In the Pike Moonlight

#EAS #WEA for Clark, #AR; #Garland, #AR; #Hot Spring, #AR; #Montgomery, #AR; #Pike, #AR: National Weather Service: #TORNADO WARNING in this area until 5:00 PM CDT. Take shelter now in a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. If you are outdoors, in a mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and protect yourself from flying debris. Check media. Source: NWS Little Rock AR ** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SO

https://www.europesays.com/uk/36518/ Salmon given antianxiety drugs take more risks, study finds #28km #along #antianxiety #baltic #Central #dams #danger #Drugs #endure #finds #freshwater #from #gauntlet #given #grounds #Health #hydropower #Medication #migrate #more #must #Northern #pike #rife #risks #river #route #salmon #sea #seabirds #spawning #study #Sweden #take #their #UK #UnitedKingdom #with #Young

Heute morgen mal kurz die Fischereibehörde besucht und nachgeschaut, wie es dem Hechtnachwuchs 2025 geht.

Vor gut einer Woche geschlüpft, ist der Dottersack, das Lunchpaket für die ersten Lebenstage, fast aufgebraucht. Im Laufe des Tages werden Sie in größere Becken nach draußen umziehen und dann mit frisch gefangenem Zooplankton gefüttert.

#EAS #WEA for Clark, #AR; #Garland, #AR; #Hot Spring, #AR; #Montgomery, #AR; #Pike, #AR; #Saline, #AR: National Weather Service: A FLASH #FLOOD WARNING is in effect for this area until 3:30 PM CDT. This is a dangerous and life-threatening situation. Do not attempt to travel unless you are fleeing an area subject to flooding or under an evacuation order. Source: NWS Little Rock AR ** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***

Peanut Butter Cookies

Made some vegan peanut butter cookies.

Contrast

My fourth entry in The Composition Challenge is for subject isolation and contrast. This one was a little harder to find good subjects as part of my daily routine.

The other evening I was taking pictures of dinner prep for a possible recipe post that I haven’t yet gotten around to. With our stainless steel mixing bowls subjects can “pop” in an interesting way. Unfortunately a lot of our cooking turns out kinda beige, but not for purple sweet potatoes!

I would be remiss if I did not include our dog Pike in this challenge. I have many many many pictures of his black and brown coat contrasting with our blue-green couch. Here’s one now! This was taken right after he got groomed on Sunday.

I’m happy with how the depth in this shot turned out with our neighbor’s budding Japanese maple outside the window. Apparently it’s not good enough as my iPhone offered to convert this to Portrait Mode, something I never use. You can see how the faukeh is better now at his hairy ears but still brings the tip of his snout out of focus.

Finally here is a shot taken in a specific place that immediately popped into mind as somewhere I’d want to capture when reading Hiro’s description of contrast:

It could be very visual by putting a brightly lit subject against a dark background, or color based by contrasting a bright red rose against green foliage, or even conceptual with something like capturing someone who is clearly quite happy on a bus surrounded by dour fellow passengers.

At work, just past the security turnstiles in the newer re:Invent building, is a vestibule of Amazon Orange (#FF9900) furniture and decor that is perfect for colorful photo opportunities. For contrast I placed my grey laptop backpack on the couch.

If you also work at Amazon, or are able to enter as a guest, it’s a fun spot to check out.

There are inevitably guys who say stuff like "If I go fishing again, my wife will kill me" and I'm always astonished by that. I mean if it's not true, why say it. And if it is true, why did you marry her?

- John Gierach

“I’ll talk to anybody who has questions,” he said. “They’re surprised that I’m still here.”

To help them figure out the puzzle — #gefilte is traditionally made from #whitefish, #carp or #pike — Taylor asks customers about their taste preferences, what their grandmother’s #gefiltefish looked like and where their families are from. Plain carp is darker than other fish, while buffalo carp and whitefish are fattier. Russians, Europeans and Israelis typically would have used plain carp, whereas in New York the preference was for #buffalocarp, or a mix of pike and whitefish.

Taylor can also tell what’s in a dish of already cooked gefilte just from taking a bite. Texture and taste are the tells. Whitefish has a fattier and softer texture than pike, according to Taylor, who prefers fattier fish. He likens the differences to making a burger using beef that’s 20 percent fat versus 3 percent: The texture is totally different.

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/the-nosher/meet-the-fish-detective-who-can-decode-your-gefilte-fish-heritage/

Caught this baby #pike last night on local #lake. 113 cm, catch & release, see ya next time. #fishing

I've tried ice fishing a few times and it just didn't work for me. Perhaps sitting in one spot waiting for the fish to come to me instead of me moving to find them was the biggest issue.

