I can't do this sort of thing for the rest of the year
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Someone take a video camera - I want to see the video!
I can't do this sort of thing for the rest of the year
I can't do this sort of thing for the rest of the year
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SCMurphy
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How far do we have to jump in? This far?JMLenke wrote: I know where to pull juvenile fish out if you dont mind jumping in the lake.
Or this far?
There is timid collecting.
And power collecting. (ignore the lead line rising up, the fish did.)
"したくさ" Sean
Aquascape? I'm a crypt farmer.
If you've got bait, I've got wasabi!
I wish I could be like Mr. Sarcastic when I grow up!
Aquascape? I'm a crypt farmer.
If you've got bait, I've got wasabi!
I wish I could be like Mr. Sarcastic when I grow up!
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Sonny Disposition
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Hey, is this the thread for the upcoming collecting trip? (Glad I found this.)
I'm having a little trouble with this forum. It doesn't have a "view recent posts" link, like the NANFA Forum and the Cichlid forum do. (At least not one that I can find.)
So anyway, here are some local options for a trip. I don't know Virginia too well, and I'm not sure of the regulations. In Maryland, I'll have to apply for a scientific collection permit, which pretty much should cover everyone on the trip.
My first thought is for Little Bennett Creek, in Clarksburg. This is a typical Potomac River Tributary. In the park, the water is clean and clear. Potomac and Mottled sculpin, which are freshwater relatives of the sea robin. Spectacularly ugly, and one of North America's magnificent odd balls. They're highly predacious, though, and will eat anything they can swallow, and choke to death on a lot of things they can't.
The park also has some nondescript silvery shiners, as well as Rosy side dace and long nose dace. Rosy sides are a nice native minnow, which have a pink-to-crimson slash on their sides. (The slash gets darker as spawning approaches.)
We may also find long nose dace. These are a bronze colored minnow, with long snouts and overlong pelvic fins, to help them hold bottom in the current. In an aquarium, they like to swim in the filter stream.
Finally, the stream also has fan-tail darters. Along with being a favorite prey item of sculpins, fan tails don't actually have fan tails, but the mails do have a series of yellow bulbs on top of their dorsal fins. These serve as egg mimics. Females see the male guarding a cave entrance, and think the male has spawned with another female. Females seek out males who have spawned with a lot of different females.
I'm having a little trouble with this forum. It doesn't have a "view recent posts" link, like the NANFA Forum and the Cichlid forum do. (At least not one that I can find.)
So anyway, here are some local options for a trip. I don't know Virginia too well, and I'm not sure of the regulations. In Maryland, I'll have to apply for a scientific collection permit, which pretty much should cover everyone on the trip.
My first thought is for Little Bennett Creek, in Clarksburg. This is a typical Potomac River Tributary. In the park, the water is clean and clear. Potomac and Mottled sculpin, which are freshwater relatives of the sea robin. Spectacularly ugly, and one of North America's magnificent odd balls. They're highly predacious, though, and will eat anything they can swallow, and choke to death on a lot of things they can't.
The park also has some nondescript silvery shiners, as well as Rosy side dace and long nose dace. Rosy sides are a nice native minnow, which have a pink-to-crimson slash on their sides. (The slash gets darker as spawning approaches.)
We may also find long nose dace. These are a bronze colored minnow, with long snouts and overlong pelvic fins, to help them hold bottom in the current. In an aquarium, they like to swim in the filter stream.
Finally, the stream also has fan-tail darters. Along with being a favorite prey item of sculpins, fan tails don't actually have fan tails, but the mails do have a series of yellow bulbs on top of their dorsal fins. These serve as egg mimics. Females see the male guarding a cave entrance, and think the male has spawned with another female. Females seek out males who have spawned with a lot of different females.
Bob
You never know what you're going to find, or where you're going to find it. So keep looking.
You never know what you're going to find, or where you're going to find it. So keep looking.
Bob, just FYI, on the main forum page, in the upper left, there's a link: View posts since last visit. I believe that's what you're looking for.
I'd like to collect somewhere where we could catch some of the smaller sunfish. The shinners and dace all sound very nice too!
I'd like to collect somewhere where we could catch some of the smaller sunfish. The shinners and dace all sound very nice too!
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Sonny Disposition
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That last post was getting a little long, so I guess I'll start another one.
My next suggestion would be for an old fashioned fishin' trip, to catch longear sunfish, Lepomis megalotis. This member of that most cichlid-like genus of non-cichlids grows about as large as a medium sized cichlid, say a blue acara or a Nandopsis salvini.
Males have brighter colors than females, excavate circular nests in the bottom, and tend the eggs until they hatch.
There are lots of regional variations on this species, which occurs naturally in the southeastern and medwestern states, but which has also been introduced into the Potomac drainage
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/ar ... rAK_LG.jpg
A great location for them is Pennyfield Lock, on the C&O Canal north of Potomac, MD.
It's not legal to seine in the canal, but these are really easy to catch with light tackle, on size twelve hooks.
This should be enough to get the discussion started. Let me know what you think of these ideas, and we'll go on from there.
My next suggestion would be for an old fashioned fishin' trip, to catch longear sunfish, Lepomis megalotis. This member of that most cichlid-like genus of non-cichlids grows about as large as a medium sized cichlid, say a blue acara or a Nandopsis salvini.
Males have brighter colors than females, excavate circular nests in the bottom, and tend the eggs until they hatch.
There are lots of regional variations on this species, which occurs naturally in the southeastern and medwestern states, but which has also been introduced into the Potomac drainage
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/ar ... rAK_LG.jpg
A great location for them is Pennyfield Lock, on the C&O Canal north of Potomac, MD.
It's not legal to seine in the canal, but these are really easy to catch with light tackle, on size twelve hooks.
This should be enough to get the discussion started. Let me know what you think of these ideas, and we'll go on from there.
Bob
You never know what you're going to find, or where you're going to find it. So keep looking.
You never know what you're going to find, or where you're going to find it. So keep looking.
