Bubba Dogs

And now some good news about the environment…

There’s stripers in the Schuylkill!

Lance Butler an aquatic biologist with the Philadelphia Water Department, recently spoke of the environmental health of the Schuylkill River.

“We’ve had this major resurgence,” he said. “It’s loaded with different species. I can give you 45 different species of fishes we’ve surveyed from the Flat Rock Dam to the confluence of the Delaware.”

So he e-mailed a shot of a big ol’ striped bass they netted from the tidal waters just below the Fairmount Dam. Note the Waterworks in the background. That’s a Center City fish. It weighed about 30 pounds.

Story… Big Fish

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Good article in the NYTimes on surfing in Ireland. (Shout Matt M.)

“You’re not going to get some Irish kid walking around talking about ‘dude’ and ‘man,’ ” said Richie Fitzgerald, 33, one of Ireland’s best-known surfers and the owner of a local surf shop. “We don’t have that surf-bum, hang-around culture. If you come here in February, you’re going to get pelted by hailstorms, and the only chick you’re going to see is a seagull.”

Emerald Swell: Riding the Frigid Waves of a Raging Sea

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The A’s and the Red Sox recently completed their start to the season in Japan. Here is something you won’t see at Citizen’s Bank Park on Monday. Japanese fans dangling clipboards, baseballs and even a jersey to Boston pitcher Hideki Okajima. Wild.

By the way, here’s the weather outlook: