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Posted 13 April 2009 - 09:15 AM

Do any of have any thoughts or tips on collecting from a canoe when it's not feasible to wade due to very soft bottoms and such? There is an area i'd love to sample that is easily accesible by canoe but not by wading.

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Posted 13 April 2009 - 10:00 AM

It helps to have a partner to counterbalance you while you're leaning out and pulling your net through the water. Honestly I've never had much luck netting from a canoe, but others may have more positive experiences.

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Posted 13 April 2009 - 10:10 AM

Electroshocking from a canoe works, netting has always been dicier in my experience. Maybe a cast net could work?

#4 Michael Wolfe

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Posted 13 April 2009 - 11:18 AM

Do any of have any thoughts or tips on collecting from a canoe when it's not feasible to wade due to very soft bottoms and such? There is an area i'd love to sample that is easily accesible by canoe but not by wading.


The only time that I sampled from a canoe successfully was for topminnows and grass shrimp in the swamp... with a dip net... I was able to "slap and sweep" with the dip net and collect plenty of both (admittedly, they were thick in the water, it was almost hard to miss).
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Posted 13 April 2009 - 11:47 AM

I caught my first Redline Darter dragging a dipnet behind the canoe. It took me hours to ID using my first Native Fish Book, the Audubon Field Guide. That is the last book i use now.
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Take that canoe out... it will be fun no matter what happens.
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Posted 13 April 2009 - 12:02 PM

If you're talking soft bottoms, I'm guessing you're in slackwater habitat. Put a polarizing filter on your camera and you can get some great fish shots, much more easily than you can catch the fish. Going out after dark with a high-powered light is fun too.

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Posted 13 April 2009 - 04:32 PM

My 2 cents says a sit-on-top kayak is a lot more forgiving for messing with equipment over water. However, use whatever you can. It's fun as long as you're not dunking a $4,000 piece of equipment.

I'm all for creative sampling techniques. What about fabicating some kind of canoe/kayak trawl?

Edited by rjmtx, 13 April 2009 - 04:32 PM.


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Posted 13 April 2009 - 06:25 PM

I'm all for creative sampling techniques. What about fabicating some kind of canoe/kayak trawl?


I have one I made.
I think dipnetting should work with a partner acting as a couterbalance.

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Posted 13 April 2009 - 07:09 PM

I'm not sure how well a trawl would work being pulled behind a canoe. Trawls used behind boats on rivers as an alternative/complimentary gear to standard electrofishing work well to target small benthic or sheltered fish but don't always produce high catch rates. I'm also not sure how legal, if at all, using a trawl would be. A long handled dipnet could work fine to catch things against the bank, in vegetation, or visible near the surface. You could also use an umbrella net.

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Posted 30 April 2009 - 08:08 AM

I only used one when i was exploring the marshes where i always find millions of mollies and least killifish. It works pretty good, but not very effective if you see something you want to chase :) . Its quite amusing even if your by yourself, you see what you wanna catch but its out of reach so you grab the paddle push toward the fish hurry drop the paddle pick up the net only to realize fish is gone :unsure:



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