Come on Folks. We need more info here!
#1 Guest_Canadiancray_*
Posted 12 April 2008 - 11:17 AM
We need all your info here. Where do you live? What have you caught in your area? What areas are good for collecting what types of fish?? What are you keeping etc etc.
The more people that post this type of info the easier it will be for all of us to find what we are looking for. In Canada we have a short collecting season so the easier it is the better right!!!
#2 Guest_Canadiancray_*
Posted 12 April 2008 - 11:20 AM
I have seen many Darters & shiners. Not sure what types though. I intend to go out collecting as soon as the weather permits temperature wise
What time of year seems to be the best for collecting in the Southern Ontario region???
#3 Guest_edbihary_*
Posted 12 April 2008 - 07:06 PM
I suggest you start by updating your profile to include your location information. You don't have to put your street address in there, but maybe your city, county, postal code, or better yet, your watershed. What part of Ontario are you in?Calling all Canadians!!!!
We need all your info here. Where do you live?
I don't think there are very many Canadians on here yet, but I'm glad to see that more are joining.
I also am very interested in learning about Canadian watersheds. You don't have anything like NatureServe fish by watershed, do you? Are there online watershed delineations and range maps somewhere?
I'm also interested to know, if it's possible for us to collect on your side of the border, or you on ours? It's surely possible to get into the water; I know many people who head north to sport fish in Ontario and Manitoba. But is it permissible to bring anything back? Does anybody have any information about this, or know where it can be found?
It would be great to have a cross-border collecting trip someday, and get our US and Canada people together! It might also be interesting to have a convention north of the border someday.
Since you're asking for collecting information to be shared publicly, I will point out a thing or two. People may share information on a public forum such as this about where they find common species. But if they find uncommon/endangered species, they are unlikely to share that information publicly. Not only will they not tell you publicly where to find endangered species, but they will not even say "look for pumpkinseeds here" if they know rare species can be found in the same stream. I hope you can understand why. If you stick around a while and build relationships with people, though, they might tell you stuff privately that they should not share publicly. And they might take you on a collecting trip and show you. So stick around, learn, share, but don't expect somebody to respond with a list of collecting sites in southern Ontario. That's not likely to happen. But maybe there is somebody in southern Ontario who will take you collecting. Good luck. And maybe one (or both) of us (and others) may cross that border someday.
#4 Guest_Canadiancray_*
Posted 13 April 2008 - 03:01 PM
I know a few people than come from south of the border to collect different species of crays but couldn't tell you the legalities about taking them back across the border.
Basically I'm looking for info on what areas the different types of legal non endangered fish can be collected. Since there is such a large number of fish available in Ontario knowing the general areas to look would save some time.
I am interested mainly in darters & maybe some Sunfish for a 110gallon tank I am setting up in the living room. I would also like to try my hand at raising some native plants if that is possible.
#5 Guest_BenjaminS_*
Posted 24 April 2008 - 06:33 AM
I'm in the montreal area so that means i have relatively good access to many natives. As for aquarium species, i have caught pumpkinseeds, bluegills, central muminnows, shiners of all kinds, darters (not exactly sure which species), black bullheads, yellow perch, killifish (again not sure which species), ninespine stickelbacks, dace (different species, mostly blacknose) and there are a few others hwich i have seen but been uable to identify in the st. lawrence river.
As for legality, well i have been told that the keeping of any native species is illegal in quebec, but trying to find confirmation of this was impossible. I have seen confirmation that keeping native herps is illegal but nothing on fish.
As for crayfish, well, the use of live baits is prohibitted here in quebec, with the exception of worms, so i wonder if they fall under that category? I have seen local crays in pets tores here a bunch of times so who really knows? I have also seen a few pet stores sell pumpkinseeds (at 20$ a pop too!) so i don't know if any of these laws are really enforced.
If you are looking for sunfish species, the only one i would suggest is pumpkinseeds since that's all i've kept up till now . they are agressive but not to the point where they have killed another of their kind...yet.
Hope this helps!
Don
#6 Guest_canadiangirl_*
Posted 06 May 2008 - 06:28 AM
I don't necessarily bring them home, often just catch observe and release. It is very interesting to me to see what species are hanging around at different times of the year and there also seems to be quite a bit of variation from year to year.
My 4 yr old son serves as good cover so the neighbours don't think I'm a complete crackpot poking about in the river all the time.
#7 Guest_Marco_*
Posted 13 May 2008 - 01:16 PM
I live close to the rideau river and fish that I have collected there include: tessellated darters, banded killies, rock bass, bluegill and pseed sunnies. and my fave: mottled sculpins. There is also a ton of crayfish mostly O. viralis I think.
I don't necessarily bring them home, often just catch observe and release. It is very interesting to me to see what species are hanging around at different times of the year and there also seems to be quite a bit of variation from year to year.
My 4 yr old son serves as good cover so the neighbours don't think I'm a complete crackpot poking about in the river all the time.
You live in Ottawa? Awesome, so do I. I don't live around the area you appear to however. I'm in an area in the former city of Nepean and I know of a park that has a mid-sized pond with several native species that a friend and I visited several years ago and I have been trying to see if other parks in my neighbourhood have any ponds, creeks, etc that also contain fish.
#8 Guest_Canadiancray_*
Posted 13 May 2008 - 05:20 PM
#9 Guest_canadiangirl_*
Posted 25 May 2008 - 07:14 PM
You live in Ottawa? Awesome, so do I. I don't live around the area you appear to however. I'm in an area in the former city of Nepean and I know of a park that has a mid-sized pond with several native species that a friend and I visited several years ago and I have been trying to see if other parks in my neighbourhood have any ponds, creeks, etc that also contain fish.
I am in Ottawa, near the riverside hospital. Are you on http://ovas.ca? If not you should check out the site. Great community!
#10 Guest_mander_*
Posted 02 July 2008 - 10:45 AM
I guess we're all to busy hugging trees to get to the fish!
#11 Guest_SloughShark_*
Posted 31 July 2008 - 09:03 AM
Unfortunately, my province doesn't have near the diversity in (small) fishes as you have down east. But the Rockies are home to some species that you won't see there, like the Mountain Whitefish and Bull Trout. These fish are better known for their sportfishing qualities, but the juveniles can be stunning.
We can't keep native fishes in Alberta, but I very much enjoy bringing my Photo Tank with me (which is just an Eclipse System 6) and I can watch how the fish would act in an aquarium.
Glad to see there are more Canadians here already!
Taylor
#12 Guest_BenjaminS_*
Posted 02 August 2008 - 09:14 PM
I wonder if there are enough of us here to organize a fishing trip! (with nets not rods )
Don
#13 Guest_MUBOTE_*
Posted 24 August 2008 - 01:47 PM
I am in Ottawa, near the riverside hospital. Are you on http://ovas.ca? If not you should check out the site. Great community!
Hey, I live in Ottawa too. We should go fish sometime, when I don't have school, of course.
#14 Guest_jimv8673_*
Posted 18 November 2008 - 06:13 PM
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