One of the guys that I work with catches them routinely on flies. He has stated that they bite best when they see the bait dropping through the water. So he is catching them in clearer water.
Genetics. Used to see the black ones in White Plains NY. The numbers increased in the 15 yrs that my dad lived there.
Would love to have a mount. I mentioned on previous posts wanting a white and black one arranged as a ying yang symbol.
I have seen them previously and always thought that the 22/410 over and under would be a cool squirrel gun. I use 22 LR, 22 mag, 20 ga, and 12 ga for squirrels depending upon my mood at the time. Really love the rifle. I am looking to get into an airgun for the bushytails.
The Longear sunfish of the White river system minnows . Fun to catch that first one and some of them get nicely colored when spawning then you can't get a bait past them to catch a different fish.
Just a couple of kids hanging out on the bridge. You know one of them has its mother's voice in its head "Would you jump off a bridge if your friends told you to?!?"
Nice clickbait Jeff.. got me to look.
It's not the lateral line scales that need to be counted. It's the number of scales across the top of the fish at the midline in front of the dorsal fin. Still fairly comfortable that you have a striped shiner.
Ness that looks a heck of a lot better than what I bought at a local restaurant. This place used to serve a spicy adobo style shrimp with cheesey grits. What I received was like a poor shrimp gumbo over two spoons of grits . Very disappointed.