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#1 Guest_nativecajun_*
Posted 02 June 2007 - 08:03 PM
Daniel
#2 Guest_ashtonmj_*
Posted 02 June 2007 - 09:04 PM
#3 Guest_fritz_*
Posted 03 June 2007 - 12:20 PM
Check out Ocmulgee shiner, Cyprinella callisema, as a possibility.This was caught in a higher elevation stream in North East Georgia. ( Eton Georgia ) . I thought it would be a give away when I checked the field guide but I could not figure it out. I will read and look some more but mean while will the experts out there tell me what this is. Lots of horny protuberances on head to beggining of dorsal fin. Spot near base of tail looks more black than blue. Choppy black lateral line. Anal fins are a beutiful iridescent white. The dorsal is a blue white color very flashy. Photos do not do this fish justice. Appreciate the help.
Daniel
#4 Guest_ashtonmj_*
Posted 03 June 2007 - 02:47 PM
#5 Guest_nativecajun_*
Posted 03 June 2007 - 06:08 PM
#6 Guest_drewish_*
Posted 03 June 2007 - 06:14 PM
#7 Guest_dsmith73_*
Posted 03 June 2007 - 06:22 PM
#8 Guest_drewish_*
Posted 03 June 2007 - 06:25 PM
It sure looks exactly like some Alabama shiners we just caught a couple of weeks ago.
Alabama shiner : http://gallery.nanfa.../1 188.jpg.html
#9 Guest_fundulus_*
Posted 03 June 2007 - 07:32 PM
#10 Guest_ashtonmj_*
Posted 03 June 2007 - 08:29 PM
#11 Guest_nativecajun_*
Posted 03 June 2007 - 08:50 PM
Appreciate the help.
Daniel
#12 Guest_nativecajun_*
Posted 03 June 2007 - 09:09 PM
Thanks for your help
Daniel
#13 Guest_nativecajun_*
Posted 03 June 2007 - 09:14 PM
Thanks.
Daniel
Ooppsss looks like drew put both up and both are correct. I have two species. The alabama is the one I posted first. I get confused. But alls well ends well. Learning is painful when head is hard. Thanks for taking time to hash it out with me.
#14 Guest_nativecajun_*
Posted 03 June 2007 - 10:08 PM
The tricolor is on the left and the alabama is on the right. Cymprinella Trichraistia left Cymprinella Callistia right.
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#15 Guest_nativecajun_*
Posted 03 June 2007 - 10:15 PM
Moderator thanks for posting so quickly for me. I went back and now I am more convinced that I have two species. Like I said photos do not do a fish justice and it depends on where the fish comes from also. I believe I have one alabama and three tricolor and the photo posted is the tricolor. I will try to get side by side comparison photos. Like I said photos do not catch things as true as the eye. Be patient and I think you will come to the same conclusion. I will like I said try to photograph the two side by side but I am convinced by the reading that the one in my photo is a tricolor for it is the alabama that has the black trailing edge and the redish to pink dorsal and the tricolor has the blue dorsal with white outline. At least with the material I have. Photos comming soon.
Thanks for your help
Daniel
Seems I need to edit this one. I have one tricolor and three Alabama shiners. The alabama has that neon bueish white dorsal with a white edge running from the top rear to the back of it down to the body. The Tricolor has red tips on his lower fins. But the first photo I ever posted was of the Alabama shiner.
#16 Guest_nativecajun_*
Posted 03 June 2007 - 10:19 PM
Looks like an Alabama shiner to me.
Andit looks like you are right !!
#17 Guest_nativecajun_*
Posted 04 June 2007 - 08:04 AM
Casper and I saw a plethora of Alabama's and Tri-colors a month ago in the Conasauga and that is dead on for an Alabama. Note the 'dirty' appearance of the scales from the tip of the pectoral fin to the dorsal fin. Color and margins on dorsal fin also looks right to me for an Alabama. Tri-colors don't have any of those characteristics (different dorsal pattern) and seem to be a bit smaller and not as high.
Thanks for the info. Parts of the conasauga are trout waters but most of it are not. I caught these in a higher elevation stream that was trout water. I caught them with rod and reel. You would not believe what I catch on rod and reel. Number Ten dry fly streamer hook or something like that. Smaller than a number ten aberdeen. I always have fun explaining to people that ask are you doing any good. Then I show them what I have in my bucket. Caught some black tails and white spotted tails or something like that last week on rod and reel also.
#18 Guest_killier_*
Posted 04 June 2007 - 10:30 AM
sounds coolThanks for the info. Parts of the conasauga are trout waters but most of it are not. I caught these in a higher elevation stream that was trout water. I caught them with rod and reel. You would not believe what I catch on rod and reel. Number Ten dry fly streamer hook or something like that. Smaller than a number ten aberdeen. I always have fun explaining to people that ask are you doing any good. Then I show them what I have in my bucket. Caught some black tails and white spotted tails or something like that last week on rod and reel also.
btw which axlrod do you have I have 2 of huge 1000+ paged books and about 10 of his little starter books
#19 Guest_tricolor_*
Posted 04 June 2007 - 12:49 PM
#20 Guest_nativecajun_*
Posted 04 June 2007 - 03:20 PM
Then if I do catch a ocomu--- what ever I can get more lousy photos taken in a hurry. I have been busy trying to get photos out for paying customers and have been bogged down. I think I will scratch this paying hobby photography thing off of my to do list and start enjoying photography like I used to.
Daniel
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