Weekly Shortcasts for 2013-01-03

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   marty January 4, 2013, 7:14 am Reply

   Do highly caffienatecd salmon take flies more readily? Will high end caffiene from starbucks give the fish more of an appetite for proper married wing traditional ties? There’s bound to be a way to spin that into good news isn’t there? Some “friends” got me to go ice fishing once when I lived in MN …..um no thanks my backcast kept getting tangled in the shack decor…..I’d rather watch a Lee Wulff dvd and drink at home where its warm….

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     Tom Chandler January 7, 2013, 11:57 am Reply

     marty: Do highly caffienatecd salmon take flies more readily?

     Do I hear a mainstream magazine article coming? (“Five Reasons Coffee Drinking Leads To Bigger Fish”)

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   Scott January 4, 2013, 4:19 pm Reply

   Time to perfect my “blueberry scone” fly.
   (More research is needed – I’m off to Starbucks for a mocha and a scone…..)

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   Bill January 5, 2013, 9:36 am Reply

   Ice Fishing musical? See why I have to get the hell out of the midwest!!!!

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     Tom Chandler January 7, 2013, 11:37 am Reply

     Bill:
     Ice Fishing musical? See why I have to get the hell out of the midwest!!!!

     I know. Plus, there goes the whole “what happens in the shack stays in the shack” unwritten law. Shame.

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       Bill January 7, 2013, 6:20 pm Reply

       Long harsh winter, warm cozy shack, two lone men and a bottle of Schnapps…..I just threw up in my mouth.

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   Steve January 7, 2013, 5:12 am Reply

   in re: Iowa Phesants

   One of Iowa’s dirty little secrets is that its image as a bucolic backwater where people are honest and the politics more “aw shucks” nice is a lie. Nothing makes that case more that its practices in land management and water quality, issues whose oversight is now a wholly-owned subsidary of Big Ag. For example, a few years ago the governor transferred water quality assurance from the DNR to the Ag Department because, as he rhetorically asked at the time, “who cares more for the environment than farmers?” Indeed, Iowa farmers care so much that they annually ignore set-aside programs to plant fence row to fence row in order reap maximum profit. One result of this is that our waterways drain off ever more tonnage of fertilizer and pesitcide down the Mississippi, which creates a huge dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. The EPA gave Iowa two years to come up with plan to deal with the run off problem. So after two years the environmental stewards at our Ag Department came up with a brilliant solution: “voluntary compliance.” Later the local newspaper revealed that entire chunks of this plan were cut and pasted from a Farm Bureau memo. The Farm Bureau, for those who don’t know, is a shill to Big Ag (Cargill, Monsanto…) masquerading as some friendly collection of Farmer Browns. The truth is that Ag politics in this state are some of the most corrupt politics around. Oh, and one more fun fact about the environment and the Hawkeye state: Iowa has less than 1 percent of its original eco-system. On that metric it measures dead last of all 50 states.

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     Tom Chandler January 9, 2013, 8:53 am Reply

     Thanks for the info. One percent? Dang.

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   Al Fickensher January 8, 2013, 6:18 pm Reply

   Ice fishing musical?
   Brings to mind a Jeff Daniels belly laugh movie of a decade ago, ESCANABA IN DA MOONLIGHT. A Yooper Michigan comedy that takes place in a deer camp the night before season opening day.

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     Tom Chandler January 9, 2013, 9:46 am Reply

     I see something a little more sinister than Jeff Daniels in the lead. Maybe a Christopher Walken, with Jim Carrey playing the role of the giant Northern Pike that is caught, but successfully argues for his life.

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