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THURSDAY. JULY 15. 2021 PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS PAGE 3B
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This week in Sports History
came to an end after 26 innings. It all started
when the San Antonio Missions faced the
Jackson Mets on July 14th, but the contest
was suspended in the early hours of July
15th after 25 scoreless frames. Both teams
resumed play a day later and San Antonio’s
Manny Francois ended the marathon with an
RBI-single. The Missions won, 1-0, follow
ing seven hours and 23 minutes of grueling
game time.
July 17th:
On this day in 1924, Jesse Haines threw
the very first no-hitter in St. Louis Cardinals
franchise history. He faced 30 batters, al
lowed three baserunners and tallied five
strikeouts during the Cards’ 5-0 blanking of
the Boston Braves. Haines was also the last
St. Louis hurler to have a home no-hitter
until Bob Forsch in 1978.
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Consider the Redfish
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Minister’s
Corner
tribulations, persecution, and
imprisonment. His future
looked uncertain and rather
bleak. Yet he was determined
to keep going and to continue
to run in such a way that he
could cross the finish line
victoriously and joyfully.
Is that how we’re running
today? It’s easy to get weary
with what we’re facing in
today’s world. Our society
seems determined to go its
own way rather than humbly
turning toward God and sub
mitting to Him. Faithful fol
lowers of Jesus may find
themselves being the objects
of ridicule, discrimination,
and hatred. The temptation
sometimes rises to get dis
couraged, to choose an easier
course, or to give up.
The pressure and heat
from the world can wear us
down. If we’re not careful,
we can find ourselves be
coming negative, complain
ing, unloving runners who
are just trying to sputter
along to the end of the line.
However, it doesn’t have to
be that way. We can finish the
race strong and with a joyful
spirit in spite of the hardships
along the way. Even as some
of us get older and draw
nearer to the completion of
our journey, the Bible says
we can still be fresh, flourish
ing, and fruitful (Psalm
92:14).
That doesn’t mean that
we’ll necessarily have the
physical strength we once en
joyed. It doesn’t mean we
may not see a decline in
some of our mental abilities
or an increase in our ten
dency toward forgetfulness.
Nevertheless, we can still
thrive in our relationship with
the Lord and in our daily
journey with Him. Paul
wrote, “Therefore we do not
lose heart. Even though our
outward man is perishing, yet
the inward man is being re
newed day by day” (II
Corinthians 4:16). We may
not have the physical and
mental energy we once had,
but we can still experience a
close walk with the Lord.
Back in Acts 20:24, we
see that one of Paul’s keys to
finishing with joy is that he
didn’t focus too much on his
trials and he didn’t hold too
tightly to his physical life -
“none of these things move
me; nor do I count my life
dear to myself’. Instead he
focused on the Lord and on
being faithful to what He had
given Paul to do. We need to
be aware of what’s going on
in our world today, but don’t
make that your primary
focus.
Keep your eyes on Jesus.
Continue to do whatever the
Lord has given you to do.
Keep running your race re
gardless of what others do.
However long we may
have left to run, let’s allow
the Lord so to energize and
renew our spirits that we fin
ish our race with joy.
Rev. Tony Elder is a North
Georgia native who serves as
a pastor and author of the
daily devotional book, Every
day Encounters with the
Lord, and serves as the Ex
ecutive Director of the Na
tional Association of
Wesleyan Evangelicals. He
may be reached at
revtelder@aol.com.
Just thought of another, so
it’s really three.
First, let’s talk about the
fish and what to expect. The
World Record is 94 pounds,
caught many years ago. OK,
enough about that. You’re
not going to catch a new
world record, just a few for
the adventure, and for the
grill.
The guy is dumb as a
rock, he can be spooked and
still will bite, is always hun
gry, is a survivor, grows rap
idly, eats plastics,
spinnerbaits, crankbaits, can
be spotted in the shallows
and is a target for casts and,
finally, a fabulous table fish.
My largest is 51-pounds
and I’ve included a photo
from my trophy room. It’s a
fiberglass replica, of course,
because we weighed the fish
and put him or her back.
