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Great Shakes- An Oasis for Dessert in the Desert
Great Shakes Every year, my in laws rent a couple of villas at one of the Westin Resorts in the Palm Springs Area. Multiple units, multiple families. Its a blast! One thing my wife and I like to do is hit our favorite little snack stop, Great Shakes. Located in the heart of Palm Springs on Palm Canyon Drive, Great Shakes is a must do stop when in the area. There are plenty of splurge-worthy ice cream stops in Palm Springs, but no other is as splurge-worthy as Great Shakes. Since 2013 when it opened, this has been a must stop of ours year after year. And this year, it…
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New TCS Rods by Okuma- First Look
The newly redesigned TCS - Tournament Concept Series by Okuma are a great feeling, durable and lightweight bass rod for every fisherman.
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Nomad Travel Surf Rods by Okuma- In-Depth Look
Travel Okuma has really become well know in the travel fishing community. With a variety of multi-piece break down travel rods to choose from, they have filled this niche market nicely. With travel rods designed for Swimbaits, Salmon Trolling, Bass Fishing, Trout Fishing and now Surf Fishing, Okuma has you covered. The new Okuma Nomad Travel Surf Rods take you to the edge of the surf line for long distance casting. Nomad Travel Surf Rods A couple of seasons ago, Okuma introduced their Nomad Travel Surf Rods. These are all four piece, breakdown surf fishing rods that come in a convenient hard travel case. There are currently three models in…
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Holiday Fishing Gift Guide For The Fisherman In Your Life – 2018
Holiday Fishing Gift Guide – 2018 With the holidays fast approaching, gift buying usually starts to creep into everyone’s mind sooner or later. If there is a special fisherman or fisherlady in your life, it may seem like it, but they really aren’t that hard to buy for. Usually anything used for, about, in or around fishing should do. I’m going to try to help you out with the top new fishing and fishing related products from ICAST 2018. These are all of the products that won their Best Of category at this years show. I’ll try to keep it as organized as possible, but here are all of the…
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Smoking The Perfect Tri Tip – Easy Recipe
Smoking The Perfect Tri Tip There is nothing like biting into a perfectly cooked, juicy, smoked slice of Tri Tip. I’m getting hungry just thinking about it. The thought of the flavors as they run through my head get me excited. And now with the ease and affordability of electric smokers, this can be accomplished by anyone. Ingredients Tri Tip – I like a 2-3lb piece of meat with some fat cap on one side Rub – Enough for a good rubdown and complete cover of the Tri Tip Kosher Salt – A few Tablespoons should do. Also enough to cover the Tri Tip Smoker – This recipe calls for…
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What Inspires You Video Contest by Okuma
What Inspires You Video Contest Okuma ran a really cool video contest this year and we asked the question, What Inspires You? With that, we had a lot of entries. We asked for a 3 minute or less videos telling us what inspires you about fishing. The winner of the contest was set to receive an all expense paid trip to SoCal to fish with Team Okuma for one day and another day fishing with the TV show Stoked On Fishing. Second place was a $1,000 Okuma gift card and third was a $500 Okuma gift card. Not bad at all! The Videos As I mentioned, we had a lot…
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What To Do With This Collar? – Quick Recipe
What To Do With This Collar? Over the past several seasons, the sport boats have been including the collar of your fish when they clean your catch. Most folks that I know simply discard this delectable part of the fish as they just don’t know what to do with it. The collar contains some of the most delicious, tender portions of meat that you will find on the fish. It definitely isn’t the most pretty or appealing part, but with some quick fixing, it is some of the best. For the full story on where these particular yellowfin came from, check out the full report here. Preparing The Collar For…
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Limit Style Yellowfin Tuna Fishing
Annual Okuma Fall Charter Aboard Tribute Sportfishing With the reports of limit style yellowfin tuna fishing coming in recently, we had our charter timed just right. The annual Okuma Fall Charter aboard Tribute Sportfishing out of Seaforth Landing has been a tradition over the past couple of years. The Plan Everyone had high hopes of limit style yellowfin tuna fishing as we headed down to Seaforth Landing in San Diego. The fish had been reasonably close to home and it had been pretty wide open. The fish we were chasing were not big like the recent bluefin that we have been catching, but more fun sized in the 10-30lb class.…
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Okuma Nomad Xpress Swimbait Travel Rod – First Look
Okuma Nomad Xpress Swimbait Travel Rod I finally had the opportunity to get my hands on one of the new Nomad Xpress Swimbait Travel Rods. These rods are pretty darn cool. They are all 4pc rods that are built like a full 1pc rod and packed into a convenient travel case. Okuma has a wide variety of travel rods in their lineup. SST, Citrix, Voyager, Nomad and Nomad Xpress. These cover everything from long casting surf, big fish boat rods as well as compact, light action trout rods and combos to fly rods. The rod I am looking at today is the Nomad Xpress Swimbait Travel Rod. The Rod As…
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Walleye Jigging on the Columbia River
Fish Camp 2018 This year I had the opportunity to attend Fish Camp up on the Columbia River. Fish Camp is a media event where several media types are invited from around the country. The event takes place at Peach Beach Camp Park in Goldendale Washington along the famed Columbia River. The goal every year is to get up and spend some time with a variety of media folks and talk about and demo new products while fishing for salmon, sturgeon, bass and walleye. And its called Fish Camp for a reason. We do just that, camp. Tent and sleeping bag provided. Over the past several seasons, hover fishing for…
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