The Selfish Herd Theory is based on the premise that, when an animal is targeted as prey, it bands together with others of its kind in hopes that the predator will eat the other one. When groups of animals are being hunted, it’s obviously safer in the center than along the periphery of the heard. [...]
I took this picture to disprove the myth. Look a banana on board, while catching fish. Ha ha! Since I took this picture my magazine got sold and moved to Florida, my cat got messed up, I got tagged doing 80 in a 45, and I broke my best rod hours before my best trip. [...]
The swans kick the crap out of the geese, the geese beat on each other, and everyone pretty much leaves the ducks alone. The swans at the one pond had four cygnets in the spring but two of them disappeared. The raccoons got to them, according to a third party observer. Unless you count creek [...]
Long Island’s north shore formed in the retreat of the Wisconsin ice sheet during the last glacial period. The boulders left behind sometimes expose their tops in the falling tide. Geologists call them glacial erratics but Pete the dockmaster called the bigger ones elephants. Either way as long as you don’t trip and bust your [...]
This is a picture of the last peacock bass I caught last year. I’d been shut out at Donuts, Fitness, and the Church Yard and I pulled into the lot behind the drug store. I’d hooked and lost the biggest largemouth bass of my life in the canal there the year prior. The canal runs [...]
From Stripers Forever, via email dispatch: Stripers Forever members – with the exception of pockets of large stripers it certainly appears from all reports that the population coast wide continues to shrink. What is worse is that there is little chance of a large scale turnaround in the near future since small stripers are almost [...]
Pipe bomb? No Cochise. A DIY rod tube, gleaned from the pages of the Roughfisher encyclopedia. Here are said parameters. Lately, with an hour to fish and the nearest saltwater access a half hour away, and the 10 minute effort of suiting up the waders and stripping basket, the need arises to adapt. Months of [...]
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