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[mhardy6647]

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First Oriole of the season, hon*.
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* For those who aren't from or savvy to the ways the US East Coast's "Mid-Atlantic" region -- I am here channeling my inner Baltimoron Baltimorean. "How 'bout them O's, hon?"

 

[mhardy6647]

In full disclosure, ruby-throated hummingbirds showed up here for the first time this year yesterday, and we saw our first rose-breasted grosbeak today minutes after the oriole. No pictures, yet, of those two species from this year, though.

 

[mhardy6647]

Taughannock Falls in 2008 and 2023.

 

[pseudoid]

Peterson's, Audubon, Field Guides, Field Checklists, Portraits, Local Species fold-outs.
Got bunches and bunches. Then, I finally nailed it down that our desert-oasis has but 6 or 7 local bird species.
[With the exception of dumbgeons (=pigeons)and rats-with-wings (=seagulls) dark-power (=crows)]
But then, I ran into this white pelican in the marshlands and not one of my reference material seemed to be correct about the white ones.

Some local plovers and a long-billed dowitcher but a white elephant pelican is a rare sighting (.. that comes with some bad citations).
Maybe it was an albino pelican!

 

[MAB]

One of the largest Halibut ever caught:

Harvested near Kodiak Island in 1986. 11 feet long, almost 600 pounds dressed, $2.25 per pound. Took 20 mins for three of us to gaff it over the rail, even after I shot it in the head.
Here are the normal-sized brothers and sisters from the same day:

 

[Doodski]

One of the largest Halibut ever caught:
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Harvested near Kodiak Island in 1986. 11 feet long, almost 600 pounds dressed, $2.25 per pound. Took 20 mins for three of us to gaff it over the rail, even after I shot it in the head.
Here are the normal-sized brothers and sisters from the same day:
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What firearm did you dispatch it with?

 

[MAB]

What firearm did you dispatch it with?

Smith & Wesson Model 29 (.44 magnum). You can see the hole in the head, but it kept fighting, so not exactly dispatched!!! Prehistoric.

 

[Doodski]

Smith & Wesson Model 29 (.44 magnum). You can see the hole in the head, but it kept fighting, so not exactly dispatched!!! Prehistoric.

Very nice! That's a big exit wound. I saw British Columbia halibut fishermen on TV and they never showed them shooting the head but they killed it with a long gun. 11 feet long... Serious stuff, that thing could kill a person easily when flopping around. I was ~99.999% mostly a fresh water fisherman and so the size and weight was substantially less but the reward is tasty feisty trout varieties in quantity and different sizes up to ~7 pounds. I never did the down rigger going for the big lunkers for weeks on end stuff because there was so much more available for fishing by shallow trolling, eddy fishing, mountain lakes and creek fishing. I fished mountain lakes that resulted in several fish following the lure in with each cast and catching one in about maybe 5 of 7 casts with a very small Mepps lure. I tied my own fishing flies for 12 years including bucktails, streamers and made my own spoons for walleye fishing too. Walley fishing gets expensive in the rocky Columbia River due to loss of lures and so I made them. I scuba'd down into the Columbia River just downstream from a hydroelectric dam where we caught lots of walleye and retrieved many lures there but it was too dangerous and I was almost swept away so we all decided to avoid doing that again. LoL. Good times!

 

[pseudoid]

I scuba'd down into the Columbia River just downstream from a hydroelectric dam where we caught lots of walleye and retrieved many lures there but it was too dangerous and I was almost swept away so we all decided to avoid doing that again. LoL. Good times!

We used to scuba dive cold quarries and when finished we'd throw in some (ballasted) M80s and wait for the fish to float to the surface. Yum.

<< Self proclaimed "salmon-snob"!
I got nothing against the Maine

But I'll take the Norwegian King

anyday... you can even keep the plate.

 

[MAB]

Very nice! That's a big exit wound. I saw British Columbia halibut fishermen on TV and they never showed them shooting the head but they killed it with a long gun. 11 feet long... Serious stuff, that thing could kill a person easily when flopping around.

