Dead fish photos

[Eric Sedletzky]

Here's some pics of last weekend up at Gerstle.

 

[scubajunkee]

Nice!!!

-Ericson

 

[abman]

Here's some pics of last weekend up at Gerstle.

hi zky, nice lings, did you shoot all three? the dfg limit this year is 2 per day 24" & bigger. nice vermillion.. ken the one that you are holding up went....15-28#?

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

hi zky, nice lings, did you shoot all three? the dfg limit this year is 2 per day 24" & bigger. nice vermillion.. ken the one that you are holding up went....15-28#?

That guy in the photo is Steve, it's not me.
There were three of us hunting that day and each of us got 1 ling. Steve got the biggest and it was 42 inches and 25 lbs.
All of us shared in the taking of the reds but Steve also managed to get the biggest reds too. It definitely was HIS day.

ZKY

 

[renpirate]

That is a really, really big fish!!!!

 

[HaoleDiver]

Man, those were beautiful fish. I love coming across fish like that with students, so they can see that there are more than little senoritas in the oceans of California. Too bad those particular ones aren't swimming around anymore.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

Man, those were beautiful fish. I love coming across fish like that with students, so they can see that there are more than little senoritas in the oceans of California. Too bad those particular ones aren't swimming around anymore.

Well I see it like this:

First there is the plankton, the little oranisms that are the beginning of the food chain in the ocean. Then comes along a very small fish that eats the plankton so it can grow big and strong. Poor plankton.
Then the fish gets eaten by another bigger fish because it was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Poor little fish - oh well.
Then that happy fat little fish is swimming along and out from behind a rock comes a huge mouth wide open with lots of big teeth and like lightning grabs that happy fish and the little fish reels in pain as those nasty teeth rip into it's sides. In a second the happy fish made that big mean ling the new happier fish. Bummer.
Then comes along this even bigger temporary fish who thinks he's a fish when he's underwater you see. And he carries a special tool to get his food, just like the other fish who eat fish, they have tools too, they are called teeth.
So this hungry human slams this happy ling who just slammed a fish who just slammed a fish who just slammed some plankton and so the cycle goes on.

If you want to see the fish that I ate I'm afraid you'll have to go to the Sonoma County waste treatment plant but you won't see it because that fish is already back out in the ocean in a decomposed form and some viscious plankton just slammed it.

ZKY

 

[JustinW]

Man, those were beautiful fish. I love coming across fish like that with students, so they can see that there are more than little senoritas in the oceans of California. Too bad those particular ones aren't swimming around anymore.

While this is a nice happy go lucky feel good mushy opinion to have, our existence on earth means that the aforementioned mushy happy-doo feelings are not rational. In order for us to survive we must eat something, and even on a diet of soy nuggets, hundreds of field mice per acre are maimed and killed by the harvester. If you would like to have your students see fish like these, take them to areas designated as preserves, where underwater hunting and fishing do not take place. So I will correct you, no it is NOT too bad that those particular ones aren't swimming around anymore, in fact, it is perfectly acceptable that those fish were taken in a legal and ethical manner.......even in bunny-hugger Northern California.

 

[JustinW]

Perfect Shot!

 

[renpirate]

.......even in bunny-hugger Northern California.

You know bunnies taste good too!