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Black Creek, SC

Started by Guest_killier_* , Jun 13 2014 07:39 PM

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#1 Guest_killier_*

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Posted 13 June 2014 - 07:39 PM

Hit a spot as directed by my local regional rep. just west of Columbia, SC. A friend of mine from USC and myself armed with only a seine pulled up a plethora of species.....

Bluespotted sunfish
Everglades pygmy sunfish
Dollar sunfish
Bluegill
Creek chubsucker
Redfin pickerel
Chain pickerel
Speckled madtom
Lined topminnow
Savannah darter
Tesselated darter
Dusky shiner
Lowland shiner
Brook silverside
Largemouth bass
Pirate perch
Gambusia

I've heard that the Elassoma often die out around this time of year but we found several good looking males, big enough to seine up anyways. Oh and there was a local family with children swimming around who were very helpful with kicking out the plant matter. They seem to have memory of a "bearded man with an old explorer filling Gatorade bottles with the pretty little ones....... "

#2 mattknepley

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Smack-dab between the Savannah and the Saluda.

Posted 13 June 2014 - 08:09 PM

Cool! Nice haul. The elusive phantom seiner does get around. They say on a full moon summer night he often heard splashing and laughing in the waters...

Matt Knepley
"No thanks, a third of a gopher would merely arouse my appetite..."

#3 Guest_Dustin_*

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Posted 13 June 2014 - 09:03 PM

I see you've met my friends. Did they tell you about the rattlesnakes? Nice haul there.

#4 Guest_sbtgrfan_*

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Posted 13 June 2014 - 09:34 PM

Good species list from there. That was one of the first places I ever collected with the mysterious bearded man. Is he back to being bearded????

#5 Guest_killier_*

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Posted 13 June 2014 - 10:45 PM

That is the only place in the world rattlesnakes swim ya know. You ever heard of a pickerel being called a jackfish? He said Chain pickerel was the "north yankee word"

#6 Michael Wolfe

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North Georgia, Oconee River Drainage

Posted 14 June 2014 - 06:04 AM

Yup jack fish are all over the okefenokee area of gawga you will never find no dang pickrell down there, theys all jacks

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin

#7 Guest_fundulus_*

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Posted 14 June 2014 - 09:46 AM

We worked at a site in the Duck system of TN yesterday where we encountered our first rattlesnakes along the stream. Every time we walked by a brushpile trailing in to the stream we'd be rattled at. We could just barely see the snake(s) inside. We didn't have anything to rattle back with.

#8 Guest_mikez_*

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Posted 14 June 2014 - 11:52 AM

I guess it's a universal thing in the south to warn strangers about the gators, rattlers and "moccosins" [usually harmless watersnakes].

I bet I heard it half a dozen times at least on my own recent trip to Fl. They just tryin to freak out the Yankees. My standard response became "No Sh_t, that's why we're here. We LIKE snakes and gators." Which was true.