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Change will only come when there is enough pressure on Republicans in rural states. Which will only happen when they lose Republican seats in more and more moderate states. I still do not understand why the Democrats to not label every singe Assault style shooting involving body armor as a Republican endorsed mass shooting. Let those fucks answer some questions and defend against a real political attack. It's the only way to counter the "they dems are coming to take your guns" that the Republicans use very effectively despite the dishonestly of the assertion. At least in the potential Dem attack, there is larger degree of honesty.

I've wondered about goose Island, at I thought it might be a good place to have my buddy that I fish Port O'Conner with. Do they have full hookups? Or electric and a dump station? I probably still prefer the beach too much. Does anyone anchor their boat in the bay and just wade out to it? Assuming there are no boat slips nearby? But I bet a chunk of ladyfish would eventually bring in an oversize red eventually. Willie is looking for the red of which I speak!

Towel is better than nothing! It can sort of help you compact the sand if you are gentle enough with the rocking. Good thing is about a towel if you think you can make it out you just haul ass and leave it behind. My hillbilly engineer brain also says think about yanking your floor mats out and using those for traction pads in an emergency. (or your kid's lego mat! 😉 )

Doesn't anybody have enough smarts to get on your hands and knees and dig yourself out? I always carry a shovel, but hell I would dig my ass out with my hands if I needed to. I remember a few years back I screwed up and ran my old Expedition too deep off the beach nest to the Packery Channel. I only had two wheel drive and I was basically the last guy fishing the jetty on an offseason weekday. But I remained calm and did the old back and forth, just a couple inches at a time at first, then a foot or so until finally I had a couple feet of compacted sand that I could use to gain a wee bit of momentum to get my ass out. But that last goose of the accelerator is the death nail, that only lets you spend more time digging. That sand looks pretty loose, and if the entrance clogs up it's a disaster, as more and more folks are forced to stop and lose momentum with more and more getting stuck. Hope it High tide!

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We did decent on Trout in Port O'Conner a couple weeks ago and this was the outcome, but somehow I forgot to take pics of the trout almondine Just deep fried mix of cornbread and flower with some slaw and dukes tarter sauce Panko pan fried with clarified butter, dirty rice, and zucchini, homemade Remoulade and tarter Blackened in butter/evoo mixture with the sauce mix Blackened trout with crab cakes. Amazing how great freshly caught fish is, using clarified butter, or a cheat of butter and oil oil to raise the burning point makes such a big difference when pan frying.

That's why you will never see me at the coast on 4th of July, Memorial nor Labor Day weekends. Hell I barely like the weekdays with all the Yahoos. I actually sort of enjoyed a trip to Port O'Conner a few weeks ago now that they have a few places open to provide me food and drink after 9 pm. And not near the pressure on the bay during the week as Port A. I need to go down and do a Port A weekday trip before too long when the wind lays down a little, mon-wed are the best days in Port A right now.

Always funny to me how many "coachable moments" these matches have. My constant preaching to my mids and wings was to be on the backside of the cross. It simply provides easy opportunities simply by anticipating the easily anticipatable, a ball that skitters though the middle. And the fact that every defender, especially the keeper is making a 180 degree turn, makes a simple pass to the net often more than enough for a goal. Also the simple preferred technique of striking a cross in front of the goal with the trailing foot rather than the leading foot. You simply have a LOT less chance of whiffing in front of the goal with the trailing foot, regardless of dominant foot. It was an error i had to correct for myself as a player. I can't remember who had the whiff in front of the goal, but nearly any firm contact from the trailing foot results in a shot on the frame. (maybe Roldan?) The one thing I do like specifically about Ferriera is his sense of urgency in that he strikes the ball the first chance he gets. That one extra touch is the bane of opportunity, crack it the first chance you get inside the box, period. As usually the shot is gone with that extra adjustment touch. This is why players should devote a considerable amount of time to striking half volleys and volleys with their bodies over the ball to keep it low enough to stay on frame. it's the difference between a dangerous shot, and the controlling touch that removes the shot opportunity most of the time. The biggest flash to me in the game was when Crowell came in. It could have been the result of fresh legs, or his less than stellar prior minutes, but he came on and did what a sub up top is supposed to do, make an impact. His successful one on ones early, created some opportunity and he also took the shot at the first opportunity. Fun to see the youngsters getting some quality playing time. Jalen Neal generally played well on defense, but he was outsmarted by allowing the offensive player to turn his body because of his greater physicality and move him from between him and the goal. The foul was the right thing to do, but experience and physical maturity will only make this kid better over time. I give the game a grade of B+, mainly because I felt the intensity wane at times. Especially at the start of the second half, where if you are up by three and you match the early intensity you can usually break the morale of the team that's down simply by dashing their early hopes by matching their frenetic desperate early second half intensity trying to get back into the game.

