#2 son used to catch a lot of small mouth and large mouth bass back when I had a boat. all with plastic crawdads or lizards. the dominant fish in the lake were stripers. (striped bass) we trolled for them, or waited offshore at dusk or dawn when they would feed and cast any type of silver lure into the surface water they were disturbing. >boom< average size a few years ago was 7.5 lbs. - and for small mouth it ran about 2-3 lbs. - large mouth were in between. my son could catch those small mouth anywhere and all day long though. I liked trolling for suspended stripers. if I recall, the record size for that lake was over 40 lbs.
Fishing for bass, whether smallmouth or largemouth I really don't know the difference, starting from my young teenage days - my catch from a fishing boat on Lake Erie....
....to my halcyon days at my lakeside home in Ontario's Haliburton Lakes district....on my dock with rod and reel in one hand and a Heineken in the other.....
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....from my boat just in front of my lakeside home another day.....
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....but that time not quite enough for lunch for the whole family....lol
Well, okay, not COMPLETELY different, still about trees, but the opposite of what I just did. I challenge the members of this group to come up with a title or line(s) from a poem or song or a famous quotation that would be descriptive of THIS IMAGE....
Allow me to explain your quote, and it should be known that it is Australian, right?
"From Little Things Big Things Grow takes its name from the well-known song by Kev Carmody and Paul Kelly . The song pays tribute to Gurindji leader Vincent Lingiari, who in 1966 led Aboriginal cattle workers in a strike against the wealthy landowners of Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory [of Australia]."
Okay... we all make mistakes, right? A few weeks again I started planting the new 20g Cube. You saw the picture with the wood and rocks in it. I siliconed some rocks together and the wood to the rocks so it wouldn't float. Tested the tank with water for a few days to make sure there were no leaks. With everything good and all the new plants in I lowered the water to less than half and started gluing in plants to the wood and rocks. It was looking pretty damned good if you asked me as I was re-filling it. Then I noticed film gathering on the water top. With all the rocks and wood the way they are it's hard to get around so I figured I'd wait until it was full and then skim the film off. NOPE! That was glue that had run into the water column and as the water level was rising collected on the glass all the way around the tank. I tried to scrape it off, but I was only making it worse.
So here I was with a completely planted aquarium, almost ready for fish, but with a 3 inch ring of white gorilla glue all over the glass! How was I going to deal with that? I tried to ignore it for 2 weeks. but I knew I'd have to do something. I picked up some acetone and last week Saturday I took everything out completely (wood, rocks, plants, water and filter media went into a large bin. It took me 2 hours of scrubbing with the acetone and a magic eraser to remove all the glue and another hour of dish soap and rinsing to get rid of the acetone. I left the tank sit empty overnight and then 24 hours later started putting it back together.
I think the end result is even better. I have more aquarium safe leaves on order for the front area and today I'll be adding some moss to the exposed area of wood that stretches towards the right corner. We'll be hitting up the local Petco/PetSmart to look at fish this weekend. I'm thinking a pair of Apistogramma Cacatuoides or a pair of Bolivian Rams . I don't really know... I don't think I can get the Apistos locally and who knows what's at the stores?
Oh, yeah... and on Tuesday evening I had all the moss set out and the tank drained down to put the moss in when I found the (right kind of) glue bottle was completely solid...
There are mistakes and there are stupid mistakes because one is tired. This glue fiasco was the latter. LOL! At least I get off work early today to finish up and be ready for (hopefully) fish tomorrow.
your story reminds me of the time I glued my thumb and forefinger to a fishing lure I was creating. On my first cast I threw myself a hundred yards and a lot of fish were laughing at me.
I know, and you know I've been kidding you about "catch and release" for a long time. I've never wasted a fish I caught, so I guess I've always enjoyed both the sport and the food. "Double your pleasure, double your fun..."
Morning Kavika...yes she has been clomping around on the fence for weeks, usually at night.
I had no intentions of getting out of bed to take a photo etc...she was going along the fence at my brother's house yday and his wife raced out and took the photo.
Mum and bub are now fast asleep in the tree in their backyard..
Know exactly what you mean..have a very basic phone and still can't work out how to do it..have to send photos to my lap top via email and then upload it from there...
