A family affair with fishing
Doug and Jennifer Jones believe in spending time and doing things with their children, especially when the activities are outdoors.
For the Keller family's leisure time, they are often swimming, fishing, hunting or enjoying a variety of other outdoor adventures.
Four days ago, the activity of the day was fishing -- and the first fishing trip on a boat for 6-year-old twins Hanna and Hunter and 3-year-old Hailey.
"This is the first time they ever have been striped bass fishing and the first time they have been in a boat," Doug Jones said. "I started them off fishing...when Hunter and Hanna were 3 years old and Hailey was 1 and a half by taking them trout fishing in the Bear Creek pond in Keller. We also go trout fishing to Red River, N.M., every year." [Read full article]
Blaze sends driver diving for his life
In a medical sense, Kevin Aylesworth died twice in September -- once in the water and once in the hospital -- but was revived both times after an accident in San Diego in his final race in an unlimited lights hydroplane.
On Sunday, Aylesworth went diving for his life at the end of Heat 2B of the Chevrolet Cup at Seafair after his unlimited hydroplane caught on fire rounding the last turn on the Lake Washington course.
The U-21 The Plumbing Joint, a hull that Aylesworth and business partner Jeffrey Michael Johnson purchased from driver Ken Muscatel, had fuel issues last weekend racing in the Tri-Cities. The team repaired the problem with revisions to the fuel system. [Read full article]
Dogs, charter boat fishing not a good mix
Doggie day spas in Cabo San Lucas, pet psychic readings, alligator and lizard-skin dog collars -- all serving as proof that some people will do anything for their dog.
The American Humane Society reports that more than 40 million American households have at least one dog and 84 percent of all dogowning Americans consider the canine to be a "part of the family." For a lot of families, that means tagging along on vacation.
With so much of the Destin fishing fleet's business coming from anglers visiting from out of town, it begs the question: Do people want to take their dogs fishing?
Cathy Kennedy, who books trips for the charters docked at the Destin Fishing Fleet Marina, said the booth occasionally gets questions from customers wanting to take their dogs along on their fishing trips into the Gulf.
Kennedy said the general policy with the captains is that dogs should stay home.
The prevalence of hooks and other sharp objects on the boat used to catch fish could injure a dog, not to mention the risk posed by a large, thrashing fish just pulled from the Gulf.
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