Comments for Matthew Bey

Comment on Pork Pork Everywhere by Rousong

Rousong — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 06:22:11 +0000

the meat ‘cotton candy’ is rousong:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rousong

Comment on Waller Creek Fishing by m_bey

m_bey — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:14:47 +0000

Don’t suppose you would share the cross street on those giant panfish? Might want to terrify a few of them.

Comment on Waller Creek Fishing by earl

earl — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:21:55 +0000

While waiting to pick someone up from work downtown one day and having a sandwich I dropped a few test crumbs into Waller creek. I could not believe the size of some of the panfish that came to eat. Some of the biggest I have seen in Texas! Glad to hear someone had a good time fishing this overlooked and sometimes smelly little creek. A good clean up project would be nice…

Comment on Adventures Fly Fishing Austin’s Shoal Creek by m_bey

m_bey — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:54:57 +0000

LN, I read a couple of academic papers about Shoal Creek archived down at the Austin History Center that pretty much exactly mirror your sentiments. It’s this public space that’s a free zone for kids and nature. The old timers were talking about the time that the dam up near Hancock Drive got drained and they found all these fish in there, including a koi.

Hope we get some rain soon. The creek needs it.

Comment on Adventures Fly Fishing Austin’s Shoal Creek by LN

LN — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 20:17:39 +0000

Came across your article while trying to figure out what kind of fish I found here in the north end of Shoal Creek (near Steck Ave.). By August, the creek had dried up into shallow pools of varying size. Some pools have quite a few sunfish, some about 6-8in long. The fish I found in a smaller pool, what I can figure, are Southern Plattys (I took one in, and it’s doing fine in an aquarium). Seen plenty of snakes up here, too, mainly in the Spring. Yellow-bellied water snakes, but have also seen one (run-over) juvenile Rattler. Other wildlife: Red-shouldered Hawks, Yellow-Crested Night Heron, Blue Heron, loads of Redbirds, squirrel, possum and, in the winter, Great Horned Owl. My kid learns more about nature from the creek than what they teach in school.

Comment on Adventures Fly Fishing Austin’s Shoal Creek by kristy

kristy — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:39:31 +0000

That fish/snake combo is something I never would have believed without the video. Yowza!

Comment on Scenes from Monster Beach at Bourbon Penn by Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:16:36 +0000

All this is true.

Comment on Scenes from Monster Beach at Bourbon Penn by Randy

Randy — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:14:47 +0000

This was easily the most polished work I’ve read of yours in a while. Hello Kitty was a nice Easter Egg. Gotta wonder about nostrils on a creature living in the ocean for 12 years at a stretch.

There are rumors that you are coming for your grandma’s 95th birthday next month.

Comment on Silver Mukhwas by m_bey

m_bey — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 23:42:11 +0000

Well, the PHP opening tags disappeared from the comment, but you get the picture.

Comment on Silver Mukhwas by m_bey

m_bey — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 23:41:19 +0000

Yeah, one of the PHP files had a space before the “

The silver is a significant price increase over the plain anise and sugar. And it seems to be more a decoration than anything else, so you would probably notice if it did.