Make your own fish bait to catch more and bigger trout, catfish, and carp.

And speaking about water, it is interesting to look at what this thing is doing: Oceans and seas come and go, really; the thing is that they do so over a few millions of years.

Geology and palaeontology are two sciences that study these changes; geology tells us what takes place, and palaeontology, what lives there and how it changes due to what geological structures do. When we look at our world we think about it as if it were static; many know about Gondwana, the super-continent that existed before our present land masses broke apart.

But few know that before Gondwana, in the Precambrian period, there was another super-continent, which broke down and fused again.And even fewer know that our planet is doing this today. What is today Patagonia was partially a tropical sea, much like the Caribbean during the last stages of evolution of dinosaurs - about 70 m.y.a - and until the Miocene, when the Andes began crawling their way upwards.

They have not stopped, you know.Antarctica was somewhere like Australia is today, and it had thriving life in it; gradually, it began moving southwards and cooling, but who said it has stopped either?And we can say the same about almost all places on Earth. One very interesting place, if you like to go yatching, or scuba diving is the Red Sea.

For what we know, it is breaking apart at the pace of 1 cm per year, and so is the eastern coast of Africa. There is a fracture that passes under the Arab peninsula, Yemen, Ethiopia, and then down over the great African lakes and almost unto Zimbabwe. Madagascar was torn apart about 52 m.y.a by the same process, and there is no indication, really, that it will stop.

So, all calculations indicate that a new ocean will be formed; in other words, the Red Sea of today will become the Red Ocean, or perhaps, the African Ocean. But this will held true if the present equilibrium helds. The red Sea receives no water from no river; take a look at a map and you will see that nothing goes into it.

Furthermore, it is a rather shallow sea, and the its salinity is higher than that of the Indian Oceans. In other words, it is not self sustainable and needs oceanic water pouring in just to exist. A massive earthquake may change that, and if such a thing happens, the whole red sea may slowly start decaying, converted into a salt lake.

But the most probable is that it will indeed become an ocean, so if you like boating or fishing innew places, you may have a new place to row, only if you could way another 50 million years.

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