Friday, September 11, 2009

It All Started with a Tweet: Southbound Food on 1560 AM The Game -Kick Ass Radio That Tastes Great



I had only been on Twitter about a month when I received a DM (that’s Twitter-speak for a Direct Message) from a guy named Lance Zierlein. (He wanted to do a Stage in the kitchen at REEF (a Stage is when you spend time –unpaid -- in another chef’s kitchen to learn as much as you can about different cooking styles and operations). I’m a big believer in the Stage method of learning and I still do it whenever I get the chance.




At the time, it didn’t click who this guy was but once we started talking, I caught on. Lance, along with his co-host John Granato, has the most popular AM drive- time sports talk show in Houston on 1560 AM, a locally-owned and operated station. (Lance is also a very popular blogger with The Z Report, for the Houston Chronicle. I didn’t even know that independently-owned stations existed in the present day and age of the monster conglomerates. After Lance made it through a busy Friday night service, we set a date for me to come on his show as a judge for the “Late Night Drunken Munchie Throwdown.” My stomach still hasn’t forgiven me for their listener, P.D., who threw down the Ramen, Wolf Chili, Ro-tel, Hot Dog, Cheese, Red Onion and Black Olive gut bomb we experienced. It was the best time I’ve ever had on a radio show -- not a whole lot of structure but plenty of bullshit, right up my alley. Soon after the show aired, comments started streaming in and we both realized that there might be an audience for a relaxed, fun and informative food talk show. And Southbound Food was born.












I feel very fortunate to be a part of such a Bad Ass radio station, and I can’t say enough about the whole 1560 AM The Game crew; they have THE setup that kind of reminds me of the early days of Sports Center (with Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick) when the talent was so damn strong and funny. I recently attended the station’s Mug Awards (kind of like the ESPY awards) where they had real storm troopers, Boba Fett and Darth Vader walking around, Lance did his Rapping Dad routine and Ken Hoffman actually boxed a girl. I laughed out loud the entire time.










The whole vibe of the station is relaxed and Southbound Food is shaping up to be a freak show hybrid of Julia Child and Howard Stern, serving up food and drink with a hefty side of bullshit. Hosted by me and Lance, along with Jenny Wang (from www.imneverfull.com and Houston Chowhounds) and Danny Vara and Franky “The Bull” Bullington (from 1560 The Game), Southbound Food is turning out to be a raucously funny, no-holds-barred roller coaster ride where we cover current events in the Houston food scene, discuss what foodies are talking about (like Top Chef episodes) and bring in leading chefs and restaurateurs as guests (and you should hear what’s being said when we’re NOT talking about food!).


Unlike other talk shows out there, this one’s got a life of its own, walking a straight subject line one minute and careening off into the unbelievable-but-true stories of our lives on the front lines of the cooking world the next.

So far, our guest list has been great with the likes of: Jonathan Jones (Executive Chef, Beaver’s), Randy Evans (former chef from Brennan’s and currently with Haven), Michael Housewright (Block 7 Wine Company), superstar winemaker Heidi Barrett of La Sirena Wines, Gail Simmons from Top Chef, Mike Dei Maggi, Cody Vasek, Robert Hall III, Chris Shepard, and seafood expert Mark Musatto from Airline seafood.


Check out this week’s show a day early on 1560 AM’s podcast site with special guests Tony Vallone, The Fearless Critic Robin Goldstein and featuring a special parody segment where we deliver a healthy right cross to the competition.

Follow Southbound Food on Twitter @SouthboundFood

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Gps Technology And Fishing


What fisherman type do you? Do you satisfied out and fall off your fishing line and be totally unconcerned about if you catch something or not? Do time you spent with your family, friends or also by yourself enjoy you nature what journey is actually all about? If you doing not caught anything that your fine is ever possible stop at fish shop in journey, but it would be nice if you catch something.

Or do you feel such as your journey is live ruined because you doing not caught anything, and back disappointed. Or are fishing how you make your life, whether by catch fish or take customers out to fish? If you take a customer out of doing a few deep-sea fishing, it will have been nicer to bring home a happy customer with his catch, may be possible a repeat customer or told his friends about how great his journey bring your extra work.

