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I am building a simple application in CakePHP in which users can register with data saved in the users table in my database. They also have a profile associated with the user, and I am trying to accomplish this by utilizing the $hasOne and $belongsTo association. The user hasOne profile and the profile belongs to the user.
I have created a profiles table with id, and user_id, and other fields for the profile. The user_id references the id of the profile. However, when I am trying to edit the profile information in the view, I cannot update information. I get an error that says it is trying to duplicate the 'id' which corresponds to the User id in the User table. I am writing my profile_edit function in the UsersController.php, here is the code:
public function profile($id = null) {
$this->User->id = $id;
if (!$this->User->exists()) {
throw new NotFoundException('Invalid user');
if ($this->request->is('post') || $this->request->is('put')) {
if ($this->User->save($this->request->data)) {
$this->request->data['Profile']['user_id'] = $this->User->id;
$this->Session->setFlash('Your profile has been updated');
$this->redirect(array('action' => 'index'));
} else {
$this->Session->setFlash('The profile could not be saved. Please, try again.');
} else {
$this->request->data = $this->User->read();
My Profile.php Model file:
class Profile extends AppModel {
public $name = 'Profile';
public $belongsTo = 'User';
And my views file:

<?php echo $this->Form->create('User');?>
<legend>Edit Profile</legend>
echo $this->Form->input('Profile.regulator_number');
echo $this->Form->input('Profile.website');
echo $this->Form->input('Profile.minimum_account');
<?php echo $this->Form->end('Submit');?>

<?php echo $this->Html->link('List Users', array('action' => 'index'));?>

I want to be able to update the profiles information for each user, whether or not they have filled anything out yet or not. NOTE: if a new user registers and does not have any Profile information yet, the submit works fine. Only update is messed up. Do I maybe need to add the user_id into the profile table as soon as a user registers, as of now a newly registered user may have information in the users table but not the profiles table.
Thanks in advance for the help.


