Ray the Bass Man

THE POT OF LUNKER BASS AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW
Raymond Gauthier has reached the end of the rainbow and has been justly rewarded with the fisherman’s pot of gold in these lunker bass caught on Toledo Bend Lake. On July 3, 1973, while fishing near Pendleton Bridge he hauled in 7 bass that tipped the scales at 56 pounds even. Since then he has caught 63 bass in a 2 acre area. 20 of these weighed over 6 pounds each, 20 more weighed over 7 pounds each and 12 of these weighed over 8 pounds each with the 2 biggest weighing 9 pounds 14 ounces each. Since then he has caught many more in the same weight range that have not been mounted.

[Postcard with caption found here.]

Paragnosial Hot Links

Girls Are Out To Get You, The Fascinations (1966) Produced by Curtis Mayfield, this song reached No. 92 on Billboard Hot 100. Formed in 1960, Shirley Walker (aka Shirley Lawson) and Martha Reeves originally planned on calling their group the Sabre-ettes. Reeves had more success as lead singer for Martha & The Vandellas.

BE.

A Good Samaritan.

Rock With Me Radio.

The Hint {via Bunkerville}.

Meanwhile in a small café.

Off to the Skiploader Pulls.

There’s A New Dial In Town.

The Phrontistery has words.

Zappa spoke truth to future.

Prancercise Season 1 Trailer.

Greta & her Fairy Godmother.

Chasse Galerite – a French creole folktale.
[via Mme. Jujujive]

The 2024 Blues and Rock Grammy Nominations.

The Pilatus cogwheel train [via Memo Of The Air].

A Question for the Girls [via The View From Lady Lake].

DIY 500cc, 10 cylinder, 2 Stroke, RADIAL Motorcycle Engine!?

[Top image: Eel guitar solo clipped from this video. She’s made similar mud-fishing videos, like this one.]


From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Fishin’ With A ‘Nader

[Found here.]

Saturday Matinee – A Catfish, Banana Shorts, Steven Wright, Ten Years After & Edgar Winter

“We be eatin’ good tonight.” [Found here.]

Multi-tasking Bananas found here.

“I saw a sign that said, ‘NEXT REST AREA 25 MILES.’ I said, “That’s pretty big.”

Steven Wright was/is/will be pure awesome, and your pastor never has to block Wright’s commentaries from his 12 year old daughter either. Heavy duty clean comedy.

Ten Years After was (is) one of my favorite blues-rock bands before I knew what blues-rock was. Those English whiteboys played it nasty.

Next up is Edgar Winter, one of the whitest of the white boys, playing one of the biggest instrumental rock hits ever. Personally I liked his brother Johnny‘s stuff better, but so what.
Now about Rick Derringer


Okay, I’m going to roll the dice and ask you loyal followers an honest question. What was your favorite song / band when you were 20 years old? Leave your answers in the comments below. I’ll try not to cringe.


Have a great weekend, folks, and we’ll do more stuff tomorrow.

Fish Faces :D :D :O & Sudden Realization Haiku

Sudden Realization Haiku:

A toddler tastes a live fish.
Fish tastes the boy back.
His hands enhance the story.

[Images found here.]

Gone Fishing

No idea what the story is. Possibly in Singapore.

[Found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 446 – Fishing in Heels, 4AM at the Acid Mart & Trippy Flip

Fishing In Heels

Late Night At Krogers

FlipChange

[Found here, here and here.]

Fishing for Llamas in Peru

Fishing for Llamas

[Found here.]

Saturday Matinee – Home Movies, Cold Water, Fabulous Thunderbirds & Zappa’s Black Napkins

Home movies – the Directors’ analysis.

Very cold water is very dense. Fishing in a frozen lake in Finland. Here’s an explanation [via]:

They have inflated their BCDs (vests) with air. This will make them float up to the ‘top’. This allows them to stand on the ice upside down. If there was no ice, they would surface. You can see when they breathe, the CO2 will float to the top (bottom) of the ice and it trapped. The wheel barrow is filled with CO2 expelled (poured in from the bucket). This makes it want to float too and hence will stick to the bottom of the ice until they dump it out, which will make it loose its buoyancy and sink to the bottom…

Happy birthday to Kim Wilson, one of the greatest blues harp blowers. Saw him with his original lineup in the early 80’s, pre-  Kid Ramos. Pure awesome then, pure awesome now. And just for the helluvit, here’ my favorite Zappa song to wrap it all up, “Black Napkins.”

Yeah, I may have posted that before, but so what – I like it. Have a great weekend, folks, be back here tomorrow for more fun and games.

Hot Links & The Temple Of Doom II

Awesome. Jim Lovell’s summary of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission can be found here. Although Tom Hank’s movie was great, the book it was based on, Lovell’s “The Lost Moon,” is a must read.

Recently there was a clever cartoon meme called “Tetris From Hell.” Now you can play it.

Are you pregnant? Know someone who is? Get your trendy morning sickness barf bags here. [via]

Wow. Interactive 360 degree video of the demolition of Texas Stadium in Dallas. From the inside. With sound.

Jim’s Pancakes are awesome pancakes.

Fishing in Amsterdam.

Dysentery chimes in on Facebook.

Blah blah hey nonnie nonnie.