I would strongly urge you to not use a cattle prod; I'm not sure exactly
what would happen but it wouldn't be pretty. Electrofishing gear is
specifically designed to safely generate a very local current in the water,
with a power source equivalent to (or even as) a motorcycle battery. Various
field research companies sell them, for (if I remember correctly) several
hundred dollars. They're designed to be mounted in a frame back pack. They
work great; we used it out of a canoe in a cypress swamp, an environment
nearly impossible to sample any other way. I kept 4 Fundulus dispar that
were shocked, and they're doing well in an aquarium now.
--Bruce Stallsmith
Huntsville, AL
>Hello,
>I have read that some of you use a shock stick or something like that to
>collect fish , How dose that work? dose it stun the fish or dose it drive
>them tords your net? and where do you find equipment like this ? I was
>thinking about using a cattle prod will that work?
>
>Later,
>George
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