A name and a fish

I've finally painted a name on my boat. And I have been able to get a picture of the whole boat, now that it's in its new berth.










Before Christmas we noticed a large fish was sleeping (do fish sleep? - well it was stationary, but not dead) in a shallow edge of the marina with its back and dorsal fin actually out of the water. The fish is a good 500mm long with a large girth. Someone said it is a mirror carp.

Interestingly it is back again, and this morning there was another fish alongside it. The other fish was not quite so long and was very slender with a long snout. I wonder if it was a young pike. Just after I got my first photograph it suddenly disappeared in a cloud of mud.

I find it difficult to get a good photo through the glare of the water surface, even though they seem easy to see with the naked eye. These pictures have been tinkered with using PaintShopPro to make the fish as visible as possible.