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Re: NFC: Colecting trip
2 inches or less would be a perfect size.....when I collected bleeding
shiners in the past the sufferred from heat stress but you should have
none of that. Let us know how you do....you should also get a nice
variety of darters
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999 08:13:34 -0600 "Downs, Chris" <CDowns at bridge_com>
writes:
> >some juvenile cardinal, pilsbryi or zonistius (cardinal, duskystipe,
> or
> bleeding shiner) which ever one of the three closely related forms
> occurs in the area.
>
> Thanks for the list since it got me to looking into what I'll hope
> to be
> finding. (I guess I should have started there! But the location
> I'm going
> to collect was chosen for in a large part, "non-fish" reasons.)
>
> It's interesting that the duskystripe and bleeding shiners have the
> same
> habitat and reqirements as their bleeding relations. Even more
> interesting
> is that (at least in Missouri) duskystripes don't inhabit the same
> drainages
> as the bleeding shiners. I wonder why???
>
> Also my source says that bleeding shiners hatched this year should
> be 1.5 -
> 2.5 inches by now so I guess anything 2" or less would be OK for
> you.
>
> Finally, there are no F. sciadicus where I'll be collecting. But
> one of my
> favorites, the Northern studfish (F catenatus) (a great baitfish!)
> should be
> available and I won't be satisfied till I get some. (I want to get
> some
> Ozark madtoms as well.)
>
Robert Rice
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