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...I've ever read, "Trafalgar: The Men, The Battle, The Storm," by Tim Clayton and Phil Craig. If ya couldn't guess, its about the most important naval battle of the Napoleonic Wars, but more so. By the end of the book, you know where just about every bullet ended up. Let me tell you, as a person who reads alot, I've never seen a book where the authors have put so much research into a subject. Superb! The best part of this book, though, is how I came across it...(Short little story here...) I was travelling up to Vermont for my Mother-In-Law's 50th birthday party. On the way up, I usually stop in Ingleside, Mass just off I-91 to get gas and make a pit stop at the Holiday Inn; nice, clean bathrooms and only 1/4 mile from the on/off ramp. Very convenient. Except this time, where there is a big sign on the hotel door syaing, "Restroom for hotel patrons only." Bummer, for sure, but even worse, I'm caught short and in need of a restroom. Bad. I ask the guy at the gas station, but they don't have one for the public (A gas station without a public bathroom? Isn't that against the law or sum'n?). So, across the street, I see one of those huge Barnes and Noble stores, and set off for it as fast as my clinched cheeks can handle. After finishing that, feeling quite relieved I might add, I just browsed around for a few minutes, 'cause I love to buy books. When 5 or 10 minutes had passed and I didn't find anything, I started heading out, back to the road and on the way out I passed the "Bargain" shelf. Just a quick look, I thought, and then I found this book, and bought it. My fiance and I were in Vermont for 3 days, and I finished the book before we got home. I've since loaned the book to several people, all who have raved about it. Anyone interested in naval history or just good history books, this one is a MUST READ.

I have a "Blind Person Area" sign around the corner from me, but I wonder why...I mean, its not like he can see it...

So would you call that a giant pygmy?

Sounds like a pretty sweet set up you've got! The tube idea is awesome, one of my favorites, and the spin part of the beatle, too. I would maybe change the beatle part, though, and just go with an in-line spinner like a Mepps aglia or similar. Its gonna get full of snot if you let it hit the bottom, so I'd try to keep it just off the bottom. I'd also try reeling with the wind, which means casting into it. You'll lose distance, but bait usually swims with the current/wind. If you prefer the tube, just bump it along the bottom SLOWLY. When you are nearing a fish, stop for a second or two, and then twitch the bait a bit, pause, twitch, etc. until you get a strike. Hope this helps...

Here's an easy way to switch from texas rig to carolina...sort of: Move the weight on a texas rig about a foot or so up the line and put a toothpick in the hole and then break off the left over. Not quite the same as a carolina rig, but kind of the same idea.

Wow, some lucky dudes right there! It reminds me of the movie, "The Ghost and The Darkness."

My fiance and I are going to spend a few days on Lake Bomoseen in Vermont this summer and was wondering if any of you have fished there. I've looked through some web sites, and I've found some good info, but I also feel that first hand reports are much better than just looking at a topo map and reading DFW reports. We're not going until the end of July, but since I was thinking about it, I thought I would put up a post here...Thanks in advance!

I've watched his show a few times, both the NESN show and the ESPN "Beat Charlie Moore." Is he a tool? Heck yes. Is he entertaining? Well, that depends on what you call entertainment. There are moments when I do actually enjoy watching, but those are few and far between, and its usually when he's being self depricating, which again, happens rarely. The biggest problem I have is the way he hucks and shills the Red Sox and Patriots SOOOOOO much. Make the show more about fishing and less about how great New England sports teams are, and maybe I'd watch a bit more... (P.S.- I'm not trying to start a sports flame-war, but you also don't see Jimmy Houston or Bill Dance using 1/3 of their time talking about other sports...)

I guess I have a different idea as to what property managment is. I have a friend who does it for several clients in Southampton and she gets $75.00/hr she works for them...

Any time I have cold water, I almost always go big and slow. LBH (I think it was him...) always says when you think you're going slow enough, slow it down even more. When the water is cold, the bass are going to be VERY sluggish. You basically have to put the bait right in its face and then be super slow with the retrieve. Remember, bass are basically cold-blooded animals, so they aren't going to want to use any more energy than they have to.

