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Suckers? (Correction) Stonerollers Foraging
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Guest_ZachT_*
Posted 23 March 2013 - 10:10 PM
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Guest_FirstChAoS_*
Posted 23 March 2013 - 10:20 PM
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Guest_blakemarkwell_*
Posted 23 March 2013 - 10:21 PM
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Guest_fundulus_*
Posted 23 March 2013 - 11:03 PM
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Guest_ZachT_*
Posted 23 March 2013 - 11:13 PM
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Posted 24 March 2013 - 07:39 AM
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Guest_Kanus_*
Posted 24 March 2013 - 10:04 AM
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Guest_Skipjack_*
Posted 24 March 2013 - 11:00 AM
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Guest_Casper_*
Posted 24 March 2013 - 11:49 AM
The technique of planting your camera into a prime, active spot is very efficient and allows the fish to act normally, without your presence. You can do that in a multitude of situations like Chub mounds and Sunfish nests... and you may well see a Chub building a nest near this site later. They will generally be a round mound about 2 or 3' in diameter and composed of varying golf ball sized stones reaching about a foot high. Chubs are sometimes hyper wary of nearby humans, other times you can lay in the water and observe them for hours gathering stones, spawning and defending their mound. Many other species spawn over the mound as well... and you will often see other species using the Stoneroller pits as well, here in the south one will often see Rainbow Shiners spawning in the Stoneroller pits.
Excellent video Zach and thanks for taking the time to share it. I am curious of what camera you are using and its settings, and exactly what area and when you shot it.
Excellent.
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Posted 24 March 2013 - 11:57 AM
Watched it last night, and fell asleep commenting. I saw a couple fish that flashed through, that I was unsure of genus(maybe nocomis, taking Blake's word)
Sorry, I wasn't really contradicting Blake... I just watched and saw so many 'rollers that it seemed worth throwing in m comment on herds of rollers coming in and grazing and area...
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Guest_Skipjack_*
Posted 24 March 2013 - 12:23 PM
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Guest_ZachT_*
Posted 24 March 2013 - 01:46 PM
I was wondering if there was any breeding involved here, especially with that big male. He did seem to chase some others away a few times. I'm assuming this is the start of the breeding season? Was I right in assuming the younger ones were just foraging?
Other fish that I have seen in this stream are Northern Hogsuckers, Rainbow and Orangethroat Darters, Un ID'd Sunfish (Haven't got any pics of them yet) and another Sucker-like fish (again, no pics) plus "minnows" which I have been told are Shiners and Chubs.
I took this exactly like you said Casper. I set down my Fujifilm XP50 down where they seemed to be congregating the most. I'm afraid I don't know the settings as the video recording is automatic, but it is a simple point and shoot so not a whole lot of control over the camera anyway. This was taken yesterday in the creek near my house in South Central Indiana.
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Posted 24 March 2013 - 02:21 PM
#14
Posted 25 March 2013 - 01:14 AM
"No thanks, a third of a gopher would merely arouse my appetite..."
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