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Live Frozen Fish!                     Is this for real!?!?!?!?!? Video Courtesy: Jamaica Jamaica | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Fish Slap!              Electronic music with fish slap. Video Courtesy: Dance Elektro | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Fishing the Buccaneer Cup is a great way to help support the Recreational Fishing Alliance and you’ll have a great time doing it. To learn more and to enter online go to www.buccaneercup.com. ROFFS™ 2016: An Excellent Season for Fishing Action As you are counting down the days remaining in 2016 and are thinking about the coming new year, we are recounting all of the good fishing action that occurred this year. While the wind was not particularly favorable through most of the fall, the wahoo and sailfish action has been quite good recently from North Carolina to the Florida Keys and there still are plenty of tuna in the northern canyons and Gulf of Mexico. We wonder who will be eating fresh caught tuna or wahoo over the holidays.

Our clients (you) had a banner year as you won awards in 512 categories in 112 major tournaments. This is our 2^nd best score over the last 10 year. We never list Calcutta winners or daily winners, although there are many. These 512 (and still counting) winners increases the 26 year (1991-2016) tally to 7905 winners!

ROFFS™ clients also won top awards in multiple tournament and seasonal club venues such as the South Carolina Governor’s Cup, North Carolina Governor’s Cup, Ocean City, MD Marlin Club Seasonal Awards, Beach Haven Marlin & Tuna Club Season Standings (NJ), Cape May Marlin & Tuna Club Season Standings (NJ), Mobile Big Game Fishing Club Annual Awards (AL).

The pending Men’s All Tackle IGFA World Record wahoo (182 lbs.) and Massachusetts State Wahoo record was set by one of our clients. Note that we provided analyses in the Dominican Republic this year and our clients won the Dominican Billfish Triple Header Series (Dominican Republic). We also continued to provide analyses for Cuba and had clients win the Gamefish Grande. Keep this in mind if you are traveling. These clients have realized that there is more to finding feeding fish than simply working the fish aggregating devices (FAD’s), oil platforms, and river edges. Above: Pending men’s all-tackle world record/MA state record wahoo – 182.0 Lbs. – “Castafari”. Please click HERE to read more on our website now! More Videos… Gator!                   You just never know what you will catch when casting your hooks into the water. Alligator off of GA Beach. Video Courtesy: Fox 35 WOFL | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Earthquakes!       Cool NASA visualization on earthquakes. Video Courtesy: NOAA Science On a Sphere | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Snapper Hearing      Congressional hearing on red snapper. Quite interesting. Video Courtesy: US Representative Bradley Byrne | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Amazing Race!              More wet than dry, how they do this is amazing. Video Courtesy: BBC South Today | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Needy Dog!            Just sitting around trying to get a little love. Video Courtesy: UNILAD | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! ROFFS™ Letter to the Editor: Let’s Find a Way to Make the Dialogue Work / Breaking Point Article Courtesy: Bruce Janz | UCF Forum Columnist | Originally published: December 5, 2016 There is a breaking point for many people around the neighborhood and around the country, as has been seen this month.

These are lines in the sand, points past which people have said they will not pass. They are, in essence, breakdowns of dialogue.

In most situations, we think of dialogue as being what will save us. It is fragile, to be sure, but always what must be rebuilt.

Is that true, though?

Will dialogue save us – if only we can get it to work? Perhaps, but that last qualifier is the hard part. What happens when we do not trust our dialogue partners, and there is no “referee” or disinterested third party that can be trusted?

Dialogue has, at times, been used to delay action on a pressing issue. It has been improperly structured such that there might seem to be two equal and opposite sides to an issue, when in fact there might be more. And, it can be seen as completely odious in some cases – do we really want to, for instance, treat perpetrators of violence as mere “dialogue partners,” as if none of what had happened before tilted the scale or raised the threat level?

What is clear is that it is a short step from thinking that “I am right” and the other person merely holds a different opinion, to thinking that the other person has some mental or moral deficiency. We can see this in many intractable struggles – very quickly, dialogue breaks down into the worst possible depictions of the other side.

Can these breakdowns be avoided? Please click HERE to read the full letter to the editor on our website now! Backlash? Feedback?

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