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01-01-2006, 08:07 PM
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You rang?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Lowell
Posts: 946
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Working on my JNCIP certification (which is the same as a Cisco CCIE cert) so my nose will be in the router manuals....so no fishing books for me  |
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01-02-2006, 12:01 PM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,875
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Reading the Water by Bob Post. I've read every striper book there is and this is the best. IMO
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No boat, back in the suds.  
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01-02-2006, 12:27 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,496
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Two great books I just finished...neither is about fishing.
"The New American Militarisim : How Americans Are Seduced by War" - Andrew Bacevich
A West Point grad, BU historian and Vietnam Vet studies how the US perception of war has dramatically changed (often for the worse) since the Vietnam War. Extremely well documented and brutally honest, this book places the Bush doctrine and current events into naked context. Not a partisan book, everyone should read this.
"One Bullet Away : The Making of a Marine Officer" - Nathaniel Fick
Amazing first person account of what it takes to become a Recon Marine and what combat in Afghanistan and Iraq was really like. To be honest, every Marine I've ever known was a bit wacky and now I understand why  Next time I'm freezing my ass off on a rock, I'll just think of how easy life really is.
I'm going to make my stepson read this for sure.
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01-02-2006, 12:34 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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Ten Hours Till Dawn. Excellent local writing regarding a true life hero during the 78 storm.
Truely incredible that a 95' cutter would get WASHED OVER the Glouscter Breakwall!!!
The Founding Fish
Salt
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01-02-2006, 01:24 PM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,875
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Blizzard of 78. Greatest storm I ever went through. Northern RI had 54" of snow with 14 foot drifts. The wind blew for 6 or 7 hours straight at 70+ MPH. Truly an awe inspiring storm.
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No boat, back in the suds.
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01-02-2006, 03:26 PM
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Canal Junkie
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Raynham
Posts: 1,678
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Aside from a few tech books (SQL/Apple/Unix)
Im currently reading Memoirs of a Geisha... its not that bad.
I will probably also end up reading the entire LOTR trilogy for the umpteenth time
That is, untill Striper Wars comes in the mail...  |
aim: SaltedBrian
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01-02-2006, 04:04 PM
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Scarecrow
Join Date: May 2003
Location: bedford ma
Posts: 637
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I just finished "The Terrible Hours" by Peter Maas. It is about the recovery of a sunken sub just before WW2. More importantly it is about a man named Swede Monson. He devised just about all of the underwater recovery systems and was the guy who made the formulas for breathing at great depths and avoiding the bends. A little textbooky, But, you won't be able to put it down during the first half.,
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01-02-2006, 09:28 PM
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Registered LUser
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Mashpee, MA
Posts: 643
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Originally Posted by bjs
I will probably also end up reading the entire LOTR trilogy for the umpteenth time
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Word, bjs.
For the most part, I'll be reading alot of books, articles, reports, etc. on gillnetting, trawling, scallop fishing, and fish, marine mammal, seabird, and turtle ID...for my new job! Yay!
As for suggestions, if you want to give yourself a striper break, I'd go with The Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw. Not to say I perfectly agree with her viewpoints, but it is a great story about longlining for swordfish.
I'm in the middle of "Why do men have nipples?" -- my sister got it for me for Christmas. It's pretty cool -- it answers all sorts of unanswerables -- why do we yawn when others yawn? are farts really flammable? Funny stuff. |
The worst day fishing is better than the best day working. ...Wait a minute, my work IS fishing. Sweet.
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01-02-2006, 07:20 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
Posts: 21,711
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Originally Posted by piemma
Reading the Water by Bob Post. I've read every striper book there is and this is the best. IMO
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i agree  |
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01-02-2006, 08:30 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Landlocked in my own prison
Posts: 1,031
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Santa gave me Chapmans safe boating guide book I'm reading now. After that, "On the Run" by Dibenidetto.
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"Love is like a snowmobile racing across the tundra then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
Matt Groening, Life In Hell
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01-08-2006, 08:59 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
Posts: 5,985
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Originally Posted by piemma
Reading the Water by Bob Post. I've read every striper book there is and this is the best. IMO
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That book wouldn't be any better if it played music when you opened it...  |
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Thomas Paine
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