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Posted 20 April 2007 - 09:54 AM

I thought they looked like 3 girls, esp the 2 upper ones, based on tail shape & my experince with NC Nerodia spp.
Ive never seen rhombifer until now.

That must seem pretty weird to "regular people" that snakes scared the hell out of you BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT THEY WERE FISH ! (But then i guess you probably dont compare yourself to regular people all that much, esp at 4am covered in fish blood).


I'm used to pulling gar into to boat with their toothy mouth open at me. But when I pull a gar in that turns into a ~52 inch un id'ed snake as its open mouth is an inch from my leg I yell almost loud enough to scare nutria watching me from the bank. Now I can add groups of disgruntled water snakes to the list of things that may attack me while reaching into the water to pick up my traps in the middle of the night.

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Posted 30 April 2007 - 03:12 PM

A couple shots of some new possible brood stock - biggest one is around estimated 60-70 lbs

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Posted 30 April 2007 - 05:15 PM

Nice "little" Gator you have there... :razz:

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Posted 30 April 2007 - 05:33 PM

Nice "little" Gator you have there... :razz:


Looks like it wants to be petted :smile:

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Posted 18 June 2007 - 11:23 AM

young catfish from light trap collection

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Posted 22 June 2007 - 04:15 PM

A few quick shots from this weeks collection

Lepomis sp. I think
The glowing orange spot in its head is the an otolith
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Bottle cap for scale since this scope has no micrometer
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and a leech
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Posted 22 June 2007 - 04:23 PM

grass shrimp and fish
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gar from 6-20-07 (top) and 5-19-07 (bottom)

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Posted 22 June 2007 - 04:28 PM

Water innundating the floodplain after a wet week
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Posted 22 June 2007 - 05:00 PM

Quillback Carpiodes cyprinus collected with a gillnet a few weeks ago

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Posted 22 June 2007 - 05:11 PM

smallmouth buffalo - top
bigmouth buffalo - bottom
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carp
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american eels
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Posted 22 June 2007 - 06:06 PM

what do you do with all of the dead bodies?

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Posted 22 June 2007 - 07:22 PM

I would have to say that gill nets are my least favorite method for sampling fish. Gill nets = Sucks trap nets, hoop nets, and electro shocking are much easier, and usually cleaner.

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Posted 22 June 2007 - 07:54 PM

Excellent little spot gar pics with a good comparison to what they look a few weeks later :P ..rare on the net are such pics posted...THANKS!!!!

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Posted 22 June 2007 - 10:25 PM

what do you do with all of the dead bodies?


It's not my project, but the fish are weighed and measured, sexed, gonads weighed, and otoliths removed for ageing.

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Posted 22 June 2007 - 10:26 PM

I would have to say that gill nets are my least favorite method for sampling fish. Gill nets = Sucks trap nets, hoop nets, and electro shocking are much easier, and usually cleaner.


We electrofish as well as run gill nets. We do a lot of work where launching a large boat is not an option, so we work from pirogues. I think gill nets are easier when working in a small boat.

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Posted 22 June 2007 - 10:43 PM

Excellent little spot gar pics with a good comparison to what they look a few weeks later :P ..rare on the net are such pics posted...THANKS!!!!


Thanks, hopefully I will see some more young gar this season. The females I have seen recently seem be absorbing their eggs.

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Posted 25 June 2007 - 03:33 PM

you keeping that sunfish



What is it?? Anyone!!! The sunfish with the spots.

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Posted 25 June 2007 - 03:53 PM

Wow, I had to go baaaaaaack for that one. Spotted sunfish? Redspotted version most likely?

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Posted 26 June 2007 - 07:32 AM

This one sunfish here on the bottom of the photos is a mirror image of the one that I put up for ID in the past. So they must have these type of hybrids down in LA






Went gillnetting and light trapping last night

"Hybrid" Lepomis
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Posted 26 June 2007 - 01:20 PM

We electrofish as well as run gill nets. We do a lot of work where launching a large boat is not an option, so we work from pirogues. I think gill nets are easier when working in a small boat.

I'm used to working out on the Mississippi, so we're always worried about losing gill nets or getting them tangled up in massive amounts of driftwood. Setting them in backwaters is always easier, but I still dislike it. :mrgreen:




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