Tony
In a message dated 5/28/00 11:52:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
rheopresbe_at_hotmail.com writes:
<< I can't remember ever seeing red on whipplei or galacturus. I'd like to
know
where they got their fish. >>
The absolutely hottest male galactura( from Tenn. drainages)get a pinkish
coloration. Beautiful, but no red. Don't know about Ozark ones, but I'd be
surprised if they get any red.
j.r.
Bruce Stallsmith wrote:
> I was on the Hiwassee trip to which you refer with the galactura. We caught
> one large male that I remember, which to my recollection didn't have a pink
> face. I think Patrick Vinas kept the fish, which unfortunately died soon
> after.
>
> On the culinary note, when I was fishing for striped bass in Boston Harbor
> 'bout 10 years ago my group came across 4 Vietnamese guys with a 40 foot
> seine on a beach in Quincy, MA. They had a 5 gal. bucket half full of
> mummichogs, sticklebacks and silversides. We asked what they were going to
> do with the fish, and they replied that they made stews out of them. This
> was mind-blowing from the perspective that this is the most polluted part of
> the harbor with human poop, and the fish they were going to eat were
> year-round residents in these shallow waters. Other than that, mummichogs
> would seem to be edible... I ain't never tried though.
>
> --Bruce Stallsmith
> The Lawnmower City, AL
>
> >4] I had seen a pic of whitetail shiner [Cyprinella galactura] in Fishes of
> >Arkansas
> >book that shows the shiner with pink face. Are whitetail in the east
> >similar? What
> >about a pink whitetail [in Hiwasee?] that was mentioned earlier sometimes
> >ago in
> >this list?
> >5] Has anyone here seen nupital male ironcolor shiner? What do they look
> >like?
> >
> >Tony
>
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