Southcentral Oregon, October 2007
#1 Guest_daveneely_*
Posted 22 October 2007 - 05:21 PM
The big lakes in the basin (Upper and Lower Klamath Lake, and Agency Lake) have a really high concentration of Spirulina algae; the close-up below gives an idea of what visibility was like. This makes trying to grab sculpins pretty difficult, and it took a long time to get lucky and get a couple of Klamath Lake sculpins. Slowly flipping rocks while working a hand underneath was the ticket.
Luckily, there's a nice spring tributary that dumps crystal-clear water into Upper Klamath Lake at Hagelstein Park, with lush aquatic vegetation; some of the marbled and slender sculpins were completely buried in the silt; if you moved your hand slowly you could get them to move a little, then go for the grab! There were shoals of 1000s of fathead minnows here, with a few blue chub and tui chub mixed in. I also saw a couple of small suckers, they looked like Catostomus snyderi but in deference to the couple of Federally protected suckers that are also here I didn't disturb them.
Not that many other folks get excited about sculpins, but these guys are pretty cool...
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#6 Guest_daveneely_*
Posted 03 November 2007 - 10:47 PM
Nice fish Dave, I hope to catch some sculpins here in north Georgia, if I can find any outside the trout streams
Thanks!
What species is it that lives in the Chattahoochee?
That's Cottus chattahoochee (see attached pdf). Unfortunately the editors nixed my proposal to name it the Hoochie-coochie sculpin...
They get pretty far down in some creeks so you should be able to find some outside of trout water; there's actually a record within a km or so of the Alabama border! Some really neat areas around there.
cheers,
Dave
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#7
Posted 04 November 2007 - 12:47 PM
Oh, and to everyone else, don't you just love NANFA, not just a hobby club, not just a scientific group, not just a bunch of fish hugging nature nuts, but all of that rolled into one with each of us having access to the others experienc eand expertise. {sermon over, please resume your random postings}
Thanks!
That's Cottus chattahoochee (see attached pdf). Unfortunately the editors nixed my proposal to name it the Hoochie-coochie sculpin...
They get pretty far down in some creeks so you should be able to find some outside of trout water; there's actually a record within a km or so of the Alabama border! Some really neat areas around there.
cheers,
Dave
#8 Guest_NateTessler13_*
Posted 04 November 2007 - 04:49 PM
#9 Guest_Irate Mormon_*
Posted 04 November 2007 - 07:08 PM
Oh, and to everyone else, don't you just love NANFA, not just a hobby club, not just a scientific group, not just a bunch of fish hugging nature nuts, but all of that rolled into one with each of us having access to the others experienc eand expertise. {sermon over, please resume your random postings}
Brother are you right. And there are individuals like the Bruce-ter, Fritz, and Dave, who straddle these worlds and integrate them. You won't find this in any other fish group.
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