NATURAL RESOURCES MORE FROM TED.Ted Nugent alert. The rocker who dabbles in hunter's rights and politics on the side has a new Web site: The Ted Nugent Camp For Kids (www.tnkfk.com). Nugent has plenty of content on this site, including the obligatory obligatory /ob·lig·a·to·ry/ (ob-lig´ah-tor?e) obligate. obligatory unavoidable; something that is bound to occur. family photos. But his intentions are honorable. ``The youth of today are the FUTURE OF AMERICA, and will determine the fate of conservation and outdoor sports, including hunting,'' the Web site proclaims. One icon worth clicking is ``Fun Stuff With the Nuge,'' which features a game called ``To Shoot or Not to Shoot,'' where contestants will be shown pictures of ``12 deer deer, ruminant mammal of the family Cervidae, found in most parts of the world except Australia. Antlers, solid bony outgrowths of the skull, develop in the males of most species and are shed and renewed annually. that are all within 30 yards. Your bow weight is between 40 and 45 pounds. Look at each picture and decide if you should shoot or not shoot.'' Maybe before trying, you should try the ``What Do YOU Know About Bows?'' --Small ball: Anyone wanting to drop a fishing line in the mighty Mississippi River Mississippi River River, central U.S. It rises at Lake Itasca in Minnesota and flows south, meeting its major tributaries, the Missouri and the Ohio rivers, about halfway along its journey to the Gulf of Mexico. need not log onto smallstreams.com, a Web site that touts, ``There is a growing trend to return to the solitude of fishing small streams. ... This site is written in the vernacular ver·nac·u·lar n. 1. The standard native language of a country or locality. 2. a. The everyday language spoken by a people as distinguished from the literary language. See Synonyms at dialect. b. , each of us is a small stream leading to a sea of information.'' There are plenty of tales of fishing creeks The United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System gives about 80 returns for streams with this name; the number gets up toward 200 when place names are part of the argument. , brooks and, of course, streams. There is also a regional page with a request for any Californians to share experiences of fishing the local little watering holes. - Chris Cocoles THE EVERYTHING GUIDEBOOK ``The Complete Guide to Freshwater fresh·wa·ter adj. 1. Of, relating to, living in, or consisting of water that is not salty: freshwater fish; freshwater lakes. 2. Situated away from the sea; inland. 3. Fishing'' (Jill Anderson Anderson, river, Canada Anderson, river, c.465 mi (750 km) long, rising in several lakes in N central Northwest Territories, Canada. It meanders north and west before receiving the Carnwath River and flowing north to Liverpool Bay, an arm of the Arctic , managing editor; Angela Hartwell, photo editor, Creative Publishing, $29.95) You won't find anything new, but you will find everything. ``The Complete Guide to Freshwater Fishing,'' the latest in Creative Publishing's how-to Freshwater Angler angler, common name for a member of the family Ceratiidae, European and American bottom-dwelling predacious fishes. The angler lies on the bottom and lures its prey with a long, wormlike appendage that extends forward and dangles over its mouth. series, is not a guidebook for those 1 percent of fishermen who catch 99 percent of the fish. It's for the rest of us (abuse) for The Rest Of Us - (From the Macintosh slogan "The computer for the rest of us") 1. Used to describe a spiffy product whose affordability shames other comparable products, or (more often) used sarcastically to describe spiffy but very overpriced products. 2. . Like other books of the popular series, ``Freshwater Fishing'' assumes you know little about the subject. But, unlike a few of its predecessors, it is not so simple-minded and vague as to be practically useless to anyone who has held a rod before. Although some passages appear to have been cut-and-pasted and ever-so-lightly edited from previous Freshwater Angler works, the guide as a whole is contemporary, informative and comprehensive - covering basic game-fish behavior, angling equipment and skills, fish preparation and storage, photography and, most important, the how-to for catching the 14 major freshwater-fish species. The guide is a fun and breezy read that will enhance the experience of anglers who enjoy the sport perhaps once or twice a year, those who never had the benefit of a parent who passed on all that inside information experts possess, and even newcomers. More experienced anglers might learn a thing or two, as well. Most stunning is the guide's photography and photo illustrations. They result in not only a well-designed, practical book but one that is as good for the coffee table as it is the occasional angler's study. Grade: A - Michael A. Anastasi CAPTION(S): box Box: TUNE IN |
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