Man, Jack...with your further embelishments, let me retract anything "honorary" about PA and the Smallies memberships; you're full-fledged!!

I live just east of Pittsburgh. My pond is in Somerset, PA. off of exit/mile marker 110 on the PATP.

I went to Lehigh in the late 80's. I caught some mean smallies wading off the Jersey side of the Delaware, fishing the outlet of a power plant in the middle of the winter. Crazy.

Burger, I just couldn't convince him to put the fatheads in. Even wrote a story about a scandal, and he still wouldn't bite.

Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:"
"She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."