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Alaskan Halibut Fishing

By Rayboptions

If you are looking for a Great Fishing Adventure then you must go to Alaska and fish for Halibut. As you will see it’s more than just a fishing trip.

I recently went to Alaska (for the first time) to go Halibut fishing, and got much more than I had expected. After flying across the country in big jumbo jets, when you leave for the lodge from Juneau you go in a Float Plane or Sea Plane, as they are commonly known. I went in a single passenger Plane, just the Pilot and me sitting side by side. The flight to the lodge takes you over and between many Mountains that are always Snow capped. You take off on the water and land on the water, if you have never done this before it’s a great experience all by itself.

Once at the Lodge (always Saturday) within a half-hour you have your License and are on the boat heading out to sea. Besides the Halibut I caught Coho and King Salmon, Ling Cod, Red Snapper. The largest Halibut I caught was 140 pounds, King Salmon was 40 pounds, Coho Salmon was 15 pounds and the Ling Cod was 44 pounds. Work your muscles before you go because you will definitely be sore after the first days fishing, you can use the Hot Tub to relax after you return.

If you want to go Stream Fishing with either Spinning or Fly-fishing gear that’s also available. We encountered Bear’s also fishing in the stream.

Besides the Bear along the Streams you will also see Bald Eagles, Seals, Sea Otters, Sea Lions and if you’re lucky as we were you will see a Whale or two. Bring cameras and/or camcorders.

The food is fantastic. Full breakfast, eggs, pancakes, omelets. Lunch on the boat, sandwiches, soda, beer, smoked Salmon. Dinner is mainly the fish caught that day but served like you’ve never had fish prepared before, we also had a Steak dinner.

The fish that are caught each day are fillet and frozen in separate vacuumed sealed packages. Each package is a pound of two and you choose the % of each type of fish caught you take home. I took 75% Halibut and 25% Salmon and had about 100 pounds of frozen fish in two ready to take boxes.

As you can see this is a very professional operation and I guarantee when you go that you will agree that it’s more than just a fishing trip, it’s an Alaskan adventure. For information please visit the web-site of the very best Fishing Lodge in Alaska: http://Tanaku.com

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Sam Penny's New Novel Broken River Introduced at National Earthquake Conference

By Anonymous

September 28, 2004 -- Sam Penny, author and lecturer on book tour in St. Louis this week, announced the introduction of his new novel, Broken River, September 27 at the 2004 National Earthquake Conference (http://www.earthquakeconference.org) being held in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 26-30, 2004.

Penny says, "Though my characters are fiction, the physical events in my novels are real and they will happen, we just don't know when the New Madrid Seismic Zone will once again fracture. However, we do know that the planning and mitigation we do today will determine how catastrophic that future earthquake will be."

The theme of the 2004 National Earthquake Conference is Strengthening America: Preparing for Earthquakes and More. The Conference is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the United States Geological Survey.

Broken River tells of what happens to the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers when a 7.9 magnitude earthquake once again strikes the New Madrid Fault. It is a sequel to Penny's first novel, Memphis 7.9, Book 1 of The 7.9 Scenario, published last year.

"Imagine the center of the United States destroyed by a giant earthquake that breaks the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers: the dams, the weirs, the levees, the flood controls that the Army Corps of Engineers built over the past 120 years. Can it happen?" Penny asks. "You can bet on it. The U.S. Geological Survey says the chance of it happening in the lifetime of the majority of the people now living in the U.S.A. is one in ten."

In Book 2 of The 7.9 Scenario, the captains of two boats on the Mississippi River try to save their ships and passengers from the worst earthquake to strike the United States in nearly 200 years. Their experiences tell what to expect along our great waterways when our land is once again torn by an earthquake the size of those that struck in 1811 and 1812.

The 7.9 Scenario is an analytical study developed by Penny over the past seven years. "I used government data to determine the impact of a giant New Madrid Fault earthquake under the Mississippi River on the United States. I was startled to find that my calculations estimated a damage zone in the central United States of over 300,000 square miles with 60,000 people killed, 300,000 injured, and 8,000,000 homeless should a 7.9 magnitude earthquake strike the New Madrid Fault today. The dams and levees making up the core of our water control and transportation system would be destroyed."

Our nation could lose as much as 10% of its gross domestic product to this earthquake, enough to plunge it into the worst depression it has ever seen.

Penny continues, "Are the authorities doing enough to reduce these numbers? No. Are they even aware? Some are, but even those who know seem reluctant to push the issue. Can you do something? Yes, but only if you know what can happen WHEN, not IF, a giant earthquake once again strikes the New Madrid Fault. I intend to shine a light on this problem until the country takes notice."

