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Fishing's Greatest Misadventures
by Tyler McMahon

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Kindle Edition published 2008-11-03
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Fishing’s Greatest Misadventures presents twenty-six true stories which cover the spectrum from terrifying to comical to downright bizarre. In these pages everyday fishermen, pros, and journalists tell their stories of freak accidents, fishy attacks, pranks, idiotic decisions, eerie or unexplained incidents, and other jaw dropping, adrenalin-pumping calamities. The stories bring to life the strange possibilities that await us once we cast our lines into known and unknown waters.

Here are some of the characters you'll meet inside these pages:

* A sport fisherman who gets taken on harrowing underwater ride by an angry white shark.
* An adventure angler whose boat is over turned by a 200 lb Amazon-river catfish.
* A group of ice fishermen who lose their cabin, gear and pride to a single pike.
* A teenager who sabotages a fish farm and frees 300,000 salmon.
* A charter boat operator who gets speared thro...
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« Reply #25 on: February 08, 2009, 10:33:44 PM »

^ It sounds to me like you are a wonderful daughter. Good for you, that does not sound easy.

I am off to get some sleep. See you tomorrow morning!
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« Reply #26 on: February 09, 2009, 02:07:28 AM »

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« Reply #27 on: February 09, 2009, 02:22:46 AM »

Drat  I woke up 5 hours too early!   Stupid old bladder,
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« Reply #28 on: February 09, 2009, 05:17:59 AM »

Woke up at 7:30 like a bird waiting for a crumb...and I'm one of the ones happy w/ K.1.  You would think that they are announcing a REAL fix for the economy.
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« Reply #29 on: February 09, 2009, 05:28:20 AM »

Woke up at 7:30 like a bird waiting for a crumb...and I'm one of the ones happy w/ K.1.  You would think that they are announcing a REAL fix for the economy.
Obama already has announced the fix though, remember? Everyones going to become construction workers and build highways or become smoking cessation teachers!!
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« Reply #30 on: February 09, 2009, 06:05:34 AM »

Where can I watch the press conference?
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« Reply #31 on: February 09, 2009, 06:13:53 AM »

No ones been able to find anywhere that its being televised.
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« Reply #32 on: February 09, 2009, 06:18:46 AM »

No ones been able to find anywhere that its being televised.


Thanks Benjamin I was thinking I had missed something and was the only one who did not know where to watch the press conference.
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« Reply #33 on: February 09, 2009, 06:25:07 AM »

Hugh Jackman invited me for a textile discussion but I asked if we could postpone til Tuesday.  Wink

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Now really, Leslie, who's going to believe that you'd turn down Hugh Jackman?

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« Reply #34 on: February 09, 2009, 06:39:00 AM »

Now really, Leslie, who's going to believe that you'd turn down Hugh Jackman?

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Maybe on the news conference, Hugh Jackman will be discussing his new textile book which is only available on the Kindle.
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« Reply #35 on: February 09, 2009, 06:44:52 AM »

17 more minutes.  I feel like I'm in the labor and delivery room at the Women and Infants Hospital...lol.
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« Reply #36 on: February 09, 2009, 06:46:48 AM »

I'm here biting my nails.  I love my Kindle.  Can this news change that?
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« Reply #37 on: February 09, 2009, 06:47:31 AM »

I'm here biting my nails.  I love my Kindle.  Can this news change that?

No
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« Reply #38 on: February 09, 2009, 06:48:31 AM »

Great,  Thank You.
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« Reply #39 on: February 09, 2009, 06:49:21 AM »

Where can I watch the press conference?

The Kindle channel on Direct TV.   Cheesy

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« Reply #40 on: February 09, 2009, 06:49:59 AM »

http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/02/09/live-at-the-amazon-kindle-event/

They are blogging live at crunch gear.
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« Reply #41 on: February 09, 2009, 06:52:47 AM »

Eight more minutes! The wait is almost over!
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« Reply #42 on: February 09, 2009, 06:53:03 AM »

Yes, the live-bloggers have been allowed in and are seated...
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« Reply #43 on: February 09, 2009, 06:53:54 AM »

In addition to posting as replies in this thread, I'm going to keep a running scorecard, summarizing the press conference, in the original post of this thread. 
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« Reply #44 on: February 09, 2009, 06:54:09 AM »

Harvey for President!!
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« Reply #45 on: February 09, 2009, 06:55:20 AM »

Gotta love that Crunch Gears clock is an hour fast.
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« Reply #46 on: February 09, 2009, 06:55:47 AM »

I second the nomination!
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« Reply #47 on: February 09, 2009, 06:56:13 AM »

Is there a site where we can actually listen to the press conf?
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« Reply #48 on: February 09, 2009, 06:56:19 AM »

Ok, finally ready, I have half the wbsites on the internet opened for this......
I'll post the minute I recieve e-mail or any live sign of Amazon on the subject...
I'm VERY nervous....don't know why.... Shocked

In minus 5 minutes....
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« Reply #49 on: February 09, 2009, 06:56:33 AM »

I can't believe what geeks we all are!  Grin
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