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Salmon, steelhead and slobber

By Don Barone
ESPNOutdoors.com

Monday, July 28, 2008

EITHER LAKE ONTARIO OR THE LOWER NIAGARA RIVER — In boat-talk we're going about 2.5 knots. I Googled exactly this: What the hell is a knot and how many knots in a mile per hour, which is the only thing real people can relate to. (This also applies to anything even close to metrics — because here in America we were all out SICK the day THAT was taught at school, so QUIT IT.) 0.688432 seconds later, I had 26,437 Google hits. I understood none of them. So I'm forced to make up my o ...

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