Central Mudminnow Hunt In Massachusetts
#1 Guest_bumpylemon_*
Posted 27 April 2010 - 09:24 AM
#2 Guest_bumpylemon_*
Posted 30 April 2010 - 07:15 PM
#3 Guest_Uland_*
Posted 30 April 2010 - 07:45 PM
well i went out again today....and again nothing...where do mudminnows go when there are not weeds? i think im gonna need a partner next time....the thing is its not like a brook they are in...its a river which gets deep so im limited to what i can dip-net in. this time i gave 100% effort. im convinced they arent there
Not weeds? Hmmm. Well piles of dead vegetation would be the next best place but if you don't see any green stuff in the water, I might think you're in the wrong spot. In early spring in Illinois (a month or longer ago), I find them in water so shallow, it's occupied by terrestrial vegetation and not usually much deeper. These locations are almost always heavily vegetated and even in the dead of winter are full of cover due to dormant vegetation. If I were you, I would not even bother sampling an area for Central mudminnow unless obvious signs of abundant vegetation were present.
#4 Guest_bumpylemon_*
Posted 30 April 2010 - 07:48 PM
Edited by bumpylemon, 30 April 2010 - 07:49 PM.
#5 Guest_Uland_*
Posted 30 April 2010 - 08:31 PM
#6 Guest_bumpylemon_*
Posted 30 April 2010 - 08:49 PM
#7 Guest_bumpylemon_*
Posted 01 May 2010 - 07:24 AM
Nah the lake actually feeds the stream they are in. There weren't lots of weeds. The weeds are just starting to come back. The info I had was very specific. Its the only report online I could find. And it tells exactly where to go. Hmm ill give it one more shot. But I search in 2 huge pools cut off from the river (its in the pics above) they are like 4 inches deep max. Full of algae and rocks. No weeds. I knew it wouldn't be easy. I'm ok with that
went back today....still nothing...this fish in mass has defeated me...ticks, poison ivy and a stick in the back of my leg....mudminnow you win
#10 Guest_bumpylemon_*
Posted 07 May 2010 - 11:12 AM
#12 Guest_gerald_*
Posted 07 May 2010 - 03:31 PM
#15 Guest_bumpylemon_*
Posted 07 May 2010 - 04:42 PM
I caught some little mudminnows 30 years ago along the muddy edge of a pond at Puffton Village Apts near the UMass campus in Amherst (introduced). There was hardly any veg; just soft organic mud to dive into. I scooped a small aquarium net down into the mud wherever I saw divots in the mud surface.
ya thats the other area that they have been documented in.
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