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The top stories in the Norwalk Reflector on this date 33 years ago:
Norwalk's best-known heart patient to start new life
Bert R. Johnson, the Norwalk man who emerged from 16 heart operations with a smile on his face, is leaving town to start a new life.
As soon as he sells his home at 51 Woodlawn Ave., he will move his family to Cambridge, Ohio near where he was born 40 years ago. He wants to tell people about the miracle that happened on the operating table and maybe even "get my own country church" as a pastor someday.
The former construction laborer was the son of an itinerant Baptist preacher. He weighed 14 pounds at birth, the largest baby ever born up to that time in Guernsey County.
Looking back, doctors said this may have compressed his heart.
Kuhlman sells cooker
A Norwalk corporation organized six years ago to develop a high volume chicken cooker, is going out of business.
Assets of the Roto Corporation, which remained after liquidation, are now being distributed to stockholders.
The distribution amounts to a fraction more than $2.80 for each share.
Dissolution of the corporation was approved last October by the shareholders and President Walter F. Kuhlman was given authority to liquidate company assets.
New teachers
League Elementary School has two new second-grade teachers this fall, Cathy Acker and Tom Adams, who were pictured in the paper.
Chappelear sets record
One Point.
The narrowest of margins meant the difference Tuesday as the Norwalk High cross country squad lost 29-30 to Galion at Elks Country Club.
There was a bright point in the loss. Senior Bob Chappelear broke his own Elks course mark, running 9:58. The school mark is 9:38, which Chappelear set at the district at Upper Sandusky last year.
The Truckers placed one, two and four as Chappelear, Ron Knoll (10:10) and Tom Clark (10:30) led the way.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Boris Diaw passed the ball like a point guard and grabbed rebounds like a power forward.
The versatile Diaw had 14 points, 11 rebounds and 13 assists for his first career triple-double, leading the Phoenix Suns to a 123-99 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Tuesday night.
Raja Bell scored 21 points, Steve Nash had 17 and Shawn Marion had 15 points and 12 rebounds for the Pacific Division-leading Suns, who have won three of four.
"He's been good all year, but particularly tonight," Nash said of Diaw. "He's playing with guys who are unselfish and move the ball, so he's able to highlight what he can do."
The Sixers, who fell one game behind New Jersey for first place in the Atlantic Division, were without Allen Iverson for the third consecutive game.
John Salmons had 19 points and 10 rebounds for Philadelphia, which had won two in a row without Iverson. Andre Iguodala added 16 points and Chris Webber scored 15.
Iverson, second in the NBA in scoring at 33.6 points per game, sprained his left ankle in the fourth quarter against Orlando last Thursday.
"It's tough to play against them because you don't want to run-and-gun like them," Salmons said. "They control the tempo so well, it's hard to contain them and play their style of basketball."
Diaw, a reserve in his first two seasons with Atlanta who was projected to be a backup point guard in training camp, has emerged as a solid frontline presence for the Suns. The third-year pro has started at power forward and center, helping replace injured Amare Stoudemire.
"I just give the ball to my teammates and they make it," Diaw said of the assists. "It's that simple."
Bell, back in the lineup after missing his first game of the season with a calf injury, had 15 points in the first half. A fifth-year pro who went to the NBA Finals with Philadelphia in 2001, Bell played just 25 minutes and sat out the fourth quarter.
"He has been playing at an All-Star level," Suns coach Mike D'Antoni said of Bell.
Webber missed 16 of 22 shots as the Sixers suffered their worst home loss of the season.
"The way they play, most people say you can't win that way, but that's how they play and they have one of the smartest point guards [Nash] in the league," Sixers coach Maurice Cheeks said. "They play aggressive, offensive basketball."
The Suns outscored Philadelphia 15-6 over the final 5:14 of the second quarter to take a 60-45 lead at halftime. Nash and Bell hit consecutive 3s to start the run, giving Phoenix a double-digit lead it never relinquished.
Nash scored on a driving layup and hit a free throw to complete a three-point play that gave the Suns an 84-64 lead late in the third quarter and Phoenix took a 19-point lead into the fourth.
A thunderous dunk by Diaw brought the entire Suns bench to its feet and sent most of the fans home midway through the fourth as Phoenix extended its lead to 103-81. Most of the Suns' starters watched the reserves play the rest of the way.
The Sixers, who came in tied for the fourth-worst defense in the NBA, allowed at least 100 points for the 27th time in 45 games. Even with Kevin Ollie, a better defender than Iverson, on the floor, the Sixers allowed Phoenix to shoot 58.1 percent.
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For three months, the two class groups participated in weekly 75-minute-long classes designed for patients who had never tried either yoga or stretching.
The yoga group was exposed to the techniques of "viniyoga," which involved breathing exercises, deep relaxation and a range of simple postures.
Those in the stretching class engaged in strengthening exercises alongside stretching techniques targeting all the major muscle groups, with emphasis on the trunk and legs.
In addition, the yoga and stretching groups received instructional videos and were asked to practice 20 minutes a day.
Those in the self-care group received a copy of The Back Pain Helpbook, which outlines causes of back pain and offers advice centered on solo exercise techniques and potentially helpful lifestyle changes.
All the participants were interviewed midway through treatment, at the end of treatment, and three months after treatment was completed.
The result: Although back-related function improved among all the participants, those in the yoga and stretching groups were functionally better off than the self-care group at the study's end and three months later.
Yoga and stretching participants were also twice as likely as the self-care group to have cut back on pain medication.
"In both groups, people had less pain and were more able to carry on with their lives in terms of the activities of daily living," Sherman said.
Sherman noted that the yoga classes were highly physical in nature, while the stretching classes involved an above-average amount of long-held stretching and relaxation.
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A former researcher who says he left the Colorado School of Mines due to pressure from the oil and gas industry has now lost his university job in Wyoming after an industry association complained to his superiors about comments he made about fracking.
It appears to be one of several examples of faculty around the country experiencing blowback from the powerful oil and gas industry after releasing research exposing the possible health hazards associated with hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and other extraction processes.
What makes Geoffrey Thyne's case distinctive is that he claims he and his university employers have caught heat from the industry more than once.
Thyne, who began working at Mines as a research faculty member in 1996, made some controversial remarks about fracking in 2005. He was reviewing the Environmental Protection Agency's 2004 report on hydraulic fracturing at the request of Earthworks' Oil and Gas Accountability Project, and he says the EPA study's conclusion was essentially that because there was no data on water impacts from fracking, there was no threat of contamination.
"Absence of proof is not proof of absence," he says.
Just as Thyne was about to begin a research project to provide some of that data, he criticized the EPA report in interviews, and media outlets around the country printed his quotes. Thyne says the head of the Mines institute where he worked warned him to be careful, because his comments made it seem like he was representing the school. It was a sensitive political climate, Thyne says, as fracking was about to become exempted from the Clean Water Act and as the Ward Churchill witch hunt was in full swing at the University of Colorado.
So when another of Thyne's controversial quotes about fracking appeared in the media a short time later, he says "the tenor of the conversation changed" and his boss told him he was getting "pushback" from alumni and members of the board of trustees. Then, Thyne says, a vice president told him to drop the fracking research project he was starting, or else his contract would not be renewed. So he dropped the project.
He says he learned later from a Mines secretary that it was the Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA), not just trustees and alumni, who had complained to school administrators about his comments. She reportedly told Thyne that she had scheduled the meeting between the trade group and Mines officials, and that she was asked to verify that he had dropped his fracking research project before the vice president would sign Thyne's next contract.
He took a job at the University of Wyoming the following year.
"I kind of felt unloved," Thyne says.
He kept his appointment at Mines for a period of time, but after an interview he did with National Public Radio angered Mines officials a third time, he was told he wouldn't be reappointed, according to Thyne.
Mines officials and COGA President Tisha Schuller did not respond to requests for comment by press time. But Mines spokesperson Marsha Williams told the Colorado Independent in July 2009 that Thyne was never threatened with dismissal, but she acknowledged that the school had received "inquiries" about Thyne's controversial comments.
"As a result," she said in a prepared statement, "Mines officials phoned and emailed Dr. Thyne to inform him of the inquiries, and also to remind him of the university policy that people must be clear in public communications that the opinions they express are personal and do not represent institution positions — one way or another — on issues being discussed."
In hot water again
Thyne says he faced similar pressure in Wyoming, where he was a senior research scientist at the Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute (EORI) — until his appointment was not renewed this year. According to materials on EORI's website, it "assists Wyoming oil producers with recovery of Wyoming's stranded oil" and depends at least in part on "industry collaboration and project cofunding." Its governing commission and advisory board include members of the oil and gas industry.
In other words, it's likely that when an EORI staffer says something that upsets the industry the institute serves, it's a problem.
This time, it was an interview with the Wyoming Tribune Eagle newspaper in spring 2011 that got Thyne into trouble with the oil and gas industry.
He gave reporter Shauna Stephenson some figures on the amount of water used during a frack job: 48 million to 70 million gallons. While Stephenson's May 4, 2011, article did include quotes attributed to Thyne, the newspaper did not attribute the figures to anyone, and cited them again in an editorial printed that day.
According to Thyne, the Petroleum Association of Wyoming (PAW) objected to the 70 million gallon figure, saying it was way too high, and contacted the newspaper to find out where Stephenson got her numbers. Thyne says that when PAW traced the information back to the university and Thyne's institute, he got called into a meeting with a university government affairs officer, who told him he needed to meet with PAW members.
In that meeting, Thyne told PAW representatives Jonathan Ekstrom of Noble Energy and Jody Levin of Levin Strategic Resources how he got his figure. He based it on a calculation of the amount of water needed to frack an especially long well. Wells stretching horizontally for about a mile need to be fracked in up to 40 different sections, he says, using between 1 million and 2 million gallons of water for each section. Thyne offered to qualify his statements, but he says the PAW representatives wanted him to "say it's wrong in writing."
He says his boss at the institute told him to write a letter to the newspaper's editor making it clear he was not speaking on behalf of the university, which he did, without retracting his number.
