Caddis are becoming a growth industry, first the French rolled them in gold and precious stones, now we’re shamelessly exploiting the poor beasts for all manner of adornment.
Wildscape.com specializes in Caddis cases made from semi-precious stones, reinforced by epoxy, then transformed into pendants, bracelets, and necklaces.
The prices are a little easier to swallow, easier than the “brick” the Trout has to eat.
Owe your life to a Carp? If there’s justice you will. Researchers discover how carp can survive in oxygen depleted water, and the same process could be used to minimize the oxygen depravation damage incurred by stroke victims.
It’s poetic justice, after a lifetime of tossing coarse fish up onto the bank to expire, it’s you lying on the bank gasping for breath while clutching your chest, and the Carp swims close and gives you the extended pectoral fin…
I get the extended pectoral fin sometimes, but it’s usually cause I am peeing in the lake.
>blockquote>the Carp swims close and gives you the extended pectoral fin…
lovely!
Speakin of tossin coarse fish up the bank,
historically, we toss the small fish back and keep the big ones. This is an act of phenotypic evolution. The small fish are preselected to breed sooner; before they becoming large enough to be caught and removed from the population. This practice/ forced evolution proceeds faster than natural selection as witnessed in the Atlantic Cod population. So, if you want to catch larger fish, Waffel stomp the little bastards into the beach gravel in front of PETA radicals.
I like my caddis on the stream.
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