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[Gheorghe]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

It's called an Alligator Gar here.

It's considered "trash" fish here. But people who know what to do with them can make them tasty, or so I'm told.

That's by far and away the biggest one I've ever seen?

here in Europe the passion of angling is the main point for the fisherman. At least the hardcore fisherman. If it´s a "trash" fish or not, we don´t give them those categories, that kind of separating the so called good delicatesse fish with only few bones and the "trash" fish was long ago. For us, even the extremly bony "Barbel" or the Chub is a good fish for catching since they are hard to be atracted by the bait. 
Plus, in my case, it´s not only that, I´m a vegan also, so  I never kill a fish. Catch and Release is what I do. We have soft large pads for the fish to unhook them before we release him, so he might not get injuries from stones or dirt or so. Or, in case of fly-fishing where you stand in the River and throw the line with the artificial fly, you just release the trout or the char or grayling in the water, you remove the fly with the hook and let em swim again. Of course we make fotos of the fish just for memory of a beautiful day in the nature, it lasts only a few seconds and the fish is free again 🤩

7 hours ago, rostasi said:

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward at Venice Beach in California, 1955.

 

 

I love such legs and I doubt if I ever had a girlfriend who did NOT have such legs because that´s what I look for 😄

[Dub Modal]

On 4/19/2025 at 4:35 PM, JSngry said:

It's called an Alligator Gar here.

It's considered "trash" fish here. But people who know what to do with them can make them tasty, or so I'm told.

That's by far and away the biggest one I've ever seen?

Yeah, biggest one Ive seen. We have them in NC but I've never caught one despite trying. I would eat what I catch but probably wouldn't for one that big as it's likely as old as the hills. 

On 4/19/2025 at 6:44 PM, Gheorghe said:

If it´s a "trash" fish or not, we don´t give them those categories, that kind of separating the so called good delicatesse fish with only few bones and the "trash" fish was long ago.

Still ongoing with no signs of stopping in the US. Most people here buy fish at the market already fileted, strangers to what the entire fish actually looks like, or how good the rest of the fish is outside of the filets. You'll basically only see whole fish at the market in ethnic supermarkets. And you'll find the "trash" fish there too - shad, bluefish, milkfish, etc. 

[Gheorghe]

8 hours ago, Dub Modal said:

Yeah, biggest one Ive seen. We have them in NC but I've never caught one despite trying. I would eat what I catch but probably wouldn't for one that big as it's likely as old as the hills. 

Still ongoing with no signs of stopping in the US. Most people here buy fish at the market already fileted, strangers to what the entire fish actually looks like, or how good the rest of the fish is outside of the filets. You'll basically only see whole fish at the market in ethnic supermarkets. And you'll find the "trash" fish there too - shad, bluefish, milkfish, etc. 

We there in central and eastern Europe don´t have exactly the same freshwater fish like you have in US. 

We have carp, tench, bream, chub and dozens of other cyprinide for floatfishing with bait like boiled potato or corn or worm, maggots, and with have the fish for spinning rod like pike, zander (the European relate of the walley), perch, and wels (siluris glanis), and we have the fly only fish like brown trout, the U.S. imported rainbow trout, char, greyling for the fly-fishing in mountain rivers. 

What you call "trash fish" here is the more bony cyprinides like roach (rutilus rutilus... not the ugly insect "roach", chub, bream, barbel, and smaller cyprinidae , but "trash fish" is an un-word here in Europe, since every fish, may it be good for the kitchen or not, is just a value fish, because it is a living creature. 
For those, who want to take a fish at home for cooking, there are very very strict limits of lenght (minimum and maximum), prohibition periods for each species when it is there season for spawning, and day limits and year limits. For example: I could take 20 carps the whole year and 10 fish like pike, walley each year, and in the mountain stream 20 trouts each year. But for example: an average carp has 4-6 pounds and who can eat 20 of them in the course of a year ? 

And since I´m vegan I don´t take any fish, I unhook them, maybe make a quick foto if it´s an exceptional catch and let him swim again. That´s what is a very common method in UK and EUROPE. There are even waters that have "NO KILL Zones", and as I said, I don´t kill no animal and don´t eat any product that comes from animals (meat, milk, butter, cheese, eggs, nothing of any of that, just greens etc. ). 

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[Aggie87]

48 minutes ago, rostasi said:

 

At the Hotel Prins Hendrik in Amsterdam:

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[mjazzg]

9 hours ago, rostasi said:

And when your sauna deflates...?

[JSngry]

34 minutes ago, rostasi said:

One of them looks to between a hard place 

[JSngry]

[JSngry]

23 minutes ago, rostasi said:

Did Mr. Slate have a first name?

https://flintstones.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Slate

Apparently we have options. But I'm going with Nate.

[JSngry]

I call these enormous uber-thick black frames  that are popular now "Mr. Slates" even though they are always rectangular and Nate's are round.

[JSngry]

she be rockin them Sqaure Slates!

she be rockin them Mister Slates!

Vote!

[jazzbo]

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[JSngry]

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51 minutes ago, rostasi said:

I am starting to see a long overdue infusion of actual color on cars in the traffic over the last year or so. It's a cheerful thing!

[Kevin Bresnahan]

My new car is a 2025 Toyota Crown Signia in a color they call "Bronze Age".

[JSngry]

You are part of the solution!!!!🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

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[jazzbo]

[jazzbo]

Yvonne Elliman

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[Aggie87]

One of our prickly pear cactuses (I know the word is cacti but it sounds pretentious to me) is about to have a ton of blooms.

[jazzbo]

Awesome photo! Our dogwood bloomed this week and it looks as if our rhododendron will bloom next week. My favorite time of year.

[Aggie87]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

Awesome photo! Our dogwood bloomed this week and it looks as if our rhododendron will bloom next week. My favorite time of year.

Mine as well!  It's a relatively brief time here in the desert when there's a little pop of color to things.  Then the long hot summer with muted colors and many plants going dormant for the summer.  It's an interesting contrast to other places I've lived where things go more dormant in the winter months.