Thursday, July 8, 2010

Bass vs. Salmon

It's Northwest Week in the Bass family. While I was in Seattle, my brother Justin was visiting friends in Boulder, Colorado.

Meanwhile my other brother Ari just checked in from wildest Alaska, where he and his buddies are spending ten days fishing the Yukon River and other bucolic spots. (He's far out of BlackBerry range but someone on the trip brought a satellite phone, whose brief delay and echo I forgive in light of the fact that it apparently involves, like, outer space and stuff.)

Ari reports that on the first night of the trip, after something of a battle, he hauled from the chilly waters a 30-something-pound king salmon, which he and his crew then enjoyed for dinner.

Bass 1, Salmon 0.

8 comments:

Elaine said...

I had a fish story in my next-to-last blog post, but not a 30-lb one. Wow! I hope they took a picture before whipping out the frying pan.

Ben said...

I assume they took a picture or two, but as long as you asked, here's another monster he landed in Chicago last fall:

http://benbassandbeyond.blogspot.com/2009/10/fish-story.html

Elaine said...

Just checked out Ari's OTHER big fish. Holy cow!
(Are ALL the Big Bass Boys good-looking? Apparently.)
But I see you've also impressed some Korean? followers, Ari.

Ben said...

There's a spam factory in Japan that won't stop posting ads here, which I dutifully remove in an ongoing Sisyphean struggle. In this case, however, you reacted to it before I could remove it, so I will leave it. All are invited to surf to whatever Japanese porn site (I assume) it links to.

My brothers got the looks and the brains, I got the blog.

Elaine said...

Oh, right. I've heard that law school is just a walk in the park.

Sorry about the commentary on the spam; I'm up in the night a good part of the time. You never know what will turn out to be a porn site. I was once searching for a quilting thimble marketed under the name 'Roxanne's.' But when I typed that into a search, up popped a site full of women in scarlet (but not much else.) I was so AWK! disconcerted that I just turned the computer off, unable to think what else to do. (Usually I think of myself as pretty unflappable! Another dashed self-image...)

Ben said...

For some reason, your comment reminds me of the great standup comedian Kevin Brennan. He once told Conan O'Brien, "So I live in Brooklyn, and get this, they just started selling crack in my neighborhood. (pause) FINALLY."

Elaine said...

But, Ben-- the porn just featured women. Why would I be interested in them? LOL

Ben said...

True enough.