Recently I had the urge to break out the ultra light pole baited with a rebel crawfish and do some small creek fishing for panfish. I recently moved to where I live so I just drove around in the evening looking for drainage ditches close to the roadway.
The first spot I went to looked really promising a tributary to a big lake, weeds, structure and some culverts going under the road. Nothing. So I moved on to this next spot a few miles down the road. Didn't look as promising but this spot was unique. Close to a sidewalk/bridge next to a main road about a 4 foot 45 degree water fall connected to about 50 square foot of open/ crystal clear water with a culvert on the opposite end.
I walked down and fished using the culvert for protection from spooking the fish and caught several texas cichlids and several other unknown fish until dark.
I brought several sun perch home, 2 texas, and 2 uknown fish and mixed them with my lone male dovii in the 220. He's pretty relaxed for a big male but he's still a killer so I added a divider. A couple weeks went by but my female texas was getting picked on by all the fish so I took both male and female texas cichlids and added them to my JD tank.
All is well now except for I added my female dovii back to the 220. I'll keep her there until she tears the males fins up again. Only 1 unknown and 1 sun perch are surviving in the 220.
The JD/Texas tank is doing excellent. The JD male used to be a bastard but the Texas male puts him in his place :]
The first spot I went to looked really promising a tributary to a big lake, weeds, structure and some culverts going under the road. Nothing. So I moved on to this next spot a few miles down the road. Didn't look as promising but this spot was unique. Close to a sidewalk/bridge next to a main road about a 4 foot 45 degree water fall connected to about 50 square foot of open/ crystal clear water with a culvert on the opposite end.
I walked down and fished using the culvert for protection from spooking the fish and caught several texas cichlids and several other unknown fish until dark.
I brought several sun perch home, 2 texas, and 2 uknown fish and mixed them with my lone male dovii in the 220. He's pretty relaxed for a big male but he's still a killer so I added a divider. A couple weeks went by but my female texas was getting picked on by all the fish so I took both male and female texas cichlids and added them to my JD tank.
All is well now except for I added my female dovii back to the 220. I'll keep her there until she tears the males fins up again. Only 1 unknown and 1 sun perch are surviving in the 220.
The JD/Texas tank is doing excellent. The JD male used to be a bastard but the Texas male puts him in his place :]
