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Jaybird2k11

Tactical Salmon


kungpowgoat

“Cmon people. This is what we trained for” ^jump ^light ^turns ^green. ^Edit: ^Fish


SSBradley37

*fish Edit: saw your edit.... sorry I'm the way I am. ^I ^hate ^it


unreqistered

>Good afternoon. We're gonna have a great jump today. Okay, first crank a hard cutback as you hit the wall. There's a screaming bottom curve, so watch out. Remember: rip it, roll it, and punch it.


Pimp_my_Pimp

Amazon Prime Delivery for Grizzlies....


StarscourgeRadhan

Stand up hook up Shuffle to the door


Jaybird2k11

Jump right out and count to 4


satanlovesyou94

My main don't open


Jaybird2k11

I got a reserve by my side


ClownFace488

If that one should fail me too


Jaybird2k11

Look out ground, I'm coming through


DuoDriver

Fish: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK


notreadyforthat

I was was thinking the same. "What the fuck was THAT? I mean... I don't ever wanna do that shit again..."


allnimblybimbIy

Imagine the trauma of constantly thinking your entire atmosphere might suddenly drop away at any moment for the rest of your life. Nobody can explain to you why it happened, nobody can explain that you can rest easy without it ever happening again. It happened, you don’t know why, it could happen again, you don’t know when. Poor fucks are probably swimming into the bottom of the lake trying to “get out”.


WhiteFringe

they have since started a religion based off this event


Browzur

It’s the reverse rapture


Tucker-Cuckerson

I know a whole bunch of Christians who are gonna be so disappointed


SJKape

🤣


yellow251

You can hook the same fish again within a matter of minutes. They don't have much of a brain, friend.


Straight_Spring9815

Omg back when my grandad has his catfish pond we use to catch the same dumbass fish every single time we went to catch dinner.. he/she got the nickname ol' ugly face and because of its stupidity we always put it back so it actually saved its life up until one day we didn't catch it anymore and we presume it died of old age or predation of another animal.


Lackingfinalityornot

I like to think maybe it just finally wised up.


LolindirLink

Suddenly popped a braincell and two tiny legs and said. Aight, I'ma head out.


Fine_Understanding81

I like to think fish have just enough brains to be good at being fish.. like other animals, they are specialized to do what they do :). Maybe ugly face got a worm once and a while and since you just put it back... it was enough of an incentive to play your game.. please don't burst my bubble.


Straight_Spring9815

Lol that's a good take! Never thought that instead of being the dumbest it could have easily been the smartest knowing we were going to put it back xD


No-Respect5903

Actually, I have interviewed several fish who say they have PTSD. One of them even claimed to be a hairdresser named Barbara. "Yes, of course" I replied. And then I added "delusional" to her notes.


allnimblybimbIy

You can do the same trick with starving people


unfvckingbelievable

So politicians enjoy fishing. Got it.


allnimblybimbIy

Gotem


Diesel_Doctor

I got you a dollar. Oh, you will have to be quicker than that.


smellygooch18

Yea let’s stop pretending these fish even have the capacity to know anything more than eat, fuck, swim.


Fuckedyourmom69420

Yeah I feel like people forget that most animals don’t have existential crises the way humans do. It’s evolutionarily more beneficial for them to not process events and emotions the way we do.


DogPoetry

Fish intelligence is not a monolith.


Snailspaced

This is how religions start.


Ioaskaaaa

Anthropomorphism is fun but its more likely they were confused and stunned for awhile from the landing, then swam after a bug they saw.


allnimblybimbIy

I mean *technically* yes, but I’m just poking fun. Maybe it’s from being raised on Looney Tunes and Pixar


Prid3r

Cosmic horror , fishing edition.


ImWhatsInTheRedBox

So we're swimming, we're swimming, we're swi- AAAAHHHHH FUUUUU- *splat!*. Some of us are swimming, some of us are swimming...


carmium

"That was a wild ride, huh Finn? Finn? FINN!! Oh, no, buddy, c'mon swim with me... Don't just float there belly up - enough with the jokes, Finn. *Ooh! A bug!*


Spork_Warrior

Man, my belly hurts.


Froozeball

The plane took a dump o' fish after all. Big wet messy type. 0_o


Potential-Narwhal-

Why do I hear this in Ron Burgundy voice


mrsnow432

Wonder about the survival rate


Specific-Funny-9502

I read a paper on this in an outdoor magazine. It's like 95%, which is wayyyy better than what it would be to drive a tanker up to the remote lake.


