Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.
Leaping out of the back of someone’s house is a gigantic Bass fish.
The record for the world’s largest Bass fish ever caught was set way back in 1932, when a George W. Perry caught a 22lb, 4oz largemouth, which would have been around 75cm in length.
Many have tried to beat this record, but no-one has officially caught a bigger bass. My bass fish is a massive 90m in length, so can I claim the world record title?
Thanks: number1fan
Wikipedia reading: Bass fishing
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Looks like a salmon to me.
James, the image link dosn’t work, niether does the kml, well not on my mac anyway
I like the fish by the way burt I was wondering whats with all the large round fileds?
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
I was thinking why go all the trouble of drawing a huge fish in your back yard and not doing the tail, do you suppose he started with the head and run out of space?
Also I was wondering whats with all the large round fileds? It seems to be quite an uneconomical use of space.
Over in Gallatin county next door there are masses of them too, can anyone answer this?
Apologies for the broken image link and KML file - both now fixed!
I suppose you added the “fish” modifier to differentiate this from the Irish ale (same pronunciation) or low toned musical instruments and singers (though these are pronounced differently), but I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone refer to a bass as a bass fish.
To Mrb, as far as the fields go, they are round for purposes of irrigation. They use a center pivot irrigation system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot_irrigation).
Mrb: center-pivot irrigation fields are not necessarily a waste of space, if they are arranged right:
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I would say this is probably a trout, since it is in Montana, and there is a lot of trout fishing done in western Montana.
Excellent catch on the crop duster!! That is absolutely one. Low wing, close to the ground shadow.
You should put up a FAQ. It seems like the pivot irrigation question comes up anytime there’s a feature highlighted near farmland.
And while it may not be a super efficient use of space (dead areas in between the irrigated regions), it is a fantastically efficient use of energy, as the irrigation system is entirely powered by the water pressure going to it.
Plus the dead areas make good equipment parking fields.
Oops, apparently that’s not true anymore, and now they tend to be powered by electric motors at the top instead of just water pressure.
It’s not a bass, it’s a trout.
And even if it were powered by the water pressure: A pump is needed to pressurize the water. And I doubt mains pressure would suffice …
That is an outline of a trout made from white painted rocks on the Northside Hill in Livingston, Montana. I grew up there! Go Park High!!!
What about the “new” world record? 42 lb Bass caught in the Mira River in Cape Breton, NS…..
What’s with the huge ‘P’ to the right? Who leaves there?!
The large “P” stands for Park High School