No, I’m not talking about the IRS, but the aquatic tax man: Sharks, alligators, piranhas and other predators that take a pound of flesh from your catch or bait.
Here are a few pictures of predators taking their pound of flesh either from bait or the actual catch. All photos are mine, unless otherwise noted in the caption.
Everyone has to pay the tax man … come April 15th or whenever the tax man is hungry.
This is the first in a series of posts about international border crossings where I was detained, sometimes at gun point, even though I always had a valid passport and visas as required! East Berlin / West Berlin (1984) After the Navy, I spent nearly a year backpacking across Europe. See blog post here. During…
As regular readers of this blog know, I love fishing. I fish a lot. And fish in many places around the world. So people ask me all the time, “why don’t you own a boat?” While I can afford a boat I really don’t need or want one. Let’s break it down: Boat Pros /…
In the quiet of the high desert you can almost hear the giddy ups along the old Santa Fe Trail. the area northeast of Santa Fe is pretty much unchanged since the Santa Fe trail’s heyday during the mid 19th century. The Santa Fe Trail was the main overland trail from Missouri to Santa Fe…
This leg of the trip centers around Denali using the town of Talkeetna as my basecamp for close to a week. Denali National Park and Preserve encompasses 6 million acres of Alaska’s interior wilderness. Its centerpiece is 20,310-ft.-high Denali (fka Mount McKinley), North America’s tallest peak. Fishing Two days fishing including a fly-in trip to…
The earth’s circumference is 24,900 miles and I have been within 1,600 miles of circumnavigating the globe. that’s covering 94% of the the circumference. Let’s break this down: Each degree of latitude is approx 69 miles or 111 km. Heading east the furthest I have been is latitude 35.3, Dead Sea, Israel. Heading west the…
