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**Thin Crust Tavern Cut** @GregArcus@mastodon.world · 4d

Thin Crust Tavern Cut @GregArcus@mastodon.world

If you are one of those who keep a cheap rod in the car for emergencies (not exactly a throwaway), you may eventually learn that the relative snazziness of your tackle doesn't have a whole lot to do with how well you fish.

- John Gierach

#fishing #flyfishing #bassfishing

**Thin Crust Tavern Cut** @GregArcus@mastodon.world · 5d

Thin Crust Tavern Cut @GregArcus@mastodon.world

It's time to buy the fishing licenses, do some stretching, have the rods rigged, and make sure the boat batteries are charged.

The fishing is always good, the catching might be another story.

A black and gray aluminum fishing boat tied to a dock on a gray day.

#fishing #flyfishing #fishingfriday

**Eishi Noguchi** @enog@masto.ai · 6d

Eishi Noguchi @enog@masto.ai

#ThursdayThoughts

The question was not which fly I use, but how I needed to cast it to reach my target
There were two options: a side cast through the 3-foot gap under the tree, or a roll cast through the 3-foot space between the trees growing on both banks

A view of a creek flowing through the woods. The left bank features cliffs that have bushes and trees. On the right bank, tree branches stretch towards the center of the creek. The water, clear and tinged with light green hues, flows from an area filled with rocks.

#FlyFishing #Fishing #Trout

**Eishi Noguchi** @enog@masto.ai · Mar 26

Mar 26

Eishi Noguchi @enog@masto.ai

#WellnessWednesday
#MidweekMotivation

Valley Creek, PA

I won’t have time for fly fishing next weekend since my son has a soccer tournament, but I might try to find some nearby water for quick fly fishing or at least stroll around some creeks

A small creek winds through the woods, forming a horseshoe shape in this section. The water is calm, reflecting the trees and a partly sunny sky.

#FlyFishing #Fishing #Trout

**Eishi Noguchi** @enog@masto.ai · Mar 26

Mar 26

Eishi Noguchi @enog@masto.ai

#WaterfallWednesday

The complex water columns and currents But the plunging water and bubbles create just enough cover to let me cast repeatedly without spooking the trout, until the fly is hit by a trout lurking in the deep water

A short but wide waterfall cascades into a green-hued pool, surrounded by dense woods that still don’t have leaves. The water shallows as it flows toward the foreground, revealing smooth rocks clearly visible beneath the surface.

#FlyFishing #Fishing #Trout

**Eishi Noguchi** @enog@masto.ai · Mar 26

Mar 26

Eishi Noguchi @enog@masto.ai

#ThickTrunkTuesday

They are typically found in locations where fly casting is more challenging
The fly needs to either go under the log or land just beyond it

A small creek winds through the rocky terrain, surrounded by woods. The left bank features rocky cliffs, while the right bank is flatter, with many rocks. A fallen tree spans the creek, and two additional logs are visible along the left bank. The water is clear, with moss-green hues reflecting the surroundings.

#FlyFishing #Fishing #Trout

**American Naturaliﬆ** @ASNAmNat@ecoevo.social · Mar 19

Mar 19

American Naturaliﬆ @ASNAmNat@ecoevo.social

Does availability of juvenile refuge affect size structure of adults? Uszko et al. show that size of streams used as nurseries impacts growth and size structure of lake trout by controlling the strength of cannibalistic mortality and resource competition.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/734103

#trout #stream #lake #cannibalism
#sizeStructure

**Kenneth** @Kenneth.hag1@pixelfed.social · Mar 18

Mar 18

Kenneth @Kenneth.hag1@pixelfed.social

Just look at the colours, its crazy.

#icefishing #fishing #arctic #feelgood #nature #artofnature #coloursofnature #trout #ørret #cold #arctichar

#arctichar

**Kenneth** @Kenneth.hag1@pixelfed.social · Mar 18

Mar 18

Kenneth @Kenneth.hag1@pixelfed.social

A nice day at icefishing

#icefishing #fishing #arctic #feelgood #nature #artofnature #coloursofnature #trout #ørret #cold #arctichar

