Another fishing season has come to an end for us in Maine. It was a little chilly, in the 60's, but the cooler weather got the fish biting!
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| Esther with a 23" pickerel |
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| Frank ending his season with a nice Largemouth bass |
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| Esther managed to catch a nice largemouth too on the last day |
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We always manage to see something unusual when we are out on the water and this trip was no exception. I noticed a small bird swimming in the water and I knew it was not a duck, it was much too small.
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| Small bird swimming near rock |
The bird swam a short distance and crawled up onto a rock and I saw what the problem was -- the bird had a freshwater clam clamped onto one of its legs. So it could not fly with this weight.
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| Small bird with clam on leg |
We tried to get close but could not get close enough to help the bird. Hopefully the clam will let go and the bird will get to fly away.
This was not the only unusual thing we saw. We were nearing the pond outlet when I looked down in the water and was amazed to see many small freshwater jellyfish! I have only seen this one other time on a pond in Massachusetts many years ago. When I told someone about the freshwater jellyfish, they did not believe me - so look it up on Google! They do exist.
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| Fresh water jellyfish |
The jellyfish are not very big, many the size of a dime or smaller. It says on the internet that they are not harmful to humans but I was not crazy about seeing them on this pond we have been fishing for 25 years now.
