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Sensational reflection picture! Takes your breath away! Chuck
I wanna borrow the lake!
ELVIS is in the house!!
how long did it take to get the feeling back in your legs???
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Yes Vermont. My SIL and brother are misplaced there
That first one reminded me of Congress, things looking bright but actually being upside down. How many weeks ago was the picture taken?
Just got back from a bonefish fishing trip. We had a little rain and a little tornado action, found some lobsters one day, caught some bonefish, drank some rum. ate some conch fritters and fresh caught snapper. That's the Cliff Notes version.
Glad ya didn't catch crabs!
We actually did catch a couple to get a close up look at what the bonefish were eating. That one on the photo looks like some sort of stone crab. We also chased down and grabbed a couple of those lobsters. Not an easy thing to do without a good pair of leather gloves and some fast hands. That's one of the things I enjoy the most when we're out there - wading a finding stuff to look at and learn about.
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My daughter was in Hungary this summer. These are from a reenactment / medieval fair.
Yesterday Saturday!
Thanks Barry. I just always think of them being further north and colder. Our leaf peak was 2 weeks ago. Only the oaks and a few beech trees are still dressed. Fall is for sure rolling on here.
Bones' be good! But with those lips they have to be related to carp somehow!
Their mouths are a combination of soft and hard. Bonefish don't have teeth. Their "tongue" is a solid, hard bony plate that mates up to a similar plate in the roof of their mouth. Bonefish feed by finding prey in the sandy bottom, they pounce on the spot and suck in a bunch of the bottom muck, filter out the edible prey and crush it using the bony plates in their mouths. In fact, we use that behavior when fishing for them. You can sometimes track a bonefish you can't actually see by the telltale puffs of sand or the pockmarks left in the bottom. After presenting the fly, we watch the fish, moving the fly only to get the fish's attention. When it pounces, we make a long steady strip until the bonefish takes off. No big hook set, etc.
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Sorta like we do with the carp. Sometimes we can see the backs and tails instead of just the "puff" trail. They are vacuums that as long as the fly is in their path, they'll vacuum it up with everything else. Just gotta guess where they are going next! Some of those big eye (bighead)carp and silver carp are getting pretty big - wish I knew how to flyfish for them.
That’s one wish, you have 2 left. Genie
Have I ever told y'all i love my job? This is Whitetop mountain. Second highest peak in Virginia. It and the highest are side by side but I can't drive to the top of Mt. Rogers. Hard to believe this is my office and I get paid to patrol these areas.
That's a beautiful view from your desk @Eric Rorabaugh