#arctichar

**Greg Cocks** @GregCocks · Mar 18

Mar 18

Greg Cocks @GregCocks

Coastal Environments - LiDAR Mapping of Copper Tailings Impacts, Particle Retention of Copper, Leaching, and Toxicity
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https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17050922 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #coastalenvironment #coast #coastal #mine #tailings #minetailings #GlobalTailingsManagementStandard #Keweenaw #LiDAR #bathymetry #topobathy #UAS #drone #particledispersal #copper #retention #leaching #BuffaloReef #toxicity #Daphnia #benthic #organisms #risk #hazard #contamination #impacts #sediment #water #hydrology #Michigan #USA #LakeSuperior #PortageLakeVolcanic #geology #spatialanalysis #biology #ecosystems #fisheries #trout #enviornmentalimpacts #leaching #riparian #systems

maps - Geographic location of Grand (Big) Traverse Bay (red to green contours) along the eastern shoreline of the Keweenaw Peninsula. On the Peninsula, early copper mines are indicated by black dots within the Portage Lake Volcanic Series (dashed lines) and large stamp mills by stars. Two mills (Wolverine and Mohawk) are located near Gay. Insert shows anthropogenic copper inventory “halo” around the Peninsula, in µg/cm² copper

maps - Grand (Big) Traverse Bay: 2010 LiDAR DEM (digital elevation model) colour-coded by elevation and water depth (depth scale to right). Red horizontal contour lines are at 5 m depth intervals. Gay tailings pile (“original pile”) is indicated, as well as migrating underwater stamp sand bars dropping into an ancient river channel (the Trough; at locations #1, and #5). On the eastern flanks of Buffalo Reef, stamp sands are moving out of the Trough into cobble/boulder fields (#3, #4). Along the western edges, stamp sands have migrated as a beach deposit to the Traverse River Seawall (#8) and are slipping down into an underwater depression (#7) next to cobble/boulder fields. Stamp sands are also moving around the harbour outlet (#8). Hence, both the eastern and western sides of Buffalo Reef are experiencing tailings encroachment. Lower on the reef (#2, #6), there is little contamination. Past the Traverse River, the sands in the southern bay are almost exclusively natural quartz grains (#9), forming a white beach with shoreline cusp-like features and bar, plus ridges (#10) of natural sand moving from the shelf into deeper waters off the bay and into Lake Superior

aerial images - UAS high-resolution drone elevation and bathymetry surveys (base map 9 August 2022) of shoreline retreat at the original Gay pile location after bluff removal. Overlays along the beach edge trace shorelines in 2009, 2016, and 2022. The 78 m retreat over 6 years (2016–2022); equates to a 13 m/yr rate. The previous, nearly constant, long-term retreat rate prior to 2009 averaged 7.9 m/yr (ca. 26′) [7,57]. The original Jacobsville Sandstone shoreline, before stamp sands were discharged, is marked by the red border in the far-left upper region. Note white concrete basements of the two mills and remnants of both wooden and broken concrete launders in the northern region. Environmental recovery is beginning, as benthic organisms and fish are returning to clear underwater stretches of the bedrock shelf, where waves have removed stamp sands. Scattered trees (many birch) are beginning to colonise what is left of the original Gay Pile surface.

photos - Gay Stamp Sand Pile. (a) Wooden discharge launder distributing tailings onto the Gay Pile, around 1922, with smaller sluices conveying stamp sand and slime clays laterally (courtesy MTU Archives). (b) Photo of 6–8 m high stamp sand bluffs in July 2008 off Gay, showing a buried small lateral sluiceway protruding out of the pile along the shoreline. Lake Superior waters are to the right; the dark beach sands are stamp sands with intermixed slime clay layers. (c) Bluff photo from about the same location in 2019, when shoreline erosion (ca. 7–8 m/year) reached the buried launder support beams, just before bluff removal.

**Kenneth** @Kenneth.hag1@pixelfed.social · Mar 17

Mar 17

Kenneth @Kenneth.hag1@pixelfed.social

Fishy buisness.

#icefishing #fishing #arctic #feelgood #nature #artofnature #coloursofnature #trout #ørret #cold

#cold

**Egbert** @evdh@mastodon.nl · Mar 15

Mar 15

Egbert @evdh@mastodon.nl

Brown trout proven to successfully navigate beaver dams.

#science #trout #beaver #scotland

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2025/03/brown-trout-proven-to-successfully-navigate-beaver-dams.page

**Thin Crust Tavern Cut** @GregArcus@mastodon.world · Mar 11

Mar 11

Thin Crust Tavern Cut @GregArcus@mastodon.world

[W]ether it's a brilliant job of fishing or just dumb luck, you'll now and then pull one off that you can't tell anyone about because it would sound too perfect and they would have to assume you most of it up. But whatever anyone thinks, you'll just have done something once thought impossible and that is the whole point of fishing.

Nive puffy clouds behind a guy who is casting a fishing lure toward a rock shorelind.

#fishing #flyfishing #bassfishing

**Thin Crust Tavern Cut** @GregArcus@mastodon.world · Mar 5

Mar 5

Thin Crust Tavern Cut @GregArcus@mastodon.world

There are inevitably guys who say stuff like "If I go fishing again, my wife will kill me" and I'm always astonished by that. I mean if it's not true, why say it. And if it is true, why did you marry her?

- John Gierach