Our winter Featured Member is John Loo. John joined OWAC in 2006 and spends his days worrying about the Internet, social networking, and what it means to outdoor journalism.
He conquers writer's block by
John's favorite words? arcane, visceral
"I often fish offshore by myself in my 18’ skiff, usually launching at night. When people tell me I’m foolish, I tell them this story:
When I was 8, my Dad took a year’s leave of absence from corporate America to work with the UN. We were stationed in Iraq, in a little agricultural town call Abu Ghraib. There was no prison back in 1963, but we did manage to witness the coup d’etat that put the Baath party in power. Who knew they had so many guns at a US Embassy?
At the end of the year, Dad decided it would be fun to drive from Baghdad to Paris before we came home. Dad packed Mom, my sister (11), me (8), and my brother (6) into our ’62 Corvair (see Ralph Nader’s book “Unsafe at Any Speed”), and we took off for the City of Lights.
We passed through Jordan (where Dad was nearly shot for taking pictures of the Israeli side of the Jerusalem Wall), Lebanon, Turkey (where border guards took Mom and Dad away at gunpoint for questioning), and Greece (where the car broke down in the backcountry). We took a ferry from Athens to Rome (where we nearly had a head-on collision near the Forum); then made our way up the Italian peninsula through Switzerland and into France.
Foolish? Maybe, but it’s not my fault - I get it from my Dad."
You can find his work at:
Lake Resources Group, Inc. (IronClad Technologies)
Lake Resources Group is a new company manufacturing soft and hybrid lures utilizing a newly released, patent-pending polymer technology co-developed with the University of Wisconsin Polymer Engineering Center. Brands include IronClad, LockOn and ChamberLock. The new polymer technology renders soft baits nearly permanent, or "IronClad," but still highly flexible and lifelike. These lures "LockOn" to hooks and don't budge. ''Designed for Fishermen; Designed for the Environment.''
location: Waunakee, WI (Central time)
contact: Ben Hobbins, President and CEO
tel: (608) 513-3535
email:lakeresourcesgroup@yahoo.com
web:www.lakeresourcesgroup.com
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