream. How'd you like to fish this foam line ?

Well, at least part of it... http://www.watershed-watch.org/sealice.html

...and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to sea kitten and he’ll squander his day posting on sea kittening websites ." Oh PeTA, we love you so. Don't forget to read the comments.

Less than 3 weeks before new Killers. I'm such a homer. I can't get the new single out of my head, so I'll give it to you as well if you haven't heard it. Baltimore for the weekend. Leaving early tomorrow. It's gonna be weird not standing in the Salmon River at 7 Sunday morning for only the second time in 5 weeks. "Wave goodbye, wish me well."

...would be conservation done wrong, because of a lack of vision." See? Not all environmental advocacy groups are off their rocker.

...alcohol is for drinking! I bet you thought this was gonna be an election-related post. Gee...who ever would have thought ethanol-as-energy investments would be failing ? ( free registration req'd for full article, via Ted Williams ) I'll give you a hint...he's got two thumbs.... From the article: Six of the biggest publicly traded US ethanol producers have lost more than $8.7 bn in market value since the peak of the boom in mid-2006.... Ouch...but that's nothing compared to what you've lost.... Investor losses come as taxpayers have paid billions to support the ethanol industry. More than $11.2 bn has been spent since 2005 on tax breaks for companies that blend ethanol into petrol. Billions more have been spent on direct state and federal subsidies for US ethanol production. “We’re looking at an industry that’s cost $80 bn to get to this point,” said Bob Starkey, a fuels analyst at Jim Jordan & Associates, a research group in Houston. Hmmm ...eh, it'...