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Eclipse Sportfishing Good Times, Blue Fin Tuna Tue Jul 30 2013, 08:14AM by Terentius Eclipse Sportfishing Captain Steve and the Crew captured 104 Bluefin Tuna, (84 in the 30-50# class) 23 Yellowtail and 4 Dorado... they reported nice weather and a great group of guests... Depart tonight on another 1.5 Day trip if you got the dough go see the show......

the pepper patch Suzy-bear gave her little life to protect from the marauding wapiti. look at them gooooooooooooooooooooo......one season they may get to the phone line.....

well, gardening isn't a competition but i am a fisherman too so bragging some is just kinda natural. a toad anaheim is a pepper over 12". a monster kentucky wonder is a bean stalk that climbs to the end of a 9ft pole and then reaches up another 2-3ft trying to get up to the overhead telephone line. the last 3 years all of my tomato plants went crazy and produced over 100lbs of tomatoes EACH! thats 400 class in anybody's book. lee

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learning from old timer 1000yd comp shooters i only use mag primers with 4831, 3100, rl 19 and rl22 in '06, .280 and .270 cases. the story goes that hodgdon started making 4831SC(for Short Cut) to get more even ignition and decent accuracy with standard primers. never take shortcuts working up a load. lee

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this is a copy and paste of an email i just sent my son. serious. fishing. just spend the dough and get to san diego. GO! go NOW!!! BEST FISHING IN MY LIFETIME OUT OF SAN DIEGO. SELL THE RUGER if you have to but GO FISHING! lee lee

FAA warns public against shooting guns at drones Published July 19, 2013Associated Press In this Jan. 8, 2009, photo provided by the Mesa County, Colo., Sheriff's Department, a small Draganflyer X6 drone is photographed during a test flight in Mesa County, Colo., with a Forward Looking Infer Red payload. (AP) WASHINGTON – People who fire guns at drones are endangering the public and property and could be prosecuted or fined, the Federal Aviation Administration warned Friday. The FAA released a statement in response to questions about an ordinance under consideration in the tiny farming community of Deer Trail, Colo., that would encourage hunters to shoot down drones. The administration reminded the public that it regulates the nation's airspace, including the airspace over cities and towns. A drone "hit by gunfire could crash, causing damage to persons or property on the ground, or it could collide with other objects in the air," the statement said. "Shooting at an unmanned aircraft could result in criminal or civil liability, just as would firing at a manned airplane." Under the proposed ordinance, Deer Trail would grant hunting permits to shoot drones. The permits would cost $25 each. The town would also encourage drone hunting by awarding $100 to anyone who presents a valid hunting license and identifiable pieces of a drone that has been shot down. Deer Trail resident Phillip Steel, 48, author of the proposal, said in an interview that he has 28 signatures on a petition -- roughly 10 percent of the town's registered voters. Under Colorado law, that requires local officials to formally consider the proposal at a meeting next month, he said. Town officials would then have the option of adopting the ordinance or putting it on the ballot in an election this fall, he said. The proposed ordinance is mostly a symbolic protest against small, civilian drones that are coming into use in the United States, Steel said. He acknowledged that it's unlikely there are any drones in use near Deer Trail. "I don't want to live in a surveillance society. I don't feel like being in a virtual prison," Steel said. "This is a pre-emptive strike." He dismissed the FAA's warning. "The FAA doesn't have the power to make a law," he said. The FAA is working on regulations to safely integrate drones into the skies over the U.S., where manned aircraft are prevalent. The Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop the regulations, but the agency is behind schedule. FAA officials have estimated that once regulations are in place, thousands of drones will be in use across the country for a wide variety of purposes, from helping farmers figure out which crops need watering to tracking sea lions in remote rocky outcroppings to aiding search and rescue missions. But the Deer Trail proposal is the latest ripple in a spreading backlash against drones. Dozens of laws aimed at curbing the use of the unmanned aircraft have been introduced in states and cities. Privacy advocates have expressed fear that police will use drones to cheaply and effectively conduct widespread surveillance without warrants. The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, a drone industry trade group, was concerned enough last year about people threatening to shoot down drones that it issued a statement warning that such comments were "irresponsible, dangerous and unlawful." Michael Toscano, president and CEO of the group, expressed similar concerns Friday, saying drones "are being designed to serve the public good....The myriad of important uses will be imperiled if they become targets. ... The suggestion that Americans take up arms against unmanned aircraft also endangers citizens on the ground." Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/19/faa-warns-public-against-shooting-guns-at-drones/?test=latestnews#ixzz2ZZ44ykXx

