Whew! We're almost there! First remember to reset you line counter. Release the line slowly, until you feel the sinker contact the bottom. Thumb the reel to hold the line rather than locking the reel mechanism. If you selected the correct sinker weight, you will feel the current begin to pull the setup off the bottom. At this point I generally don't "whip" the rod but will pull the assembly up stream by pointing the rod tip from the back of the boat to the front. Keep the rod horizontal to the water. Slowly return the rod tip to the back of the boat and you should feel the sinker hit bottom again. I normally do a couple of cycle like this and give a half "whip" to move the setup farther down stream by releasing my thumb and paying out more line. Once the sinker hits bottom again, hold the line spool tight with your thumb. Stay alert because a lot of hits come on the drop when the line is slack. The idea here is to use the current to bump the set up farther and farther down stream. It won't take alot of effort to get the first 60-80' of line out. At about this length you will begin to notice that the current is no longer lifting the sinker up off the bottom. Now you need to "whip" the rod to lift the setup off the bottom and get the current to pull it down stream, thus covering more water. The "whip" technique is not hard to master, but it must be done correctly if you expect to catch fish. First the whip is not done with the rod tip, although the tip does put the whip into the line. For explanation purposes, If you are right handed like me, stand facing the side of the boat, with the rod in your right hand, bow of the boat to your right. Hold the rod straight out horizontal and parallel to the water at about waist high. Keep the rod at a 90 degree angle to the body, reel approximately even with the left side of you body. Leading slight with the wrist, pull the rod in a swift sweeping motion from the left side of you body to just outside the right side of the body. Allow the rod tip to load and bend slightly as you hank the rod forward, but don't allow the rod itself to point forward or rearward. Strive to keep it pointing at a 90 degree angle to the body. Just as you get the rod pulled to the right side of your body (rod tip loaded and bending slightly), come to an abrupt stop. You will feel the lures whip forward, suspend for a second and then pull again down stream. As you begin to feel the pull down stream, return the rod slowly to the left side of your body, keeping light tension on the line as they drift back. Allow them to drift back naturally and be ready! You will feel the sinker thud against the bottom, and you've completed your first real whip. Stay alert. Fish will hit on the whip, drop back down stream or even with the rod parked in a holder. Read the rest here: Whipping for walleye

In the wake of the terrorist attack in Mumbai, I can already hear the U.S. gun-control crowd calling for new gun-control measures here in the United States. There will be several big problems with their pleas. One, as an article in the International Herald Tribune points out, India has strict gun-control laws. Those laws did not prevent the terrorist attack at the Oberoi and Taj Mahal Palace and Tower hotel. As libertarians have long been pointing out, terrorists and murderers have no reservations about disobeying gun-control laws. The long-held assumption among the gun-control crowd that murderers and terrorists will respect and obey gun-control laws, even while having no reservations about violating laws against murder and terrorism, is ridiculous, as the Mumbai killings once again demonstrate.

But what angered Mr D'Souza almost as much were the masses of armed police hiding in the area who simply refused to shoot back. "There were armed policemen hiding all around the station but none of them did anything," he said. "At one point, I ran up to them and told them to use their weapons. I said, 'Shoot them, they're sitting ducks!' but they just didn't shoot back." ... The militants returned inside the station and headed towards a rear exit towards Chowpatty Beach. Mr D'Souza added: "I told some policemen the gunmen had moved towards the rear of the station but they refused to follow them. What is the point if having policemen with guns if they refuse to use them? I only wish I had a gun rather than a camera."

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