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Fishing can´t get much better than this.
Caught this salmon in Ytri Rangá on the 14th of October in 2008 on a 1/2" red frances. A very strong hog and the biggest salmon I caught this season.
The picture was taken by my fishing companion and brother (his flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/jon_kornelius/).
Now This One is REAL!!!
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In this photo released by World Wildlife Fund-National Geographic, two Thai fishermen show a 293-kilogram (646-pound) giant catfish they caught from the Mekong River in Chiang Khong district of Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand Saturday, June 11, 2005. Thai fishermen have caught this giant catfish believed to be the world's heaviest living freshwater fish but died and was eaten after environmentalists and officials negotiated for its release to allow it to spawn. (AP Photo/Suthep Kritsanavarin, HO)
I figured that by the time Kyler got to school, the fish would be this big, so I helped him out a little.
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..I need to laugh,and when the sun is out,
I've got something I can laugh aboout....
Another picture from southern Illinois.
This tree reminds me of the one from Big Fish :)
*In Explore!* :D
This is an old pic from when The Broken Family Band, appearing on the Pyramid Stage, took a load of Bigfih with them to get around the site. Also spotted on Bigfish were Bjorn & John.
SONRISE Asian Go & BIGFISH Sushi
1900 Cunningham Drive, Walmart #1631, Hampton, VA
This restaurant opened in December 2021; it was previously a Burger King, which opened in June 2014 and closed in 2019. It's interesting how heavily the logo pulls from BK's 1999 logo, with it being circular and having the name tilted.
Priest wants famous fish to help others
Darren Bernhardt, The StarPhoenix, June 15, 2005
A priest who used the power of prayer to hook a king-sized walleye last winter is now selling the fish that made him famous.
Rev. Mariusz Zajac is hoping to receive $200,000 to $500,000 for the catch, which became an ice-fishing world record and resulted in international media attention.
"It's not an easy decision to make. But I feel I have a duty," said Zajac, who was born in Poland and is priest at the Canadian Martyrs Roman Catholic Church in Carrot River, south of Tobin Lake.
"I could keep it for myself in my cabin to look at or use it for the good of others. I have already looked at it for the past six months, so . . . "
The walleye weighed 18 pounds and was 361/2 inches in length. The world record walleye for open water was caught in 1982 in Arkansas, weighing 22 pounds, 11 ounces.
Zajac, 43, was on the verge of packing up his rod and reel after a futile evening of fishing in January. He decided to recite the Canticle of Mary, a prayer of gratitude, and jig at the same time. Within minutes, he was squeezing a 22-inch wide fish through a 10-inch hole in the ice.
Zajac expects the fish, now mounted on a varnished plaque and preserved in an open-mouthed gesture, to be listed for sale on several fishing-related websites by Thursday.
He will post it on EBay "only as a very last resort" because he wants it to go to someone genuinely interested who might use it for educational purposes.
"I will take even less if I have a choice and it means going to someone who will use it for good things," he said.
Zajac doesn't want it to become a fad item due to its religious connections, as has happened with a burned fish stick that resembled Christ and a decade-old grilled cheese sandwich which had a visage purported to be the Virgin Mary. The sandwich sold for $28,000 last year.
The money from Zajac's fish sale will go to several causes close to the parish priest, including projects aimed at local youth and continued relief for South Asian fishermen displaced by December's tsunami. The catch came a few weeks after the Boxing Day tsunami. Zajac viewed his good fortune as a sign from above to help the fishing industry in those devastated countries.
"It has been a blessing ever since I caught that fish," said Zajac, who picked up the nickname Father Walleye from fellow fishermen.
He recently sent a $3,000 cheque to relief agencies in South Asia to purchase a boat and equipment that will serve six families. But rather than deal with the trickle of donations, Zajac decided to go for a whack of cash.
People he has met through his newfound celebrity -- those at fishing magazines, fishing websites and bankers helping him with the tsunami fund -- have told Zajac he could get $500,000, "or even more," for the fish. Zajac lowered his expectations a little to avoid disappointment.
"But I'm not going to sell for small bucks. I'd like to go into deep water," he said. "I believe it is worthy because it is the original fish -- the only one."
All of the fame surrounding the catch has also added to the value, he suggested.
The record fish ignited a business boom in the Tobin Lake area and inspired fascination with the power of prayer. Some of Zajac's parishioners have brought fishing lures to church to have them blessed while strangers from across Canada and the United States have contacted him, asking for prayer guidance.
So admired was the catch that fishing fanatics went so far as to filch a photo from the Internet and claim it came from lakes or rivers in Manitoba, Ontario and Minnesota. A beaming Zajac, holding the whopper walleye was listed as an anonymous angler on the other websites.
Although he'll be sad to see it go, Zajac firmly believes a larger walleye still swims those waters. And with God on his side, he stands a pretty good chance at hooking that one, too.
© The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon) 2005
In 1999, in celebration of the return of fish to the River Lagan, the city of Belfast erected a sculpture titled The Salmon of Knowledge but locally called The Big Fish.
In 2006 I asked our tour guide if this sculpture was based on the Salmon of Knowledge and he indicated that he did not understand what I was talking about. Later I obtained the following quote from a local official: " The scales on the Big Fish or Salmon of Knowledge sculpture celebrate the return of fish to the River Lagan".
The Salmon story figures prominently in The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, which recounts the early adventures of Fionn mac Cumhaill. According to the story, an ordinary salmon ate nine hazelnuts that fell into the Well of Wisdom (an Tobar Segais) from nine hazel trees that surrounded the well. By this act, the salmon gained all the world's knowledge. The first person to eat of its flesh would in turn gain this knowledge.
According to a number of printed tourist guides that I examined "the Big Fish also called the Bigfish is a printed ceramic mosaic sculpture by John Kindness. 10 metres long and constructed in 1999 it is located at Donegall Quay in Belfast, near the Lagan Lookout and Custom House."
There are also a number of seals nearby but I do not know is they are part of the original art installation.
The outer skin of the fish is a cladding of ceramic tiles decorated with texts and images relating to the history of Belfast. Material from Tudor times to present day newspaper headlines are included along with contributions from Belfast school children. The Big Fish also contains a time capsule storing information/images/poetry relating to the City.