Posted: 5/27/2010 7:18:27 PM EDT
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Ohhhhhhh...... Looks just like a housecat. 
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Sweet pic man! |
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About the 3rd time I everwent fishing I had the luck to catch a 2' hellbender, scared the fuck out of me and didn't fish for about 2 years when I promptly had a rattlesnake crawl across my foot on a riverbank. Didn't fish for about 15 years after that.
Been ok ever since, but learning how to flyfish this week-end, wish me luck. Ed |
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Picture link leads to "Sorry, Google Chrome Browser, Open Proxies, and high bandwidth users are not allowed". If I'm correct, we have very few hellbenders here and they are heavily protected. We also have other common salamanders, fun to catch or just watch. The colors can be so bright, that they look fake.
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About the 3rd time I everwent fishing I had the luck to catch a 2' hellbender, scared the fuck out of me and didn't fish for about 2 years when I promptly had a rattlesnake crawl across my foot on a riverbank. Didn't fish for about 15 years after that. Been ok ever since, but learning how to flyfish this week-end, wish me luck. Ed Eds gonna be the sotd. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Quoted: Picture link leads to "Sorry, Google Chrome Browser, Open Proxies, and high bandwidth users are not allowed". If I'm correct, we have very few hellbenders here and they are heavily protected. We also have other common salamanders, fun to catch or just watch. The colors can be so bright, that they look fake. Same here. |
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I wanted to try to breed them at one time.
Not easy because they like colder water, which means refrigeration = not cheap. Now I fear the Lacy act. I do not want to be a fellon because I care to breed salamanders. Fuck our bullshit horseshit government and all the fucking Eichman's that work for it, fuck them all straight to hell. |
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Quoted: http://i45.tinypic.com/t6xbp0.jpg Um, yeah, pretty neat, but not the prettiest girl at the dance.  Oh! How..cute.. |
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I wanted to try to breed them at one time. Not easy because they like colder water, which means refrigeration = not cheap. Now I fear the Lacy act. I do not want to be a fellon because I care to breed salamanders. Fuck our bullshit horseshit government and all the fucking Eichman's that work for it, fuck them all straight to hell. It's easier to tell the males from the females if you stick with sheep. Plus there's the whole poikilothermic thing. Just sayin' . . . |
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Several times fishing in western NC. On one backpacking/fishing trip had some brook trout stashed in a creel in South Mills River to keep the catch cool. Got dark and I went down to the river to get the fish to fix for supper and found a very large hell bender in the creel munching on the brookies. Pretty cool critter though. SM |
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Used them for bait as a kid. Great for catching huge catfish. I think you can still buy them at bait shops. Don't think so. You're thinking of black salamanders (tiger) caught in small branches and sold for bait (illegal by the way, at least in NC). Hellbenders are much larger. SM |
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don't know for sure if it was a helbender but 12 or so years ago one of my 2nd wife's cousin's (he was a polio survior and on disability and all he did was fish) rolled up and said damn you gotta see this.
Went over to the truck and he opened the 52 quart cooler in the back and inside was a giant salamander/mud puppy whatever you call it. It was long enough that it's tail, back legs and a portion of it's body were going up the end of the cooler and it's head was against the other end. Easily as big around as my bicep and it's head was fist size. Damn thing was pissed also. Would bite and thrash at a stick if you put it into the cooler. I've never seen anything like it. |
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don't know for sure if it was a helbender but 12 or so years ago one of my 2nd wife's cousin's (he was a polio survior and on disability and all he did was fish) rolled up and said damn you gotta see this. Went over to the truck and he opened the 52 quart cooler in the back and inside was a giant salamander/mud puppy whatever you call it. It was long enough that it's tail, back legs and a portion of it's body were going up the end of the cooler and it's head was against the other end. Easily as big around as my bicep and it's head was fist size. Damn thing was pissed also. Would bite and thrash at a stick if you put it into the cooler. I've never seen anything like it. No other salamander in the US gets that big. |
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don't know for sure if it was a helbender but 12 or so years ago one of my 2nd wife's cousin's (he was a polio survior and on disability and all he did was fish) rolled up and said damn you gotta see this. Went over to the truck and he opened the 52 quart cooler in the back and inside was a giant salamander/mud puppy whatever you call it. It was long enough that it's tail, back legs and a portion of it's body were going up the end of the cooler and it's head was against the other end. Easily as big around as my bicep and it's head was fist size. Damn thing was pissed also. Would bite and thrash at a stick if you put it into the cooler. I've never seen anything like it. No other salamander in the US gets that big. I convinced him to let me turn it loose in a small creek that runs through my property. Never saw it again but I thought even if it was some kind of freak it was too cool to let die. |
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don't know for sure if it was a helbender but 12 or so years ago one of my 2nd wife's cousin's (he was a polio survior and on disability and all he did was fish) rolled up and said damn you gotta see this. Went over to the truck and he opened the 52 quart cooler in the back and inside was a giant salamander/mud puppy whatever you call it. It was long enough that it's tail, back legs and a portion of it's body were going up the end of the cooler and it's head was against the other end. Easily as big around as my bicep and it's head was fist size. Damn thing was pissed also. Would bite and thrash at a stick if you put it into the cooler. I've never seen anything like it. What state was this in? |