"This will continue to happen as long as you speak out on a subject like this," Thyne says of the pressure he's experienced. "Industry handled this about as badly as they possibly could have. This is totally my opinion, but I think they handed this off to PR people at some point, and they've chosen a strategy that's going to fail. It has to fail."
He describes it as a strategy to deny, cover up, avoid responsibility and discount industry critics.
Thyne says he knows of no other staffer whose contract has not been renewed in his six years at the institute, and when he asked why his was not, he says his boss told him, "We don't have to tell you."
He says, however, that university officials have acknowledged to him that "we get a lot of money from these guys."
EORI responds
EORI Director David Mohrbacher counters the perception that Thyne's dismissal was related to pressure from industry.
"The reason for not renewing his contract was not related to his participation with the press," he told Boulder Weekly. "It was not related to that. It was based on EORI achieving their technical, strategic objectives. We chose a different way to go, and really that's all I can say. … The input that I got regarding the direction of our research program came from many sources, our technical advisory board, our commission, and it wasn't related to any of Geoff 's public statements."
Mohrbacher also downplayed the extent to which EORI is controlled by the oil and gas industry, saying the institute is funded primarily by the state, and that the "minor" amount contributed by oil and gas interests is used primarily for conferences.
"Usually, the harder questions come from special interest groups, environmental groups," he says.
Finally, he says he worked with Thyne to answer questions about whether he used "the best data he could have to identify how much water is required for hydraulic fracturing. The way I helped was we looked at his literature search, which was fairly limited, and we looked at what others within the state have estimated, and Geoff was able to explain to the stakeholders that came foward why his numbers were representative. I mean, it was his work, not mine. I understood his method and I supported him in providing explanations."
But he added that the "lesson learned" was that "when you do a literature search, you do a complete search and you're able to explain the basis of your numbers and how they apply. So he used data from other regions, and how does that regional data apply in Wyoming?"
PAW's Ekstrom, who attended the meeting with Thyne, says the 70 million gallon figure "seemed like a lot higher than what members of our committee had heard internally, and figures that we discuss, so we tracked down who that was. So we were asked to get to the bottom of it, and eventually we were able to track that figure back to Dr. Thyne, so we went and met with him and talked about it."
When asked if they were putting pressure on Thyne and the institute to retract the figure, Ekstrom says, "No, I mean, we were having a conversation about it, and we felt like that was potentially misleading."
John Robitaille, vice president of PAW, told BW that one concern with having an overly high water estimate in the paper was that area well owners who are considering selling their water to oil and gas companies (instead of for agriculture) might get the wrong impression of how much water the industry is buying.
"We didn't want those figures to go out," he says, "[because] when a landowner says, 'Oh you're going to buy 50 million gallons of my water for this well,' the operator would say, 'No, that's a tremendous amount more than I need.'"
Robitaille says even the state engineer was perturbed by the figure because he monitors state water use.
"When we see numbers like this, he starts to panic a bit, and rightfully so," Robitaille says. "These are gigantic numbers and grossly misinterpreted, so we felt it was necessary to correct those figures, which never happened."
Robitaille explains that the newspaper never issued a correction and never printed Thyne's letter.
He acknowledges initially contacting the editor who wrote the editorial, who referred him to the reporter, who referred him to the university institute.
"It was somewhat of a goose chase to find this," Robitaille says. "But if the university is going to issue credible information, they should do so. That's what we went to discuss. These figures are not correct, not credible, but they're in a source that makes them credible. We can't have a university like that, we can't have those numbers just float out of the air, where it would send a rancher believing he's going to sell 10 times more than he possibly can."
Robitaille denies that anyone from PAW demanded that Thyne write the letter to the newspaper.
"Apparently he took it upon himself to write a letter to the paper detailing that fact," he says. "That's my understanding. I didn't ask him to do that, and that was never published, either. … We never saw anything, and we just went about our business."
Robitaille acknowledges asking the paper to correct the figure if it went forward with plans to reprint the reporter's oil and gas series for distribution at Cheyenne's Frontier Days, but he doesn't think the paper ended up publishing the special issue.
"They could have handed out whatever they want, but it seems a little bit more responsible to report the correct information," he says.
Tribune Eagle representatives did not respond to BW's questions by press time.
Robitaille denied having anything to do with the fact that Thyne is no longer employed at the university.
"That's a decision the university clearly made," he says. "We have not had contact with the university nor with Dr. Thyne since that initial meeting. Whatever their decision is is their decision. We don't have any reason to get into any of their personnel issues down there."
When asked whether this incident may have had something to do with Thyne's dismissal, Robitaille says, "I really don't know, I'm not going to speculate on that."
And in response to a question about what kind of sway the oil and gas industry has at the university, he says, "That's strictly University of Wyoming policy, whatever they do, they do. That's their decision, it's how they choose to operate."
If a major donor or funding source asked someone at the university to stop doing something, couldn't that have a trickle-down effect?
"I don't believe so," Robitaille replies.
Other cases
Thyne says he's not the only one who's been subjected to undue pressure from the oil and gas industry. He says he knows of faculty around the nation who have been targeted as well, including an engineer at Cornell University who called for an outright fracking ban in his state.
"Industry did a bunch of nasty pieces on him, trying to make him look like a wild-eyed, pistol-waving lunatic," Thyne says.
There was even one woman from the tiny town of Raton, N.M., who claimed she was being followed and harassed after complaining about her water well being contaminated by nearby drilling operations.
"This ain't shit," Thyne says of his own situation. "I've talked to people who've been shot at. … It's a real sticky situation, because there are some people getting jobs in the community, because of the development, and they're good-paying jobs, and this is changing our economy, so it's all positive, and then you say, 'Yeah, well, so-and-so screwed up my well, and they won't compensate me for it, so I'm going to take them to court, or I'm going to make waves.' And you've got your neighbors mad at you."
In addition, taking a big oil or gas company to court isn't a walk in the park.
"You've got to have really deep pockets, you've got to go to court for a couple of years," Thyne says. "They're going to push it back and push it back and push it back, and then they're going to wait until the last second, literally, and they're going to settle. And they're probably going to simply buy your land for what you paid for it, and get you to sign a nondisclosure [agreement] and say bye bye."
Thyne, who has worked in the field for three decades, including on an offshore platform in California, says this industry will eventually be forced to undergo closer regulatory scrutiny, like other industries have done.
"It's a huge industry, and it's not regulated, except by the states, and that's kind of humorous," he says, adding that at the very least there need to be stiffer monetary penalties for companies that don't self-report spills and other mishaps. "Add another zero or two."
Thyne has a three-part solution that would rein in Colorado's oil and gas industry and address related health and safety concerns:
• Put all data online, as is now done in Wyoming.
• Put tracers in fracking fluid and other liquids used so that we can find out where it ends up.
• Create more accountability for companies by levying steep fines and making them clean up the messes they make.
Thyne says changes in the industry may take time, but at least the media has raised awareness about the issue.
"It's definitely happened because of stories in the press," he says.
As for his own ousters, perhaps shining light on the industry's modus operandi for going after its critics will help as well.
"They don't call you, they don't call your boss," Thyne says of their method. "They go as high up the food chain as they can get. It sounds like dirty pool to me."
Luckily, Thyne says, he's gotten a couple of job offers, so he won't be unemployed for long.
But he says he's not likely to work for a university again.
"Academia is not a good fit for any kind of involvement in this stuff," he says.
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Wow, if this is how "academia" is conducting itself, then looks like we need to get some people a CALCULATOR. On a professional note, I have been in regulatory & compliance in oil & gas for over 20 years and while Mr. Thyne might find state agency efforts "amusing," I'm sure those dedicated folks would beg to differ with his assessment. This idea that oil & gas is "unregulated" is BUNK. OK, let's offer out some basic facts. As far as his numbers on fracing, I can tell you definitively they are WRONG. Just for one example, my little company operates in the Bakken up in western N. Dakota. We drill two mile horizontal laterals and have 30-40 stage fracs. I was just looking at the water totals we used on our first 12 frac jobs for 2012. Since we are permitted to use flood water, we are required to report EXACT water usage figures to the State Water Commission. Using a generous rounding error (up), looks like we are averaging around 45,000 bbls per frac job. Actual numbers used in the real world. That translates to about 2 million gallons (or less) per job. Not saying some companies may use more, but 70 MILLION? Looks like about a 20 FOLD mistake, at least. Wish I had a margin of ERROR that big in my line of work...
I'm not in the industry, but a quick google search makes me wonder about your numbers. Chesapeake states that 4.5 million gallons is what it takes to fracture a typical well (http://www.hydraulicfracturing.com/Water-Usage/Pages/Information.aspx). Looking around the internet, most numbers are in the 3-5 million gallons. Now, the questionable part of his math is that he imagines a well with 40 sections, and multiplies that 1-2 million gallons by 40. So far as I can tell, this isn't how it works--some wells may be fracked multiple times, and so require more than 5 million gallons. So 70 (and even 48) million gallons seems excessive and does call his expertise into question. Obviously, that doesn't make all academics wrong--his number is also off by a factor of 2-3, compared to reports from other energy companies! (probably because N Dakota or his wells aren't "typical").
As for his other contention, obviously oil and gas are regulated. However, this regulation is generally done at the state level, which doesn't have the resources of the federal government (and is more receptive to political pressure). Many companies end up striking a balance between following regulations and skirting regulations, since oversight is limited and punishments often amount to a small percentage of profits. The industry isn't unregulated, but rarely are significant punishments handed out.
Thyne got a little frustrated in the fracking and academic freedom matter.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-206353152009-11-05T11:07:01.283-06:00Bobby ClevelandMarshall Ramseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20635315.post-83376188707858229042009-11-01T15:57:00.002-06:002009-11-01T16:38:25.652-06:00Comments on antler ruleA few problems that people have mentioned about the new antler minimum regulations facing deer hunters this year:

