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Shore Fishing => Freshwater Shore Fishing Reports => : BenCantrell March 04, 2017, 06:37:42 PM
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Here's the freshwater stuff from my trip. The native fish diversity in central Mexico is super low, so we had to cross quite a few drainages to see all of these. Ryan and I did pretty decent with hook & line microfishing, but we did miss out on a few that the others in the group caught in nets. Full report will be on my blog... eventually.
Twospot Livebearer - invasive, male (they have one of the largest gonopodiums (fish penis) among livebearers)
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Twospot Livebearer - invasive, female
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Green Swordtail - invasive, female (tried really hard to catch a male, but they were jerks)
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Darkedged Splitfin - native (from a lake at 10,000 feet, definitely my highest elevation catch!)
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Blackfin Splitfin - native, male
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Blackfin Splitfin - native, female
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Blackfin Splitfin - native, female (different location, different genetics)
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3898/33079587671_aef3a36381_c.jpg)
Picotee Splitfin - native, male
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/621/33050680202_941e0e168e_c.jpg)
Picotee Splitfin - native, female
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Barred Splitfin - native, male
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Barred Splitfin - native, female
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Spotted Splitfin - native, female
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Bulldog Splitfin - native, male
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Bulldog Splitfin - native, female
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Butterfly Splitfin - native, male
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Butterfly Splitfin - native, female
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/692/33079578841_7ff6169a5d_c.jpg)
Cuitzeo Splitfin - native, male
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3733/33165631556_8260a3f21b_c.jpg)
Cuitzeo Splitfin - native, female
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Tilapia #1 - invasive (these are tough to ID, plus they hyridize, could be blue, Nile, Wami, etc, raised for food)
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3727/33165634056_ebdcd11c88_c.jpg)
Tilapia #2 - invasive
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Tilapia #3 - invasive
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Tilapia #4 - invasive
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Do you have 1,000 species yet?!?! lol
Great looking micros and crazy how small that hook is! Excellent reporting Ben! I love all the pictures and like the hand shots more than Ken's ground shots. LOL
I'd love to talk about the trip. You made the most of your time there and got a lot of species.
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That's awesome Ken ... I mean Ben ... :P :P
No really, love the species ID process. The tally is incredible.
You're really splitfin'ing hairs on some of those IDs ... :P :P :P All look like bigger critter bait to me ... (imagine the most redneck southern accent with that statement ;D ;D)
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I love all the pictures and like the hand shots more than Ken's ground shots. LOL
Don't EVER let Ken see that! Hahahaha. He wants everyone to take photos the way he does. :D
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I love all the pictures and like the hand shots more than Ken's ground shots. LOL
Don't EVER let Ken see that! Hahahaha. He wants everyone to take photos the way he does. :D
I was privy to a story not too long ago. LOL