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Here’s what’s worth reading today, Monday, August 5, 2019:
Gordon Ramsay confesses he used to poach salmon on illicit fishing trips: Sweary TV superchef Gordon Ramsay has confessed he used to poach salmon as a kid on illicit fishing trips with his dad. Ramsay, 52, admitted: “I’m not going to lie, growing up fishing for salmon in Scotland, my father couldn’t afford fishing rights. “So we were poaching — we were stealing salmon. It was like playing hide and seek in the woods. “When the line went crazy, we came out, unhooked the fish, ran home, gutted it and ate salmon for the next three or four days.”
Sunfishing in the summer leaves a lasting impression: Hanging upside down over the water of the canal while held in place by heels wedged against a plank of the one-lane bridge’s railing, I could feel the relative coolness of the shaded water. It was tempting to just let go, fall the three feet or so into the tanning-stained liquid and enjoy what would be a welcome, refreshing respite from the relentless, blistering midsummer heat. But that would have ruined any chances of an even better pleasure. Wrapped around one of my hands was a length of fishing line — maybe 10 feet or so, swiped off one of my father’s reels. Tied to one end was a long-shanked bronzed hook with a small dog-ear lead weight clamped maybe 3 inches up the line, both also purloined from Dad’s tackle box.
Texas hog hunting can be done without a hunting license in September
They sold Alaskan fishing trips ‘of a lifetime.’ Now the Idaho AG is suing them. A guided salmon fishing trip in Alaska? With meals and a four-night stay in a place called the Lost Yeti Lodge? That caught Gary Pacheco’s eye at a charity auction in March 2018. Pacheco made the winning bid and got a call the next day from Access Life’s Adventures, the Treasure Valley-based business that had donated the trip, he says. “If I wanted to take a second person, it would be at a discounted price,” Pacheco, who lives in California, told the Idaho Statesman. So he paid for another person: his son. Four months later, Pacheco says, he and his son were in Alaska with no tour guide, no cabin and a text message telling him that the trip was canceled.
Former French Open winner Yannick Noah catches fish with bare hands, bites it in wild video: Yannick Noah won more than 400 matches in his professional tennis career, including the French Open in 1983, but his fishing method may be more impressive than anything he did on the court. NBA center Joakim Noah, Yannick’s son, shared a video of his father on his Instagram Stories diving into the water off of a dock and catching a fish with his bare hands. The video then shows Yannick Noah taking a bite out of the fish. “Pops a savage,” Joakim Noah wrote as a caption on his Instagram Stories.
A 3rd person was bitten by sharks in just two days off a Florida beach: Authorities say two people were bitten by sharks minutes apart at the same Florida beach on Saturday. Another was bitten by a shark Sunday. Volusia County Beach safety officials told news outlets that two bites occurred Saturday afternoon at New Smyrna Beach. Authorities say a 23-year-old woman was bitten on the left hand and wrist, which required her to receive stitches. A short time later, a 21-year-old man was bitten on his right foot and was treated at the scene. Neither bite was life-threatening. Local news outlets reported that a man in his 50s was also bitten Sunday afternoon.
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