Fishing is such a relaxing family pastime. We went out to the lake a couple of weeks ago. The water flowed along, interrupted only by an occasional boater or a duck. Of course, one of our kids beckoned the ducks with quacking sounds and then exclaimed, “I am the Duck Whisperer!” I spent the time relaxing in the gentle breeze, swatting away flying critters, and cringing at comments about the nightcrawlers’ “blue veins” and their “gooey, white hearts” as the poor worms were ripped apart, speared and hooked for bait. Yuk! It was a worm’s worst nightmare.
I’m guessing few people associate relaxing lake fishing with violence. Once you combine worm gore and fish blood, you have a really messy event and so I bring plenty of hand sanitizer. I doled out some sanitizer after the worm tearing and more after tossing back the catch. I won’t bore you with the measurements of the four fish we caught, but let’s just say several spanned the width of a hand. We’ll skip the tales about the “big ones that got away.” When you catch the really big ones, you better get proof and here’s a guy who does:
Jeremy Wade catches the scary fish, the ones you don’t want to know exist, especially if you‘re vacationing in an exotic place because that’s where they seem to lurk. The various kinds of fish in our waters rivals the types of cereals on our supermarket shelves. Why so many? I have a few fish favorites. Check out two of them: One fish Two fish
In your opinion, why are there so many interesting and unusual species of fish?
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It is amazing the number of varieties of fish, each with specific characteristics and capabilities; each fit for a certain purpose. After listening to the Jeremy Wade clip, he makes an interesting point that you can tell the health of the waterways by the existence of the predatory fish. Isn't that interesting.
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