1 Hunters who have never really worried about judging size of deer, especially those who now have age-related eyesight problems (like me), will be making tough decisions about shoot, not shoot.

2. The dividing highways used as borders, I-55, I-20, U.S. 61, U.S. 84 and Miss. 35, split counties, and in some areas, individual pieces of property. To people who hunt in different areas, or zones, this can be confusing.

3. Private landowners being told what they can or, even more disgusting to them, cannot shoot.

Those are the most common of the few complaints I've heard, with No. 1 being the most often heard.

One question I've been asked and have read in other media is about why there was no "Charlie Buck" included in the regulation.

Several years ago, when the state wildlife agency first mentioned a change to an antler measurement restriction instead of the 4-point rule, there was to be an allowance for hunters who make a miscalculation and shoot a deer that didn't measure up. They were to be allowed one "Charlie Buck" per season, meaning they could take one buck of any size antler.

This year, when the change was made from the 4-point, there was no Charlie mentioned.

The reason, an agency biologist said, was because without a tagging system "every deer killed could be the Charlie buck."

He meant that if a conservation officer stopped a hunter with a buck in possession that doesn't meet the proper legal measurements, the hunter could simply claim it as his Charlie buck. And he could do the same the next day with another small buck with a different conservation officer. With a tagging system, you only get one Charlie tag.

Makes sense ... to a degree. And I have a huge problem with that degree.

Not having a tagging season also means that right now, every buck you kill can be your first buck or your second buck. The season limit is three. But you could claim a buck as your first or second buck to as many different conservation officers as necessary in the course of a season, and keep right on killing.

So why have any kind of limit?

If the reason given for not allowing a Charlie Buck to protect the otherwise well-meaning hunter, doesn't stop the real outlaw from killing as many bucks as he or she wants, that's a problem.

The law can be made to punish a well-meaning hunter who misses his estimate of beam length or inside spread by an inch or a half inch, but can't be used to stop the problem hunter from killing willy-nilly.

That just doesn't make sense.

Bobby Clevelandhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20635315.post-54495739453708170232009-10-29T11:57:00.006-05:002009-10-29T12:16:34.773-05:00Antler fight videoA few years ago, I got a chance to do a story on a guy in Natchez who found two bucks with antlers locked up after a long battle for dominance. One was already dead and the other was sure enuff gonna be real soon. But the guy walked in and with his bare hands and great risk to his own health, pulled the bucks apart and saved the animal's life.

This video shows a similar case of buck-saving work, with a surprise ending that comes with the crack of a centerfire. Here's the link and turn your volume up. It comes from a Texas wildlife site. Enjoy ...

if the link doesn't work, just enter this url

http://www.texashuntfish.com/app/forum/25824/Deer-Fight-Interrupted-by-a-Bul

Bobby Clevelandhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20635315.post-45242744840809719472009-10-27T11:37:00.002-05:002009-10-27T11:42:30.087-05:00Range findingBy the time this week is over, it will be November, and within three weeks of gun season.

Have you zeroed-in your rifle yet? If not, don't hesitate. Gun shops are notoriously busy this time of year and would have a hard time correcting any major malfunction you might discover.

Take your targets. Take your ear plugs. Take your binoculars or spotting scope.

And, this final reminder is for people like me ... Take your bullets.

Yep, just last year, I went to the range with everything ... except bullets.

Bobby Clevelandhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20635315.post-46398996319572424642009-10-23T21:49:00.002-05:002009-10-23T22:04:52.616-05:00Taking me back a waysHad a wonderful, relaxing day on the mouth of Biloxi Bay in Ocean Springs.

After sitting six hours in an internet cafe writing stories about deer, I took a break and road down to the beach side of Ocean Springs, where years of painful rebuilding are paying big benefits.

A few long piers, jetties and a beach nearing completion of a complete renovation provide an excellent recreational setting.

The piers got my attention immediately. I walked out on one of the piers to talk with fishermen and met several, including a woman named Betty who let me use one of her spinning rods to make a few casts, with the promise than anything I caught when in her fish bucket.

Using dead bait shrimp and tightlining on the bottom, action was constant, with bites on every cast. Successfully setting the hook was another matter. I wrote it off to small fish until one nearly ripped the rod out of my hand. Missed it too, whatever it was.

In an hour of fishing, I caught five white trout, one of which was a keeper over 14 inches in length, two undersized flounder, three croakers Betty kept for cut bait, something small I think was a ground mullet and several crabs.

The crabs were what took me back in time. For more, you'll have to wait until Sunday's column. It was funny.

And it sure made Betty smile.

Bobby Clevelandhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20635315.post-7642819150031584002009-10-22T00:46:00.002-05:002009-10-22T00:52:39.393-05:00Catching up...Getting great stories from the field about deer (look for two good bow stories Sunday, one about a guy who did a good deed last year and was rewarded this year and another about a 7-year-old bowhunter who found success).

I'd also love to have some about squirrel and rabbits. Or seeing pretty leaves. Or sitting around a campfire telling stories on each other.

It's October and a great time to be outdoors in Mississippi...

