two days with almost no luck local fish wise
#1 Guest_FirstChAoS_*
Posted 18 May 2010 - 04:38 PM
This week, despite feeling better has been awful fish wise.
From no luck fishing on sunday. to two days of almost no luck sampling.
Yesterday I wanted to test my new seine out but a string came loose and I had no tool with which to rethread it. I tried dipnetting the lower part of martin brook with no luck. I then tried another marshy section of martin brook. I saw fish in a stagnant stream leading to the brook but by the time i slide down to net them they were gone. I had no luck dipnetting.
Today I had a stiff wore with me to thread the string back into the poles. I went to pearly pond in rindge which supposedly has banded sunfish. I dried dipnetting through vegetation and fallen leaves with no luck. I tried using my 5 foot seine and all I got was a 5 or 6 inch chain pickeral who quickly slithered/flopped out of the net before i had it all the way out of the water.
I tried a marshy section of contoocook river in peterborough. I heard peterborough has bandeds too but i don't know where. A tributary of the merrimack (a river which supposedly has bandeds) sounds like a good choice. I got nothing. I eventually gave in and tried fishing and only got a fallfish (and sprayed with eggs trying to unhook it as it was hooked quite good and tough to unhook).
I am starting to realize how much I suck at netting fish. I can only net 3 species regularly (blacknose dace, longnose dace, and tesselated darter) and even then don't get many. Everything else is a rare exception.
#2 Guest_NVCichlids_*
Posted 18 May 2010 - 05:59 PM
I am starting to realize how much I suck at netting fish. I can only net 3 species regularly (blacknose dace, longnose dace, and tesselated darter) and even then don't get many. Everything else is a rare exception.
Aww well I hope you luck in the near future! I have only had luck netting my central mudminnow this month, had a bunch of rare plecos die, and also got poison Ivy while trying to get to a dipnet location. The only things I am good at getting on a regular basis are rockbass, green sunfish and blackstriped topminnow! I would really like to get some sort of shiner, minnow or dace, or even a darter other than johnny...
I feel your pain! Losing my plecos was a blow! I had a colony of 12 zebras (approximately $250 a fish... you can imagine that heart ache!) That is why I am looking for some natives to fill my tanks back up.. plus I want to stay clear of fish that need heaters!
Hope Everything turns better!
Nate
#4 Guest_FirstChAoS_*
Posted 18 May 2010 - 10:17 PM
FirstChAoS,
Man, that's a bummer. I, too, feel your pain! By the way, what's a stiff "wore?"
Brian
A typo. I meant stiff wire. Sort of a crude needle and thread method of getting the string through the hole.
A few things I forgot to add to my report. Yesterday for the second time ever I had a leech on me. Luckilly it didn't bite into me and dropped off soon after i left the water. I got to start carrying salt on me.
Also today I did see the cute sight of a family of geese. One of the babies went right up to me. I took pictures but didn't post them as I had no fish pics to go with them.
Edited by FirstChAoS, 18 May 2010 - 10:19 PM.
#7 Guest_BTDarters_*
Posted 20 May 2010 - 06:41 AM
A typo. I meant stiff wire. Sort of a crude needle and thread method of getting the string through the hole.
A few things I forgot to add to my report. Yesterday for the second time ever I had a leech on me. Luckilly it didn't bite into me and dropped off soon after i left the water. I got to start carrying salt on me.
Also today I did see the cute sight of a family of geese. One of the babies went right up to me. I took pictures but didn't post them as I had no fish pics to go with them.
Ah! The right vowel makes all the difference!
Brian
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