From the Maury river behind the house. Haven't had a bad day fishing yet, although 'big' fish is not the scene.
Pawpaws:
after thinking about it only a second, I knew the fruit Sue and I saw
were pawpaws. This although I do not remember the circumstances of some
45 years ago when I must have first learned what they were, probably
from Dad. He probably picked them up, knowing what they were, and
showed them to me - but I know we didnt eat them.
I
have a book on edible plants and the trick [which Dad probably was
unsure of, if it was indeed him] was to let them ripen and don't eat the
skin. They are full of these big seeds, which means you spit the seeds
out [the fruit kind of clings to the seeds]. It seems to be the sort of
thing you eat maybe one of at a time. Very tasty! The whole business is a
lot like persimmons, it seems, what with needing to ripen and being
undesirable till that point, but they taste and smell like bananas.
Of course I had to go back and get some more [while fishing]. So this is what I have been up to while it's too hot for hunting.
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I don't really remember these. I have heard of them, of course, but don't remembrer seeing any, much less eating them.
Nice fish-- small trout?
-F
there are trout presumbably but have never caught one [I suck at fly fishing btw]
That big one I had trouble identifying when I caught it before. It is a creek chub and seems to get as big as anything in the creek that I can catch. Googling Creek Chub can get you multiple answers, the below definitely is it [bigger picture]
http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Home/species_a_to_z/SpeciesGuideIndex/creekchub/tabid/6599/Default.aspx
they stock trout upstream a few miles
Wow! I'm really late on this post. The paw paws are interesting. I've read that they are a good fruit to grow in your garden. I suspect they don't mean in Alaska.
the pawpaw is definitely a tree ... not real big but a tree
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