What natives do you keep?

[straitjacketstar]

Nothing fancy.

swamp darters
tadpole madtom
mummuchogs
bluefin killies

I'm crossing my fingers for some Elassoma okefenokee.

 

[Umbra]

hmm where to start...

Northern pike
Musky
Tiger musky
mudminnows
3 spine stickleback
brook stickleback
creek chub
hornyhead chub
rainbow smelt
rainbow trout
smallmouth bass
largemouth bass
green sunfish
rock bass
longear sunfish
pumpkinseed
bluegill
swamp darter
rainbow darter
johnny darter
american eel
bowfin
florida gar
longnose gar
black bullhead
yellow bullhead
tadpole madtom
yellow perch
texas cichlid
white sucket
northern hogsucker
various sculpins (spoonhead, mottled, etc.)
black crappie
channel catfish
white sturgeon
white bass
redbelly dace

that's it I think...

 

[sandtiger]

Pictures?

 

[sg1717]

You guys all have such cool fish...I guess I just dunno where to look in SoCal to find such cool specimins....probably because most are illegal here...so sad...if any knows any cool hookups, please pm me.

 

[straitjacketstar]

You guys all have such cool fish...I guess I just dunno where to look in SoCal to find such cool specimins....probably because most are illegal here...so sad...if any knows any cool hookups, please pm me.

You could probaby catch some bluegill or other sunfish in a couple parks. 'tis how I got my LMB fingerlings. Ain't really legel though lol.
Then there's Jonah's Aquarium. Some good stuff there!
Other than that I cruise the ghost shimp feeder tanks for stowaway specimens.

 

[jayclarke]

In the past:

European Perch
Roach
Rudd
Tench (Green & Golden)
3 & 9 Spinned Stickleback
Common Carp
Mirror Carp
Sterlet

Dont know how native these originally are, but they are all here now!

 

[GraFFix]

Is there anyway to find out what fish we have in our area? We have a bunch of what we call "forrest preserves" here in Chicago and the surrounding burbs and there are a bunch of small as well as big lakes close to me. I know people fish these lakes but i was just wondering if their was anyway to find out what fish are local to the area. I was planning on hitting a few of the lakes around here when it warms up.

 

[sandtiger]

Here ya go Graffix
http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/cbd/ilspecies/fishsplist.html

 

[sg1717]

You could probaby catch some bluegill or other sunfish in a couple parks. 'tis how I got my LMB fingerlings. Ain't really legel though lol.
Then there's Jonah's Aquarium. Some good stuff there!
Other than that I cruise the ghost shimp feeder tanks for stowaway specimens.

Yup, I have caught a couple of bluegill at a lake by my parent's house when I was in highschool. They were cool, but I looking for stuff that I can't find locally.

 

[GraFFix]

Here ya go Graffix
http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/cbd/ilspecies/fishsplist.html

Awesome...thanks a bunch!