Even reading this sends chills all the way up my spine!
The southern NANFAN WHO THINKS 60 degrees is COLD WATER!
BG
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ashton, Matthew J." <AshtonMJ_at_hiram.edu>
To: <Nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 11:41 AM
Subject: NANFA-- extreme collecting
> So who this far north is still collecting? Mark Binkley and I are!!!
>
> Mark came on out to my neck of the woods to drop off some Brindled Madtoms
> we are attempting to breed and we decided to do a little collecting
because
> some of the ice had melted. I had told him about a beaver damn pond/bog
> earlier so we walked on down to it. Well we found it and very little open
> water. Stepping on it it was thin ice anyways but of course you sink in 2
> feet into the scum. Mark broke away aobut a 4 x 4 section of ice and we
> began dipping around and nothing. Then from him stepping in the muck im
> assuming we began to see Central Muddminnows shooting to the surface. So
> apparently a new way to catch fish in water too mucky and shallow to net
is
> to force them out of the muck, onto the ice, and then they have no where
to
> go but into the bucket. So we got about 6 or 7 total for me and then
seined
> a few passes behind the beaver dam in the stream. Caught some fatheads,
> bluntnose minnows, monsterous creek chubs, a few mottled sculpins, green
> sunfish, and bluegill.
>
> So the third part. Since i have at least 7 or so Muddminnows and now i
have
> a good population of them they are gunna get a home out in my sunken
cattle
> trough and winter them and warm em up in the spring to breed.
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