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REDIRECT ALERT! (Scroll down past this mess if you're trying to read an archived post. Thanks. No, really, thanks.)

Due to my inability to control my temper and complacently accept continued silliness with not-quite-as-reliable-as-it-ought-to-be Blogger/Blogspot, your beloved Possumblog will now waddle across the Information Dirt Road and park its prehensile tail at http://possumblog.mu.nu.

This site will remain in place as a backup in case Munuvia gets hit by a bus or something, but I don't think they have as much trouble with this as some places do. ::cough::blogspot::cough:: So click here and adjust your links. I apologize for the inconvenience, but it's one of those things.


Friday, February 14, 2003

Yankee Culture

Toni Albani, regular Possumblog reader and frost-encrusted denizen of the Land of 10,000 Lakes sends along a link to what all the high-tone folks up her way are doing for Valentine's--ladies and gentlemen, I give you...

THE 24th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL EELPOUT FESTIVAL!!

(AND THERE ARE PICTURES!)

Thank you, Toni, and welcome to Possumblog's newest sponsor, StrikeMaster Ice Augers!

(By the way, just in case you want to know what an eelpout is, there's a lota-lota information HERE.
[...] Physical Characteristics

Looks part eel, part catfish. Its serpentine body has sleek tan, olive, or dark yellow skin marked with dark splotches.

Winter Behavior
First fish to spawn each year, usually in late January. Spawning burbots move from deep water to the shallows and congregate in a living glob. A dozen to more than 100 burbots form a quivering sphere of tangled bodies and release eggs and milt into the turbulent water.[...]
MMmmmMMM! That's good eelpout!


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