{"id":18401,"date":"2016-08-21T18:11:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T01:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=18401"},"modified":"2016-08-24T08:17:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T15:17:35","slug":"minnows-and-fry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=18401","title":{"rendered":"Minnows and fry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These may be the most plentiful fish caught for sport in Kootenay Lake.<\/p>\n<p>That is just a speculation as I am neither fisherman nor ichthyologist. Nevertheless, small children wading in the shallows catch copious quantities in buckets and fishermen collect them for bait.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When\u00a0a child, I called all of these tiny fish,\u00a0minnows. Yet, many of these show signs of parr marks, which suggests that some of these are the fry of salmonoid species.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18402\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/fry160816s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; These may be the most plentiful fish caught for sport in Kootenay Lake. That is just a speculation as I am neither fisherman nor ichthyologist. Nevertheless, small children wading in the shallows catch copious quantities in buckets and fishermen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=18401\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18401"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18440,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18401\/revisions\/18440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}