trojannemo
Fishaholic
hey guys. went collecting again this halloween saturday with my club. we spent a total of about 6 hours...and we caught a good catch accordingly...
everyone always asks if i saw a gator when i go dipnetting...this was the first time I actually saw one, but it was nothing more than a baby:
caught a largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) with our tiny 3ft cast net!
this is where the bass was caught...poor place for anything else, all we caught was that bass!
as always bluefin killifish were present:
i caught this guy with the cast net...i was told it was a Blue Tilapia, yet it looks like the baby spotted tilapia we catch everywhere?
this is the regular baby tilapia we catch...which I've been always told is spotted tilapia...
can you guys differentiate those two? are they the same fish? (i think so...) and which of the two types are they?
a club member caught a beautifully-colored chrysotus:
as usual I caught only ONE crayfish:
another regular...swamp darter:
a couple of flag fish...haven't caught any fully grown adults yet...
i know some people have been wanting pictures of this little girl...least killifish (h. formosa):
a new species for me...i believe this is fundulus lineolatus?
the staple fish...always caught but never had taken a decent picture of them...gambusia affinis:
also caught some black and white variety but no good pictures of them.
along snake road we caught a hoplo, didnt manage a better picture than this sorry:
this beautifully colored mayan cichlid was caught by cast net. he must have been about 5 inches:
another regular...the molly...either i never catch sailfins or i can't tell them apart if i do...this is the regular variety i guess?
another new species for me, one of the fish caught by seine, a nice 5-6 inch butterfly peacock (cichla ocellaris). unfortunately being a game fish it can't be kept at this size so we released it.
a couple of plants were also collected along the way:
caught another big pleco using the cast net:
it's fishy love!
trying out the seine:
yet another new species (Whooo!)...this I believe we agreed was an ironcolor shiner (Notropis chalybaeus):
a new species of snake for us...sadly it was dead by the time we saw it:
now on to the sunfish
i'm always lost with these guys so help me out with the IDs?
i'm tempted to say these two are bluegills?
these next two are warmouths?
this guy had the most coloration i've yet seen on a sunfish...he already had the ear-like design and the spotting that you see in online pictures of adult sunfish...caught with the seine
and i think this large guy was a spotted sunfish (l. punctatus)?
overall a very fun day and from my perspective, having caught 4 new species (to me) and photographed 6 new species for my project, i was stoked
comments, identification help and/or corrections, questions, and anything else you have to add is welcome and appreciated!
everyone always asks if i saw a gator when i go dipnetting...this was the first time I actually saw one, but it was nothing more than a baby:
caught a largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) with our tiny 3ft cast net!
this is where the bass was caught...poor place for anything else, all we caught was that bass!
as always bluefin killifish were present:
i caught this guy with the cast net...i was told it was a Blue Tilapia, yet it looks like the baby spotted tilapia we catch everywhere?
this is the regular baby tilapia we catch...which I've been always told is spotted tilapia...
can you guys differentiate those two? are they the same fish? (i think so...) and which of the two types are they?
a club member caught a beautifully-colored chrysotus:
as usual I caught only ONE crayfish:
another regular...swamp darter:
a couple of flag fish...haven't caught any fully grown adults yet...
i know some people have been wanting pictures of this little girl...least killifish (h. formosa):
a new species for me...i believe this is fundulus lineolatus?
the staple fish...always caught but never had taken a decent picture of them...gambusia affinis:
also caught some black and white variety but no good pictures of them.
along snake road we caught a hoplo, didnt manage a better picture than this sorry:
this beautifully colored mayan cichlid was caught by cast net. he must have been about 5 inches:
another regular...the molly...either i never catch sailfins or i can't tell them apart if i do...this is the regular variety i guess?
another new species for me, one of the fish caught by seine, a nice 5-6 inch butterfly peacock (cichla ocellaris). unfortunately being a game fish it can't be kept at this size so we released it.
a couple of plants were also collected along the way:
caught another big pleco using the cast net:
it's fishy love!
trying out the seine:
yet another new species (Whooo!)...this I believe we agreed was an ironcolor shiner (Notropis chalybaeus):
a new species of snake for us...sadly it was dead by the time we saw it:
now on to the sunfish
i'm always lost with these guys so help me out with the IDs?
i'm tempted to say these two are bluegills?
these next two are warmouths?
this guy had the most coloration i've yet seen on a sunfish...he already had the ear-like design and the spotting that you see in online pictures of adult sunfish...caught with the seine
and i think this large guy was a spotted sunfish (l. punctatus)?
overall a very fun day and from my perspective, having caught 4 new species (to me) and photographed 6 new species for my project, i was stoked
comments, identification help and/or corrections, questions, and anything else you have to add is welcome and appreciated!
