Oddball Native fish
- Thread starter SFJJack
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since the majority of people keep tropical, ALL natives are rare and uncommon fish.
I love the double takes when someone asks me what I keep and I say bluegill. it puts me in an even more elite club than keeping saltwater tanks would.
I love the double takes when someone asks me what I keep and I say bluegill. it puts me in an even more elite club than keeping saltwater tanks would.
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I just hate how so many people think they're an expert on natives just because they own a fishing pole lol.
Yep, just about everything with an "earflap" is a blue gill to most people around here. Lots of people have problems with the smallmouth/largemouth distinction too.
I admit that combing this and other sites has given me a new appreciation for the variety of little fish you can catch all day long in local waters.
When I think of rare natives I think of bowfins and paddle fish. They are very hard to come by.
I don't think of other natives as rare, because I have kept many different sp. growing up. Back then I could go to a pond and net some new fish for my aquarium.
Don't get me wrong-I think native sp. are over looked and under rated and can be more colorful then some tropical sp.
I don't think of other natives as rare, because I have kept many different sp. growing up. Back then I could go to a pond and net some new fish for my aquarium.
Don't get me wrong-I think native sp. are over looked and under rated and can be more colorful then some tropical sp.
I kept Rainbow darters before and i loved them, so much color and character.... they would rival most tropical fish in those departments 
anyone kept a Quillback (Carpiodes cyprinus)?? i net them alot as juveniles but i have never seen one older, supposedly they are super rare to catch fishing due to their eating habits. 
Other native oddballs i'd love to see someone keeping would be Alaska blackfish (Dallia pectoralis), Burbot (Lota lota), and Arctic Grayling (Thymallus arcticus) i'd be amazed if anyone here is keeping any of those species
Other native oddballs i'd love to see someone keeping would be Alaska blackfish (Dallia pectoralis), Burbot (Lota lota), and Arctic Grayling (Thymallus arcticus) i'd be amazed if anyone here is keeping any of those species