A reason to not fish weighted stuff

Allen wrote:
Ow stop it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east/4315748.stm

I'm sorry to say that the piece is woefully short on fishing details.
What was he fishing for? What was he using? Bait? Lures of some sort?
What kind of rod and reel was he using? Was he a clueless bozo or an
experienced fisherman? Sheesh!


Allen

"Thrice happy is the nation that has a glorious history. Far better it
is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though
checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who
neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray
twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt

That's one of Roosevelt's most misleading popular quotes. He loved
personal glory (viz. San Juan Hill) and rhetorical bombast, but in his
foreign policy he was always mindful of the risks that accompany
"glory." Aside from an insurrection in the Phillipines that he inherited
from McKinley, he lost not a single American life in combat. Teddy
suffered from the prejudices of his age, and he was aggressive by
nature, but he was guided, ultimately, by reason and intellect. In his
foreign policy he was a peacemaker (Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating an
end to the Russo-Japanese War), and domestically he was a trust buster,
looking out for the public good over private interests. By any
reasonable standard of today's politics, he was left of center.

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