First correct guess gets a sticker. May be two.
thee mighty SUNN O)))) are currently on tour. bring earplugs, holmes.
Nothin’ but the Dog in me!
* Aye, the dogs is in, but the rivers is blown.
steelhead/cutt hybrid
another steelhead/cutt hybrid
In these parts every fly fisher has a place in his heart for the sea run cutthroat. The sea run ekes out a living amongst larger and more aggressive pacific salmon and steelhead. Never going far out to sea this humble fish meekly cruises the shorelines and estuaries barely sustaining itself in the best of times.
Enter the steelhead/coastal cutt hybrid; big, fast and badasss. Sultan of the Sound, Czar of Sloughs, Scourge of Sculpins, Do Not Test the mighty steelthroatcutthead!
Close personal friend, lights out fly angler and cryptographer, David S. sends these pics.”There are a number of things about the fish that make it unique: Not many spots on below the lat line, very rose colored cheeks and longer snout .”
The long snout is for killing sharks David. Ever see a great white in Puget Sound? No. No you haven’t.
When Loop Tackle approached us about creating a Buster Wants To Fish series of fly rods we had to turn them down, creative differences. It looks like the AEG boys were able to work it out, good on ‘em.
two questions spring immediately to mind:
1. do trout eat ‘em?
2. who’s the photog?
thee answers:
1. sure, why not?
2. Martin Amm
photograph by
The local mainstem has been frigid lately, so I tried my luck up a smaller trib. I don’t know what this fuzzy science project was doing where he was, but he wasn’t exactly the chrome I was after. Despite the nub, he lived.
I can’t believe I let it touch my reel.
Rancho Merde 7:30pm 21 January 2008
Holy shit, look at this, I’ve found the motherload of bullshit. The Pebble Mine Project’s PR page; this is golden, I can’t believe they actually wrote this and put it out on the internet.
Can fishing and mining co-exist?
In many cases, mining activity actually enhances fish habitat and fish production
No way, they’re actually trying to tell us that an open pit mine with a cyanaide extraction process is good for fish. I fucking love this, what are they smoking over there; I have to get some
Look at number 2!!!
Will tailings at Pebble be harmful to the environment?
No. The vast majority of material to be stored in the tailings facility at the proposed Pebble mine is natural. It will consist of ground up rock, water and minute traces of compounds used in the milling process
They actually think that anyone is going to buy this? “Minute traces of compounds used in the milling process”, like cyanaide and arsenic, yeah those are healthy in small doses. I should send a memo to those guys letting them know that lead and uranium are naturally occuring compounds that aren’t good in small doses either. Must have a team of monkeys working around the clock on this
[Breaking glass, dogs barking and snarling]
HOLY JESUS!!!!! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU??!!??
[Hands over a piece of paper]
No way!! they actually are using monkeys to come up with this.
[Poops on floor, humps the cat and leaves]
*flying monkey courtesey of Epol down in the boiler room; crappy MS Paint business card I claim as mine
Hot off the wires from our friends at Cryptomundo comes this report of a fresh mermaid/thing-fish sighting from South Africa:
Suurbraak resident Daniel Cupido said he and a group of friends were relaxing next to the Buffelsjags river last weekend when, at about 11:30pm, he heard something which sounded like someone “bashing on a wall.”
Cupido walked toward the sound. At a nearby low water bridge, he said he saw a figure, “like that of a white woman with long black hair thrashing about in the water.”
Thinking to save her, he waded toward her, but said he stopped in his tracks when he noticed a reddish shine in her eyes. The sight sent “shivers” down his spine, yet he was pulled forward as if hypnotized….
Long known in local legend, the Kaaiman is described as a half human, half fish creature which lives in deep pools. It is white and has long black hair and red eyes:
Cupido said the figure made “the strangest sound,” like a woman crying. His mother, Dina, said the figure sounded so sorrowful “my heart could take it no more.” Her husband Martinus said their parents had warned them about the Kaaiman, but they never believed it existed.
Suurbraak tourism officer Maggy Jantjies said she knew the people who saw the Kaaiman well, and that they did not “misuse” alcohol. “It is something we have to take seriously,” said Janjies.
Greetings Anglers,
I’m Mike Huckabee and I’m running for President of the United States of America. The editors of BWTF have graciously allowed me space on their fine blog to speak to you for a few minutes about something near and dear to all of our hearts as Americans — fishing.
Now a lot of you may make your presidential decision based on things like foreign policy, the war, the economy, health care, education, Jesus… heck they’re all important, but for some of us, well, it’s all about spending a little time in the boat or on the bank catching some fish.
