Frozen fish!

[Friller2009]

Is that a good thing or a bad thing? This is his thread! Although I had assumed it was in the Lounge, didn't notice that we were in a "serious" part of the forum. My bad.

"Robot pike man"????

Nah i'm just playing with you mate. I don't think too many people care about "serious disscussion" when esox is in the thread lol.

Well you said that esox is a bot, and him being named northen pike I think the name is only fitting!

 

[fishhead0103666]

I dunno 'bout that...

How’s the weather?

Overcast here.

www.monsterfishkeepers.com

Personally, I'll be watching him closely...

Pretty sure you can’t traumatize a bot with a picture, ain’t that so esoxlucius ?

 

[esoxlucius]

Well, well, well. Would you Adam and Eve it. Old Esox starts a serious thread, Elmer Fudds long lost brother gets involved and the thread goes to s**t. And he has the gall to blame me for leading threads astray!!

Absolutely unbelievable!

 

[jjohnwm]

Nah i'm just playing with you mate. I don't think too many people care about "serious disscussion" when esox is in the thread lol.

Well you said that esox is a bot, and him being named northen pike I think the name is only fitting!

Lol...esox...pike...woosh! Right over my head without disturbing a non-existent hair ...

Esox...I simply based it upon the scientific method, i.e. observing, extrapolating, testing, proving. You just make it too easy!

 

[Trouser Cough]

Ask Trouser Cough about cold; I believe he mentioned in one thread temperatures of -70C.

Whoa there, Sparky! I'm an F man and the only time I fully grasp C is at minus forty!

I've been to Prudhoe Bay roughly 30 years ago when the ambient temp was a hair shy of forty below but the wind chill put us at minus 100*f. I walked outside w/ a cup of coffee and threw it up in the air just to watch it not hit the ground.

I've been to Fairbanks, AK on a day that the thermometer reading according to their local bank was minus 70*f and the next morning when I wandered outside there were water droplets on my windshield... roughly 12 hours later. When I get to pick I prefer coastal areas where the temps rarely if ever hit minus forty. The closer you get to the interior though the more likely you'll eventually run into a temp you wish you hadn't. Fairbanks works that way in the summer, too; hotter than a billy goat. I've stayed in Coldfoot, AK too where local lore is that they've hit -82*f though I wasn't there when it was that cold.

By the way...you do realize that the water under the ice anywhere is pretty much the same temperature in winter, usually just above zeroC. The colder the winter is, the thicker the ice will freeze at the surface, but the water beneath remains above zero. It's like boiling water on your stove; if you turn up the heat, the water boils faster but it doesn't get any hotter. Freezing works the same way in reverse; as more heat energy is lost, more water turns solid but whatever remains liquid doesn't/can't get any colder. So as long as liquid water remains under the ice, a fish in the extreme north is living in pretty much the same temperature as one much further south...except the ice above its head is measured in feet rather than in inches, and the frozen season lasts much longer each year.

Huh. Hadn't pondered that example. Nice.

 

[The Masked Shadow]

Right over my head without disturbing a non-existent hair

Love this sentence

As for fish that are cold kings I immediately think of trout

 

[jjohnwm]

Whoa there, Sparky! I'm an F man and the only time I fully grasp C is at minus forty!

At least you get to just refuse Celsius. I grew up with Fahrenheit...but must now accept Celsius...and then I come on an international forum like this and can't even keep track of which I should be using.

I've been to Prudhoe Bay roughly 30 years ago when the ambient temp was a hair shy of forty below but the wind chill put us at minus 100*f. I walked outside w/ a cup of coffee and threw it up in the air just to watch it not hit the ground.

Well, it must still hit the ground...even if it shatters when it does...

The closer you get to the interior though the more likely you'll eventually run into a temp you wish you hadn't.

Absolutely! Winnipeg loves to trumpet the fact that it's the '"heart" (geographic center) of Canada. They don't spend much time explaining how that means you are very likely to freeze your *** off in winter!

 

[Trouser Cough]

Well, it must still hit the ground...even if it shatters when it does...

You would think so but it did not. The coffee instantly turned into what looked like millions of very small ice crystals and floated away. My assumption was that the humidity level and the temp were both low enough that a brownish icey fog was possible and the sound of a solid hitting the ground was not.

 

[jjohnwm]

You would think so but it did not. The coffee instantly turned into what looked like millions of very small ice crystals and floated away. My assumption was that the humidity level and the temp were both low enough that a brownish icey fog was possible and the sound of a solid hitting the ground was not.

That is very cool! I almost wish I had a chance to try that out...almost...

 

[Trouser Cough]

That is very cool! I almost wish I had a chance to try that out...almost...

I look forward to never trying it again!