June 11, 2026

Out at our usual sunrise vantage point, I encountered a mystery object.

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I'm glad I didn't rely on guessing. I used AI and I know what it is.

39 comments:

Not an oldster. said...

Fishing lure

Aggie said...

Fishing lure.

Enigma said...

I didn't need AI. As a child I walked along shorelines and collected lost lures. It was very entertaining back then.

Curious George said...

Soft plastic lure. Thread it on a jig head. Mimics a crayfish. I'm sure the Madison chain has a few of the real thing and are eaten by gamefish.

Leland said...

I’ll go with Aggie AI.

Leland said...

Or rather Aggie Intelligence

Eva Marie said...

Pretty fishy.

Original Mike said...

"Soft plastic lure. Thread it on a jig head."

Yep.

Peachy said...

it's pride month. that is a butt plug.

Original Mike said...

I've always been surprised that fish will bite on those things.

Temujin said...

Peachy, Peachy, Peachy...Heh.

Enigma said...

With a hook in place, this would be a nice Bass Pro Shops themed earring. It'd also be suitable for punk-eco-alt-poly jewelry and body adornment.

Perhaps Peachy happened across "The Teaches of Peaches" album...err....okay...

Valentine Smith said...

Thanks, Peachy for a good laugh.

Smilin' Jack said...

“I'm glad I didn't rely on guessing. I used AI and I know what it is.”

But before you consulted God, what was your guess?

Original Mike said...

"But before you consulted God, what was your guess?"

Please don't say it was butt plug.

Aggie said...

"...Or rather Aggie Intelligence..."

Is today Oxymoron day?

IamDevo said...

Apparently angling is not among Our Hostess' pastimes. Pity, that. But it did remind me of one of the more amusing incidents I have witnessed. At a local gas station, I watched as a young man asked a girl whose face was bedecked with piercings whether she had fallen into a tackle box. She appeared unamused, but I suspect that was her general mien.

Aggie said...

"...I'm glad I didn't rely on guessing...."

Oh, dear. What on earth did you guess ?

mezzrow said...

Althouse is posting content with allure.

ronetc said...

I use such a lure and assume, artificial as it is, it is close enough to a crawdad/crayfish or other lake-bottom denizen to stir up the bass. I am reminded of an old sci-fi story of sports-aliens who came to fish in the earth's atmosphere . . . people would pull out a box of Kallogs Corn Flekes from their cabinet for breakfast, not realizing it was not quite the real thing . . . and then be reeled up kicking and screaming to the alien UFO. One supposes a man fry ensued.

Big Mike said...

@Peachy, I hope they were smart enough to remove the hooks. But being Democrats they probably weren’t.

Fritz said...

Original Mike said...
"I've always been surprised that fish will bite on those things."

Fish aren't all that smart. Even I can catch a few.

Curious George said...

"Original Mike said...
I've always been surprised that fish will bite on those things."

Their brains are the size of a pea.

Eva Marie said...

“Their brains are the size of a pea.”
So you’re saying distract Democrats with fishing lures?

Original Mike said...

"Fish aren't all that smart. Even I can catch a few."

I once caught the same fish twice. On consecutive casts. A small northern, I released him, cast again with the same lure and he hit it again. There's stupid and then there's incomprehensibly stupid. "What were you thinking?"

I'm not much of a fishman. I imagine real anglers have plenty of stories like this.

Original Mike said...

"So you’re saying distract Democrats with fishing lures?"

Just don't throw them back.

William50 said...

Peachy, I almost spit out my coffee. LOL

Wilbur said...

I took it for a trilobite.

Meade said...

“Who’s that lady?”

Ain’t no lady, she’s our Peachy!

NKP said...

Yea, Peachy! All I know is I wouldn't eat it and I wouldn't want it crawling on me!

Fred Drinkwater said...

same fish twice...

I once spent fifteen minutes watching a moray eel make repeated strikes at a tang. The eel missed every time (they have crappy eyesight) and each time the tang would scoot a couple feet around the base of this big coralhead, then resume casually swimming. The eel would shake its head, spend a minute or two re-finding the tang, and prep for another strike.

Bloody in Tooth and Claw! ... Eventually ... any day now, folks ...

Lazarus said...

Aquatic Turnip Bomb?

Rabel said...

Ribbed for your pleasure. Peachy knows her stuff.

RideSpaceMountain said...

This is the worst disclosure day ever.

Curious George said...

"I once caught the same fish twice. On consecutive casts. A small northern, I released him, cast again with the same lure and he hit it again. There's stupid and then there's incomprehensibly stupid. "What were you thinking?""

Smaller fish are in contention with each other for available food. They gotta be first. That's what they are thinking.

Hassayamper said...

reeled up kicking and screaming to the alien UFO. One supposes a man fry ensued

TO SERVE MAN.

Deep State Reformer said...

Pretty sure that's an artificial-bait fishing lure. Beware the hook if you touch it though professor.

Clyde said...

They say that "Anything is a dildo if you're brave enough." I guess that goes for soft plastic fishing lures as buttplugs, too.

Peachy said...

no butt plugs for me - thank you.

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