After spending the night in a hotel in Panama City, Dani Atencio picked me up at the Amaze Inn the final day of Carnevale, in Casco Viejo, and we got an 8 AM start.
We would normally be constrained by the back-n-forth ferry schedule, and not getting on the road until almost 10 AM, but today we planned to hit at least 3 (maybe even 4) maximizing chances of finding and catching more Geophagus.Having caught the 1st, and only Geo so far, in the Rio Plataneros de Chepo a month ago, that was the main target, and was our starting collection point, so we could work our way back, hitting all uncontaminated rivers, those more remote rivers further east, in an effort to collect more Geos.
The first river we hit though, was the Rio Terable, and it was quite swollen and fast moving.
The only fish caught were Tetras (which were all thrown back (usually being riddled with Lernea), a couple catfish (not quite sure what species yet though) and lots of knife fish.
Once they started being netted, almost every cast brought one of the knifes up, but no Geos, so we moved on keeping just 3 of the Gymnotiformes.
Next was the small, (maybe only 10 ft wide stream) the Plataneros, but construction had recently altered it to half width, it was turbid with particulate, and no geos, so again moved on.
We next hit the Rio Uni, it had lots of Tetras (also returned to the river), and one (so far unidentified) goby was kept.
The massive Mamoni was came up last up, with its fast flowing tributary called the Rio Margaritas, where nothing was caught.
So we called it a day
We would normally be constrained by the back-n-forth ferry schedule, and not getting on the road until almost 10 AM, but today we planned to hit at least 3 (maybe even 4) maximizing chances of finding and catching more Geophagus.Having caught the 1st, and only Geo so far, in the Rio Plataneros de Chepo a month ago, that was the main target, and was our starting collection point, so we could work our way back, hitting all uncontaminated rivers, those more remote rivers further east, in an effort to collect more Geos.
The first river we hit though, was the Rio Terable, and it was quite swollen and fast moving.
The only fish caught were Tetras (which were all thrown back (usually being riddled with Lernea), a couple catfish (not quite sure what species yet though) and lots of knife fish.
Once they started being netted, almost every cast brought one of the knifes up, but no Geos, so we moved on keeping just 3 of the Gymnotiformes.
Next was the small, (maybe only 10 ft wide stream) the Plataneros, but construction had recently altered it to half width, it was turbid with particulate, and no geos, so again moved on.
We next hit the Rio Uni, it had lots of Tetras (also returned to the river), and one (so far unidentified) goby was kept.
The massive Mamoni was came up last up, with its fast flowing tributary called the Rio Margaritas, where nothing was caught.
So we called it a day
