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Trout Fishing in America
Category: Organisms • Science
Posted on: August 22, 2006 3:39 PM, by PZ Myers
Troutnut has put up a beautiful page of Aquatic Insects of American Trout Streams. It's all about using insects to catch fish, but it's still an excellent example of how outdoor sportsmen (and in this case, soon-to-be grad student) can put together scientifically interesting information, too. If you don't know a mayfly from a caddisfly, it's full of photographs of the different organisms that might flit out of your nearby stream and park on your screen doors to weird you out.
Comments
You're "fishing" to see if anyone gets the musical reference, aren't you?
(Saw them a couple years back at the Ottawa Folk Festival, together with the Arrogant Worms -- the set was, of course, called "Fishing With Worms")
Posted by: Steve Watson | August 22, 2006 3:51 PM
Fishing indeed! "Big Trouble" would have to be my favorite album and "Proper Cup of Coffee," my favorite tune. Good taste abounds at Pharyngula. -- MDT
Posted by: Michael Thomas | August 22, 2006 4:06 PM
I thought Trout Fishing in America was a strange book that had nothing to do with fishing but instead was filled with short stories.
As to the link, yay insects!
Posted by: Tara Mobley | August 22, 2006 4:12 PM
"Trout Fishing in America" is definitely a strange book, but I wouldn't say it has NOTHING to do with fishing--especially in chapters like "The Cleveland Wrecking Yard," where you can buy used trout stream by the foot....
Posted by: David Mazel | August 22, 2006 4:32 PM
In other insect news...ohmygodmohmygodohmygod.
Posted by: Sven | August 22, 2006 4:47 PM
Well, it's been about ten years since I've read it, and memory does tend to be faulty. So there may have been some things about fishing in it, but they were far from the focus of the book.
Posted by: Tara Mobley | August 22, 2006 4:49 PM
I think it is a gross overstatement to accuse Trout Fishing in America, or anything by Brautigan (sp?) of having a "focus."
Posted by: redstripe | August 22, 2006 5:23 PM
I love his corixid picture...so cute :)
Posted by: Nymphalidae | August 22, 2006 5:28 PM
Hellgrammites are fucking awesome.
I dig the adults, too.
Posted by: Great White Wonder | August 22, 2006 5:36 PM
Heh. So that's where Focus on the Family came from. That explains a lot, actually.
Posted by: Dan | August 22, 2006 7:37 PM
There's a crawdad on them there webpages. And the good book says it's an abomination. More proof all biology exists solely to feed the obscene appetites of Evilutionists.
Posted by: llewelly | August 22, 2006 9:14 PM
Of course it's an abomination - look at the little beady eyes. You can tell they're all up to no good.
Posted by: Carlie | August 22, 2006 9:31 PM
If the name "Trout Fishing In America" brings a musical duo to mind, and not Richard Brautigan, then you are a very very bad person.
That is all.
Posted by: Jeffrey | August 22, 2006 10:49 PM
Thank you very much for the cool link! I spent three years studying some form or another of freshwater biology, and if I never see another chironomid larva again I can die happy...but I've never seen great photos of the adults before.
Posted by: rrt | August 23, 2006 9:50 AM
Haha!
Glad you all like the site.
Posted by: Troutnut | August 23, 2006 10:26 AM