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Jeb and I went out fishing this morning while
Michelle prepared for a
picnic with her family coming over in the afternoon. We
both caught
several fish each, but nothing to brag about. |
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It's hard to fish this pond due to the littoral
fringe of emergent, floating
and then submerged plants. Most all of the fish
caught came right at the "hard" edge of the submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV)
to open water as
the bass hide along the edge of the cover, in ambush mode.
These distinct ecotones also designate water
depths with emergent
cattail, pickerelweed, arrowhead, soft-stem bulrush and woolgrass
denoting saturated and inundated, the fragrant
water lily occurring
in about a foot of water, and then the SAV growing
to 2-plus feet with
depth of penetrating sunlight stopping growth into deeper water. |
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I caught this bass using a Stanley Ribbit
(soft plastic frog).
It was a classic strike as I twitched the frog off of a
lily pad and bam! |
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Hibiscus. |
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Pickerelweed (with the word "pickerel"
meaning any manner of small, long pike-type fish).
This word will come up again in a minute. |
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Blue vervain. |
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Pennsylvania pink smartweed, one of the most
favorite food of ducks. |
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Field mint (Mentha arvense). |
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Fragrant water lily (an absolutely wonderful
fragrance). |
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Pickerel frog. |
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Once I got too close the frog jumped into a
fresh deer track.
One step closer and into the pond he would have gone. |
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Heal-all. |
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Jeb spotted this green frog right in front of
us, which hid in a patch of
alien Arthraxon hispidus, (no common name
that I know of) an invasive
grass that likes sunny wet ground. I've never
seen the "new" alien
wavy-leaf basketgrass that is supposed to look very similar
to Arthraxon. |
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Nut sedge. |
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New England aster with cabbage butterfly. |
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