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I'm off on another vacation/fishing trip. This time I plan on bagging one of them oceanic blubber beasts. Hopefully, one that is white and of great size. Wish me luck, I don't want to share the fate of one of my role models -- Captain Ahab.
I have posts lined up to be automatically published. Have a good one all.
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It is the summer, and a lot of people want to get out on a boat and get a hook wet. So here are some paintings of fishing boats, both personal and commercial, from hither and yon in both space and time.
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Gone Fishing by Teresa Trotter (click image to enlarge) |
I'm headed out on a vacation and won't be around for a bit. I have some posts lined up to auto-publish. They are a kind of low effort, but truth be told, most of my posts are low effort so you probably won't spot a difference. If nothing else my spam bots will be happy that they can run amuck. In the meanwhile, don't click on any links in the comments.
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| Bad Fishing Day by Julianez |
I have visitors and I am also going to travel a bit. My already erratic posting may get even more erratic for a week or two.
As for the picture, I like to imagine the mermaid affixed the boot to his hook to protect her fish buddies. Then again, maybe mermaids eat fish, so she was just saving her dinner. It's hard to say who's the villain of this piece.
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Noriaki Kimura, a government engineer in the Aomori Prefecture in Japan, produces trading cards featuring local fisherman. He takes the pictures and makes the cards which are distributed. From a Sankei News article:
In an attempt to improve the value and popularity of fish caught in the prefecture and promote local sake that matched fish, we created a poster modeled on fishermen in the agency's venture business in FISCAL 2017. In addition, to make it easier to carry, we made business card-sized trading cards, and in December last year, we began distributing them at direct sales fairs in the prefecture, tuna demolition shows, and events in Tokyo. Then, it is said that it got a great popularity from female customers such as "I want it by all means" and "It is cool"
I wonder if they'll ever match the value of a 1909-11 T206 White Border Honus Wagner baseball card? Information and images from Spoon & Tamago's Japanese Fisherman Trading Cards are Getting Kids Excited About the Fishery Industry.
