Fun! I've never seen these before, despite a childhood where I fished nearly weekly with my dad. They seem to be a Midwest/Mississippi River basin thing, not seen much west of the Rockies.
We had the native California Golden Trout (the state fish, only found in high Sierra lakes above treeline), brook trout, rainbow trout, and German brown trout that had been introduced. And suckerfish, which were trash and always thrown back. We always had a few dozen trout packed into the back of the freezer. I came to regard trout as poverty food -- right down there with beans and weenies, or fried spam and eggs, the stuff Mom made for dinner when the month ran longer than the money.
The trout were pretty (especially the Goldens and rainbows), but not pretty like these. These look like some kind of high-end aquarium fish you'd see in a doctor's office waiting room, not something you'd pull out of a muddy Midwestern river.
As long as there are no loud boys in peddleboats disrupting the waters of Tanglewood. 😁
Momma was the one yelling across the lake!!!
"It's what I do!!!" (In my best south side of Chicago Obama voice)
Fun! I've never seen these before, despite a childhood where I fished nearly weekly with my dad. They seem to be a Midwest/Mississippi River basin thing, not seen much west of the Rockies.
We had the native California Golden Trout (the state fish, only found in high Sierra lakes above treeline), brook trout, rainbow trout, and German brown trout that had been introduced. And suckerfish, which were trash and always thrown back. We always had a few dozen trout packed into the back of the freezer. I came to regard trout as poverty food -- right down there with beans and weenies, or fried spam and eggs, the stuff Mom made for dinner when the month ran longer than the money.
The trout were pretty (especially the Goldens and rainbows), but not pretty like these. These look like some kind of high-end aquarium fish you'd see in a doctor's office waiting room, not something you'd pull out of a muddy Midwestern river.
Cute! Used to catch these when I was but a wee lad many decades ago.
But I think they're called "bluegills" and not "bluebills."
Thanks.
Delightful! I believe I will not look at a fish in the same way again. Thank you.