I’ve just returned from an excellent fishing trip with my buds Mike and Dave. More on that later, but I thought I’d share this bit of action from Friday night. PS: Pushing the hook back through the skin, clipping the barb off and pulling the hook back out the way it went in actually does [...]

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My awesome wife bought me a Garmin Oregon for Christmas, and I had my first real chance to use it this past weekend in Arizona at the annual data nerd conference. Saturday afternoon my co-consipirators and I drove off into the desert mountains and explored Canyon Lake for a bit. I was the only one [...]

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It’s not often my two of my passions — fishing and free speech — collide in such spectacular fashion. But the government of Clearwater, Fla., fined a local bait shop for violating city code with a mural it commissioned painted on an exterior wall, and then — get this — ordered the removal of a [...]

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