Broken River is a 6 by 9 inch soft-cover trade book of 238 pages with five maps, copyright September, 2004. It is published by TwoPenny Publications with ISBN 0-9755671-1-X. Copies can be ordered from www.the79scenario.com where its price is $16.99 plus shipping and handling.




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Clearwater Festival Seeks Vendors and Volunteers

By Anonymous

Poughkeepsie, NY March 19, 2004--Great music, family fun and environmental education will all come together June 19 and 20 at the Clearwater Festival 2004. Held since 1966, Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival is the grand-daddy of river festivals and more than 15,000 visitors are expected at Westchester’s Croton Point Park, a river peninsula park with grassy meadows, and sweeping views of the river.

The Clearwater Festival will have all the elements of celebration people have come to expect, including a diverse blend of contemporary, traditional and American roots music, dance bands and well known storytellers. There will be fine crafts from professional artisans and folk artists, natural foods and dozens of activities throughout the weekend.

Vendors and volunteers are now being welcomed.

A tradition that spans more than three decades, the Clearwater Festival offers opportunities for people to get involved – for an hour, for a day or for a lifetime, in the work of the Clearwater organization, whose mission, vision and activities are connected not only to the purpose of the event, but to its overall operation. In addition to the core mission of saving the Hudson River, Clearwater promotes social justice, alternative energy, sustainable living, and a holistic approach to environmental stewardship.

Volunteer at the Great Hudson River Revival. Help infuse environmental education, principles and practices into the very fiber of the festival operation.

Vendors of wholesome foods and fine crafts that embody the mission are given a unique opportunity to showcase and sell their products to the festival’s tuned-in and actively engaged audience.

Applications for participation are available at the Clearwater office in Poughkeepsie (845-454-7673 x 122 for volunteers, x123 for vendors), or on line at www.clearwaterfestival.org and must be submitted before the end of March.

Entertainment, environment and education uniquely combined

Ani DiFranco, Dar Williams, Toshi Reagon, Patty Larkin and Guy Davis are among the musicians who will join Pete Seeger and friends on six different festival stages for the annual Festival That Saved a River. The Nields, SONiA, and Catie Curtis will perform, as will Sol y Canto, Deni Bonet and Shemekia Copeland. Other performers are still being signed and updated information is available on the festival website at www.clearwaterfestival.org While music has always been the foundation of the festival, it’s not the only attraction.

In addition to musicians and storytellers, some of the Hudson Valley’s most talented artists and hand-crafters will greet visitors to the Point with a juried show and sale. Dozens of participatory activities for both adults and children, and special “festivals within the festival” will entertain and educate. The Green Living Expo will demonstrate some of the most exciting new products and services that people can use today to create and maintaining sustainable life styles. A dance tent will cover Cajun, Contra, Zydeco, Swing and Rock dancers as they strut their stuff and international foods and snacks will tempt visitors from morning to night.

Field activities for people of all ages make the festival more than just a musical event. Exhibits of live Hudson River fish, photography, juggling instructors, a weed walk, and variety of shoreline environmental programs are on tap for the weekend. The sloop Clearwater, a replica of a 19th century Hudson River sloop, will sail three times each day, joined for the first time by the schooner Pioneer from South St. Seaport.

Sailing the river’s waters on a clean-up mission since 1969, Clearwater has given more than 400,000 young people their first up-close look at a threatened ecosystem, creating a Clearwater Generation in the process. Because of this work, Clearwater is being named to the National Register of Historic Places this year.
   
A non-stop musical performance schedule is just the beginning of the family fun to be found at the Father’s Day weekend event. Non-aggressive and non-violent activities in the Children’s Area do far more than occupy energetic minds and bodies.

Created and staffed by parents, alumni and teachers at the Randolph School in Wappingers Falls, the area is dedicated to creativity, holistic learning, self-reliance and respect for nature, self and others. Whether kids get involved in shirt and face painting, water play or the tree rope bridge, they’ll be transformed by the experience. And when they create butterflies and bird puppets from recycled materials, they’ll be creating wonderful memories at the same time.
   
A festival isn’t a festival without food and the Clearwater Festival features everything from Chicken teriyaki and crab cake sandwiches to falafel with hummus and funnel cakes and French fries. An international array of treats from black bean and veggie wraps to falafel and tabouli. Ethnic favorites like pierogies and gyro’s take their place with chocolate desserts and double lattes.
   
Long a “must-do” summer kick-off for outdoor families, music-lovers and environmentalists, the Clearwater Festival offers opportunities for people to get involved – for an hour, for a day or for a lifetime. Volunteers work alongside performers to create the Clearwater experience and vendors have a unique opportunity to show and sell their work to an audience that is tuned in and actively engaged.

More information on the festival, applications for vendors and sign up forms for volunteers are all readily available at www.clearwaterfestival.org. They are also available by calling Festival Director Ron Aja at 845-454-7673



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