It is a great form for bank casting, I find. When I'm walking around a pond in the bushes and trees, you don't always have room to make a full cast, or even a side arm toss. With the roll cast you can get the momentum of the bait moving without using much of the rod, and you don't get snagged in the limbs and sticks around you (and believe me, until I got better at roll casting, I was hung up every other cast )

Some really great pics that I had forgotten about! See why I started this...lol now I have a nice list for my net-skips, I mean Netflix, queue. First up, "Kelly's Heroes." (Thanks tbird!) "Always with the negative waves, Moriarity, always with the negative waves."

From '76? Is that "The Song Remains The Same?" If it isn't, its a great concert-movie with plenty of what makes Zep an elite rock and roll band.

Even though its close in color to the watermellon, there's a deeper green they call "baby bass" that seems to knock 'em cold for me where other colors fail.

I agree with most people here, in that you should offer it as a "premium" service. Up here on Long Island, there's a couple of guys who give lessons with electronics and they seem to do fairly well, as I keep seeing them on different boats all summer long. These guys also teach captain's courses and one also does inshore guiding for stripers, while I know of one other guys who has a complete offshore charter boat. Think of it this way, start with a regular service and then offer the higher level if you think the customer would be liable to upgrade. Kinda like I do at the bar... "I'll have a merlot." "Well, I have a house merlot, but I think you'd like the Mondavi merlot much better. Its a little more expensive, but a much better wine." More often than not, they go for the better wine. In the restaurant biz, we call it "up-selling" and its a great way to increase the profits. Regardless of your approach, good luck with it. Sounds like a great idea!

Amen to that, brutha

a sign pops up and says, "How do you keep idiots in suspense?"

Badgers? We don't need no stinkin' badgers! (sorry, couldn't resist 8) )

I was recently surfing the dial and came across "The Bedford Incident." I had forgotten how good a movie this is and it started me to thinking about other great movies I'd forgotten about like... McClintock Sargeant York Bringing Up Baby So, to start a thread, what are your favorite "Lost Classics?"

I have always had a hard time with this very subject, and I have seen the show y'all are talking about, so here's what I think... Did aliens help with the pyramids and other arcitectural (sp?) wonders? I don't think so. Thousands of years ago, don't forget, there were only a few people with "power" and the rest of the people were either slaves of soldiers (very general, I know...). Seeing as there wasn't anything else to do, they built stuff. How? Well, there's lots of theories, but I subscribe to the idea of using kites and other simple machines to lift and move the giant stones. If you had, say 1000 slaves working all day every day you'd be amazed as to what you can acomplish. Think about how long it would take to build a house today with just 100 men and simple tools. It would be done in 2 days. Now, apply that idea to 1000 slaves working for 50 years, what could they accomplish? Depending on the level of understanding of physics (which we are learning is greater than we thought at the time), the possibilities are as big as a pyramid. Here's where I trip myself up with my theory, though...there's alot of "cave drawings" or primative art or whatever depicting things we seem to think are aliens and/or spacecraft. There aren't too many of them, but the fact that they exist at all makes for some interesting thoughts...

Tubes, baby, pull them tubes

Jeez, I wanted to go to that show. A buddy of mine asked me to join him, but I had that thing called work as well, plus its about 3 hours away from me... Glad you had a great time and hopefully you learned something you can use on the lake.

Thankfully NY only closes during one month of the year for the spawn, as long you practice catch and release. As for keeping fish, that's only about half the year, but for c&r which I do anyway, its pretty much an open season. Finally, NY is doing something right...

Been a while since I've been on the site, but it's nice to see I'm not alone in living in Suffolk! Can't wait to get warmed up and nail some of those Lake Forge bass!

The feeling of disappointment while playing a live gig, ripping up a great guitar solo on "Shanty," and breaking your G-string just as its getting good... That box of crackers with just few halves and crumbs left ('cuz someday you might need 'em???) That annoying neighbor who comes over randomly and asks, "You fishin'?" The smell of squid soaked into your clothes