Fishing: The reservoir remains troubled by a high and swift Pearl River. Could be a problem for a while, because in addition to letting the runoff from recent rains go, the lake is trying to stay in line with the scheduled fall drawdown. To keep pace with both, the spillway is dumping a lot of water and that creates current above and below the dam.

My biggest concern about all of this is the possibility that, with the gates open for so long at a time when stripers are naturally on the move, we may have lost a lot of those quality giant stripers we were catching this summer in the main lake. Gosh, I sure hope not.

Bobby Clevelandhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20635315.post-71900463424246557432009-10-18T15:06:00.002-05:002009-10-18T15:10:07.561-05:00FinallySun is out. Breeze is cool (not to be confused with Brees, who is red hot). Temperature is idyllic for outdoor pursuits.

Great forecast for the week. Fishing should even be good by midweek.

Let's here your hunting stories. Send them to email@example.com

Bobby Clevelandhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20635315.post-63788618855777350322009-10-13T15:05:00.002-05:002009-10-13T15:08:56.774-05:00Just a few more days ...If I read (online) and hear (on TV) my forecasts correctly, it would appear that after just a couple of more days of this dreary weather, we will entire an extended period of perfect fall weather (highs in the 70s, lows in the 50s).

So we can hunt and fish without having to look to the west to see when the next storm front is about to hit.

Heard a few more good success stories from early in archery season. Apparently, the weather has actually been good for the bow guys.

Bobby Clevelandhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20635315.post-32738709318378607262009-10-11T11:51:00.002-05:002009-10-11T11:59:42.064-05:00Gore-Tex seasonLet's see ...

It's archery season, dove season (again) and squirrel and rabbit season are up next, both starting Saturday (Zone 2 squirrel, rabbit statewide).

The fish are biting, or at least should be. In places where current affects fishing, it's tougher than it ought to be.

It's cooler, just like it ought to be.

But, it sure ain't dry, which October sure should be.

So, what does that also make it? Yep, Gore-Tex season.

This is not meant as a commercial for it. Just more of a testimonial. This miracle fabric keeps you warm/cool while it keeps you dry. It's expensive, sure, but worth every dime.

Don't leave home without it.

Bobby Clevelandhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20635315.post-18542954735539251952009-10-05T23:41:00.002-05:002009-10-06T18:13:50.794-05:00Gnarliest buck in a whileI've been doing this job for a long, long time. I have seen bucks with all shapes and sizes of antlers, including what at the time long ago was the world record.

As antlers go, I have seen the prettiest, the most symmetrical, the oddest and, yes, the absurd.

BUT, never, have I seen anything as weird as the antlers of the buck taken by Thad Greer Sunday near his hometown of Port Gibson. They have 10 each bases, double drop tines, 18 total points, short main beams, narrow inside spread, longest 9 inches and WAS IN FULL VELVET.

For the story on the hunt, see our Outdoors Web site now. For a more complete story on the odd antlers see Sunday's Outdoors page.

Bobby Clevelandhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20635315.post-69379106924450744012009-09-29T23:08:00.002-05:002009-09-29T23:15:58.473-05:00To my bowhunting friends ...If it was up to me, I'd open the season a day early to let you guys get a crack at the 47-degree weather in the forecast.

But, hey it ain't, so good luck with the low 50s on Thursday morning. Seriously, good luck. Hope everybody sees lots of deer and most of you see the one you're looking for, whether it be a P&Y buck or just a big, fat nanny.

AND PLEASE, be sure to wear a certified tree stand safety harness (fall arrest system). It is law on state Wildlife Management Areas.

Have a good, productive and safe season.

Bobby Clevelandhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20635315.post-53364681470165227242009-09-26T22:58:00.002-05:002009-09-26T23:03:55.611-05:00Grow 'em big in PascagoulaQuick report from the first of two weekend alligator hunts on the Pascagoula River, courtesy alligator project manager Ricky Flynt of the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.

Conditions are horrible. Although Flynt said the teams had no rain to deal with overnight Friday, recent rains have led to an extremely high river level.

"It's all back up in the grass and brush and that gives the runt gators (4 to 7 feet in length) lots of places to hide," Flynt said. "They reported seeing lots of big gators, just not the little ones."

Rules dictate that hunters must take a runt gator before getting a gator over 7 feet.

Only 15 teams got their runts Friday night, and two of those went ahead and took their big ones, too. WITH THE EMPHASIS ON BIG.

One was 11 feet, 7 inches and weighed 397 pounds.

The other was 12 feet, 2 inches and weighed 448 pounds.

That's a whole lot of gator.

Bobby Clevelandhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20635315.post-82031215571472806652009-09-23T12:47:00.003-05:002009-09-23T12:57:40.382-05:00Falling, and loving itDoesn't matter to me that today feels just like yesterday. Wet, muggy, steamy... The kind of day that sticks to you, even though it isn't that hot.

But inside me, I feel so much better. It's adding a little hop to my get-along. It's even easing the stiffness from being bounced around in 4- and 5-foot seas Tuesday in the Gulf of Mexico.

Just knowing that summer is officially over and fall is here (at 4:18 p.m. Tuesday to be exact — when the sun passed directly over the equator on its move to the south for the next six months), I feel that much better.

Cooler weather with lows in the 40s ... Hey, it's just around the corner.

For my bowhunting friends, I sure hope it happens toward the end of next week.

Bobby Clevelandhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20635315.post-79731542821319074992009-09-16T19:36:00.001-05:002009-09-16T19:44:22.063-05:00Gator hunting not all funSo you'd think you'd like to hunt alligators...

Let me offer this to you first:

Think mosquitoes.

Think all-night on the water.

Think rain.

And that's the easy part. The hard part is once you hook one. You still have all that stuff going on — biting pests, sleep deprivation and a good chance of being wet — plus, now, depending on the gator's size, you could have anywhere from a 100- to 500-pounds of irate lizard to deal with.

But, you know what, it's fun. My pal Keith's got a permit this weekend and I'm going and looking forward to it. That after staying up last weekend each night just to interview those lucky enough to have been skeetered, without sleep and wet both nights...

Bobby Clevelandhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20635315.post-74739482430992227452009-09-13T11:02:00.003-05:002009-09-13T11:16:43.924-05:00Gator season totalsFinal results for first weekend alligator season at Barnett Reservoir:

Total gators killed: 48.

Over 10 feet: Zero.

Over 9 feet: 1.

Over 7 feet: 6.

Runt gators, 4-7 feet: 42.

Participation: 54 of 58 licensed teams.

Saturday night's report: Horrible hunting conditions resulted in only 16 alligators harvested, including only one over seven feet. Steady and strong northeast wind combined with rain ranging from drizzle to storms, didn't help.

For the second straight night, the biggest gator taken was a female, this one 8-feet, 9-inches. It was full foot shorter than Friday night's new state record female but weighed a half-pound more.

