#redfins

[troutpaws]

fishtober day 05:

redfin pikerel (esox americanus americanus)

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #736

Pacific redfin!

It is one of the only cyprinids that occur in saltwater! They spawn in freshwater rivers, but maturing juveniles (once about 7 cm, ~3 inches, in size) and adults who've finished spawning return to the sea and live along the coast.

[antiqueanimals]

Wildlife in North Carolina. February 1965. Illustration by Duane Raver Jr.

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[scopophilic1997]

scopOphilic_micromessaging_856 - scopOphilic1997 presents a new micro-messaging series: small, subtle, and often unintentional messages we send and receive verbally and non-verbally.

[ronthafrog]

redfin darter (Etheostoma whipplei)

[sparklywaistcoat]

Today I got an email message from Redfin telling me that I should recheck the homeowners insurance for my property at 2616 Etna St in Berkeley.

I sent Redfin an email in reply saying that the actual owners of that home might be surprised to find that Redfin thinks it belongs to me. I also asked whether they have proof that it does belong to me; maybe it's mine and I just don't know it? I'd love to own it; it's an actual Julia Morgan and Berkeley real estate is way spendy these days.

I also advised Redfin to stop using AI to concoct their email messages before it gets them in hot water.

(posted 5 May 2024)

[mooncheese3]

Ok So What If wei qingwei does glass blowing on the side

like idk him just making cute little glass tea sets, accessories, trinkets, etc for sj, who hes courting

ughahshshhhahahahahaha

sj accidentally breaks one of the gifts and feels super awful about it. sj, who is a tactician and scholar that sees everyday occurances and finds the underlying meaning behind it and what it symbolizes, on top of thinking the worst in everyone & everything, himself included, starts to think along the lines of:

somethong something he can never have anything nice bc he'll destroy it eventually, something something it all goes back to him being broken too and how no one in their right mind would want broken shards that do nothing but cut you—

and then wqw crouches down beside sj, who had been gathering the pieces together without his sleeves covering his hands. he carefully scoops the pile of glass and places them in a bag, all the while speaking with a steady voice— "...ey cant be broken beyond salvation; with glass, it doesnt matter how many times it is broken, it can be melted and then remade. while it wont be the same as it once was, itll still be whole, without any change in quality."

he bumps shoulders with sj, who doesnt react and simply stares back

"so dont worry about it, okay? accidents happen, and if any more breaks, ill be here to remake them again" wqw assures, maintaining eye contact throughout, even if he wasnt one to do so normally. sj understands what wqw implies, and finds that he doesnt know what to do with the implicit offer just yet

theres a pause

"all right" sj says, belatedly bumping wqw back (knowing full well itd get a laugh out of him--it did). they both get up to continue with what they were doing before

( among the things that stays constant in sj's life, fire is one of them.

at first, when sj and yq were on the streets, fire meant warmth, rare instances of freshly cooked food that brought sparks of giddiness to them both. in the qiu, fire meant enslavement (the branding) and then later liberation (the massacre). with wyz, fire meant getting burnt, for doing things wrongly in his old teacher's eyes. sj's spiritual veins being destroyed only amplified the feeling of raw, singed skin

but then with wqw, fire takes on another meaning, and sj isnt ready to call it love ("horribly cliche" - sj) just yet, so he settles for...devotion—? no, no. Absolutely Not.

comfort, then.

with wqw, fire means comfort, and sj cant help but to bask in its flame)

oh and wqw with singed pieces of hair and clothing, bc thats funny. sj would be exasperated—doesnt wan jian peak provide its disciples with fire resistant clothes? wtf????

OH AND SJ HAS A WIND CHIME. A GLASS ONE. HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE

edit: reread after posting and HDKAJSJJF THE OUT OF NOWHERE SWITCH FROM FLUFF TO ANGST TO FLUFF— very sorry but not rlly ^^

[phantomrose96]

Rent's going up $650 🫠

[37q]

kevin spaceys 5 story 8.5 bedroom home in baltimore just went to foreclosure heres some highlights from the redfin listing

[fr-familiar-bracket]

[jameshurleyhateblog]

ok so

rude.

[robbiefishing]

Perch And Crawfish. Or as we call them here in Australia, Redfin and Yabbies. The ultimate bush cook-up.

[unorcadox]

🌲

[antiqueanimals]

Florida Wildlife, April 1968. Illustration by Wallace Hughes.

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[kmarx]

[wandering-spaghetti]

Cheap Adventures & Elusive Prey

Picture it, 2016, a couple of poor young people move in together just starting out our independent, grown up (or so we thought) lives and a fish we didn't know existed.

We were both working blue collar jobs and not making a lot, but also putting a teenager (my cousin) through school, including JROTC and FFA . Money was tight and we didn't have a lot extra to go out and do your typical fun things like movies or eating out. What we ended up doing in most of our free time was riding dirt roads on our way home from work. Ths evolved into stopping at every creek along the way to see if we could catch fish. You wouldn't catch us without fishing poles in the vehicle that summer!

And there we discovered one of our favorite things to do. Even now, eight years later and a lot better off you can still catch us creek fishing multiple times a year, especially in the summer. Fishing was fairly cheap for us to do and it was always so much fun because you never knew what you would catch. And finding new fishing spots was a challenge when we had the extra gas to ride around.

Several weeks into our fishing adventures I was talking to a coworker about some of our fishing experiences and he asked me if we had caught any Redfin Pike. I had never heard of such a fish so I was intrigued and asked him what it was and why they were special. According to him, Redfin Pike is a special kind of creek fish that is really hard to catch. They are elusive and don't bite just anything that drops into the water, they are also big fighters when you hook them despite being a small fish. They only get about 12 inches long. According to my coworker and other old timers I have spoken to apparently they are quite good to eat, talked about as a "chicken of the creek". He talked about them like they were almost a mythical fish. A unicorn, so to speak.

Part of what makes them hard to find is that they only thrive in running water, so many of the streams and creeks they used to flourish in have dried up or have been redirected to the point that they don't flow enough to be a suitable habitat for Redfin Pike.

My coworker also told me that they were bloodthirsty fish and that to catch them you would want to use a lure or other bait with red on it to resemble an open wound.

That was all it took, we were on a mission. A mission to find a unicorn. I mean, a Redfin Pike.

Armed with our favorite fishing gear and some new things we splurged on for this special fish, we headed out to some of our favorite spots. It took us a few weeks but eventually we did find a good fishing hole that was, if not teeming, then definitly well stocked with Redfn Pike.

What surprised us though is that we did not catch the first ones off anything red as we had been hearing that Pike loved. We caught the first ones on a blue crappie grub while we were trying to catch Warmouths at a creek that ran through a friend's property. We were so surprised that it took us a minute to realize that we had finally caught a Redfin Pike!

They were everything we had been told and so much fun to catch. We went to that same fishing spot several days later and were able to catch a few more on a lure that is a favorite of my husband's, he has caught everything from Largemouth Bass to tiny Breem, and yes, Redfin Pike.

Picture below of my husband, so proud of catching a fish we had spent weeks trying to find, and our biggest catch to date.

To this day we haven't eaten one of these so I can't speak for the taste but they are every bit as fun to catch as they are reputed to be. If you ever have the opportunity to fish in a creek in Georgia, be sure to keep an eye out for our elusive friend the Redfin Pike.

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