You Must Rock

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A message encouraging everyone to rock.

A Boat for Every Purpose

Little boats are intriguing to me. That's the reason for my purchase of kayaks this fall. Before I found the Crow Wing Kayaks, though, I did a lot of looking and found some neat stuff. I thought I would share my list of little boats for sneaking into less-traveled waters. You will notice a huge lack of inflateable boats. I don't want to inflate my boat any more than I want to inflate, well... you probably get it, and if you don't, sorry. Keep on reading.

www.gaboats.com I want to build a geodesic airolite boat. Cool.
www.cranberrycreekcanoes.com Neat square stern canoes.
www.kiwikayak.com Angler model has a bi-hull, trolling motor mount.
www.nucanoe.com The nu-canoe is intriguing; there's a fishing model.
www.crowwingkayaks.com My current experiment in sneak boating.
www.wavewalk.com Wavewalk catamarans. Very unique.
www.tribalance.com Tri-balance kayaks. (Yak w/outriggers).
www.porta-bote.com Set a record for boating at 20,000 feet on Mt. Everest. How did it get there? On the back of a yak.
www.heritagekayaks.com The Featherlite Angler intrigues me at 38 pounds.

Of course, I could go on and on and cover otter boats, pirogues, drift boats, the multitude of fishing kayaks, etc. But these are some of the more divergent products. I like divergent.

I need a heated shop. Building a boat is in my future. And storage for all kinds of experimental craft.

Annotated Bibliography of Fishing Books

I am beginning to amass a decent little library of some very useful fishing books. Here is my annotated bibliography:

http://www.cpinternet.com/~wcoyote/annotatedbib.html

Don't ding me on the formatting. It's not nice to correct the grammar of an English teacher, criticize his writing style, point out bad spelling, or in general question anything. OK?

I hope you enjoy this little list. I like books that combine the art of words with the art of fishing.

For a very well written TV show, check out Flip Pallot on Walker's Cay Chronicles on ESPN. Beautiful stuff. Here's their site: http://www.walkerscay.tv/index.html Flip is cool. Walleye fishing needs a Flip Pallot.

Yak Fishing

So I"ve been teasing my daughters for years about yaks. When they ask what's for dinner--stewed yak, and that sort of thing.

Then I get heavily obsessed with the idea of catching large fish from a kayak. So I get a good deal on a couple of kayaks. I see an opportunity to play a good one on the girls.

I told them I had been to Bemidji to pick up a couple of yaks. My eldest didn't believe me at first. There were lots of questions. Q: Where are the yaks? A: One in the living room and one in the garage. Q: How do you fish from a yak? A: By sitting on top of it. The hardest question was when they asked me what I had been feeding the yaks. I said that I didn't feed them. The girls were concerned about their health.

Then they saw the yaks finally. I had one in my living room. All of last weekend was spent with one or both girls sitting in the yak reading or playing. Cute.

There's a funny article that muses on yak fishing at: http://www.coastalanglermagazine.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=233

The yaks I brought home were Crow Wing Kayaks: www.crowwingkayaks.com

I see Sierra Trading Post has yak leather shoes. Tempting.

Signs of the apocalypse...

I saw a commercial on TV last night advertising Taco Bell's new Chicken Enchilada Grilled Stuft Burrito.

Isn't an Enchilada Burrito kind of like a Ford Corvette? And can we speed up the efficiency of ordering crappy fast food from shiftless youths at the window by limiting the word count in menu items to two or three?

[added later] And, THEN, I go to their website to check on the spelling of "Stuft" and what do I see but their new marketing initiative which will certainly contribute to the Obesing of America: fourthmeal.com. Evidently there is a meal between dinner and breakfast. I'm glad that Taco Bell so freely guides our culture in the right direction. If I thought their motivation was to get Americans eating more meals and less food in a day, I might support it. But I think their motivation is to feed us all to the point of immobility so that we can't leave the food court. Then our whole day can be just one constant meal.

Visions of Monty Python movie: "Would you like a mint?"

Everyone in America should view the excellent documentary "Super Size Me."

NOW I find out...

that flog is also a word used to refer to fake blogs created by companies wanting to advertise stuff. Kind of like a splog (spam blog).

I am, however, going to keep my flog. Even though it's not a flog.

Entering Flogspace...

So I have added my ring to the circus. You are entering flogspace, where I share my crappy witticisms and pictures of fish. And some of you undoubtedly thought you found a blog for someone else just like you--someone who likes being tied up and the delights of whips and chains. But you didn't read my definition of flog. Step on out--there's nothing for you to see here. I only whip the water with my flyline. My experience with punishment and humiliation is losing trophy smallmouth bass to a broken leader.

Flogspace...where it's about the fish. And the blog. Yeah. And maybe an occasional ultra-conservative opinion or recipe for paddlefish gumbo.