Saw just a hint of orange sticking out of the sand. After relocating beaches, ran into a young couple with their son in the parking lot. He was happy to get a new toy to play with on the beach.
SF
SF
Strange, weird or odd or whatever beach finds thread….
- Thread starter Stonedfish
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Beach Orange
Beach Onions
Beach Onions
I would have no problem with certain streams being special regs., c&r, and NO BRAID!!!!!!!!! I'M SO TIRED OF CLEANING THIS SHIT UP EVERY SPRING!!! There's that fly.
Dad Jeans? 
SF
SF
The spinner to end all spinners! I caught a 57 pound chinook on one just like that.
Christmas morning around Y2K woke up at the in-laws place on Eld Inlet with my then father in law frantically telling me he found IT on the beach. I had no idea what the IT was until he showed me the recently deceased Blue Heron next to their boathouse. They had listened close enough over the years to understand what those feathers meant to a steelhead junkie....
Coastal Coconut with sculpin. A dish worth sharing.
A coconut tidepool for a tidepool sculpin...
Steve
Woah, that's a statistically near impossible puget slam!
You have to wonder how stuff like TV sets get into the water. Broken and someone uses the sound as their dumping ground rather than recycling it? Perhaps stolen?
This was setting in the parking area of a well know south sound beach spot earlier this year. Looks similar.
SF
Beach ants
Rare beach broccoli
Rare beach broccoli
I think that’s actually a nudibroc
Bambooflyguy
Legend
Not saltwater but definitely strange….we fished a lake by Elbe, I snagged something with my wet line. I hand lined the line to try to get my fly back….it started coming up to the surface…..it was a very old gunny sack with something in it?? At the surface I could smell the stench…..I’m not looking inside…..I watch enough horror movies!
A jerk of an eagle who stole a sole from a fisherman at sunset.
The light and dark banding patterns on the dorsal and anal fins of that flatfish are consistent with a starry flounder. From pictures on dedicated birding sites, starry flounders are frequent targets of ospreys too. And I've captured pictures of great blue herons spearing them too.
Steve
Aye, but it didn’t rhyme.
I do, though, appreciate the depth of your knowledge and ability to ID a fish from a shitty photo.
Interesting that the flounders are up high enough in the water column that osprey target them. Or, maybe it’s when they come into the shallows to feed or are dragged there on the end of a tippet and hook?
Cheers!
Haha. It is the one flounder that I feel confident identifying from photographs.
I suspect that the osprey (and eagles) are targeting the flatfish in shallow water as the flounders follow the tide. There are lots of invertebrates that spend low tide in burrows but then emerge as they are covered by the rising tide to feed. And this may be especially true because shallow water diatoms populations can really explode in damp sand - turn the sand golden. It does reflect the visual acuity of these birds that they can see them in often turbid water. [It would be cool to have some drone footage over the shallows as the tide comes in and recedes from a sandy beach.]
Steve
That would be cool. I may have to try that. I also wonder if a drone could also get a clouser out of a tree.