A Prayer For The New Year

Lord keep me in your Groove of Grace.

The chosen path for me.

Your Will I daily will embrace

Until Eternity

Apollo 8: 40 years ago on Christmas Eve

http://lloydpulley.com/2008/12/26/40-years-ago-christmas-night--live-reading-of-genesis-by-the-apollo-8-crew/trackback.aspx

http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/msfn_missions/Apollo_8_mission/video_flash_version.html

Are You Asleep?

From Casting Crowns "While You Were Sleeping":

Oh little town of Bethlehem
Looks like another silent night
Above your deep and dreamless sleep
A giant star lights up the sky
And while you're lying in the dark
There shines an everlasting light
For the King has left His throne
And is sleeping in a manger tonight

Oh Bethlehem, what you have missed while you were sleeping
For God became a man
And stepped into your world today
Oh Bethlehem, you will go down in history
As a city with no room for its King
While you were sleeping
While you were sleeping

Oh little town of Jerusalem
Looks like another silent night
The Father gave His only Son
The Way, the Truth, the Life had came
But there was no room for Him in the world He came to save

Jerusalem, what you have missed while you were sleeping
The Savior of the world is dying on your cross today
Jerusalem, you will go down in history
As a city with no room for its King
While you were sleeping
While you were sleeping

United States of America
Looks like another silent night
As we're sung to sleep by philosophies
That save the trees and kill the children
And while we're lying in the dark
There's a shout heard 'cross the eastern sky
For the Bridegroom has returned
And has carried His bride away in the night

America, what will we miss while we are sleeping
Will Jesus come again
And leave us slumbering where we lay
America, will we go down in history
As a nation with no room for its King
Will we be sleeping
Will we be sleeping

Thinking of Warmer Weather - SPECS

Not weakfish, but Specs, aka Speckled Trout:

Speckled Trout - Cynoscion nebulosus















not the same as Gray Trout, Weakfish - Cynoscion regalis /

see http://www.yankee3.com/Fish/Weakfish.html








The Fishery for Specs is an early morning, really early before sun up, and evening bite, once you start to see boat traffic you might as well pack it in..they are caught during every tide cycle, but either side of the tide when the water movement slows,.before and after the slacktide is probably the best, The larger fish aren't found in big numbers location is the key to the larger fish, small deep holes in the bay surrounded by flats hold the big fish.
Deep undercut sod banks and the mouths of tidal creeks away from main channels are also killer spots to check out, The school size fish can be found in greater numbers usually feeding right on the flats they can be chummed up w/ grass shrimp . you'll see them spray the rainbait and shrimp on the surface occasionally on the shallower flats during calm early morning tides , but most fish are mid water column as the sunrises. They are also caught while fishing for striped bass, but they are always a nice surprise.

Mouths of  small creeks that have a sandy bottom leading into grass is best locations to find them well inside the inlets.\
Around the inlets ,hard running water over sand on outgoing tide usually is best.
They don't need a lot of water,I've caught them in 1ft on small bucktails
In Southern NJ they don't usually hit surface plugs, but they will down in Florida.
In NJ, they usually begin showing up early Sept and can be caught into late Nov

Southern end of Cape May County is little more productive than northern end most years
but 3 years ago some came in mid-August in the 14-19" than they disappeared and
another school showed up in late October which were in 19-26"