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Nah, native lampreys are cool; about half the species aren't even parasitic. Politicians are Satan's spawn! ALL of them are spineless, blood-sucking parasites! ;)

Sorry, was out doing stream surveys the past couple of days. Yes, I meant the Tennessee River, thanks Ed!

Ralph, I'm teaching next spring so MX is dependent on scheduling. Summer vacation plans...

Maybe some folks are just predisposed to become fish-obsessed. ;)

We've got some amazing fishing around here, but I would love to have seen that river before the dams went in...

I only spent a...

Pretty awesome! Hope they can keep the bucket brigade out...

If the boat is in the water and not running, much of the pump and grate on a jet (where the weight difference is) will be underwater, so the difference between prop and jet <functionally> won't...

Sadly no on Siberia, but maybe on back west... will yell if I'm anywhere close!

Looks like a good time! No smallmouth in the photos. The top fish looks and has scale counts of Alabama bass, but I can't tell on the pair of smaller fish. They may be "good" spots, "good" Alabama...

Huchen. European version of taimen. Same genus, behaves very similar.

Bohen runs Towee skiffs, not Gheenoes; wider transom, different hull geometry, integrated rod trays, and way more stable. You could almost stand on one of the gunnels without worry... I routinely...

Greens can turn really dark, but they'll usually also have a prominent pale or orange margin on the tips of the soft dorsal, caudal, and anal fins. Of course, they also still have the larger mouth,...

Awesome ties! But larval dragonflies can't swim backward very well -- they blast water out of their tail end as a form of jet propulsion (but don't have a reverse gate!). They're not terribly...

Yeah, but "hybrid" gets invoked a bit too often -- it covers up both natural variation between individuals as well as just poor identification skills. I don't understand how people that have >1000...

yes. have fished the hell out of a couple of Imagine Rapidfires (hard poly, very whitewater capable) over the past couple of years. they've been great and have produced a LOT of fish, though am...

Getting tagged with a backpack shocker is one thing, but boat units pack quite a wallop and are not to be trifled with. I know of someone that should know better that stuck a hand over the side to...

New SUP designs are amazingly stable and get you up where you can see fish better, as well as casting easier and further. They're essentially nanoskiffs. Some of the poly SUPs (like the Imagine...

congrats! They're addicting -- particularly in clear water!

No, the fun part would be forging your own hooks from naturally occurring iron deposits...

Hey Grampa,

There's a few rotomolded poly SUPs that work rather well for fishing, thank you very much.
No H-bar needed, and way lighter than the freedom chicken.

Not convinced? How about a...

Last summer my SUP-crazed wife got me to try a rotomolded whitewater SUP, the Imagine Rapidfire (http://www.imaginesurf.com/). We tested them on class II/III whitewater, and the next day I had it out...

no, but they do have an intriguing new spey series out...

Also consider just going with a jet. You may find yourself spending more than 15% of your time on skinny water, if only because you'll discover new water that you (and other prop-bound souls)...

Stick with inverts. Most science fairs now require crazy paperwork and/or an extensive review process for use of vertebrate animals (if they even allow it at all!), but you could probably get away...

Solifugid. Not sure which one, they're pretty diverse.

hey R.,

Wish your trip east hadn't fallen through. Early this summer cicada Brood XIX is due to emerge around here, which means some ridiculous topwater carpin' (and every other fish around). Not...

Very nice!

I've attached a couple of very poor photos of signal crayfish, Pacifastacus leniusculus. This is now the dominant species of crayfish across much of California. The white patch on the...