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"Four out of five Dentists recommend against their patients eating chocolate covered squirrels."
-American Dental Association press release


Obviously you're the 5th Dentist.

Chocolate covered squirrel? I never got a chocolate covered squirrel. Dang, how is it that I miss out on all the good stuff.

FMB, you're a walking Boga Grip.

Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention. I've just been handed an urgent and horrifying news story. I need all of you, to stop what you're doing and listen. Cannonball!

You take that back!!! nobody talks about my momma like that!!

Jeez, FMB


I had no idea


that you got so touchy


when someone talked about



YO MOMMA

She wasnt a "bota" if that what your saying!!!!

60% of the time, it works all of the time.

I can make that work.

Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.

This weekend I got to fish the finest stretch of native trout stream in Nebraska, the "Snake River"! What a blast. I caught rainbow trout up to 15 inches, and I got this beauty!

Show off.

thats a gorgeous fish bruce. i love the dark lateral line spots. i've only seen those well developed on wild ca goldens.

something like this:

I was pretty happy. They are beauties!

...and these were beauties, too!!

That rig would be illegal in MN. Your sure believe in highly visable and stout fishing line!

Bruce, two comments. First, where are the real photos from your trip. Second, I sure hope you don't run with sissors tied around your neck.

Oh and DIED, stop spray painting fish.

Not to worry. The waders slow him down to a safe pace.

Dave! That picture is interesting! I know you can't see it real well, but my fish had similarly colored fins to that picture. I'll try to find another shot of one of those fish.

What the heck was I catching?

Here's another one that I caught. To my uneducated eye it looks just like the fins on DIED's fish.

I just figured these were rainbows and the spots were Parr markings that the young generally have.

??????

WOW that thing is a monster...looks like he could swallow the camera!!

thats tough to answer bruce, what kind of stocking program goes on there? are they managing to grow wild populations? it definitely looks like a wild fish though not necessarily a native fish, i'd be really surprised if that was a hatchery fish.

true CA goldens are about the only trout i know where parr marks remain into adulthood. true goldens need alpine or subalpine conditions so probably not planted there, although they are reported to hybridize readily w/ rainbows and cuts and have been reportedly stocked throughout the rockies.

my guess is a young rainbow, but it could be something interesting such as some form of hybrid between (cut x bow, or golden x cut/bow). there are also some oddballs like paiute and apache trout that i've never seen or caught.

Interesting...

But a pure rainbow wouldn't have those types of fin coloration, right?

actually, wild rainbow here usually have pinkish fins, its one of the telling features between hatchery and wild fish...to my limited knowledge, all pellet fed hatchery raised bows have transluscent (grayish) fins.....although some holdover hatchery fish might develop pinkish fin colorations as they naturalize and assume proper wild fish diets....