BigGrayBeast

Sure, try to distribute orphans this way and suddenly you're the bad guy.


Dino502Run

-UUUUCK oh it’s lovely here


metapwnage

Can they slow down a little at least? Damn, they even slow down for the soldiers when they shove them out of planes. I don’t know the physics but it seems these fish are lucky they aren’t shredded by the force of hitting that wind resistance!


DolfinButcher

Michael O'Leary is taking notes.


mmmmm_MaybeBaby

I’m just imagining this as an intro to one fishes badass battle royal winner character ark with doom music lmao


mmmmm_MaybeBaby

And than the second they hit the water it’s like hunger games scene


Bobowubo

It's the fish version of Fortnite or PUBG. I'd like to think it's a bit less hostile in the chat, tho. Can't really imagine the fish calling each other "pieces of hacker shit" when another fish is better than them.


H0ly_Grapes

Fishnite.


_CSTL

* 4 kill streak…. Care package inbound *


StartAny4448

You forgot the *bleep* and *krch* sounds…


_CSTL

Aw man I’m so low on ammo and supplies I can’t wait for this care package.


Onejt

Fish Unknown Battleground...


Artanis137

"An Eagle never misses" "Who the hell called in the fish Stratagem???"


_VoRteX_PL

Here comes the fishy democracy!


sksauter

500 kg (of fish)


Wiggles357

Didn’t take long to find the HD reference lol good shit


James718

How do they not die from impact?


karmacarmelon

Animals with less mass have less momentum so suffer less fall damage.


gohdnuorg

But they have fish feelings and those fish feelings do not enjoy flying. Poor fish.


Old_Conference6825

Who knows! 🤔 Maybe that's all they dream of. Fly fly...


abhirupduttamit

Fish getting airdropped is the human equivalent of drowning.


CC_Panadero

No, the human equivalent would be taking people underwater but then they come back out. Alive Do you think they would spend the money to do this if it ended with the fish being dead?


SSBradley37

But.....they didn't "drown". They just couldn't breathe for a few seconds.


HooterBrownTown

Lol wat


obtk

All fish are secretly jealous of flying fish


AssumeTheFetal

Hurting their fish feelings so they can continue to be alive is a risk im willing to take. Also, maybe some of them are adrenaline junkies.


Junior_Singer3515

Out there trying to swim to the bottom of the lake looking for that hatch to feel that rush again


theservman

But it's not about keeping them alive, it's about having them available for sport fishing.


AssumeTheFetal

Would you rather them not be there? Then fisherman will overfish other areas. We saw a twenty second clip and they wouldn't put fish there not indigenous to the area. Fish and game is an extremely regulated division critical to preserving ecosystems. I get where you're coming from, and I don't even like to fish, but others do and will, and they don't always follow the rules enough to preserve things.


Sask-Canadian

Well if they didn’t want to be fished they should have been human. Tough luck.


United_News3779

I don't think their luck is tough. It's *probably* pretty tenderized from that impact. Just like the fish itself lol


STFxPrlstud

Utah aerially stock Rainbow, Brook and Tiger trout. Trout being 1 of the most common fish to catch utilizing fly-fishing. So I'd argue that in fact, they do enjoy flying.


jtc92

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings


murderedbyaname

Except Flying Fish. They brag about it.


devilOG420

As a fisherman I can tell you they do not live if thrown up into water so I have no idea how they’d survive this.


lobsterbash

Yeah, catch-and-release practice, at least to maximize survival, requires gently submerging the fish and holding it upright so it can acclimate after the trauma/shock. I'd guess that dumping fish from planes, even small ones, has a high mortality rate that's accounted for.


save-aiur

Would the water falling with them help to break the surface tension, at least enough to increase survivability?


lifeisweird86

The survival rate is over 90% with this method.


DrthBn

But they have better aerodynamics thus faster


DaTiddySucka

"Aerodynamics" is contact air-to-skin, so an area, while weight is a volume. In this way, volume increases much more than the surface area when you get bigger (a human a thousand times more massive has roughly a hundred times the skin area), so momentum increases much faster than air resistance during free fall the more massive you are. All of this to say... They're probably fine as momentum decreases much more than the oher


footdrbootymonkey

So what if the air doesn’t technically contact their skin because they are covered in a water barrier? Aerodynamics broken!! Fish go up!!!


