Name that Fish! April Fool’s Edition
April 1, 2008
Okay, you guys are going to have to step it up a bit if you want to take this week’s Name that Fish contest and win a pack of DOA Lures jerk shad.
This one is a two-parter that originally appeared in an April Fool’s gag I did for a major fishing magazine a while back….
Both of these fish were taken in Baltavia on an epic quest last season. The smaller fish is a relative of the king that lives only in a select few Baltavian waters. This one was taken on a spoon.
The larger fish was taken while plunking live guinea fowl in a deep, blue hole in an unnamed river that drains into Belstov Bay on Ostrov Novrossiysk. It fought like crazy and, according to our guides Aleksei “Little Bear” Sidorov and Jacques “Frenchy” Laurent, these things taste divine.
Name ‘em both and you’re this week’s wiener…er winner!
Hey J.D.,
I heard a rumor that one of those blue/green russky fish was caught [or maybe envisioned] on the Mad a couple of years ago. Of course the rumor was second hand information but it was from a mildly intoxicated local guide who doesn’t stretch the truth too much. Waddaya Know?
Fish 1: Rare Alaskan Borealis Salmon.
Fish 2: The Giant Green Gilled Bird Wrasse from the effluent steam at Three Mile Island.
One fish is a Bazarre Storovoyreka or (blue Meanies) and a Rainbow king of Ostrov Novrossiysk
The salmonid is clearly a jack Chinook on an acid trip and the other fish…the blue one…is a carneblanko deepfryus, otherwise known as the stuff they make Fillet O’ Fish sandwiches out of!
MJP, you’ve obviously done your homework! Yes, indeed, it’s the fabled rainbow king and the Blue Meanie from my April Fool’s 2007 article in Salmon Trout Steelheader.
Send me an email with your address and a pack o’ jerkbaits is on the way!
By the way, Neptune wasn’t all that far off. The Blue Meanie is actually a member of the wrasse family that I enlarged. When I caught it in Kauai, it was about the size of a bluegill.