Going to sneak this in. Today was my wife's birthday, so we went to a Korean-style BBQ restaurant in the huge new indoor shopping mall across the road for lunch. A while ago I posted a photo essay about that mall.
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The menu showed some of the different things to put on the grill. There were lots of veggies as well.
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The "free drinks" were hot and cold water and tea, but we had tall lime soda drinks on ice.
.We ate grilled bacon strips, beefsteak strips, a few different grilled veggies, a meat I couldn't identify that was delicious, and a bowl of rice mixed with some things that made it the best tasting rice I can remember.
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Back home for the cake. No candles but we tried something unusual - a variety cake. Those are individual segments in pairs. The brown ones are chocolate of course, the yellow-orange ones are cheesecake, the strawberry ones are strawberry shortcake, and we saved the rest for tomorrow. Looking forward to the blueberry and cherry ones. I wonder if they're cheesecake as well.
A reminder of what that huge new indoor mall looked like.
Being that it's Labor Day, as a union guy, I will keep the thread open throughout the day so that anyone can share the "fruits of their *creative) labor".
As a union guy myself there are only two holidays (no work at all) for the ILWU (longshoreman). Christmas and Bloody Thursday, the day longies where shot down in the streets of San Francisco and the ILWU was formed in 1934.
It is a labor of love, so to speak. It is some of the items that a Shaman healer might use in their ceremony to help heal the sick. The small green item that is sitting on the drum top is a smudge used to help the sick as well. The spear and forked item is also used during the ceremony to chase off the 'Spirits' that are causing the sick persons illness.
I witnessed a couple of them on the Cherokee Reservation many years ago, and they are really very interesting and enlightening. And I will say that those ceremonies are not child's play as some might think. The Shaman and Healers who perform the ceremonies are certainly not quacks. They study for years as apprentices to the Elder Shamans and Healers to learn the different herbs and the various illnesses that can affect both the young and old. Their knowledge of the human body is unquestionable.
Yup! Goin' fishing tomorrow, so, posting this one a day ahead.
cool. a 4 day art expo...
trout? bass? anything that will bite?
Always prefer smallmouth bass but anything will do.
plastic crawdads.
Fly fishing … but there are some larger flies like “Clauser minnows” that could pass for crayfish.
fly fishing for smallmouth? pardon my ignorance, I live in the middle of trout-ville CO.
A smallmouth on a fly rod or a rainbow of the same size, provide equal excitement!
not a lot of bass around here. close by anyway...
#2 son used to catch a lot of small mouth and large mouth bass back when I had a boat. all with plastic crawdads or lizards. the dominant fish in the lake were stripers. (striped bass) we trolled for them, or waited offshore at dusk or dawn when they would feed and cast any type of silver lure into the surface water they were disturbing. >boom< average size a few years ago was 7.5 lbs. - and for small mouth it ran about 2-3 lbs. - large mouth were in between. my son could catch those small mouth anywhere and all day long though. I liked trolling for suspended stripers. if I recall, the record size for that lake was over 40 lbs.
When it comes to dark-coloured butterflies, here's one I saw here...
This is a collage composed primarily from photos I took on the island of Penang, Malaysia.
© G. Gam 2021
Hibiscus Flower
© G. Gam 2021
Both of them are outstanding.
Thank you!
Anoon gs.. love the hibiscus..one of my favourite flowers.
Thanks, shona. I love hibiscus, too.
Really beautiful, G. Both are very interesting and full of color.
Very well done!
Thank you, Raven Wing.
Fishing for bass, whether smallmouth or largemouth I really don't know the difference, starting from my young teenage days - my catch from a fishing boat on Lake Erie....
....to my halcyon days at my lakeside home in Ontario's Haliburton Lakes district....on my dock with rod and reel in one hand and a Heineken in the other.....
.
....from my boat just in front of my lakeside home another day.....
.
....but that time not quite enough for lunch for the whole family....lol
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So time to relax from the effort...
However, fishing is a common pastime here.
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Something we spoke about last weekend. Illustrating poems or songs:
Trees
Well, okay, not COMPLETELY different, still about trees, but the opposite of what I just did. I challenge the members of this group to come up with a title or line(s) from a poem or song or a famous quotation that would be descriptive of THIS IMAGE....
Evening Buzz...
From little things big things grow...