It's not only boats now! I think that our ratio of being stopped when running up and down the channel by the game wardens is about 60%. Never had any issues except in the main channel from the jettys to Aransas Pass. They are looking very closely, enforcing having the kill switch lanyard being physically attached to the driver. It's just a new emphasis according to my Lake Patrol Sheriff buddy, saying they are specifically looking for it a lot more. The biggest change in enforcement to me now is the addition of the ATV patrolling wardens on the beach. I actually forgot last September that my license had expired, and waited until the next morning to buy a paper license rather than he instant online one. A couple hours later I was talking with the game wardens. If you don't want to buy a license, don't fish, or simply go to a state park where you do not need a license to fish. But I must say I do mind when they start poking around in all my shit without at least a cursory asking permission. But if you are fishing on the beach without a license in the area you are very likely to be asked to show your license. Tight lines!

Not a reservation but you can put you name on the wait list at Virginia's on Yelp, to help cut the wait time. Black Marlin also has reservations, and I have had some pretty darn good food there the few times we have gone in. But the get your name on the list at La Playa is always a good suggestion. One thing we have noticed about La Playa is that if you are a fair way back on the list a LOT of folks do not show back up if they are not in the first wave of seating. So sometimes it looks like no hope for hours, and we go by at 6:15 to find we are a lot closer than we thought to being seated.

Honestly I don't like race based admissions, but only because I view poverty to be the criteria that is a better gauge of need. This does not mean there is not institutional racism, and that this is not perhaps most evident in the public school systems of our nation. It is silly to believe that kids from wealthy families do not have a clear advantage over their less wealthy peers. So the playing field is tilted in favor of the wealthy to start with. And in the U.S. wealthy more often than not means white, so there's that. What I am most interested to see if the Supreme court in the future decides that "Legacy admissions" are not a clear violation of the equal protection clause they use to justify this decision? Legacy admissions more than any other type of admission tips the scales away from equity. And you have dumbasses with wealth displacing more meritoriously qualified applicants, because mommy or daddy's parents were legacies of legacies...

The NW Florida coast rip tides are no joke, the much steeper beach break causes a massive amount of energy as the waves wash back. And the rip gaps in the sandbars is also steeper and deeper relative to what you will find nearly anywhere else. Blame the super fine white sand that makes it so beautiful. The other bad thing that tourists do is dive into the waves without knowing that they are breaking in about 6 inches. A few people get paralyzed every year along the panhandles white beaches. They dive straight into the side of the first sandbar and break their necks. I think the count is up to 9 drowings in the last 10 days or something terrible like that. I am a super strong swimmer and they forced me out of the water unless I had a boogie board and fins a couple years ago. But I think it was a single red flag not a double, but super hairy if you were not a super strong swimmer that understands you might get pushed out 100 yards offshore in a matter of 30 seconds. Sad for him and his family.

If you are going to go have fun with it, bring a can of soup to sling on the folks around you...

You are gonna have a lot of fun this year on the 40 acres young man! You are Pulling the reverse Dorothy! Following the yellow brick road the hell out of Kansas... to Civilization and unending opportunity!

This season for the first time in a very, very long time I think we are at the point where we truly have a serviceable two deep on the OL. Since what the mid 2000's? For you old farts, I remember way, back when in a land far, far away, when Nebraska as a dominant football force, and the foundation? A bunch of 4th and 5th year senior linemen. Imagine if we could eventually load up on the depth so much that a true freshman playing becomes the exception, rather than the necessity it has been for nearly two decades. Now Sark has us being mentioned among the best OL's in the country. Without a great OL, it doesn't matter how great the plays are you create, because you cannot effectively stop the other teams disruption. Now we are sort of like are Arby's advertisement, where we know who has the beef, and it's Texas, thank the Lord!

I usually drive down to Entrance 2 when I am in Port A just to get at least some space. You can make a reservation at Rock N Rolls Sushi assuming you are in North Padre,Hope they are still decent. I liked them because I could roll in after fishing at 5 till 10 pm and they would happily serve me. But they can get slammed. The pressure on any of the restaurants on the summer weekends is tough. But if you are going to go hop over the causeway, then my first stop is usually Black Diamond Oyster Bar on Naval Air Station Drive which is first exit off the causeway. Ironically don't love their oysters, but some of the best food around down there. Damn... My go to was Blackened Fish Sandwich, substituting a salad with 1000 island for fries. Sunday evenings usually had music outside, which opened up the inside tables in the A/C. I wasn't a huge fan of scuttlebutts, but everyone could find something to be happy with there.

