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Hey, I know that guy! He's one of my colleagues at URMC, a prof who works on musculoskeletal research. Hani and I used to play volleyball together for years, and he's always been receptive when we were trying to place inner city kids in labs for internships. Good guy. I'm glad to see they caught a bunch of fish. I'll have to get a first hand report from him tomorrow.

Great fish, Matt!

Yeah, we're the ghetto between Rochester and the Oak. No kings at Sandy. But we raise tough fish.

Tom, you're barking up a tree that fell years ago. Look up just a couple of posts in this thread.

I saw this and wondered why you were selling sheep. Alpacas. I haven't had enough coffee yet.

Killer deal. That's our setup except we swapped Talora rods for TDRs a bunch of years ago. Somebody will jump on this.

Awesome!

Can't wait for pictures! It sounds like the trip of a lifetime.

You and me both, brother.

Like most of you, I'm far less worried about eating locally sourced fish than I am about all the other crap that's used to make the stuff around us, things that we'd have never even considered a decade ago. Teflon coatings. Microplastics in our shaving cream. I'm no Chicken Little, but there's enough data out there to conclude that many of these things are not entirely benign. The issue is determining cause-and-effect. I mean, look, it took 40 years for public acknowledgement that cigarettes might have some nasty stuff in them that's bad for you. And that was like, "Duh, of course" to most folks. I can't imagine how long it will take to do the same for the less obvious stuff we use every day. And it's cost-benefit, too. Try weighing some ridiculous allergy again the benefits of plastic. Non-starter. That is, until we find out that we've sterilized the human race by creating a cosmic Dr. Snip through some unanticipated avenue - like applying flame retardants to baby's clothing - we won't move on the issue. So, since we can't do jack all about it, we should all just grab some wings and a beer and enjoy the games this weekend. Go Bills!

I source my PFAs straight from the lab, so I know exactly how much to use to get that perfect flavor. Seriously, though, and not to hijack this thread, but over the past decade I have become severely alcohol intolerant. I have a hangover before getting a buzz!! I'd think that it's a me thing, except that there's at least several of us on this board alone that now have the same issue. It happened as we got older. Knowing how some of these chemicals manufactured in labs can interact with our genome in unexpected ways makes me wonder how prevalent this sort of age-onset allergy is these days, and whether it's linked to environmental toxins. There's begun to be some interest at the national level in this sort of general phenomenon. We know the incidence of childhood food allergies are rising, and it's not crazy to extrapolate to older adults. Anybody else here experience unexplained allergies with age? Of the eight or so folks I know with alcohol intolerance, all are men. Obviously, I'm not claiming cause-and-effect with fish borne toxins, but it's enough to make me raise one eyebrow and throw this out there for discussion.