Allow me to explain your quote, and it should be known that it is Australian, right?
Evening.. that is correct..
Only one person even tried? Is it too hard?
Here are a couple...
"Where there's life, there's hope." J.R.R.Tolkien
"Here's lookin' at you, kid." Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) to Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) in Casablanca
Okay, let's try a new one that might be a little easier...
Here's an example...
"Are you talkin' to me?" Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) in the movie Taxi Driver
Actually, I just thought of a couple more for the tree pic.
You're barking up the wrong tree.
Don't worry, its bark is worse than its bite.
Morning... can't see the trees for the forest...🌳🌳🌳
Well, THAT idea went over like a lead balloon. I won't try to do that again.
Happy Friday everyone.....
That is absolutely lovely, and in keeping with the original butterfly theme posted by A.Mac above. Is that new?
Thank you, Buzz. Yes, it is a new artwork. I'm glad you like it.
That is fantastic, Raven Wing. Just beautiful. Really nice.
Thank you very much, G.
Okay... we all make mistakes, right? A few weeks again I started planting the new 20g Cube. You saw the picture with the wood and rocks in it. I siliconed some rocks together and the wood to the rocks so it wouldn't float. Tested the tank with water for a few days to make sure there were no leaks. With everything good and all the new plants in I lowered the water to less than half and started gluing in plants to the wood and rocks. It was looking pretty damned good if you asked me as I was re-filling it. Then I noticed film gathering on the water top. With all the rocks and wood the way they are it's hard to get around so I figured I'd wait until it was full and then skim the film off. NOPE! That was glue that had run into the water column and as the water level was rising collected on the glass all the way around the tank. I tried to scrape it off, but I was only making it worse.
So here I was with a completely planted aquarium, almost ready for fish, but with a 3 inch ring of white gorilla glue all over the glass! How was I going to deal with that? I tried to ignore it for 2 weeks. but I knew I'd have to do something. I picked up some acetone and last week Saturday I took everything out completely (wood, rocks, plants, water and filter media went into a large bin. It took me 2 hours of scrubbing with the acetone and a magic eraser to remove all the glue and another hour of dish soap and rinsing to get rid of the acetone. I left the tank sit empty overnight and then 24 hours later started putting it back together.
I think the end result is even better. I have more aquarium safe leaves on order for the front area and today I'll be adding some moss to the exposed area of wood that stretches towards the right corner. We'll be hitting up the local Petco/PetSmart to look at fish this weekend. I'm thinking a pair of Apistogramma Cacatuoides or a pair of Bolivian Rams . I don't really know... I don't think I can get the Apistos locally and who knows what's at the stores?
Oh, yeah... and on Tuesday evening I had all the moss set out and the tank drained down to put the moss in when I found the (right kind of) glue bottle was completely solid...
Sorry you had all that trouble, but it sure is looking good.
Every photography class or individual student I ever taught, I began with the caveat, “You cannot get it right until you first get it wrong.”
There are mistakes and there are stupid mistakes because one is tired. This glue fiasco was the latter. LOL! At least I get off work early today to finish up and be ready for (hopefully) fish tomorrow.
Looks fantastic.
your story reminds me of the time I glued my thumb and forefinger to a fishing lure I was creating. On my first cast I threw myself a hundred yards and a lot of fish were laughing at me.
Sunset at Long Key.
It seems that I still haven’t mastered the art of posting photos from my phone. Back to school.
I feel your pain. F it, maybe in the next life for me.
Connections are sluggish up here on the mountain … but, here's one for tonight.
© A. Mac/A.G.
And when millions are starving, edible fish are valuable as well.
Fishing in pursuit of sport & recreation vs fishing for survival and food, are quite disparate endeavors. My image is about the former.
I know, and you know I've been kidding you about "catch and release" for a long time. I've never wasted a fish I caught, so I guess I've always enjoyed both the sport and the food. "Double your pleasure, double your fun..."
Evening....Mum and bub taken by my sister in law tonight, on our fence...
Good one - so cuddly.
They are so cute. Great photo, shona.
Morning Kavika...yes she has been clomping around on the fence for weeks, usually at night.
I had no intentions of getting out of bed to take a photo etc...she was going along the fence at my brother's house yday and his wife raced out and took the photo.