http://www.azgfd.gov/eservices/documents/bonus/5-2013/2013%20Pronghorn%20and%20Elk%20-%20Bonus%20Point%20Report%20-%20Bonus%20Pass%20by%20Genus.pdf with 21 BP looks like i am 1 of 257 with 21 or more. with my #1 favorite caliber being a 257 methinks a little lucks afoot after 20 years. viva 2014. yea sure buddy gimme another one of those wine coolers lol. lee

in very obscure literature from the mid 1800's there are many references to 'painter' in stories and conversations with the mountain men and scouts of the southwest. Mainly from writers who went to the rendezvous' at Taos and Santa Fe. The 'painter' or panther was a common food source at that time and was considered the finest meat to be had. it was so universally enjoyed by the trappers and scouts that they used the name 'painter' as an adjective. 'painter' was the finest meat, they began using it in the context of anything that was the finest. a top grade rifle became a 'painter hawken' or a stack of fine beaver pelts became 'painter hides'. i have read 'painter squaw', 'painter pony', 'painter trap', and 'painter coffee'. what little i have had was excellent. lee

we are in the dark at the fool hollow lake public boat ramp and have been for 3 years. the AZGFD installed solar powered light system failed during winter '09/'10 and is still out of order as of this @#%T#$&% week. and still they are offering grant money for new projects while we remain in the dark. are these guys just out to lunch all the time? lee http://azgfd.net/artman/publish/NewsMedia/Arizona-Game-and-Fish-offers-grant-money-to-improve-public-boating-facilities.shtml

report from scott mcdaniels on sea adventure. just a note i caught my first tuna-a bluefin 18lbs-riding with scott back in 1985 on the grande. a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.......................... https://976tuna.com/e107_plugins/landing/audio.php?btrack.266.1374098198

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anyway the best bluefin bite in my lifetime. 2009 was great but this is beyond what any 'dego skipper has seen ever. i can't go but i suggest anyone looking for a trophy tuna buy a ticket...now....good luck and ignore the $#^$%%^&*$! Royal Polaris A Good Day Tue Jul 16 2013, 08:19AM by Richie Hello everyone; Today was a good day. Our morning started out very slow, with only a few yellowtail under kelps, and most of them we released. But around 14:00 hours, it was game on. We found a school, and we started drifting and didn't start the boat until 19:30 hours. We ended our day with 86 Bluefin tuna, most were in the 50 to 60 pound range, with a few in the 70 to 80 pound range. It was a beautiful grade of fish. We are now under way looking for another school, but most of our anglers are down for the count. So until fingers and keyboard meet again, good luck and good fishing. The R/p crew. "Keeping Rods Bent" For a complete season schedule on the Royal Polaris CLICK HERE then call 619-226-8030 for more information and to book your trip

didn't know where to post this so i buried it down here... first comes ice season, then mud season leads to wind season which leads to fire season and then things get wet and green in august. then comes the HUNTING season we wait all year for. shed season starts out in the mud and ends in a hurricane-oh why do i love it so!?! life used to be more simple- shed season, tuna season and quail season.... lee

Norman MacLean wrote this many years ago and it has brought tears to my eyes each and every time I read it. It's a tribute to the smokejumpers who died on the Mann Gulch fire in 1949. THE HILL ON WHICH THEY DIED is a lot like Custer HiII. In the dry grass on both hills are white scattered markers where the bodies were found, a special cluster of them just short of the top, where red terror closed in from behind and above and from the sides. The bodies were of those who were young and thought to be invincible by others and themselves. They were the fastest the nation had in getting to where there was danger, they got there by moving in the magic realm between heaven and earth, and when they got there they almost made a game of it. None were surer they couldn't lose than the Seventh Cavalry and the Smokejumpers. IMG.pdf

