The Fishing Loft Newsletter

In This Issue... Fresh Water ExPress! - In The News What's New on the Website Featured Website Visitor Promotional Offers Fish Recipe of the Month Quote of the Month Fresh Water ExPress! Back in early December, I was contacted by a journalist from the UK by the name of Ed Baker. He was doing some research for an upcoming article he had planned to write about for handfishing for catfish. He came accross my website and read a few things about the sport of catfish noodling and told me how much he liked it. We had a nice little interview on the subject and then he launched his article for his local newspaper. Variations of the article were also released onto the internet by online news websites like the TNT Magazine, Metro, Independant Online, and News Lite, just to mention a few. Here is one of the rehashed articles that was spawned onto the Metro site. And just to quickly point out for those of you who might not know, "Cook" is not my last name. Ed used that as sort of a pen name for me. Never the less, credit was still given by way of showing a link of our website for the quotes. What's New on FishingLoft.com We just launched an entire section dedicated to fishing books and magazines. We've put in a lot of time on the research, and written a review for each book to help it become much easier for you select the ones you like. And we plan to add more reviews to the list. We've all read a fishing book or two, and even some magazines, right? Why not take a couple minutes and share a fishing book review with us. Here are a couple samples that we have received from visitors just like you... Fast Fish Recipe Cookbook Review Bass Fishing In California Book Review ...you can read my responses and give your feedback there too. Have you got your fishing calendars for 2011 yet? This bass fishing calendar is one of my favorites that can be found at Amazon. What's yours? Do you do much travelling to get to and from your favorite fishing spots? Are your fishing rods protected? Check out our reviews for these fishing rod cases. Featured Website Visitor C.B. Pritchard has been a frequent visitor to our website. He has submitted many fishing pictures and has shared quite a few cool stories of his adventures out on the water. You can see some of his stuff like this one titled Barkley Dam, KY Striper Fishing From The Rocks. Would you like to know how you can become a featured visitor too? It's easy. Simply by participating on the website. Maybe other fishermen can learn something from your contributions, regardless of how simple or little it may seem to you, it can make a huge difference to somebody else. Some things you can consider doing is to submit some of your fishing pictures, share a story, write up a quick review, use our questions and answers section to offer tips, or send in a recipe... Promotional Offers Under Armour is offering Free Shipping on orders of $75 or more with this code H7TW75. You can check out their New Arrivals to get started. Or see what they have in the Under Under Armour Fishing section. Offer expires on 2/28 and is good on standard shipping only. Fish Recipe of the Month Green Thai-Curried Salmon You can substitute the salmon with black cod, trout, striped bass, tilapia, catfish, pike or a firm-textered fish of your choice. 4 cloves garlic 2 tablespoons sliced fresh ginger 1 cup packed basil leaves, or mint leaves, or cilantro leaves 1 teaspoon ground coriander 1 teaspoon caraway seeds 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1/2 cup peanut oil 2/3 cup unsweetened coconut milk 2 tablespoons Thai fish sauce 4 (6 ounce) salmon fillets or steaks Asian chile sauce 1 lime cut into wedges Add the garlic and ginger into a food processor and process until minced. Add the basic and mince. Add the coriander, caraway, and cumin and process until incorporated. Slowly add about 3 to 4 tablespoons of oil until a paste forms. Tranfer the paste to a bowl, add the coconut milk and fish sauce, and stir well. Set the sauce aside. Working in batches or using 2 large saute pans, place the pans over medium heat. When the pans are hot, add the remaining 1/4 cup of oil. When the oil is hot, add the fish. Cook for about one minute on each side until lightly browned. Pour in the sauce. Cover the pans and turn the heat down to low. Simmer for 5 minutes, just until the fish begins to flake when prodded with a fork. Transfer the fish to dinner plates. Spoon the sauce over the top. Garnish with a few dashes of the chile sauce and serve with the lime wedges. ********** This fish recipe is not featured on our website. It is intended only for you to enjoy as a thank you for being a subscriber to our newsletter. You can visit our freshwater fish recipes section for more delicious tasting fish dish ideas. And you can also share your fish recipes while you're there. We might even feature it in one of our future issues of The Fishing Loft newsletter. Quote of the Month "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day." ~ Author Unknown You are subscribed to The Fishing Loft Newsletter. If you wish to remove yourself from this mailing, please click on the following URL... http://fishingloft.com/cgi-bin/mailout/mailmgr.cgi?us=LQ.21139347.24400837.ade5e1c7257ff2915a4c5d80af2afd1c (If the above URL is not a link, copy-and-paste the URL into your Web browser. That will confirm your removal.) To change your e-mail address, please click on the following URL... http://fishingloft.com/cgi-bin/mailout/mailmgr.cgi?ca=LQ.21139347.24400837.ade5e1c7257ff2915a4c5d80af2afd1c (If the above URL is not a link, copy-and-paste the URL into your Web browser. That will confirm your change.)

Boating Tips

By "The Bass Coach"

Roger Lee Brown

rlbrown@capital.net

Watch the Weather

I would like to give you a few tips on boating that I have had to
learn the hard way over the years. Hopefully these tips can make a
difference for you one day and not ruin a good day of bass fishing.

Tip-1

Always have either a spare battery (charged-up) or a heavy
duty set of jumper cables on board. The reason for this is because
I've been in 2, 3, and 4 day tournaments or have been with clients or
students and not running the main gas engine very much (which usually
charges the main battery) while running my livewells and electronics
all day long (which usually run off of your main battery), not
realizing this at the time I go to start my boat up and there isn't
enough juice in the battery to turn my main gas motor over to start.
Believe me! it happens to many anglers..........

Tip-2

Always let someone know where you are going and an
approximate time for your return. Situations in the past that I have
encountered were anglers that didn't know how to handle their boats in
rough water, or they broke down (stranded without communication), or
for what ever the reason didn't make it back to where they launched
out of at their designated time. Try to carry a 2-way radio, cell
phone, flares, and emergency flag in your boat and always expect the
unexpected!

Tip-3

When running up or down the water and you come to these large
25'+ boats that leave these huge wakes behind them and you want to
pass, trim your nose (or bow) downwards and slow down while turning
your boat slightly angled into the wakes. Once you get past the wakes,
"keep on truckin"'! (I mean boating)..... Oh yeah, there is one other
small little thing I need to add to this tip: KNOW YOUR SPEED LIMIT!
Most bodies of water don't have speed limits but the ones that do
watch out for the law because you will get a ticket, and that can
surely ruin your day of fishing. A good angler will always follow and
obey all Federal and State Laws and Regulations... as well as always
being courteous and thoughtful of others.

I hope this article will help not only bass anglers but all boaters!
Each year the bass boats keep getting bigger and faster and I just
hope the drivers use their good judgment and always, always, think
safety as a number one (numeral uno) priority.

If you may have any questions or comments I would love to hear from you.

Until next time, Take Care & God Bless!

"The Bass Coach"...Roger Lee Brown"