Short Shots

    The key to successful jig fishing is often having the ability to know when you actually had a strike. Many strikes will be so light that you will not even detect them. If you pick your jig up off the bottom, and you seem to feel a little extra weight, set the hook. There is no other way to learn what this feels like other than experiencing it for yourself. So, stick with it until you have developed the “feel”.
    Chad Brauer

    The first mate turns to the skipper and asks, “Do you think we’ll catch any fish today?” The skipper replies, “Cod willing.”

    A sign in a nonsmoking area: “If we see smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.”

    Why are you IN a movie, but you’re ON TV?

    It’s hard to make a comeback when you haven’t been anywhere.

    Why are they called “stands” when they’re for sitting?

    You’re just as likely to die by falling out of bed than you are to get struck by lightning; each is a one in 2,000,000 chance. You have a one in 3,000,000 chance of being killed by a snake.

    The blue whale weighs as much as 30 elephants, and is as long as three Greyhound buses.

    Cutouts of a moon and a star were used in colonial times on outhouse doors to designate the gender of the intended user. Originally, the moon cutout was for women and the star was for the men. But men’s outhouses were usually such a mess that men preferred using the women’s outhouses. So, eventually the use of stars was phased out.

    A cricket an inch long has a chirp that is audible for nearly a mile.

    If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

    In 1998, excise taxes applied to hunting, fishing and recreational shooting equipment and motorboat fuels provided more than $426 million to states for fish stocking, wildlife restoration and research, aquatic resource education, hunter education and other activities.

    Is a sleeping bull a bulldozer?

    Pine, spruce or other evergreen wood should never be used in barbecues. These woods, when burning or smoking, can add harmful tar and resins to the food. Only hardwoods should be used for smoking and grilling, such as oak, pecan, hickory, maple, cherry, alder, apple, or mesquite, depending on the type of meat being cooked.

   Dogs that live with smokers have a 60% greater lung cancer risk than those living with nonsmokers.

    Freshen the air in your car. Place a sheet of Bounce under the front seat.

       Approximately 13 million households in the U.S. own freshwater fish and 0.7 million own saltwater fish.

    Swedish immigrants in Delaware built the first log cabins in North America in 1683.

    Gardenias and orange blossoms both smell terrific, but when placed together in the same bouquet, they will neutralize each other’s odor and there will be no smell at all.

    There are more different kinds of insects in existence today than the total of all kinds of other animals put together.

    Anglers spend an average of 16 days fishing and take an average of 13 fishing trips annually.