Grayling pics for Tim the Fish Man...

Yukon Mike

Yukon Mike

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Its hard to get a good picture of these guys because they loose their color really fast when you kill them and getting the light right is a fluke. Also, their colors are different when you look at them in the water instead of out. This one doesn't show, but there are electric pink stripes on the pelvic fins as well as the edge of the dorsal fin. You might be able to see the thin black stripe that shows on edges of the tail. The number of black spots varies between individuals, but the size of the dorsal fin seems to be influenced by the sex of the fish. The large more mature fish are usually darker which makes the pink show more. I'd guess this one to be a female from the size of the fin.

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This is a mature male. The dorsal fin has a bit of rip but I think you can see that it reaches to the adipose fin, which is typical of a big male. He's also darker and check out the pink on those pelvic fins!
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This is what they look like dipped in Fish Crisp and floated in hot oil.

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No ducklings spotted around here yet, but it is the season so any day now I imagine. We're having quite a bit of flooding in the S Yukon this year which might have made it hard on nesters. I saw a loon the other day still sitting on a nest still.

Mike
 
Mike, looks like dinner will be good!

Great fish dinner for everyone and the sun is even shining!


You going to go back to asia this spring? Me and anya are hitting Thailand/Australia/New Zealand.

The trip is our "light at the end of the tunnel."
 
I know, I saw that! You guys are going to have a great time. tripadvisor.com and my favorite, www.dive-the-world.com for good info.

I challenge you (you ate the bugs right?) to try the barbq'd toad.

No more big trips for us anytime soon. Jane is working on a Masters in teaching ESL so that will be our direction for the next few years. Full time teacher, part time student, full time mom will keep that chick busy.

Hey, I don't know if you saw my post to you, but take your own fishing gear with you if you can. Squid fishing in Thailand with an ultra light spinning outfit was a hoot! NZ was surprisingly pricey so if nothing else take your own fly boxes. My #1 pick for a dry fly would be a Twilight Beauty in a brown color, anything black with a gold beadhead will do for a nymph. I wouldn't fish the Tongariro again, but I sure loved the area around Te Anau and on the Eglinton. You won't need a guide, the rivers are similar to where you live and you'll read them no problem.
 
Hell yes I'll eat toad!
I will figure out a way to get some meat for the table..

Anya's kin live in the last 1000 meters of the Chao Phraya and the Thai people built a wall to keep the floods back.

They messed up though, and the floods still refresh the pond between the house and the river a couple times each year.

There are catfish that have to be 20 lbs, and all kinds of tilapia and other wild things in that water.

Damned Monitor Lizards ride up on logs at hi tide and make a ruckus of the house.


The girls usually spray them with water or swat them with a broom.
 
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I like your shore lunch box!!!!
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The heck with the box, I like his lunch!

Dang teachers and their "part time" jobs, :>) :>) get their whole summer free to bum around and fish.
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Nice fish Mke, I prefer them caught and RELEASED right into hot oil as well. I hope to catch a few of those graceful buggers this summer. Loos like a great day to be out.

As for Tim, did the see the painting for the grayling he did for me? Pretty damn sweet!

T
 
Very cool! The pelvic fins on Grayling are a little funky. Normally the coloration on fins follows the rays but on them it sort of slightly cuts across.
I know how hard it is to catch the colors on fresh fish. I've been carrying my camera along to try to get lots of reference photos but it seems like every good fish has been caught while it's been raining this summer.

I hope the pup got a chunk of fish, seems to be waiting patiently.

Tim
 
You got a picture of your grayling painting?
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Do I ever!!!

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