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Spawning pair of Sparctic Char in Holland's Lake Oostvoorne (Janny Bosman photo)
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Who's up for some pink meat fish tacos?
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Back in my Alaskan guiding days, we sometimes used to refer to grayling as “brown turds.” While not necessarily warranted, it’s easy to understand the reason for the unfortunate moniker: When you’re looking for big leopard-spotted rainbows or salmon-sized char, hooking a “sailfish of the north” was quite anticlimactic. After all, they don’t get very large and fight like a wet gym sock.
But in hindsight, are grayling really all that bad? I mean, really…they feature some attractive attributes that we anglers often seek: They’re numerous and bite like piranhas. What’s not to love? They’re kinda exotic, too, what with the big dorsal fin and all (the males have the really impressive sails). And the common perception that grayling are ugly is off base, too. When you take a close look at these guys, they actually have a lot of subtle but beautiful coloration to them. Obviously, they’ll never take the place of some of the glamor species, but I just figured it was time to give grayling a little love…
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Fishing, as it turns out, is good on Mars!
Okay all you wannabe ichthyologists out there, I’ve got to admit, you’re getting pretty damn tough to stump. You guys and gals have proven yourselves time and time again in recent editions of out Name that Fish game, but let’s see what you got this time around. Using the comments section below, go ahead and tell me, oh wise ones, what this fish is. But first, a couple clues…
I had to dig deep for this shy critter, which lives at depths of up to 4,300 feet by day and then moves up the water column at night to feed on tasty things like crustaceans, smaller fish and cephalopods (calamari…yum!). Interestingly, his bright color actually acts as camouflage when he’s down deep as red is the first color to drop out of the color spectrum as you go down into the water. Obviously, he’s a sitting duck, however, if he gets caught up near the surface!
This particular one is a pending all-tackle IGFA world record taken by Kevin Wong, of Virginia Beach, VA off the Virginia coastline. Can you Name that Fish? If you want to know the answer, scroll up the page and hit our Facebook Page.
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Black kokanee salmon supposedly went extinct 70 years ago, but a Japanese scientist has just found a population of the rare salmon still living in a lake near Mount Fuji.
Tetsuji Nakabo, a professor at Kyoto University, said his team of researchers found the species in Lake Saiko recently and there appears to be enough black kokes or “kunimasu” still hanging around to make up a viable population.
Read the whole story at the JAPAN TIMES
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IGFA Photo
As evidenced by how easily you guys have been getting the past few Name that Fish game answers so quickly and easily, I decided to dig a little deeper this time around. See if you can spot this one…
This fish, a pending IGFA 20-lb. line class record, came from Africa and weighed an impressive 100 pounds, 1-ounce. Apparently, they’re pretty bad-ass too, because it took angler James Hodgson, of Western Cape, South Africa 2 hours to subdue the beast.
What is it? Use the comments section below to give us your best guess. If you want to know the answer, click the Facebook button up and to the right…I’ll post it there.
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Big Fred & Big Red
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Woz and a surgeonfish (Photo: IGFA)
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