I think we have a winner for The Florida game cookoff! I used to like to try and cook whatever the other team's mascot is. Buffalo Burgers for Colorado oh so long ago was fun, but a baby gator is probably pretty good if done right. And would be fun for gameday! Thanks for the link on this purchase.

I think for Aggies, balding and hat wearing are sort of like the old argument about what came first? The chicken or the Egg? So do all Aggies wear hats because they are bald, or are most Aggies bald because of the constriction and rubbing of wearing hats? Which came first the hat or the bald head? Or is it the balding head then the hat? But was to what Lucci in particular is hiding under that hat? I believe the absolutely correct answer is a "dick head" but a bald dick head would be more visually symbolic!

The 3 Trillion was the giveaways to millionaires in the Tax and Jobs Act long before Covid's botched Trump response to the pandemic. Funny thing about the jobs part (which no Republican knows despite the facts) is that the Trump economy SUBTRACTED ~ 500,000 jobs a year, compared to the vibrant Obama/Biden economy Trump inherited. So for Trumpers... That PLUS 3,000,000,000 to the debt, and MINUS just under 1,500,000 fewer jobs than Obama, BEFORE covid. Great deal for billionaires and millionaires, at only the cost of $2000 per job lost... "best economy ever!" Don't worry, Republicans do math the same way they do Truth, dishonestly.

Welcome aboard! Gonna be a fun ride!

I guess the GOP truly has a lot of polling data telling it to act now while the can. Demographics and particularly younger voters lack of interest in the GOP means the GOP sees what's coming. Of course the irony is- When the fucking engine that has been driving Central Texas is the ultimate target of restricting the actual engine. It's not Llano, or Kerrville, or Lubbock leading the boom. It's Austin, and all the bedroom tick communities that have prospered as lower cost mechanisms to be close enough to Austin to take advantage of the strongest economic engine in the state. So... GOP logic is... let's fuck with the engine and say we are fixing it! Tesla didn't come to Texas, it came to Austin for example. IF Abbott really wanted to reduce burdens to business he should allow Tesla to sell cars directly to consumers in Texas to save the citizens money. But as we all know, it's never about the truth, now all Republican bills are about lies from what I have seen. Of course I could be wrong and maybe there is some insignificant legislation that actually moves the state forward.

Now it's no surprise to anyone that the Republicans have shown themselves to have no principles at all beyond grab all the power you can, wherever you can. But I find it humerous (and sad) that Texas Republicans now view only the big brother State as capable of managing local issues related to... Agriculture, Business and Commerce, Finance, Insurance, Labor, Natural Resources, Occupations, and Property. Basically stripping local control of... well everything that might need to be regulated locally. Anyhow just another in a long line of evidence proving that the GOP is a party that has absolutely founded it's power on a stack of lies. Usurping local control is to be as expected as horrific outcomes for the Children Greg Abbott is charged with taking care of in the Foster system here in Texas. To pretend that Abbott loves children is exactly as accurate as Abbott's desire for local control closer to "the people." It's all big government overlording, for the GOP, and lies to the contrary. Abbott signs bill to reign in Local Control.

Yeah, Clark's is where I think I will land. My biggest gripe was no fucking food if we did well and had a lot of fish to clean, with the whole town shutting down at 9 pm. It's been like 4 years, and apparently there are some breaths of life coming into Port O'Conner. Thanks for the response fattie!

While I am an old mofo, I think probably the most important question for ya'll younger folks is there an SEC equivalent for "raider Rash?" Maybe Vandy Vage? or Old Miss Drips? or Gator Rash? Bulldog Blister Balls? Louisiana Swamp Crotch? Tennessee Tomato Testes? Tiger Scratch? (LSU gets two mentions, because Low SAT University.) I bet we could get one of those names into Wikipedia...

Anyone have any familiarity with RV parks in Port O'Conner? Thinking of going down there with a buddy to fish and I refuse to spend another night in the grossly overpriced and sort of disgusting Inn at Clarks, so I am considering bringing my trailer down there instead. SO any suggestions would be appreciated. Also are there any daily boat slip rentals on Port O'conner? I have not been down there in nearly 4 years, but it appears that some civilization has crept in with some new restaurants. Before if we caught fish and got them cleaned every place was closed by 9 pm during the week.