Re: NANFA-- chattanooga trip report (addendum)

B.G. Granier (bgkajun_at_worldnet.att.net)
Sun, 10 Jun 2001 17:26:00 -0500

Amen, Steven!

Casper does indeed know his stuff, and I wish that I were less than 8 hours
away from there!,

I'd be there every weekend, otherwise!!!

BG
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From: Roselawn Museum <roselawn_at_mindspring.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- chattanooga trip report (addendum)

>
>
> Yes, indeed! Another great day in the water. Casper knows his turf well,
so
> we didn't have to go far to find the fish (or Bojangles!). Geoff Kimber
and
> I have been emailing & trading fish for a couple of years. It was good to
> meet him in person. Tucson's loss is Lexington's gain. I was able to take
> home about 8 blacknose dace, one of my target groups for the trip, and the
> afore-mentioned hornyhead...what a cool fish! I left Casper's place a
> little after 3 to get home in time to go to my night job. I promptly
turned
> the wrong way getting onto the freeway, and found myself headed in the
> direction of the Golden Triangle...(extreme NW GA)...our original
> destination. After a brief argument with myself about responsibility, I
> stopped for a few minutes in Rising Fawn, GA at one of my favorite creeks.
> I'm fairly good at one-man seining, but this creek is brutal to work
alone.
> I did manage to score only one warpaint shiner (sorry, Luke, I'll get ya'
> some soon...promise) and 3 rosefin shiners. Both of these fish, although
> elaborately decorated, have the amazing ability to mask their more
> prominent markings under stress. On a previous trip, I had gathered about
a
> dozen "mystery shiners" only to get home and have them turn out to be
> warpaints & rosefins after they colored up in the tank. This was the case
> yesterday. The warpaint cannot completely hide the red around its mouth.
> That and its distinctive body shape help to ID it. The rosefin will have a
> somewhat purplish hue to its upper body in the net, but completely
conceals
> its striking vertical bars under stress. I almost threw them back,
thinking
> they were the more common striped shiners. Yes, I was late to
> work...another victim of the sirens that beckon from the Golden Triangle.
> Thanks, Casper, for a great trip!
>
> Steven A. Ellis
> Kennesaw, GA
>
>
>
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