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Just pick one out and cast it! Reminds me of the band “The B-52′S”!

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UMWA ON STRIKE (9/17/89)

Exactly 29 years ago today- September 17, 1989 what would become known as one of the most organized, violent acts of civil disobedience in modern day history took place during a Pittston Coal Company Labor Union Strike. I was on-site there as a witness and to document and video events related to the Coal miner's labor union work stoppage,  or "Strike" as it's called & did so for this entire Strike which lasted for almost 10 years in Va. W.Va , AZ, and CO.. However, on this day, as it would happen-I was taken hostage by members of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), and held against my will, for over 4 days. The afternoon of 09/17/1989-a series of very loud & almost simultaneous explosions were heard in both directions from my location. It would quickly be discovered "someone" had used high explosive DET cord, dynamite & possibly C-4 type plastic explosives to "cut" down power poles & trees as well, blocking the road in both directions for miles w/military like precision. I was stationed inside the property lines of the Pittston Coal Co.'s Moss #3 Coal Preparation Plant in Carbon, Va. as a type of private photo/video "tech" hired by Pittston Coal Company. Then, less than 30 sec. after the explosions over 5000 UMWA, all clad in Camouflage- (the UMWA's "colors".), their supporters and a Preacher showed up at my designated location & 99 of the UMWA & the Preacher lined up in military parade type formation, marched onto the property, BULL HORN in hand & announced their intentions- that they were, "Stockholders of the company and would be taking over the plant to secure their investment!". "The 100" blocked any exit I had off the property, stopped at my location & told me & my partner/driver to go to the Moss #3 Main Office Complex Bldg., or "be ground up with the coal"! We went to the office. The UMWA then "occupied"-i.e. forcefully took over Pittston Coal Co.’s Moss #3 Coal Prep Plant & proceeded to crank up the plant and "run" coal for the next several days and nights. This would all take place under the orders and leadership of then UMWA Pres. Richard Trumka-now head of the AFL-CIO. After 4 days,the West Va. State Police finally made their way to the Moss #3 Coal Prep Plant w/ the assisstance of the Hwy. and Trans. Dept., several crews of firemen and a few volunteers to remove the obstacles the explosions had created en route to the plant. We were rescued in an operation by Virginia & West Va. State Police SWAT Teams, then swiftly taken off the property w/all my photo/video documentation-evidence and equipment intact. We decided not to press charges against the UMWA as I was not harmed in any way. Kinda scary, but pretty cool! Although the UMWA threatened to kill me & my partner several times I don't think they would have. (But on the other hand???) Back then I really had no opinion about Unions-it was just an "interesting profession" I had gotten myself into, & did so for over 10 years. Today, although I don't agree with all UNION policies and procedures- I think Unions are a good thing & a necessary entity to make sure hard working Americans get a fair deal to provide themselves and their loved ones w/a normal,healthy, productive life and at least a somewhat enjoyable future, especially after retirement. I'm glad I was able to be a part of this. "Many Thanks" to the UMWA, 2 Thumbs Up! Go Union!

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Took a Rapala Jointed Magnum 7″ Shad Rap, shaved off the bill- added a small buzzbait type blade/prop to the rear w/a red feathered treble. Gonna fish it like a Whopper Plopper.

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Here’s “Pete”, The Great Dane!

After my Sister & Brother in Law lost their 10 yr. old Great Dane “Willie” on July 5th. to a fatal tick borne virus, they were so happy to hear the news that Willie’s Mom had 2 puppies (1 of ea. sex) only a couple of wks. prior. They immediately “called dibs” on the Male. He was named after our Grandfather - Pete.

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Customized Heddon Baby Torpedoes - for example, I “tweeked” the prop’s tips & added better front hook & a hand tied feathered treble on the rear of the  Baby Bass (bottom lure), the other CLEAR ones I changed the hooks and added a bit of “MOJO” -the top 1 I call “Party on the Patio” & I pulled ye old “eyes on the ventral side”, the middle Torpedo got new front hook & feathered rear treble- I call it the “Gold Dust Woman” , The “stick type” lure is a Cotton Cordell “Boy Howdy” modified w/a tailspinner & better front & middle trebles. 

“Tweek” Your Lures!

I have not fished a lure “straight out of the package” in 20 years or more. It’s a confidence thing.

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“Tweek” Your Lures!

I have not fished a lure “straight out of the package” in 20 years or more. It’s a confidence thing.

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So Many T-Bend Waypoints! I’ve finally decided,4Ever Shall I Fish!

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Are you too? I mean Seeing all those other freaky things going on at the same time!? Surely when it's over you'd have to shake your head and ask yourself, "WTF just happened to me?" And-"Uhhh,is this even still planet Earth?" & "Hummm?” maybe I'm on one of Jupiter's 'unknown' moons-one we just haven't discovered yet... by tomorrow? "Naawww doogin, this is just some type of that Spacetime Continuum thingy Albert Einstein tried to figure out with mathematics alone-gave up, and decided he needed to develop a whole new kind of math to figure that wicked crap out! Especially when you consider-since any proof of an existence of a space-time-continuum differs from any other example of a true existing space-continuum in so vast of a manner that the laws regulating the behavior of objects, like “WoW Mayunn,doogin You following me here? Keep up danggit! Or else -, except Salvador Dali "style" w/ melting clocks and never ending stairways & no one can or can't be somewhere w/you -at the same time and place-see? Told you, now we could be in different time threads and all this important information will be useless information to you before you had a chance to remember it like say...by 3 weeks ago-or even before you were born for God’ sake? I digress-where was I? Ahhh, yes- literally speaking or not, just speaking via text which if you think about it in a normal Human way instead of how a dog or elephant would read into  the Ethereal world of Time and Space - Both of which were probably never really even there, where is “there” anyways?...(especially to a horse or rabbit because when they see it, taste it , run from it.. they’re really not there at all because it depends totally on the Space Time Thingy again & it’s relation to "where” is, and "when" the Horse or Rabbit happened to be somewhere at any given unit of time- thus never really being "anywhere" at all!)   I digress-Just listen to the song, will ya. Laurie Anderson’s Sharkey’s Night...cuzz He says, "ya know- I can see two shiny pictures of myself & there's one in each of your eyes."  "And, they're doing everything I do." "Every time I light a cigarette, they light up theirs." "I take a drink, & I look in and they're drinking too." "It's driving me crazy! It's driving me NUTZ!" See what I mean? No wonder David Letterman is a fan.