Tony
anutej_at_loxinfo.co.th
Dave Neely wrote:
>
> Sharon,
>
> >Yup. We (husband and myself) have been moving over the last
> >month. Still in pack, unpack and "do you remember what box XYZ
> >is in?" mode. I figured it would not be good for marital harmony to
> >disappear for a weekend. That was the same excuse I used when
> >missing the Sipsey collecting trip...
>
> It's too bad you missed the Sipsey trip- good times were had by all!
>
> So you live on the Dog River, eh?... I made three collections on the
> mainstem Dog earlier this spring that might give you some idea of what to
> expect... I've attached a moderately short synopsis below.
>
> I missed the convention because I spent two weeks driving like a madman
> across the american West, catching cutthroat trout, suckers, minnows and
> sculpins from as many different drainages as I could. 7000 miles in 13 days.
> Two new tires. One fly box left along the mainstem Snake River. One GPS unit
> left on top the van and lost somewhere between ND and St. Louis, Missouri. A
> duck-taped CV joint boot. One shredded pair of neoprene waders. Utahn
> culinary skills... yeah, right! The visitors center in Utah with a big sign
> at the drinking fountain stating "the EPA has determined that this water is
> unsafe to drink..." A layer of North Dakota pothole mosquitoes on my grille
> that must be an inch thick. A layer of Nevada dust that's at least two
> inches thick. A layer of Great Salt Lake salt that eleven showers still
> hasn't put a dent in. But just as many fun discoveries! A coffee joint in
> Twin Falls, ID that rocks (actually, the whole town rocks!). Mountains!
> Glaciers! Side-blotched lizards! Sunset on the Poudre (pronounced "Pooder"
> in crazy Coloradoan speak). A lake in the Uintas with more trout than even I
> <grin> could ever catch. Ice-cold Montana beers! Badgers! Bison! Sandhill
> cranes! Deep basalt gorges in the channelled scablands! The most awesome
> jacuzzi in the universe! Big Bluestem grass! And oh, the fish...
>
> Anyway, have fun exploring your new home.
>
> cheers,
> Dave
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Dog R at Ephesus Church Rd, Douglas Co.: only sampled for about 10 min, few
> fish, lots of silt. Still got southern brook lamprey, silverjaw minnow,
> bluefin stoneroller, bandfin shiner, longnose shiner, blacktail shiner,
> bluehead chub, dixie chub, greater jumprock, snail bullhead (which
> incidentally make great pets!), redbreast sunfish, bluegill, shoal bass, and
> blackbanded darter. Dog R at Liberty Rd, SE of Villa Rica: bluefin
> stoneroller, bandfin shiner, creek chubsucker, redfin pickerel, warmouth.
> Landowner (Raymond Ivy) was very friendly, interested in effects of beaver
> dams on fish fauna, coop programs in aquaculture, wetland delineation,
> politics, etc., etc., and after much discussion (whew!) gave me directions
> on how to access the upper Dog near the Carroll/Douglas Co. line on paper
> company land. This site had nice habitat, but low diversity (like what you'd
> expect for a headwater stream) dixie chubs, bluehead chub, bluefin
> stonerollers, bandfin shiners, Alabama hogsucker, and an undescribed species
> of sculpin.
>
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