Good Morning!
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Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a comment.
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Appropriately, our 13th episode falls on Halloween, and it is a bit gruesome. Bertie meets up with a dedicated band of guys trying to save the Chinook Salmon from extinction, but their methods are not for the faint of heart. So be warned – blood ahead!
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And to get your day started, here’s the band Leftover Salmon with “Aquatic Hitchhiker”
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Wishing everybody a day of treats without the tricks!
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Visuals
- Male Chinook Salmon, in spawning colors
- Scary Pumpkin
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It is Monday, and I have to work. Sleep cycle still all messed up. Losing your daughters within months of each other tends to do that to a person.
Salmon are very odd fish, and become even stranger as they near the end of their lives. I love baked salmon. Watching what the locals call “combat fishing” in Alaska is wild. Fishermen standing almost shoulder to shoulder on the stream bank, casting lures non-stop. When I saw that the first time, I told my son you could not get me to go down there for any amount of money. A guy could get hurt by all those lures with big hooks flying about.
Do a YouTube search for “Combat fishing in Alaska.” It has to be seen to be believed.
Good Morning Chuck –
Sounds downright scary – I can attest those hooks HURT, and can be hard to get out.