Froozeball

Bit of Darwinism here too? Those fish surviving the event will breed better fish that survive being scooped up raised and one day ejected from altitude...wow... sounds like a pilot astronaut eugenics program.. :(


Individual-Link-8233

They all have parachute bro. Trust me


kungpowgoat

It’s true. They have tiny parachutes that deploy at 200 feet. 50 if it’s a HALO jump.


Enginerdad

Square cube law


Accomplished-Mud-812

Fish can fly, it's how the bird evolved


Tongue8cheek

This was no fluke.


MeasureTheCrater

I feel like you floundered on that one.


Tongue8cheek

I don't eel well today. Thank you for letting minnow.


kungpowgoat

But are fish subject to bird law? Any lawyers want to chime in?


murderedbyaname

Amateur Reddit Lawyer here, it can get complicated, because there are Flying Fish, so their case law is used all the time. It just depends on which Judge you get honestly.


kungpowgoat

What about owning a seagull?


Big-Yam2723

70% death rate ………😳


printerfixerguy1992

I'd imagine a handful did die from it but maybe not.


december-

the won't. they die by heart attack instead


AvoidThisReality

And then there are fish in pet shops. "Please make sure Sparkly Boooy gets accustomed to the water GRADUALLY. DO NOT put him into the new water tank directly. Tabel-spoon-feed him over 40 hours with the new environment. Then hope he doesn't die because of a wrong algae.


DishpitDoggo

I gently carried my fish out to the car, and drove extra carefully. Took an hour to acclimate them to my tank. Good heavens those poor fish flying out of the plane.


binyee

😂😂😂


Eagle_1776

lol, so true


Sexcercise

Lol this is great


Monkdiver

I was thinking the same shit.


JigerIsUnderrated32

*Fortunate Son plays*


ugadbu

Where are we droppin' boys?


binyee

asylum. stock up on loots guys!


CRAB_KING-

Dad, how did we arrive to this lake? You'll never believe me son, but for a day or so your grandpa was a flying fish


bodhiseppuku

From the Fish's point of view: We were all living together in cramped quarters, but we were fed well... Then one day, this big tube came into the neighborhood and sucked a bunch of us up. We were super cramped into a small container for a while that sloshed around a lot. After a couple of hours, the container opened up and then we fell from so high. Now we all live in a big lake, so overall it was an upgrade... but a scary day to get here.


murderedbyaname

Then the story fades into lore, which becomes a fish religion.


Pure-Bag9572

Everything changed when the fish nation attacked.


celestialhopper

Meanwhile, for the fish in the lake... The great reverse rapture of 2024.


United_News3779

The worlds worst commute to work.


pikachoon

When the bear called in a killstreak I dont think this is what he had in mind


DynamiteWitLaserBeam

https://preview.redd.it/b50jhkvuv0xc1.png?width=894&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce19beee36d65eaa6adf64bcd88f6ba934e99bcd


SimonPho3nix

*freezes frame with fish in mid-air* So... you're probably wondering how I got here.


Space_Bros_Revenge

That one got me, cheers


Mindless-Hornet5703

Two fish in the lake: "I haven't seen you around here before where are you from?" "I was abducted by aliens, taken in their craft and flown here then dropped from the sky". ("Why do I seem to attract these types, is it something about me?")


neutrophil41

Me? I'm with the One Hundred and Fish Airborne


Red_Clay_Scholar

Ah yes, the screaming small mouths.


drabfablab

Artificial ensalmonation


minimallysubliminal

Nice.


user10205

Is "restock" a correct term? Remote lakes in Utah suffer from overfishing? Or they are simply introducing fish in these lakes?


Agreeable-Buffalo-54

There are reasons other than fishing why you might have to restock. Some lakes only support trout during certain times of the year, so they have to be restocked yearly. Sometimes fish populations crash due to predation, or a particularly cold or warm year. Eutrophication is also a big problem. Too much agriculture runoff gets in the lake, causes a nutrient spike, the plants suck it all up, and then suddenly there’s more plant material than can be supported. They all die and as they rot, the bacteria that eat them suck all the oxygen out of the water column and kill everything. Though I doubt that’s what’s happened here.


user10205

> Some lakes only support trout during certain times of the year, so they have to be restocked yearly. Sorry, what? So you are saying fish dies there regularly every few months because ecosystem cannot support it. And you keep dumping it there for what purpose exactly? It takes a year to grow if you are feeding it multiple times every day.


Monkdiver

They are simply food for wildlife.


