Geoff Kimber
Lexington,KY
On Sunday 29 December 2002 07:14 pm, Crail, Todd wrote:
> Great report Geoff! Glad to see others aren't intimidated by the cooler
> weather :)
>
> In my *limited* cold water experience (called once), the stonerollers were
> tucked into every last place they could get *out* of the current. Where I
> would normally find them on this particular creek and others (open flat
> limestone bedrock with medium current, which now seem to be devoid of fish)
> I had to *thrash* them out of the wood piles and undercuts, waiting longer
> to pick up the seine was better than sooner.
>
> When photographing them... I've never seen such a sluggish fish. It was
> kinda like how we might look getting out of bed after overdoing it cutting
> wood or something the day prior. That big "ooooohhhhhh. man." kind of
> thing :)
>
> What habitat did you find the couple? And where did you find the bunches
> that you did? Water is all frozen here. Not sure what your temps are in
> that neck of the woods.
>
> It will be interesting to see what other's experiences are.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: geoff
>
>
> At this location, we collected rainbow darters, greenside darters, fantail
> darters, common shiners, creek chub, bluegill, and largemouth bass. I
> only found 2 stonerollerswhere I would normally find dozens to hundreds. I
> don't know if the fish behave differently in winter as this is the first
> time I have collected this late in the year. Any thoughts?
>
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