Gone Fishin’!

My husband bought the 100% wool, cream-colored sweater in London and it smells strongly of animals… just like a barn! It’s beautiful, and I want to be able to wear it, but don’t know how to get the smell out of it and am afraid of ruining it. Any advice, anyone?

Try this stuff called Approach. I used to use it on my ex g/f’s wool sweater when it reeked of cig smoke.

I sprayed the sweater all over heavily, then turned it inside out and sprayed it again. If the odor was heavy I’d do it twice, stretching slightly to help it get inside the fibers.

It’s a water-based natural spray, so there are no chemicals to damage the wool. I’ve yet to see an odor it can’t tackle so I’d say give it a shot.

Good luck!

I played football for the first time in my life last season. I was on the JV team. This year i am moving up to the varsity team. I played defensive tackle, but im not strong enough.I didnt start and i dont think i will start this year. but i would love to start in grade 12. How can i get stronger hit harder and tackle better. What are some good stratagies to a good tackle and harder hit.

run hills and you will get stronger

Is there any possible way that I could use bass techniques and bass tackle for rainbow trout? Would a drop shot rig with a zoom magnum shakey head worm work for rainbow trout in shallow rivers? Or what about small jigs, texas rigged lizards, or shakey head worms with stand up jig heads?

Some bass techniques will work on trout, others won’t. I think what you have to consider when using crossover techniques is the differences in behavior in the two fish.

Bass are warmwater fish. As such they are very aggressive attack hunters. They ambush prey from cover, but also run down prey over long distances. They’re opportunistic — if they spend half a day feeding on minnows, they can still be enticed with a crawdad. Best of all they are easily provoked with things like noise, motion, and color — we all know bass will hit a lure that looks almost nothing like natural forage as long as the lure displays a certain color or motion. Bass go after large prey. My assumption is that bass and sunfish will go after prey up to one half of their own total length — I’m sure you’ve hooked little 10- or 12-inch bass on a lure that 4 or 5 inches long.

Trout are coldwater fish. They are not as aggressive as bass, do not strike as hard, will not chase down prey over long distances, and are more selective. They are less likely to be induced into striking a certain color or motion — they require accurate imitations of natural forage, including color, size, shape, etc. They are also inclined to feed single-mindedly, zeroing in on a single prey item to the exclusion of other forage. My rule with trout is that they will take prey up to one quarter of their total length and may even be spooked by large lures. Also trout (especially in rivers) often feed from "lies." A lie is an optimum position in a stream where the trout has cover, food, and refuge from the current. It’s like a comfort zone. The trout takes up its lie and then moves very little, taking forage that washed down the current.

So, with that in mind, big, noisy rigs will not work well on smaller trout (less than about 18 inches). Most trout that size are eating aquatic insects and similar forage, so a big swimming lizard, or 4-inch worm will interest them less.

Because of a trout’s preference to feed from a lie, they are less inclined to chase fast and far-running lures. A trout won’t move too far from its lie. That’s how coldwater fish are — it’s all about energy conservation. Smaller and slower running lures can be effective, especially if you can fish it so that the trout doesn’t have to move much. There is a trout stream about an hour from where I live where smallmouth bass have been introduced, and at certain times of the year I can catch bass and trout in the same place with the same spinner. I like brass and red colored Mepps and Jake’s spinners and have caught lots of trout with them.

I’m not sure about rubber worms. I haven’t fished for trout much with large rubber worms, and my gut says it’s not a great match. But trout love real worms, so a good worm imitation may catch you some trout. I think the difference will be presentation — a smaller, more subtle presentation is required for trout.

I’ve had a lot of success taking trout on small jigs (1/32 oz. to 1/8 oz.) in rivers and streams. Brown trout will KILL minnow imitations at this time of year — not only to feed but because of territorial impulses (they spawn in late fall). You can also catch trout with jigs by overhanging banks — trout like to hide out under the overhangs and if you don’t scare them off with your approach, you can find some big trout hiding in very shallow water waiting to ambush minnows and fallen insects, both of which you can imitate with jigs.

