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The Happy Anachronism:  a fishing blog

The Happy Anachronism: a fishing blog

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Hey. Did you get the memo?

The Pleistocene is over. The hunter-gatherer shtick has gone the way of disco and yes those waders do make you look fat.

Let's go fishing anyway.

Fishing, conservation and aquatic ecology topics from the Midwest US, Belize, Central America and from around the world.

Stop by any time.

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  • A quick trip on Garifuna Settlement Day

    Posted on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 at 12:39

    Garifuna Settlement Day commemerates the arrival of the Garifuna people in eastern Central America and is a national holiday in Belize. Fishing trip!!Richie shows off his cast net prowess above.In about 2 hours of bottom fishing with light tackle a...

  • Scenes from Corozal Bay

    Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 11:14

    Exercising with Twiglet, a manatee calf being rehabilitated at Wildtracks Consulting. A rhinoceros beetle rescued (too late) from a pack of hungry grackles. Still impressive at 4 inches long! A goby photographed among the limestone rubble near Coro...

  • Whirlwind

    Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 16:58

    In the last 3 days I've:Delivered lectures to 150 high school students about mangrove conservationDemonstrated mangrove planting techniques to Junior College students and facultyPlanted 125 mangroves on a badly eroded caye in hopes of restoring itSwa...

  • Thoroughly Schooled

    Posted on Saturday November 14th, 2009 at 07:11

    I had a chance to do a bit of fishing on "River X" with Jeff Douglas when I was in Illinois earlier this week. We managed 9 fish, including this chunky spotted bass that turned out to be the big fish of the day. Jeff outfished me from the back of the...

  • Lagoons are for kids

    Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 10:22

    The fish Richie is holding here is a juvenile snapper caught in Placencia Lagoon, Belize. It may not look especially impressive, but when it matures this species can be found in huge spawning aggregations on the Mesoamerica Reef. In April and May, th...

  • Mangrove planting and something fun

    Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 09:31

    Adrian found them while we were planting mangroves Saturday. It's nice to know the large charismatic wildlife is hanging in there. We didn't see any crocs though.The old plantings were looking quite robust.Here's the biggest tree of the lot, pushin...

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sempurai

5 stars robinson unau g

Nice!

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TimSmith

5 stars Tim Smith

That's Ok Michael, no one else can understand my English either!

You also have a terrific blog with excellent photos and a fantastic diversity of fish. I truly wish I could read your language and understand your writing too.

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I like your blog. Even my English not good to read all the articles, i enjoying there... Mike, Indonesia

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