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Not Again: Deaths Recall Dude Fire Tragedy By Pete Aleshire As of Tuesday, July 2, 201#Editor’s note: The tragic deaths of 19 firefighters in Yarnell Valley this week came almost on the 23rd anniversary of the death of six firefighters in the holocaust of the Dude Fire. The Roundup is reprinting a story by editor Pete Aleshire recounting the deaths of the crew in the Dude Fire, which seemed eerily similar to the deaths of an entire squad of firefighters this weekend. With temperatures this week close to 100 and fire danger rated as “extreme” the lessons of the Dude Fire remain painfully current. The following account of the Dude Fire deaths comes from several Forest Service documents, which include accounts by witnesses and survivors. The major reports include the Accident Investigation Report prepared in 1990, a study by the National Weather Service on fire behavior in the Dude Fire prepared in 1998, and the 2007 Dude Fire Staff Ride. #Their fate was sealed five miles overhead as the top of the roiling mushroom cloud of hot air began to disintegrate. #But they didn’t know it — not yet, not down on the ground, with their chain saws, their sooty camaraderie and their transformed lives. They were young and strong and tough, with no concept of the holocaust of flames about to overtake them. #Down there, crawling across the smoking earth, the Perryville fire crew thought they had the monster chained and muzzled. They had worked all through the night with their shovels and axes and chain saws to firm up the double bulldozer line thrown across the path of the fierce Dude Fire to protect the evacuated homes of Bonita Creek Estates. #Big James Denny, 39, worked steadily. He’d been in trouble since he was nine, winding up finally in Perryville Prison. But friends said he was a changed man since landing a spot on the fire crew. #James Ellis labored down the slope. Quiet and popular, he was a soft touch for animals — especially the injured birds he regularly nursed back to health in his cell. #Assistant Warden Sandy Bachman, a “people person” just engaged to a deputy at the prison and respected by the men on the crew, supervised cheerfully, bearing the efforts and the oppressive heat lightly. #Up the slope, veteran firefighter Dave LaTour fretted about the only fitfully connected hand radios to keep track of the progress of the fire. An instructor for Rural Metro Fire Department, he’d fought the beast in every guise since 1978 — but still had no idea of what awaited the crew. #On that grim day, the superheated air rose from the desert and broiled into thunderheads, that on June 25 started a fire near the top of the Dude Creek drainage off the Rim. Although the Forest Service had responded instantly to the start of the blaze and marshaled 550 firefighters within hours, the fire blew up to 2,000 acres in the first 24 hours. #On the north side, the fire managers tried to keep the fire from climbing up the Rim and racing off through the forest. On the south side, they hoped to save Bonita Creek Estates by holding the fire north of the Control Road. #Working well ahead of the fire, bulldozers gouged two rough fire lines up Walk Moore Canyon to protect the subdivision. The 19-man Perryville crew took the middle reaches of Walk Moore Canyon, with a Navajo crew below them and a veteran hotshot crew above them. #The veteran LaTour knew the conditions were dangerous and unstable. But he assumed that if the fire turned they could escape down the dozer line to the Control Road a mile away. Neither the Perryville crew, nor the crews working above and below had a cleared safety area and the Perryville crew’s radios couldn’t consistently receive some of the key frequencies. #At about noon, LaTour noted that the wind had picked up. He didn’t know that a Forest Service water-carrying helicopter would later hit furious downdrafts, losing 3,000 feet of altitude in a great whoosh of air. LaTour described the wind as “squirrely with some spots showing up in the drainage.” One of the most deadly tricks of a wildfire is the ability to generate its own winds, sucking in cool air as the superheated core rises. #Still, conditions seemed manageable. In fact, they should have dropped their tools and run for their lives at just about that moment, according to later reconstructions of the disaster. #Overhead, the superheated air hit a mass of cold air at 30,000 feet. The fire had been building this massive convection cell all morning as the fire built a five-mile-high pillar of superheated smoke to create a “plume dominated” fire for the first time on record. #At about 2 p.m., the hotshot crews above the Perryville crew reported a “frightening calm.” The cap of cooler air far above had overcome the energy in the rising column of smoke and flame, which now hesitated at the point of collapse. As the dead calm settled over the smoky forest, the hotshot crew scrambled for the safety zone they had. #Tragically, the Perryville crew remained isolated on a different radio frequency and was slower to recognize the gathering disaster. #The massive convection cell began a lethal collapse, sending sustained 40- to 70-mile-an-hour winds blasting outward in every direction, creating 170-foot-long tongues of flame. The blast of wind and flame ignited whole trees in an instant, along with dense piles of debris and downed wood on the ground. #Down in Walk Moore Canyon, LaTour observed the change, as a blast of 50-mile-per-hour wind swept across the fire break. Immediately, the mid-day sky blackened, turning a glowering, dark orange “like a sunset,” LaTour later recalled. #Crackling over the radio, the crew heard a transmission from the Navajo crew below — “Get out. Get out.” A lookout for the Navajo crew further down the canyon had spotted a solid wall of 100-foot-tall flames rolling over the ridge toward them. #The Perryville crew immediately began running down the fire break toward the Control Road. The crew was strung out all along the break, so the 11 firefighters in the upper reaches of the canyon had twice as far to run as those closer to the road. They ran for their lives at a speed of 7 miles an hour, despite all their gear. They could have outrun even a crown fire, but these flames advanced on them at 9 to 11 miles an hour. #Navajo Crew Chief Louis Sorrell saw several members of the Perryville crew run past him, still carrying chain saws. He yelled at them to drop the heavy saws and keep going, then turned and headed down behind them. “The fire was right on our tail,” he recalled. “We could hear the roaring and crackling, running sound.” #Several crew members reported seeing a terrified elk running alongside them down the canyon. They repeatedly fell, got up, helped one another and scrambled down the slope. They reached the Control Road just ahead of the flames and jumped onto fire trucks already starting to move. #But back up the canyon, the flames had cut the Perryville crew in half, trapping most of them in the upper reaches of the canyon. Those cut off were only 15 or 20 seconds behind those who escaped. But halfway to the Control Road a terrifying wave of fire swept across the thin fire break ahead of them. #They staggered backward from the withering heat, then turned and started running back up the slope, away from the flames. LaTour saw them