Based on the novel: The Perfect Storm. I need 5 reasons I have three but I need some more. The main one is money.

Money

adventure

danger

catching big fish

feeling free for a moment without confinements

commonality

the sense of belonging to a team

addiction to the sea ( or the fumes from the engine but lets not count that one. ; ) )

brotherhood

competition

the feeling of being the best at what you know and do

hands on work with all of the above

~good luck catchin.’

I coach 5th grade YMCA tackle football and need some tips.

Practice blitzing drills. Have them line up in a gap and hit it full speed when you blow the whistle. Vary it by calling out the gap you want them to hit at the last second, or by pointing to it when you blow the whistle. That will teach them to read for a split second first and then hit it with reckless abandon.

The more aggressive you have them practice (at full speed), the better chance they will make tackles behind the line in a real game situation.

i fish it often and always pull out big bass but i just can’t seem to catch a pike. what lures should i use? and in what colors?

spinner baits, husky jerk, reef runners, even a top water plug will attract a pike, a lot of times they hit out of aggression any lure that has a lot of action will trigger a strike from a muskellunge of any kind.

I am in the planning stages of starting this theater up and the only problem I’m having is how I get movie reels to play in the screening rooms without violating copyright laws. I would much rather own a few films that I could rotate rather than rent from the distributor. Any suggestions?

Hmmm, that might be slightly difficult. You would have to contact the studio that owns the film to see what their policy is. Theaters nowadays pay studios a percentage of what they earn. They also return the film for recycling so there isnt a huge cost. The difficult part is that you want to OWN the film so that means the studio won’t be getting anything back in return after you pay the initial fee. I assume you would be charging people to watch so you would start making money off the studios property. I’m pretty sure the studio won’t let you do that.
Another thing to think about is do you have a good projector. If you are talking about film that means you would have to get a 35mm film projecter. They arnt exactly cheap and they take some training. If you were to go digital it would depend on what you are doing. You cant use a DVD player and just play discs becuase if you did charge people, that would be illegal. Theater quality movie projecters are still very expensive, running about 70-80 grand.

Sorry to be so negative but these are the problems I see popping up. The only theaters that ive seen play old classics just have them for a few week before returning them. It can be expensive to print up new film for old movies so distributers just send the same print around the country for theaters to rent.

he will not jerk the line because it will break , so he will reel it gradually and smoothly so it will hold. why? can somebody explain according to newton’s laws of motion.

Basically, inertia. A body at rest wants to stay a rest, a moving body wants to stay moving. With gentle pressure on the line (within it’s breaking strain) the shark will start to move, as it moves it will take less effort to keep it moving. If it was jerked from a standstill, the inertia is such that the load could exceed the breaking strain of the line.

When the shark comes to the surface, it would need to be lifted out as the water will no longer offer boyancy and the weight of sharky will break the line.

im getting this package from charter tomorrow and I’m just wondering what kind of download and upload speeds should I expect?

No way to tell, since the speed of a download depends on the speed of the path between your provider and the server you’re downloading from, and the provider has no control over that (it’s determined by all the routers on the internet). If the server is close to your provider’s POP (place where they enter the internet), it could approach 10mbps. If it’s distant (over about 100 miles), it’ll seldom exceed 600kbps. But you could do 16 simultaneous downloads at that speed with a 10mbps connection. (IOW, my wife plays WoW and uses Skype at the same time. I’m doing downloads, watching something on YouTube or abc.com and using the phone [which is VoIP over the internet connection] and everything is going at full speed. But no single connection is using more than about 600kbps bandwidth.)

Unless you do a LOT of things simultaneously, any speed or lag problem you see won’t be due to your connection. (You can always check that at http://www.speedtest.net/ )

I go fishing for bluegills and crappie from shore.Nightcrawlers are an excellent bait for them,but I was wondering if lures would work.If so,what kind?

yeah they love them. i go wade fishing all the time and take small rooster tails and plastic worms. i usually like to use red plastic worms and black or red rooster tails. i take the plastic worms and cut them in half and use the end with the tail that spins to fish with. the rooster tails is the best tho or take live minnows and thats what i use for crappie.