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?
Over all it sounds like a spectacular trip. The kind of place I would certainly
want to visit while in country!
Jeff
"D. Martin Moore" wrote:
> BG being retired, and I being unemployed, we made an impromptu
> trip to N. Louisiana to collect some Pteronotropis hubbsi. After
> wading through the cypress swamps we came up with several
> Fundulus dispar, F. chrysotus, one small Ellasoma zonatum, and ONE
> (count 'em!) P. hubbsi. We watched some foks fishing in deeper
> water who were catching crappie one after the other. Later, BG
> surmised that's where the hubbsi were - in the deeper water feeding
> the crappie.
>
> The trip wasn't a total bust-I managed to find my fossil site and we
> did pretty well there.
>
> Prost,
>
> Martin
> ------
> "Cry to it, nuncle. as the cockney did to the eels when she put 'em i' the
> paste alive; she knapped 'em o' the coxcombs with a stick, and cried 'Down
> wantons, down!'"
>
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