That's what I pinned it as. Pretty confident in that too. I know some big fishermen who have never seen one.
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I've caught them in Louisiana and Florida.
New Jersey gets all kinds of tropical fish on occasion every year fisherman get Mahi-mahi off our coast. I guess when the gulf stream gets close enough to our shore any pelagic fish is possible to be in the area.
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It's a pity I didn't have time to take a picture, today we met a marten in the forest.
That’s amazing. I would have expected he’d run before you got close enough to see him.
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We catch some monster freshwater drum in Lake Champlain. Here's one my brother caught while we were there earlier this year. On a medium light spinning rod that I built too. I felt pretty good about the craftsmanship after it was able to handle this fish
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Speaking of fishing rods, this recent one is already my favorite. I made a carbon fiber handle for it. First time I've ever worked with carbon fiber. It's light as a feather. It's also got a carbon fiber reel seat and titanium guides. It's a Phenix Elixir blank too, which is a super light blank. This thing is so light and so cool looking. I'm headed back to Champlain Saturday and I can't wait to try this out on some big smallies.
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i'm painting walls here tonight....i really don't enjoy the tediousness
this is blasting throughout the process
this is blasting throughout the process
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how do you view the earlier hard rock/metal bands in comparison to the 1980s and later stuff? While Sabbath almost single handedly invented heavy metal as a music form, they clearly took a leap from what Cream, Hendrix, Steppenwolf, Deep Purple, the MC5 and maybe a few others were doing. I'd add Zeppelin but they were essentially a contemporary for Sabbath so I'm not sure you can put them in an influence category. Later groups took the Sabbath formula and some sped it up or some incorporated a little punk approach or just made it louder or had the vocals less singing and more growling. It's definitely an interesting part of rock history and not as covered as some genres because critics have never understood it. A few of my oldest son's buddies got me to listen a bit and to watch Avenged Sevenfold. Solid stuff. In that style of music Sabbath to me remains the benchmark. Also, do you put AC/DC in that category? Some days I do some I don't. On days I do they slot right behind Sabbath for me. I never got into Iron Maiden. I can hear the effort but like Hendrix I can respect them without having to listen too much. Similarly, Guns and Roses is sort of borderline, but they were tremendous before it went off the rails.I love that album!
Scream for me Long Beach.
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I love that album!
Scream for me Long Beach.
steve harris is a machine on it
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I think there are only a few bands that have direct lineage to metal...
Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple/Ritchie Blackmore/Rainbow...For some reason Judas Priest gets lost in the "early pioneer" discussion of metal but Priest released their first album in 1974 and were right there at for front.
Thin Lizzy was also incredibly influential on many of the 1980's metal bands.
Even though that stuff slightly predates my music life, I consider it my own and a part of that 80's metal...most of them were still producing good stuff in the early 1980's the same time that I was buying Number of the Beast and thumbing through vinyl albums at Sam Goodies.
I never considered AC/DC as metal. And Dirty Deeds was the first album I ever bought. Just a good ol hard rock band in my view. Same for Guns n Roses. Janes Addiction was doing their thing around the same time as GnR and I saw them as similar in terms of genres.
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One night I got really drunk and listened to like 7 different versions of Whiskey in a Jar. Unanimously Thin Lizzy was the best...
But I got down to this.
You can hear the metal in that. Rocks harder than anything Ozzy ever dreamed of.
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After Diary of Madman Ozzy became cartoonish...that Lita Ford duet was the death blow of Ozzy.
For me anyway.
In other News:
Pure nonsense!
Gov. Phil Murphy signs legislation to establish Central Jersey as a region in Garden State | abc7ny.com
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Ignoring real issues to make big noise about secondary ones is a time honored political tradition and always gets my vote.
njdevils1982
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fun fact: lemmy wrote the lyrics to mama i'm coming home
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At the Whiskey A go-go I believe. I seem to remember hearing that? Although I get stuff mixed up in my advanced years
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Thanks! 6 hours of driving tomorrow, but then a week of fishing. Very much looking forward to it!
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The fact that Monmouth and most of Ocean counties are lumped in with the same region as the Pine Barrens makes no sense to me.
njdevils1982
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going to see april wine tomorrow, free concert at a nearby ribfest...f***in right on
njdevils1982
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...about this april wine show... seems like they're pulling the old use the name of the band even though the the only guy with some history is the guitar player who joined on the band's 7th album well after they were established
...the bass player and drummer are 'new' ....joined in 2011 and 2012....and they also have a new singer that was just added this year as miles goodwyn retired in march from touring.
oof!!! (i know @Bleedred loves this kind of shit)
oh well, still gonna ago and chow down, but this is a bit disappointing
...the bass player and drummer are 'new' ....joined in 2011 and 2012....and they also have a new singer that was just added this year as miles goodwyn retired in march from touring.
oof!!! (i know @Bleedred loves this kind of shit)
oh well, still gonna ago and chow down, but this is a bit disappointing
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