trojannemo
Fishaholic
here we go again guys.
I went dipnetting with the vice president of my club this monday.
we spent most of the day driving back and forth around Homestead (Florida) - i dont know the area too well but i know we were around the Air Force Reserve base and the Turkey Point power plant. For those of you outside of south florida (99.9% of this forum most likely!), the area is where a lot of farms are found, so the area is pretty much devoid of houses and business per se, and there are a lot of canals and trees. not the busy Miami setting i'm used to. pretty calm and conducive to dipnetting for hours on end.
i only photographed a few of the fish collected, so here's a list of all the species we collected, as best as I can remember: gambusia, sailfin mollies, least killifish, spotted tilapia, mayan cichlid, jewel cichlid, black acara, midas cichlid, pike livebearer, fundulus chrysotus (normal and melanistic strains), bluefin killies, warmouth, grass shrimp, trumpet snails, ramshorn snails, and a single pond snail.
the day was made better by some species that we saw but didn't catch. some of which were unbelievable to me! besides the above that we collected, we saw but didn't catch: two sailfin plecos, walking catfish, a 2 foot or bigger carp, bluegill sunfish, mullet, pompano (saltwater fish in a slightly brackish canal?), blue tilapia, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, peacock bass...and more that I'm not remembering!
anyways, on to the pictures we did take:
the one Midas cichlid of the day, caught by my club VP on hook and line with dog food!
look at the amount of fish in that lake! there were spotted tilapia, bass, carp, bluegill, midas, walking catfish, and probably others as well.
my club VP also caught several spotted tilapia on the line while trying to hook a midas. this was the biggest one of them all:
the other exciting catch of the day - Pike Livebearers. I managed to catch 3 with the dipnet!
also caught this melanistic strain of Fundulus chrysotus - quite beautiful i think.
a couple more pictures...
a baby jewel cichlid:
a juvenile warmouth:
also collected my first ever pond snail. i've gotten other snails before, but never a pond snail. so new species for me!
and we caught a grass shrimp with a freaky alien bloodsucker attached to it! i've sent the image to a researcher specializing in shrimp parasites to see what it is. poor shrimp!
this last one we didnt catch obviously, but here's a picture anyways.
florida common snapping turtle:
hope you enjoyed the pictures!
I went dipnetting with the vice president of my club this monday.
we spent most of the day driving back and forth around Homestead (Florida) - i dont know the area too well but i know we were around the Air Force Reserve base and the Turkey Point power plant. For those of you outside of south florida (99.9% of this forum most likely!), the area is where a lot of farms are found, so the area is pretty much devoid of houses and business per se, and there are a lot of canals and trees. not the busy Miami setting i'm used to. pretty calm and conducive to dipnetting for hours on end.
i only photographed a few of the fish collected, so here's a list of all the species we collected, as best as I can remember: gambusia, sailfin mollies, least killifish, spotted tilapia, mayan cichlid, jewel cichlid, black acara, midas cichlid, pike livebearer, fundulus chrysotus (normal and melanistic strains), bluefin killies, warmouth, grass shrimp, trumpet snails, ramshorn snails, and a single pond snail.
the day was made better by some species that we saw but didn't catch. some of which were unbelievable to me! besides the above that we collected, we saw but didn't catch: two sailfin plecos, walking catfish, a 2 foot or bigger carp, bluegill sunfish, mullet, pompano (saltwater fish in a slightly brackish canal?), blue tilapia, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, peacock bass...and more that I'm not remembering!
anyways, on to the pictures we did take:
the one Midas cichlid of the day, caught by my club VP on hook and line with dog food!
look at the amount of fish in that lake! there were spotted tilapia, bass, carp, bluegill, midas, walking catfish, and probably others as well.
my club VP also caught several spotted tilapia on the line while trying to hook a midas. this was the biggest one of them all:
the other exciting catch of the day - Pike Livebearers. I managed to catch 3 with the dipnet!
also caught this melanistic strain of Fundulus chrysotus - quite beautiful i think.
a couple more pictures...
a baby jewel cichlid:
a juvenile warmouth:
also collected my first ever pond snail. i've gotten other snails before, but never a pond snail. so new species for me!
and we caught a grass shrimp with a freaky alien bloodsucker attached to it! i've sent the image to a researcher specializing in shrimp parasites to see what it is. poor shrimp!
this last one we didnt catch obviously, but here's a picture anyways.
florida common snapping turtle:
hope you enjoyed the pictures!
