ID these madtoms (lots of pictures)
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Posted 13 October 2010 - 02:08 PM
I went out fishing this morning in a river and notice some little catfish darting between rocks, I pulled out my little net to check and these are what I had found. First a locational image incase that might help ID. I caught about 20-30 different catfish.. In the water they were all yellowish green with white lower wiskers and atleast one dark saddle across the back (didn't come through well in the pictures...() Any help would be great!
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Posted 13 October 2010 - 02:37 PM
They seem a bit on the skinny side...
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Posted 13 October 2010 - 02:45 PM
With a pretty distinctive pale saddle in front of their dorsal fin. I hope you disinfected or dried your nets for a day or two since you also have zebra mussels in a few pictures.
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Posted 13 October 2010 - 03:09 PM
Can you give us a geographic location?
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Posted 13 October 2010 - 03:38 PM
If these are from Wisconsin, it looks like you have stumbled upon a hot spot for a state endangered fish. Pretty cool.
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Posted 13 October 2010 - 03:45 PM
These were sampled near Delafield Wi.. unknown name of the stream.
Yes, I let my nets sun dry until their next use (which won't be until next year..)
Skipjack, you confirm that it is one of our endangered species.... it is a good thing then to see them in high numbers. When I first saw them I suspected it might be a threatened species/endangered, I was walking SOO carefully through that area..
the stream is beautiful, and I am happy to see such a thriving place for these..
Yes, I let my nets sun dry until their next use (which won't be until next year..)
Skipjack, you confirm that it is one of our endangered species.... it is a good thing then to see them in high numbers. When I first saw them I suspected it might be a threatened species/endangered, I was walking SOO carefully through that area..
the stream is beautiful, and I am happy to see such a thriving place for these..
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Posted 13 October 2010 - 04:33 PM
These were sampled near Delafield Wi.. unknown name of the stream.
Yes, I let my nets sun dry until their next use (which won't be until next year..)
Skipjack, you confirm that it is one of our endangered species.... it is a good thing then to see them in high numbers. When I first saw them I suspected it might be a threatened species/endangered, I was walking SOO carefully through that area..
the stream is beautiful, and I am happy to see such a thriving place for these..
they look to be a slender madtom Noturus exilis.
and skipjack is right let them go back and be free.
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Posted 13 October 2010 - 06:17 PM
they look to be a slender madtom Noturus exilis.
and skipjack is right let them go back and be free.
And that was my thought as well at the stream.. and yes they are free in the river. I was just excited to see them (and I had no idea when I finally found some to photograph, i'd find soo many!)
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Posted 13 October 2010 - 06:33 PM
we often find the same thing here, when a mirco riffle area is right for them we find many in numbers as well.And that was my thought as well at the stream.. and yes they are free in the river. I was just excited to see them (and I had no idea when I finally found some to photograph, i'd find soo many!)
i use state electro shock data sheets to find a likely area to net.
if the state can shock some up you know there must be more then high numbers in the area.
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Posted 13 October 2010 - 09:56 PM
but when a species is endangered/threatened in our state, they will not publish the data on where the species are located. I really thought I would find tadpole madtoms and stonecats (as I have seen them before there..)
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Posted 14 October 2010 - 10:05 AM
but when a species is endangered/threatened in our state, they will not publish the data on where the species are located. I really thought I would find tadpole madtoms and stonecats (as I have seen them before there..)
pm sent on how to find fish.
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