Yesterday, which was the full moon, I decided to catch some largemouth bass for Frannie’s and my dinner.  Conditions could not have been worse.  The Salkehatchie River, which is about 1/3rd of a mile from the house,  is high and dingy, from the rains, the day of the full moon is not a good time, and the middle of the day in August isn’t either.  Why the middle of the day, instead of the cooler, early morning or late evening?  Because that’s when the moon is underfoot, the best time of the day to fish.  Can you say Solunar Table.  The next best time is when the moon is straight overhead.

My main confidence factor, however, was the lure I used, the Shakeyhead.  Nothing more than  a Zoom  Finesse worm, green pumpkin in color, rigged weedless on an Owner 1/16 ounce jighead.  Throwing the bait on a Zebco 33 with 8 # line, I quickly figured out the fish were under branches, in the shade.  I caught two chunks in short order, iced them down and headed to the house.

Check out  bass tournament reports on http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/bassmaste/index or http://www.flwoutdoors.com/bassfishing/flw/and you will see, time and time again,  a tournament winner state:  ” The bite was off so I picked up the spinning rod, threw a Shakeyhead, and caught a limit.”  If it works for the pros……..

The whole deal is throw it out, let it sink (it falls slowly in a “death” circle)  and watch your line.  When it twiches or takes off, reel down until tight and then really set the hook.  I just gave up my number one technique.  In another installment I’ll talk about catching the big ones.

Bob Sanders
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There’s a lot of talk, recently, about deer fawn predation is SC by coyotes.  In the last two years of harvesting does, a management technique to try and get the buck to  doe ratio back to near 1:1, I have seen lots of does without fawns, something I have not seen in years past.  A Savannah River study cites 50 to 80% fawn predation by coyotes. Coyotes also reputedly replace the red and grey fox population.

Are these bad things?  Well  I certainly don’t like the foxes being gone.  But the coyotes may be doing us a favor with the deer.  We’ve so many deer a disease could come in and decimate our herd.   Another plus for the coyotes is the possums, coons, snakes, rats, etc they eat are the primary predators of the quail and turkey.  Mother Nature sent the coyote here in the 1980′s, so should we try to second guess her?

Maybe we’ll get a few mountain lions next, to control the coyotes?

What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet,
Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.

Gerald Manley Hopkins

Bob Sanders
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The “frog strangling” rains we’ve been having (global warming?) can make inshore fishing difficult.  A heavy rain during low tide can really muddy up the water, and the fresh water pouring into the creeks and rivers can shut off the bite.  Do we just stay home?  Absolutely not!  While these conditions do limit the areas we can fish, looking for those areas is the key.  Close to the ocean and way up the creeks are the two areas I concentrate on.  Right after the rains the waters near the ocean are still clear and salty.  Then, after a couple of tide changes these waters are clearer and salty again.  The upper creeks I look for are the ones that don’t drain large areas therefore runoff doesn’t adversely affect the salt content.  I cruise these, looking for pockets of clear water.  Then, hopefully, we whack ‘em.

Bob Sanders
FishingWithBob
Edisto Inshore Charters
Big Fork Farms LLC
Real Estate Sales
803-300-2780
803-259-1374
www.fishingwithbob.com
www.southcarolinalandonline.com  

Islam is not a religion, nor is it a cult.  In its fullest form, it is a complete, total, 100% system of life.

Islam has religious, legal, political, economic, social, and military components. The religious component is a beard for all of the other components.

Islamization begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their religious privileges.

When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies agree to Muslim demands for their religious privileges, some of the other components tend to creep in as well.

Here’s how it works:

As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given country, they will be for the most part be regarded as a peace-loving minority, and not as a threat to other citizens.  This is the case in:

United States  – Muslim 0.6%
Australia  – Muslim 1.5%
Canada  – Muslim 1.9%
China  – Muslim 1.8%
Italy  – Muslim 1.5%
Norway  – Muslim 1.8%

At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs.  This is happening in:

Denmark  – Muslim 2%
Germany  – Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom  – Muslim 2.7%
Spain  – Muslim 4%
Thailand  – Muslim 4.6%

From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in propor tion to their percentage of the population.  For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims.  They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply.  This is occurring in:

