"The Usual" is endangered in Manhattan. That's ok; the trout are equally rare and not so easily fooled. Flyfishing NYC style.
This River is Wild and Monstrous
An accomplished blogger got the better of this beast, as evidenced by more specific imagery here. As compelling as an epic carp battle may be, I still find the look of this animal mildly repugnant. I’m trying to get past that though.
The ‘expression’ on this monster’s ‘face’ gave me a good laugh. For such a supposedly wiley creature, it’s pretty fixated on the nom nom nom. Like Homer Simpson with a donut.
I saw a Holstein calf do this once. My job was to move the calf from his one bedroom calf condo to a paddock where he could mix it up with the other toddlers. As I led him across the grass, he got the giddies and attempted an ecstatic sprint from my side. His brain totally outdistanced his spindly and little-used legs so he got about four leaps away and then passed out. I mean it, he fainted. On his side, eyes rolled back in his head, it looked like he’d gone into cardiac arrest.
I stood over the frozen calf, wondering how I was going to tell Mr Dairy Farmer that I killed the future sire of a prize-winning herd. Without opening his eyes or otherwise moving a muscle, that baby bovine’s black tongue emerged to taste the grass. Nom nom nom.
