Pumkinseed + Bluegill

 My fishing prowess takes on different characteristics from year to year.

If you are really anxious to find out the 2021             , please feel free to skip to the end of this blog entry.

Given the nature of this blog, there are probably also good clues to my fishing practices based on the different places on this continent that I have found myself ................ 

The gear employed indicates my seriousness in gathering/eating/growing/feeding fish

as a kid hanging out with island grandpa, we were learning from the master and the focus was stationary bottom fishing using the jig method.  He had a row boat and a runabout, so we went out in the lagoon or a nearby harbour.  

we caught mostly flounder and sea robins, sculpin...............  Those things were SOOOOOOO noisy and were either put right back in the water or saved to use as lobster bait

from the shoreline where you might normally do some type of casting, we were drafted to swim out to our tall grandpa when his pockets were too full to harvest big         clams ..  that clam rake as a bit too heavy for us to operate, and we couldn't get far enough off the shore to reach the bigger clams

those tasty bivalves were either made into baked clams an eaten fresh from the oven, and the leftovers went into the freezer for future clammy enjoyment.  The fresh ones would be slurped by the adults 

carp in loch raven reservoir

fishing off the BYC pier or swim platform

Fish poetry

 It's been raining pesce     and cephalopods here the last few days, so I've been hanging in the office and sorting thru papers.  Yuckl!

Yesterday I amused myself by writing a fish limerick.  Today I might bang out a couple Haiku.

As I rearrange books on my shelves, quite a bit have to do with water based critters.  I think that has something to do with 22 years of US Coast Guard (USCG) experiences with a fisheries related emphasis.  

My other specialty was Search and Rescue, and invariably that was mostly in response to fishing vessel emergencies.  This included:

• grad school in fisheries management at the University of Washington
• USCG member on the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council in Anchorage, AK
• four years of service on ships operating in the North Pacific and Northeast Atlantic (NJ/NY and New England to Canada) primarily completing commercial fisheries boardings

 

I think that you get the idea, and here is the inaugural poem.

A smart little girl went to catch some fish,

Told all her friends it's her only wish,

She swam and she swam,

said "Hello!" to a clam,

Fed a meal to her fam' that was so delish!!! 

AXOLOTL CARE GUIDE | Housing, Feeding, & Tank Mates | Ambystoma mexicanum

This is a great video for those thinking about what will be required before you add an axolotl to your family.

I  really liked the style of Gamer's Wife presentation.  She allows the visuals to speak for themselves by not appearing in the video, just doing the commentary.