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When a largemouth bass eats something the size of a frog, it opens its maw nearly as big around as its own head, and takes it in a single sweeping gulping swallow. The frog is floating quietly in the sunlight one second, swallowed whole by an unseen predator the next. A fisherman naturally loves to see this, but when you stop and think about it, it's sort of horrifying.

-John Girach

#fishing #flyfishing #bassfishing #fishingfriday

My opinion is that dew points in the mid '70's are not ideal.

For one thing, you almost always get into camp and catch some fish, and the part about getting stranded becomes part of the adventure, making for a better story later. I mean, its hard to build suspense when you're telling about a trip that went smoothly from beginning to end.

-John Girach

#fishing #flyfishing #trout #bassfishing #outdoors

90 degrees with a dew point of 68 degrees, and no wind?

That's not my kind of weather for fishing.

#fishing #flyfishing #bassfishing #trout

I'm very disappointed that I can't listen to the Cubs games on 670 The Score on line in my area.

I'm open to suggestions.

#Chicago #Cubs #MLB

I'm not adjusting very well.

#Chicago #illinois #tallahassee #florida

I've always been a sucker for all the paraphernalia that bogs down the sport. Even as a boy the fishermen I admired weren't necessarily the ones who caught the most fish but the ones with the biggest and best stocked tackle boxes-tray after tray of brightly colored plugs and stylized scales or frog spots and the blankly staring eyes of cartoon characters.

-John Girach

#Fishing #FishingFriday #bassfishing #trout #outdoors

A little further on I drove right past the place we were looking for and didn't realize it until we came to the landmark that told us we've gone too far. (When the directions include the phrase "you can't miss it" I *can* miss it and usually do.)

#fishing #flyfishing #outdoors #Chicago #illinois #tallahassee #florida

For my own part, I've never been able to manage anything like dignity while fishing and I never met anyone else who could manage it either. The few who tried all ended up looking like pompous fools, although to their credit, many of them came to realize that eventually to their credit, many came to realize that and would only fish with other pompous fools.

-John Girach

#Fishing #flyfish #outdoors

Between 620,000 and 700,000 died in the U. S. Civil war. About 500 of those were women soldiers in spite of the males only.

Most women Civil War soldiers were not married. Some wanted to be with their boyfriends, others joined on their own to fight for the cause. Getting wounded or pregnant was a good way to get outed.

When discovered and dismissed many women just joined another unit and continued the fight.

#civilwar #ushistory

The inside of Orion capsule looks like something I wired up.

#nasa2026 #nasa #ARTIMIS #moon

Do you know someone who owns a prostate gland? It's time to ask yourself or them when the last had a PSA blood test and heard the snapping of the latex glove. Check with your doc when you should get tested.

And above all, don't take medical advice from someone on Mastodon!

I still have my father's old tackle box just as he left it the last time he went fishing nearly a half century ago. I take it down from the pantry shelf & open it every few years for sentimental reasons. This is now done as a private observance, because in the past, I've shown it to collectors who all said it was a damn shame that the potentially valuable old lures weren't in mint condition in their original boxes but had actually been *fished*.
-John Girach

#fishing #fishingfriday #tackle