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Nov. 8th, 2002 11:48 pmLast Friday night at this time, I was at a Halloween party at a bar in Melbourne, Florida. The two best costumes: 1) a guy in robes, turban, and long beard, with a red, white, and blue missile sticking out of his head, 2) a guy in priest vestments with handcuffs dangling from his wrist. Those were probably the only highlights. The rest of the night was 20 minutes waiting for the bartender to serve drinks through a sardine-packed crowd, a lousy cover band, and warm beer at the express-bar in the corner.
This week was wheeling and dealing. Got a sale in Central America, but it will almost cost more money than it will bring in. That's okay, gotta start getting some revenue. Investments are proceeding at their own sweet pace. Read that as: "too damn slow." Par for the course.
Last Saturday I was fishing in the surf of the Atlantic. I threw a castnet into the breaking waves and scooped up bait; the bluefish would chomp them to pieces. My father and I would pull bluefish after bluefish out of the surf, a couple pounds each. Their teeth are sharp -- if they miss the hook, the bait would be chopped clean. One bluefish actually chewed through my wire leader. Another bit my father's hook in half. The surf was low, maybe 1-2 footers, but the current was strong. The waves broke a few hundred yards from shore and just kinda rolled in, with the bluefish in the trough. I've been wanting to try shark fishing from the surf and I figured the light surf might cooperate. Here's how you surf-fish shark: Take a bloody piece of bait and hook it along with several ounces of lead weight. Keep your rod in a holder on the sand with an open bail, then swim the bait out past the breakers into deep water. Drop the bait, then bodysurf the waves back to shore. It's egalitarian fishing -- it gives the sharks an almost equal chance of catching the fisherman. Alas, the current was too strong. Even with 3 ounces of weight, the current shoved the bait back to shore within minutes. I went back to catching bluefish, dried seasalt making the hair on my arms seem old and gray.
This week was wheeling and dealing. Got a sale in Central America, but it will almost cost more money than it will bring in. That's okay, gotta start getting some revenue. Investments are proceeding at their own sweet pace. Read that as: "too damn slow." Par for the course.
Last Saturday I was fishing in the surf of the Atlantic. I threw a castnet into the breaking waves and scooped up bait; the bluefish would chomp them to pieces. My father and I would pull bluefish after bluefish out of the surf, a couple pounds each. Their teeth are sharp -- if they miss the hook, the bait would be chopped clean. One bluefish actually chewed through my wire leader. Another bit my father's hook in half. The surf was low, maybe 1-2 footers, but the current was strong. The waves broke a few hundred yards from shore and just kinda rolled in, with the bluefish in the trough. I've been wanting to try shark fishing from the surf and I figured the light surf might cooperate. Here's how you surf-fish shark: Take a bloody piece of bait and hook it along with several ounces of lead weight. Keep your rod in a holder on the sand with an open bail, then swim the bait out past the breakers into deep water. Drop the bait, then bodysurf the waves back to shore. It's egalitarian fishing -- it gives the sharks an almost equal chance of catching the fisherman. Alas, the current was too strong. Even with 3 ounces of weight, the current shoved the bait back to shore within minutes. I went back to catching bluefish, dried seasalt making the hair on my arms seem old and gray.
