Olebiker

Don't you know ol' Hank's sending out E-mails to everyone he knows asking them to vote for bikini girl.

I had one trotting along about 100 yards in front of me several years ago while riding my mountain bike at the St. Mark's Wildlife Refuge just south of Tallahassee. He would stop once in a while and look back at me, but never seemed too perturbed by my presence.

The niche doesn't seem to have much to do with actually fishing does it?

Doh! :-[ Sorry.

I got an E-mail Friday night from the manager of the Sportsman's Warehouse store here in Tallahassee announcing that the store is closing. The store has been open less than one year and is in a brand new building. After the company filed Chapter 11 I had hoped that they would get some merchandise in, but it seems that vendors still don't want to deal with them. Merchandise is marked down 10 - 20 percent now, but they have to be out of the building by the end of the month, so the deals will have to get better as time goes on.

If speed was such a big competitive advantage, wouldn't Ranger, Triton, Champion, Nitro and the other big name manufacturers build a high performance boat?

I read a lot of stories by owners of really fast bass boats like Allison, Bullet, etc. bragging about how fast their boats run. If speed is that important, I wonder why none of the top pros in BASS run these boats. I don't know about the top FLW competitors, but I can't remember ever seeing anyone in one of these fast *** boats ever picking up a check for a top ten placing.

My wife's gynecologist back in Louisville was Dr. Hyman. There was also a Dr. Needleman in Louisville. As to the cabbage leaves under the Bambino's hat - bicycle racers in Europe used to do that too.

He usually claims to be tryiong to unload it quickly because he is about to be deployed.

I wonder how many people remember George Goebel. Ed McMahon used to say that the funniest line ever delivered on the Tonight Show was Lonesome George saying, "Do you ever get the feeling that the world is a tuxedo and you're a pair of brown shoes?

Oh yeah! That crown molding job in the bedroom got me a compressor, a Senco finish nailer, a Bosch sliding compound miter saw, and a Rigid stand to mount it on.

It came from a Catholic web site. We can laugh at ourselves.

As George Jones would say, "It's hotter than a two dollar pistol."

Did that.

I have seen three Gander Mountain stores - Ocala and Lake Mary, Florida and Bowling Green, Kentucky. They are all visible from the interstate highway. I have only been in the one in Ocala because I could not take the time to explore how to get to the other two. When you approach an area that has a Bass Pro Shop there will be a billboard along the interstate advising you that you are getting near the store and letting you know which exit to take. Not so with Gander. At the Ocala store, even if you get off at the right exit, there is no sign telling you which street to turn on to get to the store. It just happened that I had time one day to search for the store and finally figured it out. I searched for the Lake Mary store on my Tom Tom, but Gander Mountain stores do not appear on it under points of interest. I really enjoy the stores, but I wish the company would put up billboards (even though I normally hate billboards) to direct us interstate travelers to the stores.

Whoa, Dick, look at you! We're gonna have to fish together again and I'll call it "research". How do you know German history like that? You don't have to know anything as long as you have Google and Wikipedia. You let me get done with all my traveling for work and we will get back at them. I'm sitting in a Holiday Inn Express in Port Charlotte on a Saturday morning while my club is fishing a tournament on Seminole. > I am glad to have the job, so I am not really complaining. I need to hear some new Jack stories.

You're 19 years old, right? What's the legal drinking age in Florida?

Just drop a few terms like "Gleichshaltung" on him and you will be OK.

Man! We didn't have cholesterol back on the farm in Kentucky in the 50s. If we had, my Mom would have fried it up in some lard and served it with gravy. My most deadly indulgence these days is Cinnabon.

I ordered some Ledgebusters today. I am determined to catch bass off the river channel on Lake Talquin. Does anyone else but Ledgebuster make spinnerbaits as heavy as 1 ounce?

"How long can you tread water?" - God to Noah (as related by Bill Cosby)

This past Sunday was the first time I wore long pants and a long sleeved shirt while fishing in the middle of the summer. Both were made by Columbia and offered an SPF of 30 if I am not mistaken. I was amazed at how relatively cool I felt compared to wearing shorts and a short sleeved shirt. I and most of my friends all wear a fairly broad brimmed hat on the water in the summer. I especially like my Tilley hat. Even with the hat I wear sunscreen.

Get with the times old man!! J/K But I haven't used a phone book in a couple years. With my phone or computer, it takes half the time to look things up. I don't know when I last pulled out the white pages. Most of the phone numbers I regularly use are programmed into my cell phone.

AT&T provides local telephone service to a large part of Florida. They want to quit delivering the white pages telephone book to their customers unless the customers specifically request one. Do you use the white pages?

You know the best thing about this post? It goes to show that you don't need a Ranger, Triton, Bass Cat, or even a Bass Tracker to catch fish. Congratulations guys!