Even the small ones are dangerous, lots of stories about landing a halibut and it beating through the bottom of the boat, etc. Sport fishing is actually harder since the fish is just on the hook, commercial like this they have been on the bottom for better part of a day so they are more docile. Shooting this one really didn't help, it curled up like a potato-chip and we still had a tough time getting it over the rail. Plus, I am not into close-range gunplay.

I caught this smaller one jigging just a few minutes out of town, it beat the crap out of me.

Or a nice little one that gleams like a jewel:

But mostly we fished salmon:

And more salmon:

100,000 pounds of salmon:

You just have to know where they live:

I was ~99.999% mostly a fresh water fisherman and so the size and weight was substantially less but the reward is tasty feisty trout varieties in quantity and different sizes up to ~7 pounds.

My mouth is watering.

I never did the down rigger going for the big lunkers for weeks on end stuff because there was so much more available for fishing by shallow trolling, eddy fishing, mountain lakes and creek fishing. I fished mountain lakes that resulted in several fish following the lure in with each cast and catching one in about maybe 5 of 7 casts with a very small Mepps lure. I tied my own fishing flies for 12 years including bucktails, streamers and made my own spoons for walleye fishing too. Walley fishing gets expensive in the rocky Columbia River due to loss of lures and so I made them. I scuba'd down into the Columbia River just downstream from a hydroelectric dam where we caught lots of walleye and retrieved many lures there but it was too dangerous and I was almost swept away so we all decided to avoid doing that again. LoL. Good times!

Mostly salt water for me. It's all an art form, involving so much experience and patience. Perhaps fly fishing is the pinnacle, but who knows? You make me want to go and re-watch A River Runs Through It! And respect for the water! Glad you didn't get pulled under, I would have missed your posts and positivity!!!

 

[nobodynoz]

 

[droid2000]

get out of the cities

 

[Tryphon]

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Shopping Mall in "Lille", up north France, by the Chanel Sea. It was built 100 years ago at least...
I'm living in the south by the Mediterranean Sea...
image: my iPhone 6s...

It's actually in Nantes, the passage pommeraye shopping mail

 

[nobodynoz]

The St. Mihiel American Cemetery in "Colleville-sur-Mer" (North of France).
It was built by a US Company and belongs to the USA forever... 1 million visitors a year at least...
There aren't words to describe the American Cemetery at Normandy. It's a humbling place that is the final resting place for some of the best men that the U.S. has ever produced.
The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial is a World War II cemetery and memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, that honors American troops who died in Europe during World War II. It is located on the site of the former temporary battlefield cemetery of Saint Laurent, covers 172.5 acres and contains 9,388 burials.

I've been there.

 

[Ken Tajalli]

Yours truly, Bangkok 2012.
Taken with an old Samsung Note 3 phone.

 

[Ken Tajalli]

Repairing a crack on a fake Stradivari, after watching some YouTube videos!
My first attempt (and last).
Reassembly was the hardest part.
When done, looked better, and sounded much much better.
My friend ultimately sold it for over £20K a few years later, didn't even buy me a big Mac!

 

[nobodynoz]

It's actually in Nantes, the passage pommeraye shopping mail

Thanks I've been in Nantes and Lille last year... I've made a mistake... I'm going back to Nantes before the end of this month.

 

[LTig]

It's actually in Nantes, the passage pommeraye shopping mail

That's what I thought at first sight.

 

[Ken Tajalli]

What's the big idea?!
On a Samsung Note 3.

Paris, near Louvre.


Street vendor Paris

 

[pseudoid]

Repairing a crack on a fake Stradivari, after watching some YouTube videos!...
...My friend ultimately sold it for over £20K a few years later, didn't even buy me a big Mac! ...

Right below your last photo: There is this clicky:

If you are the vindictive-type ('not even getting a bigMac'...), you can always ""Report" him to authorities... for sale of forgeries.