Blue tail on Redfish?

[GIBob]

Hopefully yall can see where I'm coming from on this

If we do, does that mean that we got mooned?

[swamp snorkler]

Bob I would need a case of beer to splain it to you. For starters, I like to ice my beer down, cold is my favorite flavor. Where is Rat Dog when he's needed most?

[Kenner18]

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

When you hang upside down and the blood goes to your head, you turn red though, its gotta be a conspiracy With fish I think its got to do with countercurrent heat exchange, I can draw it but can't explain it

On another note, I am sure many have heard that if a mallard has bright orange legs when you kill it, then it is a 'flight duck', whereas technically most ducks have been flying when you shoot them. The ducks that have been in the air awhile have the bright orange feet, and the 'local' ones have the drab feet. The ones with the drab feet have surely been kicking their feet in the water, and the ones that are flying have em tucked away. I think this goes with the countercurrent heat exchange also, but I have not slept in a Holiday Inn lately. Really wanted W's answer for a laugh before I get mad at the TV for this upcoming debate

Actually I was told the orange color of a Mallards legs was hormone related .More male hormones made the brighter orange color ,indicating getting closer to breeding time. Could be fact or fiction .

[GIBob]

That is what I'm talking about, I thought that was where you were coming from.

[cmcnabb]

I was told the orange legs of a mallard meant he came from Arkansas because the water isn't muddy up there like it is here lmao

[Shawn Braquet]

But ma momma said...

[Ragin_Cajun]

Momma said salt on your ice makes your beer colder! Yeah Momma!

[Duck Butter]

if you are working ducks and then out of nowhere some drop from the sky, those are usually the ones that are all puffed up and with bright orange legs. It be colder up there in the sky and those are the ones that are the flight ducks so technically they may not have come from Arkansas but it is likely they flew over it

Legs do change color closer to breeding season though, but if those same ducks with the bright legs stay for a day or so in the fields they will have drab legs, this is just something I am postulating and I have no proof of that, so one would ask then why are snow geese legs always ugly pink?

I looked thru that red drum link and didn't find much on the blue tail, just said something about the young ones can sometimes have a blue tail

[Fuze13]

If caught some bigger ones that have blue tails as well under the birds..... wish Jose Wejebe was still here - he would know - or chuck norris

[swamp snorkler]

Originally Posted by Fuze13

If caught some bigger ones that have blue tails as well under the birds..... wish Jose Wejebe was still here - he would know - or chuck norris

Or Macguyver, he could make a belt buckle ouf of a blue redfish tail and use an orange mallards toe as the clasp

[Fuze13]

Originally Posted by swamp snorkler

Or Macguyver, he could make a belt buckle ouf of a blue redfish tail and use an orange mallards toe as the clasp

Classic move - dont forget while hes wearing his girbeaud jeans and mullett in tact

[ike84]

Males tend to be more colorful. This is also true in choupic

[Duck Butter]

here is what we know blue tails on redfish could indicate:

1. a juvenile
2. in shallow water
3. actively feeding
4. male

Is the tail of a juvenile male redfish actively feeding in shallow water more blue than a redfish that fits only one or two of the situations? I am totally confused now, we really need someone that works for NASA to figure this one out, i think i know just the person

[GIBob]

Start a S C study. Collect data, get answers. Or ask Al, he knows.