The brackish lagoons around the German island of #Rügen are known as outstanding fishing areas, especially for large #pike. However, catches and catch sizes have been declining for several years. A recent study by IGB and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin shows that there are fewer pike in areas with intensive recreational #angling than in protected areas. Another effect is that the pike are becoming increasingly difficult to hook and are thus becoming lure shy > https://www.igb-berlin.de/en/news/declining-coastal-pike-catches-around-rugen-germany-fish-are-getting-scarce-and-lure-shy

I haven't used Facebook in a long time, but I'm forced to retain an account for Messenger. It forces me to re-auth every so often, like it did today which is how I discovered that Matt Pike liked a comment I left on a High On Fire post 5 years ago.
I'm not sure if I'm flustered or validated rn.

7 neu entdeckte #Frosch-Arten wurden nach #StarTrek-Captains benannt – und der Grund ist das beste daran

https://www.moviepilot.de/news/7-neu-entdeckte-froscharten-wurden-nach-star-trek-captains-benannt-und-der-grund-ist-das-beste-daran-1149981

> #Kirk, #Picard, #Sisko, #Janeway, #Archer, #Burnham und #Pike sind nicht mehr nur Star Trek-Figuren. Weil neu entdeckte Frösche aus #Madagaskar wie ein Sci-Fi-Gerät aus der Serie klingen, benannte man sie nach Franchise-Captains.

YouTube Tipp
#Pike vs. #TheDevil | #TheLegendofVoxMachina #PrimeVideo
https://youtu.be/lglwrSAOc50?si=3dJI2ogeSPeDZYHX

I can't believe this.

Near Chippawa Falls, Wi without warning the transmission went out on the truck. We had the truck and boat towed to a Chevy dealer. I will get an official diagnosis tomorrow about the transmission, but they know whatever the problem is, they can't complete the repair until at least late Monday.

My daughter in law is now en route from northern Illinois to pick us up. No big trip to Canada this year.

I'm out on the Studio / Baitshop getting ready for the big trip next week.

I prep three rods (x 2). A 6'-6" medium light for walleye, a 7'-0" med light for bass and pike, and 6'-6" medium for pike. Of course, the fish don't know this, but I try to use the appropriate rod for the area we are working.

Cubs game on the radio keeps me company.

And, no, I don't catch the bass and northern on the wall. They are wood carvings.

Rewriting History: Ice Age Hunters Used Planted Pikes, Not Throwing Spears, To Bring Down Mammoths
https://scitechdaily.com/rewriting-history-ice-age-hunters-used-planted-pikes-not-throwing-spears-to-bring-down-mammoths/ #archaeology #hunting #clovispoints #mammoths #megafauna #pike

Are drying #rivers a warning of #Europe's tomorrow?

by Paul Hokenos
13 September 2022

"Across southern #Romania, much of which relies on the #Danube for fresh #DrinkingWater, hundreds of villages are rationing water supplies and curtailing the irrigation of #farmland that Europe relies upon for #corn, #grain, #sunflowers, and #vegetables. The cruise ships that normally ferry tourists along the iconic waterway are docked. In the first six months of 2022, Romania's #hydropower utility #Hidroelectrica generated a third less electricity than it normally does. And Romanian #wheat farmers say that drought has cost them a fifth of their harvest. Romania is one of Europe's largest wheat producers, and all the more important for the international market in light of Russia's blockage of much of Ukraine's wheat exports.

"'At towns up and down the Danube, #drought and #ClimateChange take on an existential meaning,' explains Nick Thorpe, author of The Danube: A Journey Upriver from the #BlackSea to the #BlackForest. 'In contrast to city dwellers, they're having this disaster unfold before their eyes.'"

[...]

"Scientists say that the economic cost of the rivers' decimation is only part of the problem. The less water in the water system as a whole, explains Gabriel Singer, an ecologist at University of Innsbruck, Austria, the less dilution for #salts and the slower a river flows. This leads to higher #saline content and #HigherWaterTemperatures, which can be lethal for many species of #Riverine life, such as Danube #salmon, b#arbel, and European #grayling, among many others.

"Higher temperatures also feed #AlgaeBlooms, Singer explains, which can be #toxic for river systems. This is what has happened in several German rivers, including the Moselle and Neckar, as well as perhaps the Oder River, where in mid-August more than 100 metric tons (220,000lbs) of dead fish – among them #perch, #catfish, #pike, and #asp – washed up on its shores within a week. (Experts are currently investigating the cause of the die-off.)"

Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220912-are-drying-rivers-a-warning-of-europes-tomorrow