>A possible suggestion : do you think it would be possible to collect >these
>Bluehead Shiners in greater quantity if you could pursuade them >to enter a
>minnow trap deployed at their level. It might be worth >while to find some
>kind of bait that would be really enticing to >them...Or perhaps an
>umbrella seine?
Good to see you back online! Collecting deep water in swamps is difficult.
One thing I've been thinking about is making a fine-mesh cast net, something
with about 1/16" inch mesh, about 8ft in diameter, and with sufficient
weight to counteract the extra drag of the finer mesh. Has anyone used such
a contraption? I think it would be particularly effective for sampling
things like Pteronotropis hubbsi/welaka, Notropis maculatus, Notropis
harperi... and might be the best way to survey for Notropis melanostomus
populations in Alabama (the real reason for the extra-small mesh).
cheers,
Dave
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