I am in the middle of my recovery from knee replacement and I have not kept up on my blog posts. The ice is still on the lakes of northern Wisconsin but it is showing signs of withdrawing and hiding until it is recalled and reruns next winter. With my limited mobility I think of all the places I need to return to and places I need to checkout and photo.
My mind deliberates on the fish I come across on my snorkeling adventures and I wonder what they think of me and why I am there, or do they just think “look an air dweller what is it doing here?”
Pan fish and bass seem to be the most curious of the freshwater fish I come across they stop their routine and examine me and will look me strait in the eye.
Muskies the largest fish in the fresh water lakes of northern Wisconsin are loners and I will sometimes catch them out of the corner of my eye shadowing me and when I turn to photo them they tire of me and easily disappear into the surroundings.
Perch try to camouflage into their environment keeping their distance while keeping an eye I on me.
Crappies are a shy fish that when we encounter each other they are gone as soon as I see them.
One of the wariest fish is the trout and of all my years snorkeling I have only chanced on them one at a time as they dart past into the safety of the deep.
This past fall was the first time I was astonished to see a school of them pass right in front of me making me wonder if I am the fun house mirror of the things I see.
