I guess you're right!
Posted on 07/13/2021 7:22:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
1,740 miles from STL to the gulf is about 550 too many. More like 1200. It’s about 700 miles to drive STL to NO. Those poor barges have a LOT of steering to do in the lower ol Muddy.
Why, don’t like the fishies nibbling at your toes? I mean, the kind that don’t have teeth as big as steak knives. đ Down here in Alabama, the saying goes that if there’s a body of water big enough to hold a fish, you can bet your ass there’s an alligator in there, too. They’re everywhere.
**They have been known to travel up the Mississippi River as far as Alton, Illinois,[3] about 700 miles from the ocean.**
Maybe 700 miles for a sharknado shark. The lower Mississippi is full of twists turns. STL to the gulf is probably about 1200.
Most of our swimming holes here are also fishing lakes and if you tried to swim, the little baby fish were always nibbling at you.
It was annoying.
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Real horrorshow stuff, was Matawan.
I will wade around in cricks happily but over knee deep, forget it.
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You, a salamander, have knees?
:)
My late uncle had a camp on the Cacapon River (it was pronounced ‘Capon’) that he inherited from my grandfather, and a dock with a 16’ speed boat across the road. My cousin and I would go fishing there on weekends when he’d invite us to come down, and the bluegill fishing was like, well, shooting fish in a barrel. We’d sit on the dock and let the fish nibble our toes. Once we’d fill our bucket, we’d take it across the road and dump them into the well in the front yard, then head back to the dock. My aunt would fry up a big ol’ mess of fish for dinner. A shame he sold it; he got tired of having to dry out and remodel the downstairs every two or three years when the river flooded. He eventually sold his boat, too, and I wanted dibs on that.
Well of course.
How can I wiggle around, with stiff little sticks for legs??
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I guess you're right!
Wow! Is that you?? You’re gorgeous!
For an amphibian anyway.
Back in the 1980s here was a shark caught in the Elephant butte dam in New Mexico. It had been placed there by someone on a trip from Mexico.
Bull sharks are routinely seen in freshwater rivers.
Crazy theory here:
Maybe the sharks get into the river by chance, and continue up the river because they need water current to flow thru their gills to get oxygen. Sharks need to be in constant motion to breathe, but they have been filmed sitting in one place where the current flows fast enough for them to breathe.
It’s easier on the shark to swim upstream than downstream because the current gives them more oxygen. Once they are ‘trapped’ in the river they naturally go upstream.
Does that make sense?
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Somebody here shared that with me because I once said salamanders couldn’t wear jeans or something to that effect.
And minutes later, there it was.
FReepers rock.
I know, because that ‘someone’ was me.
:)
You set me up the bomb!
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I heckin love that thing.
I had it for my FB profile pic for a long time.
My thanks for that, again.
:)
I once caught a catfish while surf fishing off the beach.
Well it doesn't mean they like the pork steaks. Doesn't mean they don't like 'em either. We can't rule out that they don' t NOT like them in any event.
Well played.
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