Most observers look at the statistics and call it an unsuccessful season, but in actuality it was the opposite. Bring down the number of smaller gators improves the habitat for the overall congregation (the correct name for a group of gators).

"As far as alligator population management goes, this was exactly what we needed," said long-time agent gator trapper Woody Reeves. "There are so many of those 'runt gators' out there. We need to have a lot more of them taken out."

That could happen as soon as next weekend. Round two for up to 60 new teams begins Friday at 6 p.m.

Bobby Clevelandhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20635315.post-54165755323637521632009-09-12T23:08:00.002-05:002009-09-12T23:18:18.113-05:00Runt gators dictate huntAt 11 o'clock Saturday night, the first weekend alligator hunt on Barnett Reservoir had yet to produce a 10-foot-plus gator ... at least not officially.

"We did have one team catch a 10 and a half footer, get it completely tied up and secured and towed to and up on a sand bar to take pictures," said Ricky Flynt, alligator program coordinator for the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. "But ... as soon as they took their pictures, they had to let it go.

"They had not yet captured their runt alligator."

The new rule, that requires teams to first catch and dispatch a "runt gator" — the name given to gators between 4 and 7 feet in length — before they can take a bigger gator, has had quite an impact on the hunt.

One 8-foot-plus gator had to be released Friday night and then the 10 1/2-footer Saturday night. Several teams reported passing on the big gators altogether while they searched for small ones. Apparently at least two teams couldn't pass it up.

So, why, you might ask would somebody catch a 10 1/2-foot beast that they couldn't keep?

My answer ... it's that Edmund Hillary thing. He climbed Mt. Everest because it was there.

Some alligator hunters, many doing it for the first and perhaps only time in their lives, decided it was better to have fought and beat and released the beast than never to have fought it at all. Simply put, they did it because in their search for a small gator a big one got in the way.

It was there.

I don't blame them one bit.

Bobby Clevelandhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20635315.post-66762768941996186682009-09-10T10:06:00.002-05:002009-09-10T10:11:44.125-05:00Teal thenSaturday is the first day of the September teal season, and word is the state has plenty of blue wings in the Delta and other areas. Saw a few buzzing around the Rez this morning.

The speedy little ducks are great fun to hunt, and because of their early migration needed to make their long trip to Central and South America, give diehard waterfowlers some early shooting.

Need a place or a guide? Some young men with a background of sporting tradition have started a new service in the Belzoni area called Waterfowl Widowmakers and they have a history of shooting a lot of blue wings in September, as well as all ducks in the winter.

They got openings this season, and about two or three dozen water holes to find teal. They've been scouting the birds for over two weeks. Visit www.waterfowlwidowmakers.net and check out their nice Web site and their hunting services.

Bobby Clevelandhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20635315.post-56910623519872228672009-09-08T10:32:00.002-05:002009-09-08T11:12:12.392-05:00Low bird blastersWhen you go dove hunting, you pretty much take getting peppered with shot for granted. You put enough people around and in a field, with the excitement of doves flying in from all directions and the odds strongly favor being caught in somebody's falling lead.

But, there are three levels are getting hit and only two are acceptable.

1. Raining down ... Gonna happen every trip. That's when people across the field shoot at high birds and the shot reaches the end of its string and gravity pulls it down from the sky. You can hardly feel it. You hear it more than anything else, hitting leaves and dried brush and even your hat. Some people even enjoy it as part of the hunt.

2. Being peppered ... Happens some. That's when people across the field at a pretty good distance shoot at lower-flying birds at like a 30- or 45-degree angle. The shot travels at a lower trajectory and still has a little "ummmph" to its carry and can sting a little. Doesn't really hurt. Funny thing about being peppered is that hunters between the shooter and the guy being peppered are safe because the trajectory is high enough that the shot passes over them and falls on the far end of the field.

3. Being shot ... Should never happen. That's when hunters lost in the excitement shoot at low birds. And by low birds I mean anything flying under tree level. When a dove enters a field over a tree line and then drops down and flies at corn-stalk level or at like 10 feet off the ground looking for a place to land ... THAT IS TOO LOW. DO NOT SHOOT. The reason is obvious. You are now shooting directly at the level of other hunters and putting their lives in jeopardy.

Getting shot by somebody shooting at low birds hurts. I have experience with this. Monday, I got shot four different times by people shooting at low birds. My sunglasses got chipped by one. My stomach got pelted and left three bright red spots (not blood). It stung pretty bad. The last two shots did nothing more than sting my back because after the first two hits, I was smart enough that every time I saw a low bird enter the field, I turned my back. I knew what was coming.

Hard to enjoy a hunt when that happens once. Imagine four times. I sat on my bucket backed up into a turn row under some low-hanging limbs of a locust bean tree. I couldn't shot without running out from under it, but I felt safe.

Felt even safer when I walked up to the truck and quit hunting.

Shooting at low birds is stupid, dangerous and should never be tolerated.

Bobby Clevelandhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20635315.post-61740213428384169132009-09-05T21:17:00.002-05:002009-09-05T21:29:59.491-05:00It's my shoulder, I'll cry if I want toYou would cry too if this happened to you...

Actually I can think of a lot of song verses that fit my opening day dove hunt, if you change a word or two or three.

There's Twist and shout... Every time I turned on my bad knee I hollered.

Hit me with your best shot ... Took a few pellets raining down, just not dead on.

Myyyyyyy-y-y-y-y butt's become uncomfortably numb ... nothing comfy about a dove bucket.

There's a live skunk in the middle of the field ... there was.

Then ... There's a live skunk in the middle of the road ... he circled back on us.

For it's One, two, three shots I'm out of ammo, in the old dove field.

That's enough for now ... You know I did get up at 4.

Bobby Clevelandhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20635315.post-62314987740899199962009-09-03T12:33:00.004-05:002009-09-03T12:44:17.071-05:00Dumb dove thing to doLast year, after a slam-up, bang-bang-bang-bang opening weekend of dove shooting, I found myself completely depleted of shells in my favorite load.

We kept checking the field throughout the next week and, sure enough, steadily, the birds began returning to the clipped corn and beans and we had plenty for the second weekend.

So off I went to the shell store. Found me a great deal on a case of 7 1/2s in the 1 1/8-ounce loads — we were facing long shots in strong wind at these fields — and bought me a case. $60 worth.

Showed up next morning and was ready to shoot me some more doves. Friend of mine only had a couple of boxes of shells so I was gonna give him some of mine. Told him to grab a couple out of the case on the back floorboard of my truck.

"Uh, Bob," he said.

"Yeah, Ricky," I said.

"I'm shooting a 12 gauge, not a 20, but thanks anyway," he said. "These are all 20s."

Trouble was ... I was shoot a 12, too.

Now that's embarrassing.

