Wildlife & Related

[hatidua]

Man, I really need to learn how to fish better.

That orange luxury accommodation in the background is inline with the hobby. Bugs, hard ground, rain, heat, all in the name of "fun".

[wyome]

Bear on the Mt Denali range... photo taken from 350' up in a helicopter

Saw a grizzly cross the highway later... but I was driving so no pic of that one

[hatidua]

Fog




Fishermen




Fish

[Hummer]

Awesome fish! What a beast! Do you eat those suckers? If so, how do you prepare them? What is that, like 20 lbs.? Are there Mirror Carp in Pathfinder, and are the other photos at Pathfinder? All impressive, btw. I've canoed and fished the North Platte and Pathfinder a number of times.

Another mirror from 9am this morning -

[hatidua]

Awesome fish! What a beast! Do you eat those suckers? If so, how do you prepare them?

I actually don't but I've found that fish preferences are entirely regional: the Japanese love raw bluefin tuna but you couldn't pay an NC commercial fisherman to eat raw fish even though the giant bluefin are being caught in NC (and then FedEx'd overnight to Tokyo). In Seychelles, I watched a waterfront fish market sell off all of their jacks and barracuda rapidly, and the dolphin (mahi mahi/dorado) languished in the sun all day, nobody wanted that species! Amberjack is popular in New Orleans but considered trash fish in the mid-atlantic, etc.

There was an online link I saw in the past few weeks on the preparation of carp. So, yes, people do eat them and I've seen them in the refridgerated case at Pacific Ocean Market in Broomfield. Granted, there's stuff available at Pacific Ocean Market that is challenging even to look at, much less eat...

As far as distribution, I think there are mirror carp in just about every pond and lake in CO and WY. I've only caught a handful of the "common" carp, everything we seem to catch are the mirror carp. And I have no idea where the babies hang out, I've yet to catch one that is really small, they all tend to be fairly respectable in size. I've not caught any that are in the really upper rungs of what's possible (they get past 60#s), but there are plenty of fish that are big enough to get well into the backing.

[hatidua]

speed goats

[fly boy]

speed goats

Those things are all over base!!! There are so many, you can actually hunt them now.

[TheGrey]

Northern Fucker. Oversize Woody the Woodpecker. Asshole bird who likes to wake people up at ungodly hours of the morning by drumming on a chimney for a couple months in the spring. Can also inflict many thousands of dollars in repair bills to siding.

Our Northern Flicker is named Roland (after the Warren Zevon song) and you can set your watch by his drumming. He hits our chimney flashing at 7:03, and flies to the neighbor's house 4 minutes later.

[Irving]

Have any of that concoction left over from your The People's Deck vs. Skunk trial?

[henpecked]

From Estes Park yesterday