I was fishing in the Ba
il nana River near Cocoa
l Beach and saw this giant at
i the head of a school in about
j. 2-feet of water against the
L lightly colored sandy bot
tom, casted a small curly tail
jig on 12-pound test line and
he took it.
After the hook set, the
fish swam past the boat and
my fabulous guide, Shawn
Foster, also known as Doc
tor Drum (Cocoa Beach,
Florida), shouted, “That’s a
50 pounder.” It weighed 51-
pounds.
Let me direct you to three
target destinations and the
people who will act as your
hosts.
Spring. Theophile Bour
geois and the Cajun Vista
Lodge; lodging in private
rooms in a fabulous 100-
year-old renovated school
house, Theophile can easily
accommodate over sixty
guests. You’ll walk to the
boats only 30 yards away,
partner with seasoned guides
and cast to thousands of red-
fish spread out across what
may be the best inshore,
light tackle saltwater fishing
in the world.
Located in Barataria,
Louisiana, Theophile oper
ates the most comfortable
and productive destination
on the Gulf Coast that I have
ever visited. Using Bass fish
ing weight tackle, 8 to 12-
pound test line, terminal
tackle spinner baits, plastics,
crank baits and, for some, a
popping cork over a live
shrimp, you’ll limit out every
day on 4 to 15-pound Red-
fish.
You’ll be fishing the
Atchafalaya Basin, the
‘marsh,’ 30 miles wide and
90 miles long with most
areas less than 6-feet deep.
It’s a nursery for Reds and
it’s full of bait, casting tar
gets, grass flats, canals and
creeks. From early March
through the hot summer, the
Gulf Coast Reds are a calling
card for the weekend angler.
Fall. Oh, my goodness.
500 to 700 pounds of Redfish
a day? Yessir. Georgia coast.
Surprised? I was, but not
now. Telephone Mark Noble,
long time guide, local booster
of fishing, St Simons Island
native. He’s the man, has
spent his life fishing these
waters and knows exactly
when, where and how. From
September through Novem
ber, in the shallow waters
near the river mouths that
flow into the bay, the Redfish
gang up like I’ve never seen
before and although you’re
gonna beef up your tackle a
bit because the fish are so
large, it’s still sporting. The
minimum length to keep a
Red there is 27 inches.
It was some years ago that
one of my sponsors staged
what we called the ‘Fishing
Trip of a Lifetime’ and a fa
ther and son from South Ala
bama won the trip. Sure
enough, using three rods, one
for me and one for each of
them, we often caught three
reds at a time with an average
of 35 pounds.
Winter. After reading this,
I’ll be expecting you to head
to Pensacola Bay and
Navarre Beach in December.
Eddie Woodall is his name,
and schooling Redfish is part
of his game.
I’m not sure exactly what
happens, but it’s something
like this; when the river wa
ters cool in December, it
sends tons upon tons of bait
down current into the bay.
When this happens every
year, hundreds of schools of
Redfish, with thousands in
each school, push the Pog-
gies’ to the surface. Low and
behold, when the surface
feeding birds give you the
signal of activity, you’ll
motor over and begin casting
and reeling large Road Run
ners tipped with plastics.
Virtually every cast under the
birds gets a hookup.
So, why not give the Good
Old Dependable Redfish a
chance and visit these fellows
to make it complete?
O'Neill Williams, born in
Atlanta, is host of O'Neill
Outside, which reaches
277,000,000 subscriber
households weekly on FOX
Sports Southeast and others.
His "O'Neill Outside" radio
broadcasts are heard via
WSB Radio. "O'Neill Out
side" radio is the #1 outdoor
based live radio talk show in
the country’.
Find out more or contact
him at O'NeillOutside.com.
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Gartrell on
the Braves
reached with the reigning
MVP?
Remember, he is a Cali
fornia kid anyway. The Gi
ants, Padres and Dodgers
might throw some monstrous
figures at him in the fall or
ridiculously rich trade offers
at Atlanta now. Resigning
him to a lengthy contract
now might also demonstrate
the sincerity of management
and ownership.
All of the aforementioned
possibilities are genuine,
therefore the Braves organi
zation faces a gauntlet of
challenging decisions which
impact the team for years be
yond 2021.
Which direction will the
team’s braintrust take at this
monumental crossroads?
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