Re: NANFA-- best weekend ever

Steffen Hellner (steffen_at_hellner.biz)
Wed, 2 Apr 2003 15:05:34 +0200

Geoff,

that4s one of the fish I am looking for, the SRBD. Had that fish years ago,
they4re just wonderful. Any chance to have a bunch of them extra for me?
Know it4s kind of stress shipping them overseas. My 15000 l pond is waiting
for them.

Steffen

----- Original Message -----
From: geoff <gkimber2_at_alltel.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 1:15 PM
Subject: RE: NANFA-- best weekend ever

> sorry.
>
> SRBD is a southern red belly dace (Phoxinus erythrogaster)
> Distribution maps show this fish throughout Kentucky, but until now, I
have
> not been able to actually find them so close to my home.
>
> I do plan to organize a trip with at least 2 major river drainages - the
> cumberland and the green. I will be spending a few weeks scouting
locations
> to make it worth the trip. The water is also a bit cold right now. Not a
> problem with waders, but maybe a bit cool for snorkeling.
>
> Geoff Kimber
> Lexington,KY
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanfa_at_aquaria.net On Behalf
> Of Steffen Hellner
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 2:29 AM
> To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Subject: Re: NANFA-- best weekend ever
>
>
> Ya, just make me nervous and excited as I am far away from these Kentucky
> biotops. And what is SRBD? A kind of Darter, I believe.
>
> Steffen
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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