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From: geoff <gkimber2_at_alltel.net>
To: Nanfa (E-mail) <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 1:57 AM
Subject: NANFA-- best weekend ever
> I had the best fishing weekend ever.
>
> I drove like a maniac from Lexington to the swamp on friday. I got there
> too late for taillights, but that was OK.
>
> Saturday I went in the boat with Steven, Phillip and Mike Wolf. I cannot
> imagine how steven got permission to collect in an NWR. After that, we
> collected in a couple more places until we finished the day at the Suwanee
> river. Amazing mosquito population they have there. I wouldn't quit
> fishing until the sun was down and the mosqitos were so thick that you
> couldn't stand still long enough to get the fish out of the net. Managed
to
> inhale one of the buggers and about coughed my lungs out.
>
>
> I didn't collect enough L ommata to be satisfied, so I left at 5:30 Sunday
> for home, with a planned stop in Waycross. I went to the pond we
collected
> in last year and in the pouring rain, and I found huge amounts of L ommata
> in about 15 minutes.
>
> I finally got home at around 7pm, just in time for Mark Binkley to arrive
at
> 8pm. Mark took posession of the fish I was hauling for him and he
rebagged
> until the wee hours of the morning.
>
> On Monday, Mark and I went on a whirlwind tour of 3 different river
> drainages - the Rockcastle, the Cumberland, and the Green. Mark has the
> species list, so a better collecting report is on the way, but I spent
> basically all day in my waders catching fish I had no idea were that close
> to my house. We found two sites that offer prime snorkeling habitat, and
I
> found the holy grail - SRBDs!
>
> These critters were no more than 50 miles from my house, and I have been
> looking for them since I moved to KY 2.5 years ago. The females are huge
> with eggs, so it looks like I'll they'll spawn too. Now, if I am not too
> inept, I might be able to raise up a batch of SRBDs.
>
> Anyway - We found a good base for a summer collecting trip to south
Central
> KY. I'll spend the next few weeks refining the collecting sites and put
> together a collecting foray into the wilds of KY.
>
> So despite driving 1600 miles in 3 days, it was great. I collected deep in
> the swamp and the hills of KY in just 72 hours. Of course, it will take a
> while to recover, but it was worth it.
>
> Geoff Kimber
> Lexington,KY
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