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but I do salt water trolling, a very different game and group of people from those who fish from the banks or from piers. They can all get pretty curmudegeonly when the fish are running and boats are in each other’s way, lines get crossed or cut etc. I drive the boat. My wife does most of the fishing. I help net them and hit them in the head. I also shoot the halibut when we go for halibut. Here they’re big, strong fish and it is a good bit of work to land them, especially big halibut. The boat’s cockpit is a bloody, slimy mess after a day of fishing and I, of course, have no friends when it is time to clean that mess up.

King salmon are the only salmon around this early and there aren’t a lot of them. It takes skill, luck, and especially time; you’ll burn a lot of gas to catch a king salmon. 28 inches is the minimum size you can keep and you’re ashamed to be seen with one that small but you’ll take them, they’re called shakers, if that’s all there is. If you’re good and lucky you can bring home nice thirty to forty or more pound fish. Don’t see them much bigger than the forties here because we’re so far from the open ocean. Still see them in the fifties out at Sitka and in the sixties and seventies are not uncommon on the rivers in Southcentral Alaska. The salmon were practically wiped out here in Southeast by fish traps back in Territorial days. The State has restored the numbers, but not the size of the fish here. We need to do what has been done with halibut and start catch and release on all the big fish so they have a chance to breed. The fishery management scheme is causing the fish to become smaller.

I would rather an average looking chic who is a lot of fun and likes a good hamburger than a good looking chic who is a head job or an unhappy scold. Not to mention that anemic look most vegans get.

The human body really doesn’t digest some of that stuff they eat very well. Lots of the beans and sprouts and stuff are very incomplete proteins that unless eaten in the right combination with other foods simply can’t be digested, e.g, always eat corn with beans. Consequently, they are constantly emitting “greenhouse gases.”

all night, letting my car and my husband’s two trucks idle in the driveway for a couple of hours, burning my trash (including, but not limited to, plastic jugs), digging some gravel out of the nearest creek for my driveway, and, just for grins and giggles, I’m going to the grocery store and insisting on paper bags instead of plastic.

Cheesesteaks and pretzels are the only part of Philly I miss!