Now you might say, “Mike, I love my country, I love my creator and I love my fishing, so what’s the problem?” Well let me tell you: when the Lord gave us dominion over the animals, that included the fishes too and as anglers we are uniquely tasked with with insuring that our kids and our grandkids will have the same opportunity as we do to pull a big lunker out of one of this nation’s rivers, lakes, streams or ponds.
That’s why I’m here today — you see those striped bass in the picture? Well I gotta be honest friends, I didn’t catch those. In fact, those are lab-raised fish, raised by scientists in a special enviornment. Well Mike, you say, what’s so dang special about those fish?
These bass can live anywhere… anywhere man! Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, the Great Lakes, the Gulf, Big Muddy… you name it, these fish just don’t care! Not one bit! If it’s wet, they’ll call it home. Even better, these fish just aren’t as particular about their enviornment. That is to say, runoff from mining don’t hurt ‘em, runoff from logging don’t hurt ‘em, runoff from your lawn don’t hurt ‘em, and yes, praise Him, industrial pollutants don’t even hurt them. That’s why, when I’m your president, I’ll do everything in my power to make this bass “America’s Fish”. Imagine our lakes, streams, ponds and rivers teeming with these new bass. Angler’s the nation over, with rods bent and big smiles on their faces. Young children with simple cane poles whiling away summer days in what we all agree is the best way possible.
Friends, with a strong belief in our neighbors, a watchful partnership with our men of science, and one eye toward heaven, we American fishermen are at the brink of a new age. I’m here to ask you to join me.
Thank You and God Bless,
Mike Huckabee
Canada: America’s Hat. Sounds harmless enough, and looks it too, what with all the maple goodness and beer stores and hockey night and low gun violence rates. Hell they’re even mostly friendly and cordial, which is enough to make me overlook their tendency to drive like amphetamine monkeys on I-90. But they were just biding their time, the smug bastards. See, the U.S. dollar’s worth crap now, so the toque-wearing hordes are pouring over the border to spend their weird money at our mecca malls. Fine & dandy, all free-tradey and nice? Great, except that they’re leaving their cast off hockey jerseys and mukluks behind.
“Carla Avery is the manager for Hurley Corporation. They manage the trash at the Galleria Mall.
“It’s just the garbage. The trash is unbelievable, keeping up on trash alone,” said Avery.
Canadian Robin Kostyscyn, “I think when they get to the border they’re trying not to get busted there, so they take everything off. They wear probably old shoes over here and then change them out, put on their new shoes.”
Well I for one am done putting up with shit from the lurking maple menace. They were on thin ice already with the reappearance of Howie Mandel, and now this fresh insult. Besides, America is supposed to be the big sloppy yard ape of the world, not Canada. Our very heritage is at stake. RESIST, I say!
breaking news from northern ireland:
More than 100,000 fish worth more than one million pounds (2.1 million dollars, 1.4 million euros) were killed in the invasion at Glenarm Bay and Red Bay, on the County Antrim north-east coast.
“We are still assessing the full extent, but it’s a disaster,” said John Russell, managing director of Northern Salmon Co. Ltd.
“In 30 years, I’ve never seen anything like it. It was unprecedented, absolutely amazing. The sea was red with these jellyfish and there was nothing we could do about it, absolutely nothing.
“I have never experienced such concentrations of jellyfish spread over such a wide area. The vastness was unbelievable.”
The seven-hour attack over Tuesday and Wednesday last week saw the jellyfish covering a sea area of up to 10 square miles (26 square kilometres) and 35 feet (11 metres) deep.
“It’s touch and go if we can survive this,” added Russell whose firm supplies salmon worldwide. “It’s a disaster.”
Haha… he doesn’t even know we control them with an old Playstation, some duct tape and some CB radios!
Watch Ray Troll draw some ancient sharks. Go ahead, it’s easy. You know you want to.
We here at the BWTF Research Institute for Cryptozoological Studies have been on Def Con 4 since news of this sighting came in on the red phone. You be the judge:
RIDGWAY, Pa. - It’s furry and walks on all fours.
Beyond that, about the only thing certain about the critter photographed by a hunter’s camera is that some people have gotten the notion it could be a Sasquatch, or bigfoot. Others say it’s just a bear with a bad skin infection.
Rick Jacobs says he got the pictures from a camera with an automatic trigger that he fastened to a tree in the Allegheny National Forest, about 115 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, hoping to photograph deer.
“We couldn’t figure out what they were,” Jacobs said of the images captured on Sept. 16. “I’ve been hunting for years and I’ve never seen anything like this.”
He contacted the Bigfoot Research Organization, which pursues reports of a legendary two-legged creature that some people believe lives in parts of the U.S. and Canada.
“It appears to be a primate-like animal. In my opinion, it appears to be a juvenile Sasquatch,” said Paul Majeta of the bigfoot group.
(excerpted from Yahoo! News)