France  – Muslim 8%
Philippines  – 5%
Sweden  – Muslim 5%
Switzerland  – Muslim 4.3%
The  Netherlands  – Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad & Tobago — Muslim 5.8%

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia, the Islamic Law.  The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia law over the entire world.< /SPAN>

When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions.  In Paris, we are already seeing car-burnings.  Any non-Muslim action offends Islam and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam, with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam.  Such tensions are seen daily, particularly in Muslim sections in:
Guyana – Muslim 10%
India  – Muslim 13.4%
Israel  – Muslim 16%
Kenya  – Muslim 10%
Russia  – Muslim 15%

After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues, such as in:

Ethiopia  – Muslim 32.8%

At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare, such as in:

Bosnia  – Muslim 40%
Chad  – Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon  – Muslim 59.7%

From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in:

Albania  – Muslim 70%
Malaysia  – Muslim 60.4%
Qatar  – Muslim 77..5%
Sudan  – Muslim 70%

After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State-run ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide, as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim, such as has been experienced and in some ways is on-going in:

Bangladesh  – Muslim 83%
Egypt  – Muslim 90%
Gaza  – Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia  – Muslim 86.1%
Iran  – Muslim 98%
Iraq  – Muslim 97%
Jordan  – Muslim 92%
Morocco  – Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan  – Muslim 97%
Palestine  – Muslim 99%
Syria  – Muslim 90%
Tajikistan  – Muslim 90%
Turkey  – Muslim 99.8%
United Arab Emirates  – Muslim 96%

100% will usher in the peace of ‘Dar-es-Salaam’ — the Islamic House of Peace.  Here there’s supposed to be peace, because everybody is a Muslim, the Madrasses are the only schools, and the Koran is the only word, such as in:

Afghanistan  – Muslim 100%
Saudi Arabia  – Muslim 100%
Somalia  – Muslim 100%
Yemen  – Muslim 100%

Unfortunately, peace is never achieved, as in these 100% states the most radical Muslims intimidate and spew hatred, and satisfy their blood lust by killing less radical Muslims, for a variety of reasons.

“Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; the tribe against the world, and all of us against the infidel.” — Leon Uris, ‘The Haj’

It is important to understand that in some countries, with well under 100% Muslim populations, such as France, the minority Muslim populations live in ghettos, within which they are 100% Muslim, and within which they live by Sharia Law.  The national police do not even enter these ghettos.  There are no national courts, nor schools, nor non-Muslim religious facilities.  In such situations, Muslims do not integrate into the community at large.  The children attend madrasses.  They learn only the Koran.  To even associate with an infidel is a crime punishable with death.  Therefore, in some areas of certain nations, Muslim Imams and extremists exercise more power than the national average would indicate.
Today’s 1.5 billion Muslims make up 22% of the world’s population.  But their birth rates dwarf the birth rates of Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, and all other believers.  Muslims will exceed 50% of the world’s population by the end of this century.

Adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond’s book:  Slavery, Terrorism and Islam:  The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat.

Well, boys and girls, today we are letting the fox guard the henhouse.  The wolves will be herding the sheep!

Obama appoints two devout Muslims to Homeland Security posts.  Doesn’t this make you feel safer already?
Obama and Janet Napolitano appoint Arif Alikhan, a devout Muslim, as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development.
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano swore in Kareem Shora, a devout Muslim who was born in  Damascus, Syria, as ADC National Executive Director as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC).
NOTE: Has anyone ever heard a new government official being identified as a devout Catholic, a devout Jew or a devout Protestant…?  Just wondering.

Devout Muslims being appointed to critical Homeland Security positions?  Doesn’t this make you feel safer already??

Was it not “Devout Muslim men” who flew planes into U.S. buildings 9 years ago?
Was it not a “Devout Muslim” who killed 13 at Fort Hood?

Please forward this important information to any who care about the future of our respective countries.

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Bob Sanders
FishingWithBob
Edisto Inshore Charters
Big Fork Farms LLC
Real Estate Sales
803-300-2780
803-259-1374
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Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
Joseph Campbell

Garland with 3 1/2 # bonefish

Pat with 7 # bone

Fran with 3 #’er

Bob with 6 #’er