Well, it looks like my brother is doing well. Although, based on the species of fish he's holding, his judgment might be a little out of whack. Perhaps all the trout are in Wyoming these days?In all seriousness, I've chased these guys a number of times with little success. the closest I've come to catching a carp--without the use of an electroshocker, that is--was on the lower Owyhee when I foul-hooked one's anal fin.
One thing's for sure, judging by the sun and short sleeves, Josh probably has one up on me. After all, I woke up to snow this morning...
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Dear Austin and Nelli,
My resistance to adopting new ideas is usually pretty good, but having heard about blogs for several years while successfully resisting the temptation to find out what they are all about, when yours came around with your name on it, my resistance evaporated. The picture of a lunker raises the question of what kind of stink bait or dough ball Josh applied to his wet fly following his decision to pursue quantity over quality?
Mary Dale is busily closing down the house in preparation for our trip north. We'll bookmark the blog and check in on its development following our return in mid-May.
I had the pleasure of attending a seminar last Friday by John Priscu, one of my former students who is now a full professor at Montana State. He did a masterful job of summarizing his some 24 years of research in the Antarctic where he has been instrumental in changing our understanding of the composition of that continent. He described an extensive series of subglacial lakes, probably connected in a series of huge drainage systems that make the Antarctic continent the largest wetland on earth! He's even had the experience of finding it necessary to send an open letter to our scientifically challenged President via the New York Times op-ed page. He had to request that his name be removed from the list of scientists who disagree with the global warming hypothesis. Their paper in (I can't remember whether it was Nature or Science) demonstrating a decade long cooling trend in the Antarctic simply represented climatic variation, not a change in the direction of the long-term trend!
Love
Pa and Mary Dale
The best quote ever: "The picture of a lunker raises the question of what kind of stink bait or dough ball Josh applied to his wet fly following his decision to pursue quantity over quality?". Hilarious.
is that a molestache?
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