A disappointed customer will think twice about using your services again and when planning his next trip, might be going to other place and may be steer potentially become far other customers than you. How if there is a way to make sure you go where fish is? How if there is one way to ensure you will catch your limit, be able to ensure that your customers will return happy and raving about your great service.

With GPS technology it now possible to go where fish is and to remember place so that you can relocate it. Another good thing on use one GPS whereas in water were security. You can enter place where you put your boat is inside memory deep water GPS unit you. Most GPS 's units hold at least 500 landmarks or area where you want chance. If you running to you fog or bad weather should can find you route back.

Also if you distance longer than expected you can find you route back in night. If you running to an emergency whereas in water, you can call a person and let they know your coordinates, and then they could find you. Should a person fell outboard a GPS unit can identify real space where the incident happened and kru kru help saviour with their rescue. This allow you to enjoy your day and not worry about reverted land safely.

GPS chart 's a mastermind with map splinter can give you your position relative for soil characteristics, water depths, and entry point port. Use one GPS by one water depths may authorize you to follow policy looking for fish. It may even to leave other person know about one which place you found by using GPS accords.

Often people like to fish around one damage, by one GPS unit you can enter location ruins to can find they easily. Interest knowing where a fault are only part scenario, you must know how in its wreckage is and if there is any your areas must to avoid. Often a trip catch fish start out before day, by one GPS you can identify where you go.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

PLAY FISH


When sense a fish the hook, it struggles get free. This may involve jump, doing one long run, swimming back against line or swimming around barriers. Each fish species fight differently.

Fish hooks shallow waters is more likely to jump and behave more frantically than those hook deep water. Deep water fish often find policy.

It may be to small fish land many only by roll they in. They will fight, but they shaky as line and rod. Use much lighter pulley and you can obtain competition a few of smallest fish in the lake.

If you catch and release fishing, do not fight too long or the fish will die of exhausted before or after you free it.

Bigger fish Fight

Provide Drag

If a fish doing one contest it, do not be alarmed. And do not try to reeled in while the fish is swimming away of your line. Relax and let drag and rod do the job. After you had provided hook, provide your drag. If you use 12 test pound, you should use about 4 pound drag. New only keeping rod at about a 45 angle degree by way of something its water is straight in fish.

When the fish delay and stop take more line, time-it go for work. Best technique for catch is to gently attract rod up and when spindle dropping as you reduce it, use one pumping motion. Do it in small, flat blow from sharp spread large because it would help maintain both tight line and the fish calmer.

If the fish carry out again, let it goes and you will may see this run is shorter and slower. But do not let fish rest. If you never can hear your drag work, you should roll.

Do not be alarmed. Even if you get close fish boat, does not mean it completed fight. If this change and carry out, let it goes. Your line is rather short at the moment, and action pump and spindle could break it.

Monday, September 7, 2009

Fishing rods - 10 Tips To Choose Right


Fishing rods may be not look become so complicated or difficult to buy to unaccustomed. However, get it wrong could be one expensive mistake.

Know what you need to know so that you can choose fishing rod right.

1. Determine what you will become angling for. If this rod is being your major rod, you may know that you will become fishing for trout or salmon, or that it may be have to be multipurpose. It may be your first fishing rod, and you do not really know what you will become angling for. You may want a rod to confine car so that you always prepared for go fishing.

2. How many can you use your fishing rod? If this holiday a rod, it may just serves to two more weeks a year, or alternatively, it can be used several times a week, weekly.

3. Knowing where you will fish could make one difference too. If you is will fish at sea, your fishing rod conditions no would be similar compared by fishing in a lake.

4. Your rod size would be vital, because you have to be able to handle it. If this too long or too short, when you will not feel comfortable with it, thus it would not be familiarise, mean that it a money wastage.

5. You may like lightweight a rod if you are to stand in a river all day, or you may want firmer a rod his artificial if you are to stay by a lake for one few hours.

6. Comfort would be vital, and how the fishing rod fit your hand and how it feel is important. Even if it a implicit agreement, you will not use it if this not comfortable to use.

7. You might already have one brand preference, perhaps based on your live fishing equipment, or those brands that your friends and anglers people use. Otherwise, why not try as numerous rods and rail as you can, so that you can doing one better decision?

