Sunnies.....

by RayLee, Monday, June 02, 2025, 18:46 (4 days ago)

I caught 9 tiny bluegill (micro fly-fishing #18 hook) yesterday evening for stocking a local pond that suffers from at least four different flavours of cooters/terrapins, five different kinds of wading birds and three different basses. Otters pass through from time to time as well. So, if we're going to be able to catch any there for our sport, we have to feed the glutinous critters. There may have to be some turtle catching there in the near future.

I wasn't able to go to that pond this morning and I did not have any city water sufficiently de-chlorinated so I stopped by a spring to catch some water to refresh the bucket. I followed the spring effluent to a branch and in just a few minutes caught six more tiny ones.

Hard to tell but there are 15 tiny fish in that aquarium. They are overcrowded to be sure but it is just until morning. I cipher the original nine bluegill. Two longear. One shiner. One green. One spotted bass (9 o'clock) that was so small I originally thought it was a chub else I would have promptly released it. And finally a thumbnail sized of what I suspect is a stumpknocker.