The Push for 100 Species in 2021

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Unlike in MD streams we found lots of darters in these pools. They appeared to be all of the same species.

Livie #85 (L) Fantail Darter, Etheostoma flabellare

Even dad caught one 😉 (#104)

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Even had some madtom action when it clouded up.

Livie #86 (L) Margined Madtom, Notorus insignis never would settle long enough for a full body photo, but you can see the dark edges on dorsal fin and tail fin.

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86) Cardinal Shiner 

 

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Cleaner pic 

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87) Redspot Chub 

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88) McCloud Rainbow Trout

Hopefully, I end up with way over a hundred species ; I'd hate to have an asterisk behind my 100 Species List

I caught 9 of them, but photographed 2? 

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Livie #87 - Spotted Seatrout

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Livie #88 Naked Goby, Gobiosoma bosc

Dad caught a couple as well (#105)

A few of these guys got in the way of finding a new lifer species from that area.

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We got some information from another life lister and wanted to target a new lifer microfish, a skilletfish.

Had to weed through a few naked gobies, but Livie was the first to land that new lifer😁

Livie #89 (L) Skilletfish, Gobiesox strumosus

As she was getting hers off the hook and in the bag, I saw one around the rocks. I quickly got the pole from Livie then lost sight of the fish. I dropped my bait in the hole then finally saw the fsh in a crevice and got the bait in front of the fish and then got it in the bag (#106) and a lifer!

Their concave body helps them adhere to different surfaces like a finger 😉

 

 

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Able to catch another favorable tide for some benthic oddballs. We were targeting blennies which I had caught from this pier last year. Livie figured out a way to catch the blennies without having to deal with this every cast 😉.

Livie #90 L Crested Blenny, Hypleurochilus geminatus 

She caught a couple and even let dad try for one (#107)