So I have been staying up at my cottage at there is not a lot happening up here. I have been doing a lot of swiming and exersising because there is not a lot to do up here. I FINALLY got a job so I can't complain because I am getting a lot of money. But there is a bit of a funny story.
Alright so today me and my brother went over to my aunt's cottage and swam there for a bit. While we were there we saw a fish and it went under the dock. So we noticed it come out when we put our hand out but it would startle my aunt and she would move her hand and scare the fish. So me being the guy he want to see the fishy puts my hand under the water by the dock and out comes the fish as usual. Instead of pulling my hand back I left it there. Guess what happened..... Did you guess? Well then guess now!...... The fish bite me.
Scared the c*** out of me because it was so unexpected. So here is a good question. Do fingers look like worms? Or do worms look like fingers?
Fly on. Fly free,
Avian Fang
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I think the fish are more attracted to the movement of fingers and worms than the appearance. But I have no idea.
Excuse me for not commenting on the quotes: normally I love that stuff, but my brain is dead. :P
~TKD
Brain dead people are cool. : )
And av. fang, you have just had what I'll assume to be your first noodling experience! ("noodling" is the sport of catching fish bare handed, and competitions are illeagal in almost every American state) I watched parts of this show my uncle and cousin had on about it, and it was all about like, fifty guys who came out every year to see who could noodle the biggest catfish out of a nearby river. In Kansas or Oaklahoma or somewhere. Anyway, catfish can get up to be about 4-5 feet long and longer, if they're full grown males. They can weigh over a hundred pounds.
So, they only have the competition during the summer, because that's when the catfish mate and hide out in enclosed spaces along the river. The male stands guard over the female who's watcing her eggs. The noodlers would shove their hands into a hole to see if the catfish would bite them so they could take it out and bring it back for a weigh in and measurment for a thousand dollar prize. I'm guessing you were bitten by a less monsterous fish, or else you wouldn't have risked losing a finger; it has happened to a couple pro noodlers. But I can see why it's outlawed some places. Poor half-orphan fishies are probably too depressed to grow up stong enough to make good seafood.
not a noodler, not a fan of it, never will be,
already_in_the_air
PS: The fish was probably trying to protect its unborn fishlets from becoming a fresh serving of caviar, you know? Or the fish may just have been irritated with you. : )
I was not trying to noodle.
They really should have thought of a better name, than noodling.
Well they are good at it and I am easily startled.
Yeah it probablly was protecting its eggs and I bet anyone or thing else would have done the same.
Avian Fang
Really, if I had the chance I'd totally keep my gross and slimy fish eggs from being eaten rather than let them live so they can go off without a thanks mom or even calling back on holidays. I'm so sarcastic! I really would protect my children entirely if I had any (thank goodness I don't, I can barely handle my cousins...) but where does a fish get the maternal instinct?
these are the questions that teachers should answer at school,
already_in_the_air
Same place all animals get maternal characteristic it is in the genes just like humans.
Avian Fang
Not neccessarily. What about those freaky insects who eat their kids? And all those parents out there who had wonderful parents themselves, but wind up abusing their kids or neglecting them totally or letting some stranger take them away because they didn't explain that "Go play in the street" is just an expression?
maternal instinct: inherited, developed, or surgically implanted?,
already_in_the_air
Good point, but for the spiders it is becuase their children is the only food they probablly could get and then it just caught on.
Avian Fang
And little spider children are a high-protien/low-calorie snack to get a jump on losing baby weight! Available in your local CVS!
darn fad diets that seem to spread from our species to all the others,
already_in_the_air
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