More Koi Pictures

The pictures were taken with a Canon 5D. Which is very impressive! You can see that big flathead catfish in the last picture. The rest of the pictures can be found in the previous entry.

Categories: Catfish, Culture, Koi, Photography

Friday November 25th, 2005 @ 1:43 AM | Jonathon Marshall | Comments

Food, Football, & Fishing

Happy Thanksgiving to all you Americans out there, and I suppose a belated one to the Canadians. My trip to Santa Cruz was long and occasionally frustrating, the waiting not the flying. I think the biggest annoyance on the trip was that Dallas Fort Worth Airport has big screen Samsung TVs playing CNN Headline news everywhere, literally everywhere, and because there was apparently no headline news they repeated the same broadcast every 15 minutes.

Im still hoping that we make it out to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, but imagine my surprise when I arrived and I found a huge Koi pond in the front yard. I’ve been out walking around a bit this morning, mostly enjoying the mountain air and staring up in to the huge trees, everything I can’t find in La Paz. So I figured that I would share some photos, I haven’t gotten a good picture of it yet, but there is an albino Flathead Catfish in the pond thats pushing 15-20 pounds. Maybe after dinner I’ll go noodling.

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Categories: Catfish, Culture, Koi, Photography

Thursday November 24th, 2005 @ 3:54 PM | Jonathon Marshall | Comments

Mini Thanksgiving Vacation

Tomorrow morning Im leaving for Santa Cruz, California to spend Thanksgiving with friends. I should have online access, but since it’s a vacation Im not sure how much time I will be spending in front of the computer. The trip will surely add a few delicious but unnessecary pounds with Micheal cooking dinner.

Im really looking forward to spending some time in the lush green wilderness, La Paz is beautiful but hardly green, and even a few days in a large American city will likely be a bit awkward at first. I don’t know what the plans are for this trip, other than dinner of course, but I hope Im not the only one that wants to go to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, home to over 35,000 plants and 623 species of animals (Wiki). If I do end up going, even by myself, you can expect a ton of photos and perhaps an article or two.

Of course, I will be very happy to come back home to La Paz when all is said and done.

Categories: Adventures, News, Non-Fishing, United States

Tuesday November 22nd, 2005 @ 11:55 AM | Jonathon Marshall | Comments

Nanny Cay Nations Cup 2005

I spent last weekend on the water, but this time without a fishing rod. I took part in the Nanny Cay Nations Cup, a sailing event featuring teams from around the world. Haveing no sailing experience, I still decided to take part without hesitation when I was asked.

With one practise under our belts we set out to race early Saturday morning as the underdogs, but by the end of day one, our crew had worked hard and we were in second place overall. Sunday brought high winds and big waves, but we were determined to win.

“We were set to race in the final race with the first place team. We had a narrow hold on second place, but a bad finish in this race could send us into third overall. The race started fast, and we were immediately in bad position. Be battled to move up and after the first lap we were in third place with two boats right on our tail. It was uncertain if we would be able to hold off the other teams at this point and we all were getting worried.”

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Categories: Adventures, Culture, Non-Fishing, Sailing

Monday November 21st, 2005 @ 9:09 AM | Clive Mathias | Comments

Random Fish Stories

Among the many odd foods consumed during eating contests around the world are live goldfish. Many years ago Bill Kazmaier ate an all-time record 1000 fish which was four times his nearest competitor.

The live goldfish were swimming in large bowls in front of each of the competitors. On the start signal, he and the other competitors began. His competition would catch a fish one at a time and swallow it. Not Kaz. He would take the bowl and drink the water with the fish in it.

You may be thinking that the name Bill Kazmaier sounds familiar, well if you were ever a fan of strongman contests in 1980’s then you should be very familiar with his name. Kaz was not only a pro at eating goldfish, but is arguably one of the strongest men to ever walk the earth.

via mcshane-enterprises.com

Categories: Food, Goldfish

Saturday November 19th, 2005 @ 2:57 PM | Clive Mathias | Comments

Novelty Lures

I often see big over sized lures hanging in various bait shops and I always wondered where they came from. I stumbled across a website that sells them earlier today. Might be a good idea as a Christmas present for your favorite fisherman. Check them out at giantlures.com.

Categories: Funny, Gear, NSFW, Tackle

Saturday November 19th, 2005 @ 2:13 PM | Clive Mathias | Comments

Look Up and See What You’re Missing

Celestial Machines is planetarium artwork created by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne. Their software watches, tracks and graphs, the patterns of various technologies hovering, flying, and drifing in space above us. Check out their awesome creations, in images and videos.

At any given moment, there can be 30,000 manmade objects in the sky above us: Planes, helicopters, satellites, weather balloons, space debris, and other diverse technologies. They watch, they guide, they protect, they communicate, they transport, they predict, they look out into the stars. In less than 100 years, the deep blue has become a complex web of machinery.

Our lives are closely tied to these networks in the sky, but a disjunction has occurred between us and the aerial technologies we use every day. We rarely consider the hulking, physical machines that have now become core to our lifestyle. By not being aware of the hardware we use every day, we may also not be aware of the social, economic, cultural, and political importance of these technologies. By visualizing them, it may lead to a better understanding of the forces that are shaping our future.

Link via Boing Boing

Categories: Interesting, Non-Fishing, Videos

Wednesday November 16th, 2005 @ 6:23 PM | Jonathon Marshall | Comments