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Erika Faulk and her cousin, Gale Robinson, could have met up for a weekend spa retreat or planned a shopping excursion, but the two middle-aged, suburban moms opted for weekend learning to shoot guns, build campfires and track deer deep in the Ocala National Forest. Faulk, Robinson and about 100 other women were taking part in a three-day workshop called 'Becoming an Outdoors-Woman'. The program began two decades ago in Wisconsin and has spread to 40 states and Canada as a way to teach women the skills needed to enjoy outdoor activities.

click the name for the latest catch,maybe some one can post the catch, at least 60 pounds.

An Australian woman was sentenced Friday to nine months of community service work for smuggling protected fish from Asia in her dress. Sharon Naismith, 45, was caught in June 2005 at the airport in the southern city of Melbourne after customs officers heard "flipping" noises coming from her clothes and conducted a search, Australian Customs said. In a specially made apron under her dress, they found 15 plastic bags filled with water and fish: one rare Asian arowana that customs said was worth tens of thousands of dollars, and 14 catfish. Naismith, who had arrived from Singapore, pleaded guilty to...

Kennebunkport, Maine, residents say that when the Bushes are golfing security makes getting around a hassle. (AP file photo) People in the Bush family's summer haven of Kennebunkport, Maine, have a message for locals in Gov. Mitt Romney's vacation spot, Wolfeboro, N.H.: Things are only going to get worse. Romney and his posse have already been deemed an unwanted distraction by some in the Lake Winnipesaukee town, but Kennebunkport locals say the Granite Staters are in for a major shock if the governor's 2008 presidential bid takes off.

Over the past couple of decades Generation X has seen plenty of mention among the different branches of the regular mass media. This year however the really big story (at least for fisherfolk east of the Mississippi) is Brood X, which seems to be garnering very little, if any, mention at all, outside of a few rather arcane and scholarly scientific publications. In fact, I just only first learned anything at all about this unique upcoming phenomena a few short days ago. Needing to make a trip down to Ft. Wayne anyhow, I decided to use the opportunity to drop...