Mum and bub are now fast asleep in the tree in their backyard..
Hopi Kachina Corn Goddess
Wearing masks because of the virus?
Here's looking at you Sunday.....
Absolutely gorgeous Raven...my favourite so far...
Thank you very much, shona. I'm really glad you like it.
Woke up this morning to see that my comment disappeared, so again....
Mesmerizing - one of my favourites.
Thank you, Buzz.
Hopefully by next Friday I’ll have my new computer and I’ll be able to post some photos. Posting from my phone is beyond my capabilities.
Know exactly what you mean..have a very basic phone and still can't work out how to do it..have to send photos to my lap top via email and then upload it from there...
As I said previously I hate technology....
I had the same bad luck with the one I had. Far too complicated for me. I gave the new phone to my Granddaughter and went back to using my old one.
bonus points for granny...
Yep! And I can use all the points I can get. (grin)
Hello Sunday.....A different version of White Buffalo Calf Woman
Very strong! The calf breaking the image plane is most effective in engaging the viewer.
Thank you, Mac. I always look forward to your critiques of my artwork. (smile)
meh, I just know what I like and I like this one a lot.
Thank you very much, dev. I'm really glad you like it.
In one word - impressive.
Thanks, Buzz.
Here's one more for Sunday......
Combining that starry sky framing makes the whole image ethereal and heavenly.
Thank you, Buzz. That is the kind of visual effect I was hoping to achieve.
Going to sneak this in. Today was my wife's birthday, so we went to a Korean-style BBQ restaurant in the huge new indoor shopping mall across the road for lunch. A while ago I posted a photo essay about that mall.
.
The menu showed some of the different things to put on the grill. There were lots of veggies as well.
.
The "free drinks" were hot and cold water and tea, but we had tall lime soda drinks on ice.
.We ate grilled bacon strips, beefsteak strips, a few different grilled veggies, a meat I couldn't identify that was delicious, and a bowl of rice mixed with some things that made it the best tasting rice I can remember.
.
Back home for the cake. No candles but we tried something unusual - a variety cake. Those are individual segments in pairs. The brown ones are chocolate of course, the yellow-orange ones are cheesecake, the strawberry ones are strawberry shortcake, and we saved the rest for tomorrow. Looking forward to the blueberry and cherry ones. I wonder if they're cheesecake as well.
A reminder of what that huge new indoor mall looked like.
Happy Birthday to Mrs Buzz.
Thank you, Kavika.
For your lovely Bride on her special day....
Happy Birthday, Mrs. Buzz. The pic of the variety cake has me droooling.
Same here, and the cheesecake is my favorite dessert that I love to eat any time of day or night.
Thank you, Sandy. That cake turned out to be a great choice.
Thank you Raven.
Also having loved cheesecake, that one turned out to be much better than I expected. YUM.
Morning..hope Mrs Buzz had a lovely birthday and enjoyed it all.. food looks fantastic...
Thanks Shona1, it was definitely a HAPPY birthday, and a delicious one as well,.
Did I get that right?
You did, and we thank you.
Being that it's Labor Day, as a union guy, I will keep the thread open throughout the day so that anyone can share the "fruits of their *creative) labor".
As a union guy myself there are only two holidays (no work at all) for the ILWU (longshoreman). Christmas and Bloody Thursday, the day longies where shot down in the streets of San Francisco and the ILWU was formed in 1934.
One for Labor Day.....
I was expecting to see a "labour" of love - please explain.
It is a labor of love, so to speak. It is some of the items that a Shaman healer might use in their ceremony to help heal the sick. The small green item that is sitting on the drum top is a smudge used to help the sick as well. The spear and forked item is also used during the ceremony to chase off the 'Spirits' that are causing the sick persons illness.
Thank you. I have watched a smudge ceremony many years ago.
I witnessed a couple of them on the Cherokee Reservation many years ago, and they are really very interesting and enlightening. And I will say that those ceremonies are not child's play as some might think. The Shaman and Healers who perform the ceremonies are certainly not quacks. They study for years as apprentices to the Elder Shamans and Healers to learn the different herbs and the various illnesses that can affect both the young and old. Their knowledge of the human body is unquestionable.
Would I trust myself to one? In a heartbeat.
Thanks to all; will shut it down shortly.