A man in Vermont was recently arrested for stealing fish from a fish store in an attempt to start his own basement fish breeding company.
How do you walk out of a pet store with fish? In your pockets?
The thief was brazen, he helped himself to the fishbags, caught them himself and walked out the door.
How’d he get caught? He was recognized on surveillance. Seems he had came in the week before and bought some fish half price and left his business card.
Some folks.
Did you hear about the spearfisherman that caught a gigantic sturgeon? The sturgeon weighed over 200 lbs and was estimated to be a 100 years old.
Kind of sad.
The sturgeon would have become legal size for the Winnebago spear fishery in 1918. Sturgeon harvest on the Lake Winnebago System was closed from 1915 to 1932; the first modern spear fishery on Lake Winnebago opened in the winter of 1931-32 with a 30-inch minimum size limit and a five-fish-per-spearer season limit.
This fish therefore was legal size for all 78 spearing seasons held since 1932.
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The Bassmaster Classic in Birmingham kicked off and plenty of fans were on hand. The half a mil first place prize got many people out into the cold air.
Full results, analysis and photo galleries of each day’s competition, Friday-Sunday, are available at Bassmaster.com.
At weigh-in time, Bassmaster.com will carry a real-time leaderboard.
The big fisherman in the sky called home Deadliest Catch star Phil Harris.
Earlier this year Harris suffered a stroke while in port at St Paul Island, Alaska and died this week.
Harris began his fishing career at a young age and was one of the youngest people ever to captain a fishing vessel. His exploits were shown the world over on the Deadliest Catch tv series.
Thank you Phil for sharing commercial fishing with the rest of the world.
I think in a previous life, that I was a fish.
Are you sneering?
Wouldn’t that be ‘one’ explanation for my love of water? And the fact that I ‘know’ where the big ones are?
Could it be karma that my reincarnation into this afterlife makes me a fisherman?
Goodness, what do you suppose I did that was ‘so’ bad ‘when’ I was a fish?
Ok, maybe I teased the fishermen by hiding under stumps, and even under their boat.
Maybe when I figured out the difference between a grasshopper that accidentally landed on the surface of the water and a homemade lure, maybe, I shouldn’t have swam over and told my fish friends so that they too would know the difference.
Maybe I teased the big fisherman ‘up there’ just once too often.
I guess nobody likes a tease. Even a ‘fish’ tease.
Guess I’ve no one to blame but my former fish self.
LOL – OR NOT….
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Ever go out fishin’ with a buddy and he brings along a city friend of his from work?
Well, OK , sometimes we need to expand our horizons and meet new people.
We were sittin’ there on the bank, poles lined up down the creek when low and behold if that new fangled friend of Bob’s didn’t pull out a funny lookin’ smoke.
I told him “Hey man, we don’t do that here.”
He said “Excuse me. There is nothing illegal about this cigarette. It’s electronic. No smoke, no fumes.”
Well, I exchanged a couple strange glances with Bob, but I let it go. I didn’t smell anything so I guess it was ok.
Strange city folk.
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The Asian Carp is headed for the Great Lakes. The state of Illinois is considering closing locks and dams to keep these bottom feeders out of the Great Lakes. These fish escaped from southern fish hatcheries and catfish ponds in the 70’s and have been making their way north ever since. The Asian carp are fast breeders and can eat several times their body weight a day in vegetation and plankton. This fish can reach a hundred pounds.
It’s been estimates that there are millions of pounds of harvestable carp in the Illinois River. It’s been suggested that instead of trying different methods to eradicate the species that we should be eating it!
The carp is a staple in many cuisines. The Chinese, Vietnamese and Polish people use the meat on a daily basis.
Vietnamese carp is cooked with coconut milk, lemongrass and chilis. Polish fare includes soaking it in milk and onions. You can even find it smoked or pickled, or fried.
The Schafer Fishery processes 12 million pounds of carp a year. Most of that meat is shipped overseas and the rest is sent to ethnic markets in Los Angeles, New York & Chicago.
While many of us think carp is inedible, we’ve been proven wrong. Apparently the fish has a mild taste, it’s just ‘very’ bony.
My spouse wants to move to Florida. Every now and then I ‘think’ about it, and slowly my mind works its way around warm sunny Florida, with fruit trees in the backyard and warm sunshine.
Then I read a story with a headline like this: Large anaconda captured at Fla. fish camp
And all thoughts of moving erase from my head…
This particular “BIG GIANT SNAKE” was a mere 12 feet long and of the ANACONDA variety! IT was captured at a fish camp after initially being spotted in a drain pipe. They think it’s responsible for the disappearance of several ducks and geese in the park.
Officials believe this to be the first anaconda captured in the wild in Florida. Anacondas are from the Amazon and capable of reaching 30 feet.
I think I’ll stay right here in Oklahoma, at least our snakes aren’t giants!
Record breaking cold weather in Florida has affected more than the citrus crops. Florida’s fish have taken a beating too.
In what would normally be warm waters teaming with fish is now filled with dead floating fish. The tropical fish can’t survive when the water temperature falls below 45-50 degrees. Hopefully warming days will revive those that haven’t succumbed.
These past few frigid days have seen more fish dying off than the last big cold kill of 1977. That year more than a million snook died. (Snook is an excellent fish for eating as game.) A similar deep freeze in 89 killed over 60,000 snook in Tampa Bay and that population took a good five years to increase in size.
It’s not just the snook that was in trouble with the declining temps, it was also puffer fish, catfish, grouper, snapper, pompano and more.
Let’s hope the warm sunny rays return to Florida soon.
More than people hit by the arctic blast blanketing the US this week.
Our fish are in danger too.
Not every species can survive in cooling waters.
In Florida, the manatees are staying huddled together to keep warm. They’re at the Blue Spring State Park where the water is hovering at a mild 72 degrees, much warmer than the open river waters. Manatees need water temps to be over 68 degrees to live.
A record number of dead manatees were found last year partly from the colder temperatures recorded last winter.
Let’s hope this arctic air finds it’s way back north!
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