Bobby Clevelandhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20635315.post-11331239936515946022009-08-30T18:24:00.003-05:002009-08-30T19:14:51.318-05:00Hooray for Boo's PalTwo years ago, at the Viking Classic, I got the chance, through Mossy Oak, to fish with rising PGA star Boo Weekly. Boo's an outdoorsman who just happens to be a great striker of the golf ball. He had won a Tour event that year after just missing one at Doral. He won again in 2008 and was a Ryder Cup star.

The day before he and I fished, he called as asked if I could arrange for his good friend and former Mississippi resident Heath Slocum to join us.

I was able to find arrange another boat for Slocum and another. Boo and I fished and talked about golf a little, his popularity as the Tour's resident redneck, which really isn't true — Boo's just a good old boy who ain't hung up on himself, quite different from the Tour mold, yes, but a great guy — and we talked a lot about his background.

A lot of the credit for his success he gives to Jack Slocum, Heath's dad, the former club pro at Clear Creek in Bovina who went on to form a satellite tour for budding pros. It was Jack Slocum, Boo said, who made Boo a winner by making him believe in himself and by providing him a proving ground to find out.

The conversation also included a lot of discussion about Heath Slocum, who Boo said was an amazing talent. "Best rhythm I ever seen," Boo said of Heath, and he's seen that rhythm a lot since they played together in high school and are close friends. "Same movement in everything he does. He's steady."

Boo said had it not been for Heath's setback with ulcerative colitis, which cost him two years in his mid 20s, he'd be the big star.

Boo said he couldn't believe that Slocum had only won two events on Tour, 2004 in Tucson and 2005 here at the the Deposit Guaranty Classic, now the Viking Classic.

Sunday, Heath Slocum won for the third time, The Barclays. In doing so he beat Tiger Woods, Steve Stricker, Ernie Els and Padraig Harrington by a shot. Wow!

He did it by cooly sinking about a 20-foot par saver at the 18th hole to finish at -9. In the most pressure-packed situation of his Tour career, his rhythm on the putt was perfect.

Tiger had missed the hole from a lot closer at 18 trying to get to -9 a group ahead.
Seconds after Slocum sank his snake, Stricker missed from half the distance on the same line. Neither Tiger nor Stricker even scared the hole.

Slocum's putt had died in the center of the cup, never having a chance to miss.

And somewhere Boo Weekly was saying, "That's my boy right there."

Bobby Clevelandhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20635315.post-37296758522264656262009-08-24T16:20:00.002-05:002009-08-24T16:29:24.670-05:00Dove thoughtsI know I will miss the first dove that flies by me Sept. 5.

I am pretty sure I will miss the second one, too.

By the third though, I will be knocking off feathers and by the fourth, I'll be planning on cooking dove with red wine sauce, jalapenos and roasted garlic, with one pair of breasts already in the game sack.

And when I get in rhythm, I will be knocking 'em off on a regular basis. I just hope more than four or five fly by so I can find that rhythm ... or me and Rick will go hungry.

NOW, If I can just remember to show up at the hunt with the same gauge gun and the same gauge shells. ...

Don't laugh, I failed to do so last year. No kidding, 12 gauge gun, 20 gauge shells. Thought I got a bargain ...

Bobby Clevelandhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20635315.post-30997216402143955762009-08-18T09:25:00.002-05:002009-08-18T09:29:09.697-05:00Commission meetingA rare 3:30 meeting of the Mississippi Wildlife Commission, and today is the day they set the 2009-10 duck seasons.

Got no dog in this fight, but I'm betting on a 60-day season in two segments. An early split to allow some shooting around Thanksgiving or late November and then about the last 50-55 days in a row ending on the final day allowed, Sunday, Jan. 31.

Bobby Clevelandhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20635315.post-82853131479412269542009-08-16T09:22:00.003-05:002009-08-16T10:37:28.707-05:00Boat etiquetteAlready getting responses, some angry, from Sunday's column on boating safety and the lack of courtesy/etiquette on Barnett Reservoir.

First comment, and it's true, came in an e-mail from my boss. He pointed out that the head is not really correct in the sense that a near miss means it would be a wreck that was almost a miss. Technically, yes but us southern folk have our sayings and one of them is near miss.

A couple of bass tournament fishermen complained that I singled them out as a group for the actions of a few. That was not the intent, but if you don't like being lumped in with the bad apples, then tell the bad apples or kick them out of the barrel.

Got at e-mail from one of the cigarette boat owners who didn't like the term I used to describe the noise those big craft make — nuisance. He didn't mention anything about the wakes they kick up or how poorly the one I described was being operated.

And one guy asked me if I thought I owned the water. Obviously I don't, and I am more than glad to share with everyone. I'm just worried about the ones who seem to want to share the same water at the same time. And the laws of physics will not let two solid objects occupy the same space, whether it be on dry ground on water, at the same time.

Unfortunately for me, I did not inherit my mama's looks. But one thing I did get, which I am grateful to have, is her love and respect for all others. She treated everyone she met with respect and did so with a smile because that's how she wanted to be treated. She was very big on that "do unto others" thing.

Now, what I got from my dad was an intolerance for stupidity. Ace didn't suffer fools lightly or for very long. I'm afraid he'd have gone nuts on a weekend afternoon on Barnett Reservoir.

Bobby Clevelandhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20635315.post-22375222088043254162009-08-08T10:45:00.003-05:002009-08-08T19:51:30.368-05:00More than good ... deliciousFigured that if we were going to keep catching those big stripes, we'd have to keep a few that didn't survive the ordeal well enough to qualify for catch and release. So I began seeking better, healthier ways to cook them than frying.

It's not that they aren't good fried, because they are. However, those thick shoulders on an 8- or 9-pound bass aren't suitable for frying. The thinner parts of the fillets, like the sections closest to the tails and behind the belly, are excellent fried.

A key to enjoying striped bass is in the cleaning. The strip of red meat that runs along the lateral line must be cut, removing the strip with a v-cut with a very sharp knife. Keep the strip for catfish bait, because they actually prefer that red piece.

By removing the strip, you are left with two fillets, a long one from above the lateral line and the small one from below. The small one will be thin and perfect for frying. The top one is long and should be cut where it begins to taper toward the tail. Add the thinner tail end to the parts from below the lateral line, which can all either be fried or panee'd and be delicious.

The thicker "loin-like" fillets will be about an inch thick tapering down to half an inch. these are good for grilling, baking or, my favorite, poaching. I poach mine in an orange sauce. The following recipe is easy.

Poached stripers in orange sauce.

