Watched duck parents escorting ducklings on the West Branch of the Delaware yesterday, they kept the kids tightly packed together and moved quickly on high alert. They know what lurks below.
Bass aren’t the only omnivorous whores out there. A few years ago, I caught a splake in SE Wyoming that had a mostly digested tweety bird in its stomach, one of the small black ones that live in the willows and dart around the surface of the high lakes, catching bugs.
The fish not only took a dry fly, it had to be actively feeding to be where it was in the first place. Maybe it was hoping another bird would get too close to the water.
June 7th, 2009 at 10:16 am
bass are omnivorous whores who can never turn down a quick meal and I love them for it
June 7th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
you ought to see the attrition rate of duckilngs in my backyard bass pond.
after two daze nine become two.
June 7th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
….bird’s gotta know his limitations….
June 8th, 2009 at 5:31 am
I’m glad you told me that’s a bass mouth cause otherwise that could be a bird foot sticking out of a number of other things.
June 8th, 2009 at 7:01 am
Early Bass gets the bird.
June 8th, 2009 at 8:41 am
Watched duck parents escorting ducklings on the West Branch of the Delaware yesterday, they kept the kids tightly packed together and moved quickly on high alert. They know what lurks below.
June 8th, 2009 at 10:19 am
GROMPH!
June 8th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Bass aren’t the only omnivorous whores out there. A few years ago, I caught a splake in SE Wyoming that had a mostly digested tweety bird in its stomach, one of the small black ones that live in the willows and dart around the surface of the high lakes, catching bugs.
The fish not only took a dry fly, it had to be actively feeding to be where it was in the first place. Maybe it was hoping another bird would get too close to the water.