Bob Bock wrote:
> Hi, all. On Wednesday, my sons and I went on an old fashioned fishin' trip
> to the Potomac River, in the C&O Canal Historical Park across from Old
> Angler's Inn. The river was lower than I'd ever seen it, and the boat lauch
> was at least 4 feet above water.
>
> We fished with worms and small hooks and came up with several redbreast
> sunfish, native to the area. [See photo on Andrew DeWoody's web page,
> http://www.fnr.purdue.edu/fi/dewoody/dewoody2.html]
>
> We also caught another native, the pumpkinseed sunfish, as well as the
> introduced bluegill and longear sunfish. The latter, native to the central
> U.S., was one of the most exquisite specimens I had ever seen, and the
> furthest south in the river that I had ever found one. (They're
> particularly numerous in the C&O Canal at Pennyfield Lock.)
>
> The specimen I caught was every bit as exquisite as the photo Garold Sneegas
> donated to the NANFA website:
> http://www.nanfa.org/aki/longear.htm.
>
> If people are interested, I'll be glad to lead an old fashioned fishin'
> trip/photo session back to the river, to photograph these beautiful,
> irridescent creatures. They also are one of the more aquarium manageable
> lepomis species, reaching only about 5 inches in length and are no more
> nasty (and no less) than a comparable size cichlid.
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