{"id":1601,"date":"2010-04-10T05:55:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T10:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hulettsonlakegeorge.com\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2010-04-10T05:55:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T10:55:30","slug":"spring-smelt-run-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/1601","title":{"rendered":"Spring Smelt Run Started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/pictures\/Smelt1_2010_Small.jpg\"\n<em>A school of smelt can be seen in Foster brook.<\/em>    <\/p>\n<p>Just this week, I noticed one of the more interesting occurrences of the spring. The smelt have begun their trip upstream to spawn in many area streams. <\/p>\n<p>Smelt are a food source for salmon, lake trout and bigger fish. They traditionally swim in schools and are easy to see in the bright sunlight against the bottom of a shallow stream. <\/p>\n<p>You know spring is here when you see the smelt start &#8220;running&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/pictures\/Smelt2_2010_Small.jpg\"><br \/>\n<em>This shot was difficult to take because they were swimming so fast in the cold water.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>It was a pleasant surprise to see such large numbers of smelt in Foster brook this year. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/pictures\/Ducks_2010_Small.jpg\"><br \/>\n<em>I think these ducks were even trying to get a mouthful. <\/em>    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lake-george","category-local-wildlife","category-the-environment","category-the-landing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}