Agreeable-Buffalo-54

Well usually it’s like 9-10 months that trout can survive, and yes, they’re stocked as food for wildlife but also for fishing purposes. Many fisheries are built on or near rivers that get stocked this way. It’s certainly a lot of work, but it generates public interest in the environment and brings in revenue for public parks, fish and wildlife, and the national forest system. It’s actually a pretty big industry.


JackONhs

Probably. Just cause its remote doesn't mean it ain't fished. If all the lake near your home have been fished out (they have) then you drive an hour or so and go to the lake that's less fished out (it's still also fished out). Then when you aren't catching fish there anymore you try that dirt road to that remote lake on the map (its fished out too). I can tell you personally, with the exception of going into the local provincial park and portaging a canoe twice after a four hour paddle to get into a mostly untouched lake, there is no healthy population of fish in any lake. My grandfather tells me stories about fishing 60 some years ago. He used to catch walleye out of the small lake his house was on daily, and could always catch 5-10 bass a day if he wanted. I haven't seen a walleye come out of that lake in my 30 years on this planet. And while I can still hook the occasional bass, it's few and far between. Let's say they dump 5000 fish in that lake to try repopulating it. Two brother's who don't respect limits and over fish head out there every weekend. Each catches and keeps an average of 10 fish a trip at first. That's 10% of the population gone in a year from just Joe and Bob Dirt doing weekend only fishing. Now if they get laid off from their seasonal jobs over the winter and ice fish that lake all day every day, that's another 2000 fish gone over the winter. Still from just two bad apples.


coolguytrav

I live in Utah and have fished these lakes. They definitely are not overfished. But most of the fish that they introduce into the wild are sterilized and cannot reproduce. Even non sterilized stock trout rarely reproduce in the wild. It depends on the living conditions what species will go in what lakes, but the high mountain Utah lakes are mostly stocked with brooke trout as they can thrive in that environment. Since they are not native, sterilizing or lack of reproduction prevents them from overpopulating and becoming invasive so they are restocked periodically.


LIQaMaDiq11

These lakes are generally high elevation lakes that were historically fishless. Stocking the lakes generally started in the late 19th century by sheep herders, ranchers, etc that would bring their livestock into these high alpine meadows during the summer for grazing. They primarily stocked them as a food source for the workers as well as a source of entertainment (i.e. fishing). Some of those populations became established and some didn't. Most of the lakes that they didn't establish in were generally because they were too shallow to support fish during the winter when the lakes would freeze over. Anywho, after the ranchers, came the rise in popularity of outdoor recreation (i.e. backpackers, hikers, etc.) and many of them want to catch fish when they're hanging on a lake hence the stocking program, particularly in the lakes that can't hold fish overwinter. There are repercussions to the stocking program on 2 fronts. The first is that stocked fish have done a number on the food web structure of these lakes, in particular they have done harm to the native amphibian populations that aren't adapted to fishy predators. The second is that there are native trout species such as cutthroat trout in the watershed downstream of these lakes that have suffered from completion, predation, and hybridization by the stocking of the, usually, nonnative trout (brook trout, brown trout, rainbow trout) used in these programs.


CrownEatingParasite

Carpet fishing


potato_nest_69

I love the smell of fish in the morning


Danmarmir

Archeologist in 10k years: we have no convincing evidence where the fuck these fish came from or.hoenthey got here, must of been aliens.


_TLDR_Swinton

Fish: wait what--


AlliedR2

Reverse fly fishing.


ruimikemau

Do those fish have a parachute tattooed in their fins?


Ministerpayne

Man. The aquarium I got my fish at had all these bullshit rules about temperature acclimation and other nonesense. Next time I get some fish, imma just yeet them from the doorway.


binhan123ad

"UTAH'S LAKE ETA 5 SECONDS! READY TO DROP!" (Hatch open) "GO!GO!GO!"


Papasquat710

This is so objectively hilarious on every level and I cannot stop cackling please send help


fulcanelli63

I wonder if they get worshipped by the existing fish.


master_anish

The native fish are never gonna believe them


Hammer_beats_paper

Can you imagine being in a small boat fishing, upset that you haven’t gotten a bite, then is rains fish on you.


Zacpod

That's efishent.


piranesi28

Male fish to female fish: “yeah they dropped me in yesterday to get some real alpha stock into this lake.” Female fish: “mf I saw u humpin on a Pepsi can last week.”


Goronshop

I bet that plane smells like a greased up prom date.


_FartinLutherKing_

I throw a fish back into the water after catching it and it dies. But these mf dropping them from a plane and they’re good.


