Early Sunday morning, June 22. I thought I'd do some quick fishing for smallmouths on the Susquehanna River just north of Marietta. The water here is usually good habitat for bass and easy to fish when wading. Of course I also took along my Dip net, just in case....
And please forgive the picture quality. They were taken with an iPhone and I am stilling figuring it out!
First a view of the river:
![Posted Image](http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f275/damarkley/veranlpool6222008.jpg)
In the background is the river proper and the foreground shows one of many vernal (is that correct) pools that form as the water level drops. Here is a larger pool still barely open to the river:
![Posted Image](http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f275/damarkley/largepool6222008.jpg)
Well, the fishing was crappy (no pun intended) so I thought I'd see what I could get (hoping for some blacknosed dace for a NANFA member). That was not to be but there were SNAILS. Billions and billions of snails:
![Posted Image](http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f275/damarkley/Snails6222008.jpg)
Can anyone tell me what they are? Here is the typical habitat:
![Posted Image](http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f275/damarkley/moresnails6222008.jpg)
and
![Posted Image](http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f275/damarkley/snailsinpool6222008.jpg)
And finally, there were tadpoles (toadpoles?). I did get about a dozen of these for my garden pond. Note the small fry minnows too. I bet no one can ID the minnows!
![Posted Image](http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f275/damarkley/tadpoles6222008.jpg)
So that's it. A few snails and tadpoles collected. No bass. A sweaty body and muddy feet. Is this a good life or what?
Dean