running up the hillside toward him. “There was a solid wall of fire behind them. It was roaring and solid black,” he recalled later. #They all turned and began to run back up the hill, only to see another wall of flame advance on them from above, cutting off their only possible escape. LaTour estimated the speed of the flames at 70 miles an hour. Perryville crew supervisor Larry Terra later said the 100-foot-tall wall of flame that bore down on them sounded like a locomotive, mingled with the sound of explosions as whole trees exploded into flame. #With the wall of flames just 75 yards away, LaTour ordered the crew to deploy their fire shelters, fire-resistant, laminated bags. They had about 16 seconds to get into their shelters before the fire would be upon them, trapped in a narrow slot hemmed by brush and trees. #Down the slope, Denny saw Bachman struggling with her shelter and so ran back to her to help her deploy before he started work on his own, a heroic act of selfless courage. #LaTour later recalled, “As soon as I got into my shelter, I started talking to people. I could hear the crew from inside their shelters saying, ‘We’re going to make this, we’re going to be okay.’ They were trying to cheer each other up. They were sounding optimistic. We knew it was going to be a difficult situation, but I think we all thought we were going to walk away from it; we were going to make it. But when that first flame front hit us, everything changed.” #Within moments, the monster had them at its mercy. #“As soon as that first wave of fire hit us,” recalled LaTour, “I heard Curtis Springfield screaming. He was yelling that he couldn’t take it. I was shouting almost constantly through the whole event, telling everyone to stay in their shelters, to stay down. But quite frankly, when the flame fronts were passing over us, the sound that we heard was indescribable.” #The screaming, roaring fire clawed at them, lifting the shelters almost off the ground, pounding them with burning debris. “The winds were lifting the shelters up,” recalled LaTour. “Active flame and large amounts of burning debris came into my shelter and up against my body.” #He could hear the screams and shouts of the crew, each in their private heck. Flames forced themselves into his shelter, burning him, as the layers of laminated fiberglass began to peel apart — something that only happens above 600 degrees. #“My personal feeling is that at some point,” recalled LaTour, “everyone’s shelters were breaking down and being lifted up. People were being burned to the point that they thought they were going to die. There was a lot of screaming and I realized people had gotten up and moved. But as soon as they got out of their shelters — that was it.” #Almost as soon as one front of flame passed over their huddled positions, another wall of flame roared in from another direction. At times during the carnage, LaTour said he could hear people moving around outside the tent. At one point, someone stumbled over his tent. All told, three major sheets of flame passed over the firefighters, helpless in their dissolving fire shelters. LaTour said he could hear screams throughout the ordeal. #Somehow, LaTour clung to the decaying shelter, burned but alive. After 45 minutes, the roar of the fire receded — and LaTour risked coming out of his shelter to find a scene of devastation and tragedy. Smoldering bodies lay scattered up and down the ravine. He found two empty shelters and several others that had come apart. #Later reconstructions depicted the final moments of five of the crew members, as the temperatures in their shelters soared above 600 degrees — causing the adhesives to turn to gas and catch fire as the shelters began to come apart. #Sometime during the firestorm, Denny emerged and staggered down the hill toward the Control Road, the temperature on his clothing reaching 800 degrees. Nearby, Chacon also rose from his shelter — perhaps to help Denny. He was found lying on top of Denny, with his shelter pulled over on top of them both in a futile effort to ward off the inferno. #Curtis Springfield was found on his side, his arm reaching toward Denny’s abandoned shelter as though he’d been moving toward it through the flames. #Alex Contreras had also been exposed to 800-degree temperatures and died beneath his shelter, which had delaminated at 600 degrees. #Sandra Bachman was found sitting upright in her shelter, which had been delaminated and swirled about. Her hard hat was fused to the wall as was the heel of one boot. #“We have to get out now,” LaTour told the surviving crew members. He had suffered second- and third-degree burns over 12 percent of his body, but concentrated on getting the survivors to safety. “It’s a tragedy. But we have to get out. Don’t look,” he said as they emerged, thinking of the sprawled, smoldering bodies of the other crew members. #They stumbled down the charred, smoking canyon toward the Control Road, through a moonscape of black and gray. Even big, downed logs had been completely consumed by the intense heat and flame. #Ellis, who loved animals so much, stumbled up the canyon toward them, badly burned, his clothing smoking, his shelter somehow draped over his head like a cape. “My shelter didn’t work,” he mumbled. He lurched and sat heavily. “I’m dead,” he said. Then he slumped over and rolled into a ditch, already dead. #All told, six of the 11 trapped members of the Perryville crew perished in the maelstrom. #Up above, members of the hotshot crew emerged from their shelters and headed down into the smoke-filled canyon to help the Perryville crew, despite the danger of a new wave of fire and despite their conviction that no one below them could have survived. They encountered Gregory Hatch, a member of the Perryville crew, with severe burns over 40 percent of his body. Paramedics put him on a stretcher and hauled him up the slope, hanging desperately onto the stretcher even when the fire made another run on them. #The deaths on the Perryville Crew caused great soul searching in the hardened ranks of the Forest Service firefighters. The deaths prompted the Forest Service to improve its communications and control systems and to redesign the fire shelters. The Forest Service has also cleared buffer zones around most Rim Country communities, to give firefighters a chance of stopping the next Dude Fire. #But in many ways, the danger has only grown more acute. The Dude Fire was then the largest fire in state history, but has been dwarfed by many fires since. In the meantime, many communities remain surrounded by thick, fire-prone forests, without fire-wise building codes or even a secondary escape route. #Of course, in between the lines of that tragedy and miscalculation lies another message, this one a testimony of redemption and courage. #It lies in LaTour’s desperate calls to his crew to stay in their shelters, even as the flames forced their way into his tent. #It lies in the moment James Denny gambled away his life to help a prison guard get her shelter open. #It lies in the moment Joseph Chacon threw himself atop Denny as the flames closed in. #It lies in the moment four paramedics bent down without releasing their grip on Hatch’s stretcher, as the flames roared toward them. #And so it lies in the end to the survivors, to neither forget nor to squander such lives, such courage.

