Electro fishing

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I had the opportunity to spend some time with Matt Schroeder and Matt Horton from the AG&F District 10 last night on lake Conway electro fishing. Matt and Matt are some really busy guys, they are having to deal with all this oil spill and still perform their seasonal studies and sampling. Without a doubt I can say they sure seem to have their ducks in a row. Electro fishing has to be done during a small window of opportunity. I got to experience electro fishing first hand, and it is a lot of fun. We had a really nice night as far as the weather goes for the task that was at hand. I can say that electro fishing is not species specific, if a fish gets inside of that electrical field generated by the equipment it is going to be rendered temporarily immobile. We saw all different species of fish, we saw gar,drum,bluegill, redear, yellow bass,crappie,suckers, and largemouth bass. Largemouth bass was the target species last night. We saw a lot of bass, they ranged in sizes from fingerling size up to nearly 6 pounds. I encourage everyone who can and is able to contact your biologist in your district and volunteer to help them, if the other districts are anything like district ten and I am sure they are, they have a lot of irons in the fire and would welcome your help and assistants. . A few years ago I was allowed the opportunity to help district ten with some trap netting and also some rotenone sampling, and by far I can say the electro fishing is the most fun. Matt and Matt thanks for the opportunity to experience electro fishing and to see some of the forms of data that has to be collected

I saw this on the little red!! Wish we could have one for fun!!

that be a lot of fun/hard work. i sure like to help someday

I talked to you guys on Dix last night. Didn't have any idea it was you guru.

I think EVERYBODY should help out on Rotenone sampling... BOTH DAYS!

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Originally Posted by LMBarnett

I think EVERYBODY should help out on Rotenone sampling... BOTH DAYS!

:cheers2

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Day two is the most fun after they have a chance to ripen.

Lkconwayguru,
I guess I need to upgrade my electro fishing equipment.Attachment 121687

Did that here on the base... Cool stuff!

I can hear the bells from here, ding, ding come hear little fishy. I miss the good old days

Guru - thanks for the hand last night. I am glad that we at least got on a couple of good fish and relatively few problems. Electrofishing is my favorite form of sampling. I always get a kick out of seeing someone do it for the first time. Reminds me of my first time. Attachment 121697Attachment 121698

Matt, Matt, and Tom in D-10 are hard working guys!!

I watched the Game Wardens watch a couple boats electro fishing below a David D Terry dam a few years back. It don't take long to put a thousand lbs of fish in a boat.

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Originally Posted by Conwayslabber

I talked to you guys on Dix last night. Didn't have any idea it was you guru.

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Slabber Did they ever turn on and bite for you last night.

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Originally Posted by Lkconwayguru

Slabber Did they ever turn on and bite for you last night.

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Didn't do a whole lot that night. Caught 8, the ones I did catch were big ones though. I did manage to clean some of up some of the junk people left behind.

CSlab your phone not work as good as there phone did :biggrin

Phone is old technology. Now a Skoal can will hold the entire rig. Heard a story of a couple of guys accidentally dropping one in below the mills dam. The river almost turned white for a couple of minutes from catfish bellies.

My grandpa talk about one time a warden caught him one time and he said he pitch the leads in his boat and give him a buzz. He said he also did it with TNT too. My grandpa was a outlaw and did not believe it them (G&F). He always said God put them on this earth to feed us, not for some man to tell me him he was not hungry. My mom said they always had meat of some kind when she was young and most was wild or fish. Sometime in the 50s he kill a bear and the warden see him at the beer joint with a claw and ask him about him kill one. Grandpa ask the warden if there was bears in season and warden said no. Grandpa said no I did not kill a bear, I killed something else. Then him and some other help the warden out the beer joint. That all happen at the great city of Arkansas city.

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Originally Posted by Gindog

My grandpa talk about one time a warden caught him one time and he said he pitch the leads in his boat and give him a buzz. He said he also did it with TNT too. My grandpa was a outlaw and did not believe it them (G&F). He always said God put them on this earth to feed us, not for some man to tell me him he was not hungry. My mom said they always had meat of some kind when she was young and most was wild or fish. Sometime in the 50s he kill a bear and the warden see him at the beer joint with a claw and ask him about him kill one. Grandpa ask the warden if there was bears in season and warden said no. Grandpa said no I did not kill a bear, I killed something else. Then him and some other help the warden out the beer joint. That all happen at the great city of Arkansas city.

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That story reminded me of Jim Tom on The Moonshiners. Sounds like a feller I would like to have met.

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Originally Posted by Gindog

My grandpa talk about one time a warden caught him one time and he said he pitch the leads in his boat and give him a buzz. He said he also did it with TNT too. My grandpa was a outlaw and did not believe it them (G&F). He always said God put them on this earth to feed us, not for some man to tell me him he was not hungry. My mom said they always had meat of some kind when she was young and most was wild or fish. Sometime in the 50s he kill a bear and the warden see him at the beer joint with a claw and ask him about him kill one. Grandpa ask the warden if there was bears in season and warden said no. Grandpa said no I did not kill a bear, I killed something else. Then him and some other help the warden out the beer joint. That all happen at the great city of Arkansas city.

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Good thing we have wardens now and folks ain't gotta poach to feed their families. At the rate it was going back then everyone would have starved and this would be an empty land with everything extinct. My moma's family did what it took to get fish and what game was left to get. That was when east Arkansas still had virgin Hardwood forests and scattered farms. Deer and Turkey were scarce before restocking took place. Wonder what this state would be called with out our fish and game? Perhaps the Natural state would be the Un-natural state ?:crazy:

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Originally Posted by Gindog

CSlab your phone not work as good as there phone did :biggrin

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I used to have one, it broke a few years ago. It worked really good on my grandmas pond when I was younger and didn't know no better.