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12yrs old

A rod, an extension of your arm
it’s early in the morning and the fog is still gently rolling off the pond
SNAP

bad day for a certain lunar moth or other aquatic life

I feel the energy being cast on my back from the fiery sun rising over the precipitous mountain to my left,
the fall foliage becomes [...]

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Moody’s spawning is in full swing for all of this year stockies (brook, bow and browns) and I’ve been doing more observing and underwater filming than fishing as of recent.
The past couple of days the pond has been covered in milt and large spawning beds have been cleared. I caught a rainbow a week ago [...]

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Once again Moody Pond is stocked, and it’s wonderful to see fish rising! This year we stocked half and half 12-14″ rainbow and brook trout. We also selected thirty larger (I’m not telling how large ) trout , half rainbow and the other half brown trout. We got a [...]

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In Moody Pond all kinds of life is under way. Here are succession photos of
Spotted Salamander eggs.

Amazing how the clear outer jelly disappears in the water like an invisible barrier…

Eggs developing into larval stage?

I have set aside a batch of eggs to let them hatch in a fish tank that I partly submerged [...]

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I just got an iMac and the learning curve and conversion from PC is taking a bit longer than I intended. Photos are my current hold-up, but I just installed Aperture 2 and will be back in action soon.
As for Moody, the pond vegetation has been slow to start, but looks like we have [...]

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