8. Make sure your fishing rod choose is easy used. You probably good put it together in a hot shop, but what about when your hand is cold and wet, after a long day is spent fishing? Do honest fishing rod to maintain? Do it enters his own case? Do it split into parts for storage?

9. You may need to allocate for one new reel, or line too. May be this fishing rod is to a different kind fishing, or you use one different brands for the first time .

10. You would actually be spoilt for choice, when it aware buy one angle new. You may be want to buy on-line, and save most money. However, you will not be able try rod, and would not be have tried whoever alternatives whether. You may want to access a specific fishing shop, and have the inside track their shares and experience. You would be able try many rods, and see are those superlative a for you.

Now you know what find, not right time you buy a fishing rod new?

Two thirsty wheel ring cause

1. Thirsty in type ring wheeled can be attributed several major factors namely;

a) Wheel does not work or rotating by discontinued caused rust etc. When it does not work, past rope on top will rub continuously. This friction then generate heat and indirectly will be warming wheel and rope. Hot rope will alter and easy scratched and this rope that scratch finally also give effect on ring wheel. If something rough through surface smooth, in the course of time this surface also receive impact coarsening or even more accurate thirsty. Problem will be more pronounced if embroidered string in use as main line. This type rope quicker erode compared catgut.

b) Wheel ring is made from softer material and absorptive heat. As modern ring is made from composite ceramic smooth and heat tolerant, steel type wheel also are otherwise. When rope movement that go through wheel repeatedly, in the course of time wheel would be undermined little by little. This problem may be can be prevented if wheel revolves with effective when invariably past rope above its. Hereby it denies friction between two material and reduce heat generation.

Can we continue embroidered string with catgut perambut use swivel?

2. Continue embroidered string with perambut use swivel nothing obstacle and permitted provided. If set angle used is to activity fishing policy such as estuary, river, pool and sea. Use swivel is necessary because it function as tool reduce twisted rope. I also used this concept to fish estuary or whatever activity fishing normal. However it less suitable for technique jigging (mengunjum), casting (polish) or popping or whatever activity which gives pouncing rudely. Use perambut shock must connected directly with embroidered string as technique reduce tension or extreme pressure sudden on embroidered string.

Deep Sea Fishing


For a lot of people, mysterious is something deep sea fishing and exotic. Something rich sportsman doing of deck for their yacht. But, in fact, unique sports can be enjoyed by just of anyone.

When you go deep-sea fishing, or sports fishing, goal is to catch biggest fish may be. But you cannot do this only wherever. You have to go out for open ocean, where you most likely to seek out large sea fish similar swordfish, tuna and shark. And, but you having your boat is own, this will usually require you to charter a boat to take you far from land to teach waters waters fishery.

But this not as hard as it may be sounding. New only go to any near, coastal town. More likely of not, you will find a charter service which specialises take same people such as you out of deep-sea fishing delegation. And these services may be cost many less than you would think.

For some people, this may look like many troubles to go for in order to catch a fish. But anyone who have made it will tell you it like no they have been ever experienced before. There no quite like adrenalin sound of wind link one of the large fish. Struggle to reel it in is one exhilarating challenge. And the victory sense and your achievement feel when fish was caught is indescribable.

And the impressive thing are those these feelings never fade. You will feel same enthusiasm catch you fish fiftieth as you doing catch you first. Which is probably why, after go away playing fishing for the first time, many people are hooked.

And what do you do once you have made catch? Good, first, you take a picture beside your prize, so you will be permanently have one memory exciting time. Then, if your really like fish, you can take your catch house, and had enough to feed your area for one week or two. However, enthusiasts fishing many sea let fish go. For them, their enthusiasm felt when they catch fish that was reward enough.

Do you want a fun and unique experience? An experience namely as exciting as it are challenging? Then you should definitely give deep-sea fishing an attempt.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

The Clinch Knot



The diagram below shows what the knot should look like.More Fishing Video http://catchfish-fishing-video.blogspot.com/

Egg Loop Knot



This diagram below shows a little other way to tie loop egg but it is almost same as video above and will help you get a better idea how tie a loop knot egg. More Fishing Tip Video http://catchfish-fishing-video.blogspot.com/