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can't we all just get along and live on tofu and sprouts lol ? Snuffy the Seal pays dearly in ‘Shark Week’ promo Campaign opens with a spectacular, albeit fictitious, attack on rehabilitated mammal—advertising genius or poor taste? June 26, 2013 by Pete Thomas The Discovery Channel has begun to promote “Shark Week,” and it has done so spectacularly—at the expense of poor Snuffy the Seal. The accompanying video marks the beginning of Discovery’s ad campaign for the popular series, which airs Aug. 4 to Aug. 9. Watch and decide for yourself whether the footage is horrifying, hilarious, or mildly amusing. The story, of course, is fictitious. There is no Snuffy and the news station covering the rehabilitated seal’s release does not exist. But the drama works perfectly for the theme: “Shark Week. It’s a Bad Week to Be a Seal.” Writes Business Insider: “The ad is shocking, awesome, and effectively getting fans pumped up for Aug. 4.” The Drum points out that “Snuffy the Seal” was trending on Twitter after the release of the ad. One of the tweets, via Conner Morris (@ConnerSaurusRex): “I’ve been an emotional basket case ever since I saw that shark kill Snuffy the Seal.” Another described the footage as “advertising genius at its finest,” and we’re sure many will agree. –Find Pete Thomas on Facebook and Twitter

JUNKIE i think you must be on crack. shark week is top television since like 1988. go ahead and don't watch. you may have just missed the fact the 'commercial' you watched was satire. how in the world would shark week be considered STUPID ? Air Jaws is the best reality video ever aired anywhere. maybe time for you to find ur zipper.... good luck with that, lee

STILL dark. over 4 years now. park director is just asleep at the wheel. for a good laugh call fool hollow state park office at 928 537 3680 and ask why its still out. i can guarantee some hilarious responses like not wanting to interfere with the activities of nocturnal animals on a boat ramp..................... lee

the juarez bar in miami. if you run into ed abbey shake his hand then punch him is the nose-tell him its from me. oh wait it's 2013 never mind. lee