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Why did Beethoven get rid of his chickens?
All they said was, “Bach, Bach, Bach”

We have Team Stopper Lures  , Bass Stoppers!
We have the Original, 2-hook weedless, and 3-hook weedless as well as the Magnum (features a larger profile then the Original stopper), Magnum 2-hook weedless, and Magnum 3-hook weedless. All in a wide variety of colors.
The Bass Stopper Lures Rigged Worm is a ready-to-fish, anise-scented worm with a hand-tied inside mono leader. The snelled hooks are evenly spaced and do not inhibit the worm’s supple, undulating action; if a fish hits, the odds are high that he’ll be solidly hooked! Great for bass and walleye. All between $2.28-$2.48!
All right here at your friendly neighborhood Pipe Rack.

 

 

We found an interesting article from Ohio Cooperative Living about Ohio’s connections to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services 150 year celebration.
In February, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USF&WS) turned 150 years old, and to celebrate its sesquicentennial, it has released a new book of its many finny accomplishments titled America’s Bountiful Waters.
A compendium of all things piscatorial, the book details the long history of fisheries management in the U.S. and highlights many of the service’s most well-known employees — including two Ohioans who are prominently featured: Bob Hines and James Henshall.
Henshall (1836–1925) is known as the father of bass fishing in the U.S. He was born in Maryland and moved to Cincinnati after graduating high school. He finished medical studies in 1859, just in time for the Civil War, and promptly joined the Union Army medical corps. One of his most memorable adventures was a run-in with Morgan’s Raiders, a Confederate cavalry unit that crossed the Ohio River and was eventually captured near West Point, in Columbiana County.
In addition to his interest in medicine, Henshall began studying fish culture after the war, and he became one of the earliest American authorities on sport fishing.
A dedicated angler all his life, he was also a prolific writer — one of the most famous fishing writers of his day — contributing articles to both Forest & Stream and The American Angler, the premier outdoor journals of the era. He is most remembered for his magnum opus, Book of the Black Bass. Published in 1881, it sold nearly half a million copies, with more still being sold today.
Hines (1912–1994) was born in Columbus and became interested in the outdoors at a young age. He made it his life’s work while hunting, fishing, and camping close to the Sandusky River near Fremont, Ohio. He was a young staff artist for the Ohio Division of Wildlife in 1948 when he was lured away to work for the USF&WS. No doubt he had gained attention of the agency by designing the art for the 1946 Federal Duck Stamp with his image of redhead ducks. Hines eventually took over leadership of that federal annual art competition, overseeing and improving the event for more than 30 years.
Hines produced untold numbers of illustrations during his time with the USF&WS, including the first four U.S. postage stamps to feature species of wildlife: wild turkey, pronghorn antelope, king salmon, and whooping crane. He was especially proud of his 1963 Ducks at a Distance, a waterfowl identification pocket guide for hunters that became a bestseller for the Department of the Interior. He is the only individual in the history of the organization to hold the title of National Wildlife Artist. Hines’ image of a cutthroat trout adorns the cover of the new book (see image above).
An interesting sidenote about Hines’ long career with the USF&WS is that his first supervisor was Rachel Carson, who would go on to pen Silent Spring in 1962. The book sounded the alarm concerning indiscriminate use of pesticides and helped kick-start the environmental movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
America’s Bountiful Waters has another Ohio connection. The book was edited by an expatriot Buckeye, Craig Springer, who now lives in New Mexico. If his name sounds familiar, that could be because he occasionally writes articles for this magazine. Along with editing, Springer also contributed several stories to America’s Bountiful Waters; one of them is a remembrance of catching his first feisty smallmouth bass from Four Mile Creek, near Oxford, which gave him something else in common with Henshall.
“James Henshall and I both caught our first smallmouth bass on an Independence Day outing in southwest Ohio,” Springer says. “They just happened more than a century apart.”
-W.H. “Chip” Gross is Ohio Cooperative Living’s outdoors editor.

 

I hate it when I’m about to hug someone really sexy and my face hits the mirror.

Gurkha Castle Hall Cigars
Earlier this year, Gurkha revamped its Castle Hall line and now it is getting a Nicaraguan version.
The company has announced Castle Hall Nicaragua, which will use an Ecuadorian habano wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder and Nicaraguan fillers. It is being produced at American Caribbean Cigars S.A.
Castle Hall Nicaragua will be offered in the same three sizes as the Castle Hall Dominican:
Gurkha Castle Hall Nicaragua Robusto (5 x 52) — $5.35 (Box of 20, $107)
Gurkha Castle Hall Nicaragua Toro (6 x 54) — $5.65 (Box of 20, $113)
Gurkha Castle Hall Nicaragua Magnum (6 x 60) — $5.95 (Box of 20, $119)
All right here at your friendly neighborhood Pipe Rack.

 

 

For the month of June, Sammy is our Fish Pics winner with the “Sammy at Springfield Lake” pic. Sammy will win a GIFT BAG ASSORTMENT OF TACKLE and bragging rights to all his fishing buddies.
Thank you to all of our June participants (We had 31 pics sent in this month!!!). We are looking forward to see what pics we will get for July. And remember…KEEP THOSE FISH PICS COMING!!!!

An MIT linguistics professor was lecturing his class the other day. “In English,” he said, “a double negative forms a positive. However, in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. But there isn’t a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express a negative.”
A voice from the back of the room said, “Yeah, right.”

Rapala 25lb Tube Scale
Material – Stainless steel
Item Weight – 0.5 Pounds
Item Dimensions LxWxH – 1.78 x 5.95 x 14 inches
Stainless steel hook, spring & handle with aluminum tube.
Pounds and kilogram marks.
Marker slide for accurate measuring.
Affordable and durable, these mechanical scales from Rapala rival all contenders. Stainless steel soft-grip handle, anodized aluminum housing, and marker slide make them easy for anyone to use.
Just $19.98 at your friendly neighborhood Pipe Rack.

 

Salema Porgy:
The Salema Porgy is a type of Bream native to the East Atlantic and parts of the Mediterranean. Recognizable by its gold-blue stripes, you’d say that this guy is as unremarkable as it gets. But you’d be wrong. Dead wrong. If there was ever an epitome for “looks can be deceiving,” this is it.
Translated from Arabic as the “fish that makes dreams”, the Salema Porgy has the ability to invoke vivid, LSD-like hallucinations. Ancient Romans knew this, and actually used the fish as a recreational drug.
Thankfully, the fact that it’s the fish’s head that causes the intoxication means that the odds of you getting poisoned are pretty low. Unless you’re doing it on purpose, that is.