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[Chasmodes]

The river was low and gin clear, allowing for easy wade fishing and some time to snap a few pictures of our finned friends.  I've posted them in the gallery.  Hope you like them.  I think that the darters pictured are Etheostoma blennioides.  There were several different species present along with some sculpins, but I had a very hard time getting them to be photogenic.

 

Album: The Chasmodes Perspective

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[MtFallsTodd]

Nice pics. The Potomac looks great there.

[mattknepley]

Looks like a great day. Smallies are always fun, and there's just something intriguing about the Rockies. They always warranted a few seconds extra admiration before release when I was a kid. Thanks for posting!

[littlen]

Great pictures. I have a MUCH different perspective of the Potomac being in and around D.C. Even on its best day, the water still looks like a river made of Yoohoo. Glad it's still nice up your way. Looks like there were tons of Greensides! Your regurgitated fish is hard to make out. Kind of looks like a little hogsucker but very blurry.

[gerald]

Minnows:  The round-bodied ones (including head-on view of "Sup?") may be Fallfish.  The two Cyprinella pix look like spotfin, or maybe satinfin shiners.   Common shiners ought to be in there somewhere too, but I cant make out any in your pix.

[Chasmodes]

Thanks Gerald for the IDs!  i was thinking fallfish on the "sup" one, but wasn't sure.  Fallfish makes more sense though.

 

Nick, it definitely was a catfish, had the characteristic spines.  I'm just not sure if it is a madtom or a juvenile of another species.  Looking back, I should have not used the blurry picture.  It was the only one that I took.