Coldwater collecting trip with pics

[loach43]

What's better than a collecting trip with a bunch of your hobbyist friends? Nothing!
Collection sites near Eagle Creek in Central Indiana. The water was cold, our feet were numb, but all of that seems like nonsense when so many cool fish are being netted up.

Fish caught:
Rainbow Darters
Greenside Darters
Spotfin Shiners
Bluntnose minnow
Silverjaw minnow
Striped Shiner
Northern Hogsucker
Green Sunfish
Bluegill
Brindled Madtom
Longear Sunfish

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This is a dobsonfly larvae. As adults they are one of the largest and most frightening looking insects in North America.

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[loach43]

and more.

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[phobull]

Thats pretty cool all the fish we can in ponds here are normally guppys =(

[King Edward]

Thats sweet, what a cool day! What are the stripped fish in the middle pictures? Look a little like paradise fish? They are beautiful!

[loach43]

rainbow darters :)

[fish_master2000]

hey are we gonna get any updates on your fish room

[fishmamma]

Did you take any home???

[kog]

cool, dont take too many though ;)

[Lepisosteus platyrhincus]

im jealus
any pa hobbyist want to join me?

[fishmamma]

dobson fly as an adult......that would freak me out if it landed on my arm..or something....yuk

http://www.ent.iastate.edu/images/neuroptera/corydalidae/dobsonfly.jpg

[Greenspot]

Thats an awesome looking net of fish. What a fun day, i love days like that. thanks heaps for sharing best thread in ages!

[Death Pony]

I hate dobson flies!!!! They look like hell spawn and are all over the place in my area.

The rainbow darters are gorgeous!

[ewurm]

Looks like a blast. You definitely got some great specimens.

[loach43]

hey are we gonna get any updates on your fish room

Fishroom = bombshelter mess!

Did you take any home???

I didn't. Some of the other guys did.

cool, dont take too many though ;)

There was one dude that I felt took too many. Other than that everyone else seemed to have more respect. No game fish were taken home. It's illegal to do that unless those are caught with a hook.

Looks like a blast. You definitely got some great specimens.

Yessir! I had my Nikon D300 in the water, something I swore I'd never do. Sooo glad I didn't fall.

[bignootch]

That looked like fun, thanx for the pics!

[Noto]

You got some great fish! Most of the darters have already lost their color down here. By the way, your bug is a crane fly larva, not a dobsonfly.

[loach43]

You got some great fish! Most of the darters have already lost their color down here. By the way, your bug is a crane fly larva, not a dobsonfly.

Looking forward to doing this again of course! I still think the larvae is a dobsonfly based on the similarity of the head to the adult. Crane fly is smaller and looks like it has a smoother body.


http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug05/crane.fly.larvae.jpg

[swede]

nice fish pickups, but nvm the fish, look at those amazing river stones! i wish they had that near me to just yoink out of the streams

[loach43]

nice fish pickups, but nvm the fish, look at those amazing river stones! i wish they had that near me to just yoink out of the streams

The rocks were noted! I'm going back to get some next time I have a chance. They were all flat and smooth, just waiting to be used for a hillstream loach tank in my future! :D

[Noto]

Dobsonfly larva has massive jaws, three pairs of legs, and thread-like gills along the sides: http://marlablair.com/hellgramite.jpg

Craneflies get big (I've found them over 3" long) and always have those distinctive welts around the body. Like all true fly larvae they are legless.

Hey, if you get the chance, you should come to this meet in Tennessee: http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=184570. The fish diversity down here, especially on the Duck River, is amazing. I think I may be the only experienced seiner going so far, so it'll be good to have someone else down who knows what to do!

[uncwnells]

your stealing native homes for native species, its not right.

[loach43]

Dobsonfly larva has massive jaws, three pairs of legs, and thread-like gills along the sides: http://marlablair.com/hellgramite.jpg

Hmmm, could we both be wrong? Wish I'd taken some more pics. I know craneflies get big (and scare the crap out of people with their giant mosquito looks) but I don't think the larvae get as huge as the thing we pulled out of the water, but ya could be right.

Craneflies get big (I've found them over 3" long) and always have those distinctive welts around the body. Like all true fly larvae they are legless.

Hey, if you get the chance, you should come to this meet in Tennessee: http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=184570. The fish diversity down here, especially on the Duck River, is amazing. I think I may be the only experienced seiner going so far, so it'll be good to have someone else down who knows what to do!

I'm not an experienced seiner per say but I learned quickly that using a single net with a handle is almost useless in any large body of water lol.

[loach43]

your stealing native homes for native species, its not right.

By this standard, if you own an aquarium with anything in it, then you are part of the problem.

[Noto]

I'm not an experienced seiner per say but I learned quickly that using a single net with a handle is almost useless in any large body of water lol.

I'm confident in my ID. Bug ID is a hobby of mine, and crane flies are one of my favorite groups. Crane fly larvae get enormous, out of all proportion to the adult size. The only other fly larvae that big are horseflies and midas flies, which have much heftier adults.

It's amazing how many more fish you can catch with a seine, not just in numbers but different species too. Even better- night seining! You'll get some species that you almost never see in the daytime, especially madtoms.

[loach43]

I'm confident in my ID. Bug ID is a hobby of mine, and crane flies are one of my favorite groups. Crane fly larvae get enormous, out of all proportion to the adult size. The only other fly larvae that big are horseflies and midas flies, which have much heftier adults.

It's amazing how many more fish you can catch with a seine, not just in numbers but different species too. Even better- night seining! You'll get some species that you almost never see in the daytime, especially madtoms.

Well then it's settled. Cranefly it tis!! Were you a 4-H entomology dork like I was when you were a kid?? :ROFL:

Hmmm, night seining sounds like a blast.

[Noto]

All I did in 4-H was incubate some chicken eggs. :( But I did take an aquatic macroinvertebrate class in college!

[loach43]

All I did in 4-H was incubate some chicken eggs. :(

:ROFL::ROFL::ROFL:This is signature worthy.

[andyjs]

Were you a 4-H entomology dork like I was when you were a kid?? :ROFL:


Haha, I had a 4-H bug collection among my dozens of other projects.

Looks like an awesome day. I've been seining all over the place around here, though I must say collecting with electricity is more fun ;)

[let_fish]

when are you going again would love to join you...

[loach43]

when are you going again would love to join you...

Hi, not sure when the next outing will be. If another collecting trip comes up I'll post in the MFK events section ;)

[NotoriousSway]

wow, looks fun! Those rainbow darters look great! Might have to start a native tank ;)

[loach43]

wow, looks fun! Those rainbow darters look great! Might have to start a native tank ;)

Hey! what's happenin'?! or in your case, how's the Haps? Yes, the native tank bug hit me too after all this.

[NotoriousSway]

going great! I have been collecting a bunch of different species of Mbuna for the last 6 months and just setup a tank for them, its only a 46g bowfront and its already full so its about time to start looking for a 100g+ tank.