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Habitual Truancy

June 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

Regular visitors to this site (both of you) will no doubt remember a story about me shirking my responsibilities at a work function and slipping away for some redfish action after dark. That might have been just an isolated incident, but now a pattern seems to be emerging. I’ve been working on the […]

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Playing Hooky

November 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments

My buddy Perry and I slipped away from a work function last week to get in a few hours of surfcasting at Alabama Point. This 6 3/4 pound redfish had a love for shrimp that proved his undoing. We didn’t wet a hook until around 21:30, and I caught this bad boy after […]

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Spanish Class

November 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

The sun sinks into Little Lagoon at the end of another day in paradise, Gulf Shores, AL.
Natural Born Killers

The Spanish mackerel, Scomberomorus maculatus, is a migratory pelagic carnivore. He swims in schools, and he is most comfortable when surrounded by fish of roughly the same size. When feeding on schooling baitfish, he is a wrecking […]

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