A New World Record Largemouth Bass

A new world-record bass, raised and caught on a private lake, is chronicled in the new book, “American BeheMouth“!

“American BeheMouth” is now available in paperback.

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What is contained in “American BeheMouth”?

1) “American BeheMouth” chronicles the raising and catching of a 27-pound largemouth bass, providing a scientific formula that can be duplicated. This raises many ethical questions about world records in American sports.

2) “American BeheMouth” shows the epic journey of one man who immerses himself in fisheries science to answer age-old freshwater mysteries while delving into universal existential questions.

3) ” American BeheMouth” shows conflicting values of Americans struggling to do it all while trying to stay balanced. How do we innovate and achieve great things without becoming despicable cheats or taking questionable short cuts in life?

4) The entire novella is a metaphor for the American economic system and American consumerism. The BeheMouth is the giant bigmouth bass swallowing trout whole, but figuratively, the BeheMouth represents America, becoming lazy and fat, waiting for another handout.

Book Chronicles Raising Record 27-Pound Bass

For the last four years, I have been working on a new book, American BeheMouth. It's finally out, and it already has some great reviews. Field and Stream wrote a blog on it today, and readers on Amazon have nice things to say. Here's the latest:

Book Chronicles Raising Record 27-Pound Bass

Summary: A new book chronicles how a 27-pound bass was raised and caught in a private lake, raising ethical questions. The book contains the story and formula for how the fish was raised and can be duplicated.

 Everyone dreams of landing a world-record fish, and some have even tried to raise the record. A new book chronicles how one man raised and caught a 27-pound bass in a spring-fed, temperature-controlled man-made 70-acre lake.

“Many question the ethics behind raising a fish like this just to catch it,” says Jason Covington, author of the book "American BeheMouth," which gives all the details. “Many fishermen will be searching for this Area 51 of bass fishing.”

Covington’s new book details the years of research that solved age-old fisheries questions with a methodology for growing fish to these proportions. The formula includes a new fish-to-food ratio as well as the baitfish used and the environmental conditions required to raise the behemouth. The book tells several other stories along the journey, including a Castaic Lake record fish and state-record Missouri bass.

The original quest started some 20 years ago by a fisheries wannabe literature student and his fisheries biologist girlfriend who raised the monster fish. The years of research summarized in this book are something that another fisheries team could duplicate. However, it's like the stock market insider trading cheats; we can follow their model, but the question is should we?

To get the details on how it was done, read the book "American BeheMouth," available for sale as an economical EBook on Amazon and in paperback on Amazon's CreateSpace.

EBook: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007S1XVE6

Paperback: https://www.createspace.com/3845956

BeheMouth website: http://www.BeheMouth.com

Press and Book Reviewers, please contact the author <mailto:jason_cov@msn.com> for an interview or review copy.

Innovate or Wither

Lately in the media we are hearing dismal news on the economy and analysis and testimony regarding opinions on various government bailout programs. The discussions of late include arguments for and against bailing out the Big Three Auto Manufacturers, among other things.

I won't offer any advice here on how to run the government or on what the automotive industry should do. However, I would like to cite some general principles that have led to success in the software and process industries. Gregory Hale, InTech Editor, validates my thoughts on this subject with examples from another software entrepreneur in the October, 2008 editorial, "Today, it is innovate or wither."

Success in industry today requires innovation and "unconventional thought," leadership, and backbone. It also requires freedom to be creative and innovate, which requires risk. Americans' claim to past success in key manufacturing industries has been our productivity numbers. In today's markets, that is not enough, especially in manufacturing. Just making more, faster, may not lead to profits. We have to look back to our pioneering and entrepreneurial roots of our early history to find the true reasons why America became great. It was the freedom and opportunity in a totally open market.

Matt Bauer, chairman of MESA says, "Innovation is all about bringing together new ideas, new concepts, and capabilities in unique ways. It's about manipulating the established to create something new." I see that happening still at some companies, and innovation is positively affecting industry here in the Midwest and worldwide. I am innovating every day in the online virtual classroom worldwide.

When we focus on customers, specific solutions, and customers' ROI (best value), we will be profitable and successful. The key is to focus on solving our customers' problems and help them save on cost and generate more revenue. We must spend most of our time in new development to provide the best long-term solutions.

Jason Covington

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References

Hale, Gregory. "Today, it is innovate or wither." InTech. October, 2008. Retrieved from http://www.isa.org/InTechTemplate.cfm?Section=Talk_to_Me1&template=/Cont entManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=72107 on 20 November, 2008.

Green Technology, Environmentalism

Green Technology, Environmentalism, and Industrial Innovation

Everything we hear on the news lately is about global warming and how the planet will end in 10 years. The media has been saying this for about 30+ years, although 35 years ago in Time Magazine, the environmentalists argued that we were headed for a global ice age. A lot of this blame and admonishment is placed on America, our use of fossil fuels, and our consumerism that influences manufacturing worldwide.

A lot of the gripes about America and our destruction of the world are unfounded. In fact, most of the evidence I see around me locally indicates the opposite is true; we are improving the environment in which we live and doing much to use green technology and improvements to reduce pollution and reduce our environmental impact.

I think there is a stunning contrast between some “environmentalists” and the real hands-on land-owners and farmers. Some radical idealistic environmentalists want to halt the economy in order to “protect” something they know nothing about, using expensive and unproven far-fetched methodologies, while at the same time not taking any real personal interest in doing anything specific or practical to improve the planet or even their own neighborhood. On the other hand, farmers, land owners, fisherman, and hunters have a vested interest in the land and natural resources. If they do take care of it and nurture it, it won’t be viable for future generations or even for next year’s planting.

Over the years Missouri has seen wildlife populations come to extinction, in the case of wild turkey and white-tailed deer after the Great Depression and leading into the 1950s. With the incredible work of the Missouri Department of Conservation, the extinct turkey population and nearly-extinct white-tailed deer populations have surged to record levels in 2008. Geese are so prevalent now that they can be a problem. In some places, we have to manage deer and geese with targeted hunts because their numbers are getting too large. Missouri also has some of the greatest river systems as well as some incredible natural and man-made lakes. Our state forests are incredible. They are beautiful and well-preserved. I live on a beautiful man-made lake, Lake Tishomingo. The shoreline abounds with abundant fish and wildlife. It is difficult for me to see the end of the world around the corner here in Missouri.

Likewise, my optimistic perspective is the same regarding our economy and industry. Many companies are working hard to use improved manufacturing and automation processes to produce more and spend less in terms of time and resources used. As someone who is a “realistic” environmentalist, I want to protect what we have and do all I can to make our world better.

Jason Covington

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncovington