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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