4 thick slabs of striper loin fillets (can be cut in half for more manageable pieces)
1 cup (or more) fresh orange juice
1/2 cup orange liquor (like Curacao, Patron Citron, Cointreau, triple sec)
1/2 cup vinegrette dressing (preferably Garlic Expressions)
Cajun seasoning
2 tbs olive oil
2 tbs butter, divided

Place striper fillets in a non-corrosive platter or bowl and add vinegrette. Toss around to make sure each is coated. Then liberally add cajun seasoning, as much or as little as you line, and again toss the loins to coat each side. Add more seasoning as preferred. Let stand 15 minutes to allow marination and for fish to come to room temperature.

In a big skillet, preferrably non-stick, add olive oil and one table spoon of butter and heat over medium high heat. Roll pan to allow oil to cover bottom. Place fillets in pan and cook for 1 minute. Turn, and cook on the other side one minute. Remove and place on a platter (carefully, they are not cooked and will be soft).

Turn heat to high and add orange juice and liquor to skillet, along with a couple of tablespoons of the leftover marinade. Bring to a boil for a minute. Place fillets back in pan with juice, cover and poach for three minutes. Remove fish to a platter. Allow liquid in pan to continue boiling rapidly and reduce to a thick sauce. As it thickens, reduce heat to medium low and add the remaining tablespoon of butter. Stirring constantly, cook until butter melts and sauce reaches thicker consistency. Pour over fish on platter. Serve over rice or short pasta like shells or penne.

Serves 4.

Grilled stripers on the half shell

This method is very popular with redfish and works equally well with stripers, especially big thick ones. The cleaning method is easy. Using a sharp fillet knife or electric knife, fillet the fish off the backbone and leave scales and skin attached.
Cut out the rib bones. You should be left with a long fillet, skin and scales attached.

Light charcoals (or gas) and prepare grill for high heat and smoking. While grill readies, season meat side of fillets with your favorite fish seasoning (cajun, lemon pepper, herbs... or just salt and pepper). In a long non-corrosive casserole dish or platter, pour enough of an oil/vinegar based dressing (bottled or homemade) to cover bottom. Place each fillet, scale side down in dressing for a few seconds and turn and leave meat side down until grill is ready to cook. Remove fish from marinade and re-season if needed.
At the grill, put the fish, scales side down on the grate directly over red-hot coals. Cook for four minutes. Then add hickory or grape-vine chips, or your favorite smoking wood chips to fire. Cover the grill and smoke for eight minutes. DO NOT TURN THE FISH. LEAVE SCALES DOWN).
Using two spatulas and an extra set of hands, lift each fillet carefully off the grill and place on a flat platter. Do not allow the underside of a fillet to touch the top of another. To serve, remove each fillet one at a time to a cutting board. Using a very sharp, long, thin, smooth-bladed knife and, starting at the tail end, slide it forward between the meat and the scales/skin. A gooey layer of skin and meat should exist between the meat and the hard charred scales, making it easy to remove meat.
Serve the clean, smoky brown fillet with melted butter with lemon.

Leftover smoked striper, if you are lucky, can be used to make a smoked fish dip using mayo, horseradish, garlic and ... your fish, your taste, your choice.

Bobby Clevelandhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20635315.post-78242766744183627232009-08-04T13:30:00.003-05:002009-08-04T13:58:16.693-05:00Appeasing the fishing gods
Never let it be said that I do not understand the nature of fishing, and the importance of pleasing the fishing gods.

Please the gods, they will put a bend in your rods ... my new mantra.

Went to check the hybrid stripes and stripers Tuesday morning. Just had a feeling.

My main spot didn't produce but I went to a backup across the lake near Fannin, actually one of my old favorites and one that has produced more hybrid/stripes than anywhere else on Barnett Reservoir. One hour and 15 minutes later we were done. Had the limit. Actually had to cull a 13th fish since our limit fish — the 12th one for the two of us — came on a double.

My friend and office cohort Dustin asked me what the difference between today and the half dozen other days, when we'd either been skunked or caught one or two, and I honestly didn't have an answer. Except ...

"Actually, Dustin, I attribute this to having pleased the fishing gods after my last trip. They were unkind to me. As a matter of fact, they'd been unkind the last three trips to the striper holes. But last time out, I made a sacrifice. I poured my (brother's) last beer upon the water. I was kind to them, and asked them to be kind to me on my next trip. Today, they were good to us."

Apparently, and for your future reference, the fishing gods like Sam Adams Summer Ale.

Dang fine beer.

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Mens Baruntse Hooded Down Jacket
A really great down jacket is like a great friend, someone you want to have with you everywhere you go. The Baruntse will become your favorite partner on many adventures.
Less lofty than its cousin the Dingboche, it can be worn on its own or layered under a shell if the weather warrants that. The attached hood adds extra warmth at vulnerable neck and head, where crucial body heat can be easily lost.
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IDC White paper: How Project and Portfolio Management are Delivering Value to Organizations to Enhance Their Current Knowledge of PPM
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If you're still managing your IT projects and portfolios with spreadsheets, you may be falling behind. Disconnected, manual systems don't provide the visibility you need to make fact-based decisions in real time to better align IT with business objectives. In their August 2008 research report, How Project And Portfolio Management Are Delivering Value to Organizations, IDC analysts reveal that substantial business benefits are being realized by IT organizations deploying PPM solutions.


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Friday, May 14, 2010
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Tammy Rush, age 47, of Sugar Hill, Georgia succumbed on May 12, 2010 after fighting a long courageous battle with cancer. Tammy was a graduate of Forest Park High School and later went on to pursue a career in Property Management. Upon the birth of her two sons, she set aside her career and became a stay-at-home mother. Tammy is survived by her sons Taylor and Parker Rush; recently relocated to Southport, NC with their father Chris Rush, mother, Melba Dobbs, father Weyman Dobbs, sister Lisa Trott and her husband Rick, grandmother Jewell Callaway, a niece, several nephews, cousins, aunts and uncles. Tammy was preceded in death by her loving sister Paula Dobbs. A memorial service will be held at Sugar Hill United Methodist Church in Buford, Georgia, Tammy's chosen place of worship, on May 14, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. Cremation was conducted by Flanigan Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, the family would ask that donations be made to Peachtree Christian Hospice or to the trust fund being established for Taylor and Parker. Checks should be made payable to Taylor and Parker Rush and mailed to P.O. Box 464-895, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30042. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA, 770-932-1133, www.flaniganfuneralhome.com.
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I like it!
Reviewed By Auguste B (HENRICO, VA) Reviewed for a 2014 Lexus ES 300h —7/22/2014 3:19 PM
Flexible and easy to use; easy to wash.
Reviewed By ROBERT F (North Dighton, MA) Reviewed for a 2012 Ford Escape —9/6/2015 3:50 AM
Just put the hammock in my Ford Escape, love it! Keeps out a lot of dog hair from my Golden Retriever. Dog seem to enjoy it as well and keeps her from entering front seat. Would like to buy another one for wife's car.