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the W channel was stuffed with shad last week

Blueness comes from biliverdin in bile and serum. Blueness is far more prevalent in females. Blueness is related to poor dietary condition. However, only in males also expressed as higher parasite loads (males have weaker immune systems than females)...

With Boston favored by many to win it, it’d be vastly more interesting if they didn’t. (sorry) Wolves are surgically good, but for me OKC’s ball movement makes them the most fun to watch

Many of the lakes are open all year and some are small enough to be well suited to a pontoon

Though Jimmy Butler is the team’s leader, the Miami Heat’s win-loss percentage this season is slightly better without Jimmy on the court. A testament to a well-coached, disciplined team. The rough-and-tumble nature of playoff ball doesn’t always benefit those teams (and individuals) with the...

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around 20 years ago, a friend involved in domestic fly line production lamented to me that the packaging cost more than the fly lines themselves. Let that sink in. It is hard to imagine that’s changed. And another who built a fly line extruder and is now selling flylines domestically, one...

The refs made sure the 76ers wouldn’t have that opportunity https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/knicks-vs-76ers-nba-report-says-refs-made-multiple-mistakes-against-philly-in-loss-that-led-to-grievance/

My 17.5’ aluminum sled is advertised as a dual-purpose “power/rowing” boat of the sort this thread has drifted towards. Called a jet drifter, but realistically it is 99% jet and 1% drifter. A small jet boat with oars. 2 outboards (main, kicker) and no rocker makes the stern very sluggish to...

Generally agree with Evan, but there’s lots of different kinds of rivers in the world. Near me, 8-9.9hp motors often push driftboats upriver through modest riffles to access good holes above boat ramps, before floaters make it down. Usually they can only get 2-3 holes upriver before an impasse...

I use 2 wide rubber bands, overlapping a little, with the mono sticking up between them. It grips the mono extremely well. I like the rubber bands that come with broccoli

a final nutrient treatise (this is my sub-specialty in science) Across multiple studies in WA, OR, ID, and BC where nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus) have been added experimentally to streams, there have been inconsistent responses of algal growth. Many sites show more algal growth, but 1/3 of...

The literature agrees with all this, the answer is “it depends” in many ways … on when, where, how, and which organisms are considered. Context-dependent is the usual caveat. The whole salmon-nutrient story eludes over-simplification.

Although nitrogen and phosphorus are necessary for algal productivity, it is also really helps to have limestone (i.e., calcium) somewhere in the bedrock for high insect productivity that feeds trout (e.g., Montana in map below, and notable areas in midwest and eastern US). The presence of...