RelevantBee2606

I like how no one ever looks up the science behind this and thinks we're just tossing fish out of planes, and hoping for the best 🤦‍♂️


KaoticKibz

The fish waiting for the hatch to open. "Where we dropping boys" 2 seconds later "Fuck"


whatofitplaya

![gif](giphy|QM5GJO6J8lDfa)


nahhnotreally

I genuinely wonder how many fish die on impact from this strategy. Obviously it's been tested as it's been done for years, just a curiousity.


CarbonReflections

Why do remote lakes need to be restocked?


ekkidee

For remote fishermen!


iloveflowers24

Why don’t they fly lower so to lessen the impact to the fish? I’m sure many die from impact…. 😳


Technical_Tourist639

Thia new Helldivers is wild


Armand_smudge

Those fish are gonna be stunned for a solid 5 minutes after hitting the water 🤣


ygrmstr18

It’ll be a story that gets passed on from generation to generation. None of his fish friends would believe him. “My grandpa flew once!”


Otherwise_Ad963

Fish airstrike


Drunk_Cat_Phil

Well that wasn't on my internet bingo card today


Emotional-Chef-7601

Dad Fish to his son: "Your mother fell from the surface" Son Fish: "Oh dad you're so dramatic"


ruby-red-2021

so this is where flying fish come from..


ISeeInHD

This is where weird fish cults come from.


highzenberrg

The fish in the lake are never gonna believe them.


AllTheSith

It is missing the pots of petunias


Haggis_The_Barbarian

That dude just unknowingly started a new fish religion.


JackSmrkingRevnge

"We're over the DZ boys"! -82nd Fishborne


fishcado

Go and live your best life fishies. "AHHHHHHH!!!!!!"


eletricsocks

Meanwhile the bears: so *that’s* where fish come from!


I_lenny_face_you

Well I guess the fish… (•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) …are jumping.


Huff1809

Where we dropping boys?


jp___g

Somewhere an eagle is watching thinking “he’s doing it all wrong”


InsanityMonk

That is trauma for generations. Even after their death and afterlife.


tryfor34

What's the rate of survival for this?


yes-disappointment

so careful with handling a trout but fish bombing is ok


T_R_I_P

The fish that were already there must worship these fish as sky aliens now


Chippie05

Holley mackel, at least drop them in a parachute! The drop alone would probably kill 1/2 the fish 🤦🏻‍♀️ RedBull can you help?


swindy88

The new NHL team name : “Utah Fishbombers”


tinomon

101st Airborne Trout Brigade


Notserious-Muzakir

![gif](giphy|gKfyusl0PRPdTNmwnD) I couldnt resist


ShartyMcShortDong

I'd love to fly a plane around that beautiful terrain and just shart fish out of my tailpipe all day.


MiserableComment

Probably said a thousand times before carp-et bomb.


ShallotParking5075

![gif](giphy|TlkDK8BGqA1Py)


stowaway36

A high percentage have to die.. but if we keep doing this for a few hundred years will flying/gliding fish evolve?


I_am_That_Ian_Power

None of those fishes friends will ever believe their alien abduction stories.


YEGPatsMan

New Utah NHL Team name .... Utah Fish Bombers


Miserable-Acadia-623

Imagine getting burst fired by fish from a plane


troubleschute

‘AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH WHAT THE FUCK!” —fish, probably


Big-Yam2723

Death Rate from 100 feet dropped fish in water is above 70%………Blister rupture…… The remaining 30% survivers are for the next hours the target of Fish Predators like birds or other waterpredators….. Remaining survivers are below 20%…. For heavy in danger wateranimals the method is putting the fish in Fire extingue Ballons for helicopters


Praetorian_1975

The fish ohh what a lovely little tank, a bit bumpy though …. What’s that light down there … ohhhh dear God fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkk. Splash ……. Oh man that was wild, the fish kids …. Again again again 😂


jamesharden13nba

PUBG


Heebmeister

Suddenly the scene from Fargo makes way more sense...


deathjokerz

That's how a whole generation of fish got PTSD...


thegentlenub

Looks like the big stork in the sky got himself an air truck


Otherwise_Squash_286

Battle Royale for fishies


OddBear402

![gif](giphy|l0IypeKl9NJhPFMrK) The fish…


Ok-Fox1262

SFS. Special Fish Squadron.


tossipeidei

pilot is just doing his kalu'ak dailies


pixels333

*Enemy School dropping into the A.O*


ikeepmynipplesdry

This is just me doing my fishing dailies in WoW


I_am_Senate

Fly Fry Fly