> Oh just kidding anyway John. Yeah they are pretty cool fish. Over the
> weekend I did find a very cool "freak" of nature however. I collected a 3
> inch rockbass with out a tail. I do not mean its just missing its tail
fin,
> I mean its whole tail part of the body is gone. I bet that when it was
small
> a snapping turtle or perhaps a big pike grabbed it by the tail and tore it
> off. The fish somehow healed up and lived. It uses its dorsal, and anal
fins
> to propel itself and gets around pretty good. Its doing great in one of my
> 55s and it ate 3 rosy reds today, the little piggy.
>
> Wally
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Bongiovanni <bongi_at_cox-internet.com>
> To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 8:24 PM
> Subject: Re: NANFA-- Unidentified Sculpin
>
>
> > Wally,
> >
> > While I was fishing on the Clarion, I was standing on a rock in the
> > middle of the river and watched one of these guys jump repeatedly out of
> > the water. Nothing was chasing him, he was by himself and he'd clear at
> > least 2 ft in the air. Not a 50 lb carp but impressive nontheless! I
> > can see why they would be difficult to keep.
> >
> > You were not the locals. The locals were down in Cook's forest.
> >
> > John
> >
> > Wally Billingham wrote:
> >
> > >Not this local John ;-) if they are Northern Hog Suckers, good luck
> keeping
> > >them alice in a tank, I have never been able to do it. I would really,
> > >really like to but it just wont work.
> > >
> > >Wally
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: John Bongiovanni <bongi_at_cox-internet.com>
> > >To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
> > >Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 4:16 PM
> > >Subject: Re: RE: NANFA-- Unidentified Sculpin
> > >
> > >
> > >>Good for you Todd, I think that was actually the fish I had in mind.
> > >>
> > >When I was up in NW PA with Walley we saw those everywhere and some of
> the
> > >locals called them sculpins by mistake.
> > >
> > >>John
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>From: "Crail, Todd" <tcrail_at_northshores.com>
> > >>>Date: 2002/09/03 Tue PM 02:59:36 CDT
> > >>>To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
> > >>>Subject: RE: NANFA-- Unidentified Sculpin
> > >>>
> > >>>Is it possibly a Northern Hog Sucker?
> > >>>http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/dnap/rivfish/hogsuck.html
> > >>>
> > >>>I'm not sure if you're in the range, but they look very "triangular"
> > >>>
> > >from
> > >
> > >>>above. In the picture you can see how wide the head region is in
> > >>>
> > >comparison
> > >
> > >>>to the tail.
> > >>>
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