Fishing Sea

Fish and cut bait for convenience, accuracy - Tampa Tribune

Wet weather continues to hamper fishermen on the south shores of Tampa Bay, but the fishing has been pretty good for the past few weeks.

Last week, I even found a couple of willing redfish in Little Cockroach Bay.

Redfish have been a reliable target during summer months in years past. I like to fish them around a high tide on the shadow line of the mangroves with cut bait. Threadfin herring and ladyfish are both productive, but I use mostly threadfin because they are so abundant in Tampa Bay in summertime. Fresh or frozen doesn't seem to matter to the fish; however, fresh bait stays on the hook better.

There are two advantages to fishing cut bait.

First, I like to net a cooler full of threadfins, bag them up and then freeze them. That means I always have some bait on hand.

Secondly, you can cast a piece of bait into a hole, and it's going to stay put. One of the problems of fishing live bait around mangrove roots is that the bait can get into the structure and get snagged.

Source: Tampa Tribune, FL

Happy Earth Day!

Once again it is Earth Day.  And once again this means that for one whole week out of the year everyone is an environmentalist.  Though that may sound pretty shitty to say, it is still very accurate.  Today is the day, and this week is the week, that you will hear and see more about doing your part in protecting our planet and it's future (along with the futures of our lineage, et al).  So far I saw a bunch of stuff on The Today Show and if you go to their website they have two teeny tiny areas that discuss how to "go green".  Of course, going green for them is earning green, so how much of their crappy 30 second interviews with "environmental specialists" I buy into is only half as much as I am willing to trust in my neighbor to not wake me up in the middle of the night by hacking and coughing his lungs up whilst yelling at his dog.  Another channel that has decided to focus all broadcasting on Earth Day associated broadcasting is Current.  Now don't get me wrong, I love this channel and they run viewer created shorts on the environment all year long.  But today is different.  Today pretty much every single show is for Earth Day.  And they admit it on their website.  I would actually recommend checking this site out the next time you have a question about a current event (hence the channel name).

Anyway, so for the lovely Earth Day, I present you with an Earth Day/Earth Week post.  Are you ready?  "Cause here we go:

First we are gonna start with some basic information that you, the reader, can actually read up on your own, but for the lazy people I will put it here and you can feel free to hit the links if you need more information or you just don't believe me.

Earth Day was first celebrated on April 22, 1970. 
Earth Day is celebrated April 22 every year. 
Gaylord Nelson founded Earth Day.
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