Fish Schtick Episode 89 – Holiday Gift Guide
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It’s Friday, December 9, 2011
Thanks today to BossTin and Fish Itch; The Fish Schtick is presented by Fishhound. Fishhound is the world’s largest provider of real-time fishing reports delivered directly to you from licensed guides & boat captains – fresh off the water. Beginning this week, they’re offering Fishhound Club Membership. In the Fishhound Club, you get everything you normally would, plus gear to test and keep – guaranteed – every quarter. With coverage on thousands of waters, you’ll know where to go, when to go and what to throw. Get a free membership, a premium membership, or now – the new Club Membership at www.fishhound.com.
Fishhound Fishing Report
Off the California Coast, Channel Island Sportfishing reports great fishing out of Ventura and Oxnard. Tremendous catches of Rockfish, and they’re doing well on Lingcod, too. Expect a few Calico Bass and Sheepshead mixed in.
Clear across the country in New York, changing flows has helped the fishing on the Salmon River. Steelhead have been eating eggs and beads in Ontario-roe, Honey, and Candy Corn. Chasin’ Tail Adventures gives it four stars out of five.
Between the two in Utah, reports are solid for the Green River. Anglers are doing well with large terrestrial imitations (like grasshoppers and black ants) and using a scud, shrimp or imitation-salmon-egg trailer. Often the fish are attracted to the larger presentation and then hit the smaller one.
For a free report on waters near you, www.fishhound.com.
Guest Intro
This week, it’s our annual Fish Schtick Holiday Gift Guide. We see it all – everything that’s cool in the world of fishing – and we pair it down to the stuff we’d actually like to give or receive this Christmas.
Brian / Moldy Chum News
What’s new with you?
What’s new on Moldy Chum?
Teeg / Recycled Fish News
Had our best show ever at the St. Paul Ice Fishing & Winter Sport Expo
Getting ready for the Recycled Fish Hardwater Opens: www.recycledfish.org/HardwaterOpens
Winding down on the Holiday Tackle Box Auctions – a few left: www.RecycledFish.org/HolidayBoxes
Short Rods shirts are a big hit – now available in blue: http://www.greentackle.com/brands/recycled-fish.html?rf=1
Short Rods Shirt
Around the world of fishing in 120 Seconds
Good news for the Gulf. Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, announced this week that the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is launching a new Gulf of Mexico initiative, which will focus $50 million over three years in conservation assistance to farmers and ranchers in priority areas along seven major rivers that drain to the gulf. We like it.
Maryland DNR is offering Clean Marina Seminars for marinas and boatyards. If you run one or work at one, get to one of these events! They’re free.
In Washington, DC – environmental groups are once again calling for the ban of lead sinkers and fishing weights. Nothing new there.
In Toronto – a city-wide ban on the sale of shark fins, somewhere Conway Bowman is smiling.
Florida hosts the first PAA Tour event of the year in January – yep, January. The professional fishing season gets underway BEFORE the BASSMASTER Classic in … January on Lake Toho.
Iowa – confirmation that Silver Carp have entered the Iowa Great Lakes is unfortunate news. Means they’ve made their way to inland waterways outside the rivers, and the IGLs are a very special ecosystem. However, local fisheries managers think that the carp won’t reproduce effectively there.
British Columbia – A virus in Salmon is causing more than concern. Infectous Salmon Anemia virus is now at the center of a scandal, where the Canadian government is covering up having known about it since 2002. Shady, Canada, Shady.
This week’s Stewardship Tip: Make it a Reduced Paper Holiday. Recycle newspaper or maps or magazine pages as giftwrap. Give gifts that aren’t so heavily packaged. Or give the gift of experiences, rather than so – much – stuff.
More fishing hoopla at moldychum.com – Stewardship Tips and more at www.RecycledFish.org. I’m Teeg Stouffer and we just went around the world of fishing in 120 seconds thanks to Boss Tin at BossTin.com.
Brought to you by BossTin – makers of environmentally friendly fishing weights for the fly and conventional tackle angler.
Guest Intro / Interview
Every year we take a look at what’s out there, what’s already in our fishing arsenal, and we make up a Christmas Wish List. Now – if anyone actually wants to GET us this stuff – hey – to the giver the gift is given! We recommend little stocking stuffers up to unreasonably big gifts, so here goes.
Stocking Stuffers:
Brian – Backyard in Nowhere DVD
Teeg – Fish Sticks Lure Enhancer
Small Gift:
Brian – Optrix HD Sport: http://www.moldychum.com/home-old/2011/12/8/optrix-hd-sport.html
Teeg – Reusable Water Bottle like the ones at www.water.org
Medium Gift:
Brian – Nikon AW100 CoolPix waterproof digital camera
Teeg – Ice Tech ice reel http://icetechfishing.com/
Large Gift:
Brian – Mike Savlen – Bragging Rights Image – www.savlenstudios.com
Teeg – I want to go on a week-long fishing trip with my dad and brother in the wilderness
Gigantic Gift:
Brian – Moldy Chum Field Trip to Baja
Teeg – Last year my wish was a truck – this year I got one! Now … maybe a boat to put behind it? A G3 or a Lund, maybe? 4-stroke motor is a must, one of those i-Pilot trolling motors, doesn’t have to be real big, maybe a 16’-er
Conservation Topic
Holiday Consumption … Don’t buy this jacket http://www.thecleanestline.com/2011/11/dont-buy-this-jacket-black-friday-and-the-new-york-times.html
Photo of the Week
iPhone Image – Frosty Prairie in Colorado
The Fish Schtick Podcast Crew
Brian Bennett
Twitter – @moldychum
Facebook – Moldy Chum
Web – http://www.moldychum.com
Teeg Stouffer
Twitter – @TeegStouffer
Twitter – @RecycledFish
Facebook – Recycled Fish
Web – http://www.recycledfish.org
Michael Mauro
Twitter – @mauromedia
Facebook – mauromedia
Web – http://mauromedia.com
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That’s the Schtick for another week, with thanks again to our friends at Fishhound – real time fishing reports on thousands of waters across the country for free at www.Fishhound.com. Thanks also to BossTin, online at www.BossTin.com. The Fish Schtick is also distributed by Bloodknot Magazine, read it online for free at www.BloodKnot.net.
Remember that our lifestyle runs downstream . Good Cheer, Blessings and Great Adventures.
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