All Gravy...No Meat

Dang it looked promising…I believe the gulf owes us some fish. We did our part, I’m not certain why this didn’t work, I’d hate to do the math on what the next salty fish costs by the pound. I think we are looking at some $60 whiting.

Think'in about Fish'in

The site linked below shows how to tell where the sandbars are based on where waves break. It talks about stripper fishing in Maryland but the beach in the gulf is very similar, it also has suggestions for lure locations around the breaks in sandbars and the resulting rip-tides.


How to read the breakers and find fishy spots

The Gulf of Mexico beckons

Weather permiting I intend to go to the beach this weekend and do my best to catch a fish.
Not sure yet if I am going to try to leave friday night or Saturday morning but we'll see.

Anyone else interested.

Swine clearly abducted by Aliens

It had rained at least an inch during the day friday, so I went out looking for some pork around dusk. I was walking through the forest on what is normally a well used game trail but it had been wiped smooth by the rain.

I walked slowly listening when I noticed in front of me on the trail a series of large hoof prints, pointed in front, splayed wide apart, with the dew claws pushed into the damp earth. This was a footprint of some serious bacon. I followed the tracks nearly to the edge of the woods but just before the trail broke into a pasture a tree was laid across the path. The tracks veered off the damp muddy path into short grass. There was nowhere else my quarry could have gone other than back at me, out into the pasture or down a steep embankment and into a deep ditch. I checked the ditch and found no footprints so I snuck into the pasture. I couldn't find the big pig but I did find his hoof prints in the middle where it crossed a large low spot. It was here that I found another set of pig tracks coming into the same location from the opposite direction, these weren't as big but there was clearly a large pig and several small ones.

I searched round and round the low washout but the tracks came in from both directions and never went out. Leading me to the obvious conclusion that a flying saucer must have swooped down and abducted my prospects guest of honor at a skinning party.


P.S. Saw about a dozen deer and deer tracks everywhere but the above was the only sign of pork.

For mr Z.

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Article from Todays BCS Eagle

Officials: Slaying victim killed neighbor's pigs

By HOLLY HUFFMAN
Eagle Staff Writer

Article Online

A Normangee man who was shot to death over the weekend may have been killed in revenge for apparently slaughtering his neighbor's show pigs, Leon County sheriff's officials said Monday.

Joseph Clampitte III apparently thought the pigs were wild and shot them after they rooted into his yard, Sheriff Mike Price said. Clampitte was skinning them when his neighbor, Daniel Tolopka II, arrived home and became enraged, he said.


AT A GLANCE

Joseph Clampitte III apparently slaughtered his neighbor's show pigs, thinking they were wild, after the pigs had wandered into his yard, officials said Monday.

• Daniel Tolopka II of Normangee returned home and became enraged, according to police.

• Tolopka fired at least 15 rounds from his 9 mm pistol, hitting Clampitte five times, sheriff's officials said.

• He was charged Sunday with murder.

"They weren't feral hogs," Price said, explaining that the animals had been newly acquired show pigs. "In fact, they had burrowed out of the pen from the next-door neighbor's [property]."

Tolopka, who was charged Sunday with murder, is accused of firing at least 15 rounds at Clampitte while the two were in Clampitte's back yard off County Road 456. Preliminary autopsy results released Monday show Clampitte was shot five times - two bullets grazed his back and stomach while three others struck him in the calf, forearm and back of the head.

It was the shot to Clampitte's head that caused his death, the autopsy states.

Investigators found a trail of 9 mm shell casings extending from the body to the direction of Tolopka's home, meaning he likely fired as he advanced toward his neighbor, Price said.

Tolopka told authorities he had three 9 mm pistols. He turned over two but claimed he had lost the third in the woods behind his home, according to an officer's sworn statement. Investigators searching Tolopka's home found the missing pistol hidden in a stove, the court document states.

Also found in Tolopka's home were numerous live rounds that matched the spent 9 mm casings located at the slaying scene, according to the affidavit.

Sheriff's officials said they learned of the incident just after noon Saturday when Tolopka, 34, called to report a shooting at his 50-year-old neighbor's home. Clampitte had been unarmed, but he did have two skinning knives covered in pig blood lying nearby, Price said.

Tolopka was arrested Sunday and taken to the Leon County Jail in Centerville. He was released Monday on $250,000 bail. Tolopka could not be reached for comment late Monday. Price said that he had yet to hire an attorney.

• Holly Huffman's e-mail address is holly.huffman@ theeagle.com.