Dipnetting journal

[AnotherHumanPerson]

Hey nerms!

I’ve recently been getting into dipnetting, and as to not bombard my friends with fish photos, I figured I’d instead subject a bunch of other fish nerds to my new hyperfixarion.

Anyways here a few fish I caught on my last outing:

longnose dace (Rhinichthys cataractae)

speckled dace (Rhinichthys osculus)

mottled sculpin (Cottus bairdii)

 

feel free to add anything you’ve caught before.

[Fish Folk]

Awesome! We share your fixation here. Following this. 

[AnotherHumanPerson]

so this morning I went to this cool thermal pond somewhat near my house. I usually go there to catch these chunky sunfish.

(exhibit A)

however, I’ve always noticed what looked like hundreds of tiny fish up close to the shore, so today I brought my dipnetting gear to see what it was.

every swoop of the net got me at least like 5 of these little guys. I know they are some species of gambusia, my money is on western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis).

[AquaHobbyist123]

What watershed do you dipnet in, out of curiosity?

 

[Fish Folk]

On 8/27/2023 at 11:50 AM, AnotherHumanPerson said:

so this morning I went to this cool thermal pond somewhat near my house. I usually go there to catch these chunky sunfish.

(exhibit A)

however, I’ve always noticed what looked like hundreds of tiny fish up close to the shore, so today I brought my dipnetting gear to see what it was.

every swoop of the net got me at least like 5 of these little guys. I know they are some species of gambusia, my money is on western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis).

In southeast, M-fish are _vicious_ in aquariums.

Very nice Sunny! I’m pretty bad at precise species ID. 

[AnotherHumanPerson]

On 8/27/2023 at 1:51 PM, AquaHobbyist123 said:

What watershed do you dipnet in, out of curiosity?

 

I believe the great basin/upper colorado