Re: NANFA-- Unidentified Sculpin

Wally Billingham (wally_at_wallybillingham.com)
Tue, 3 Sep 2002 20:45:14 -0400

Oh just kidding anyway John. Yeah they are pretty cool fish. Over the
weekend I did find a very cool "freak" of nature however. I collected a 3
inch rockbass with out a tail. I do not mean its just missing its tail fin,
I mean its whole tail part of the body is gone. I bet that when it was small
a snapping turtle or perhaps a big pike grabbed it by the tail and tore it
off. The fish somehow healed up and lived. It uses its dorsal, and anal fins
to propel itself and gets around pretty good. Its doing great in one of my
55s and it ate 3 rosy reds today, the little piggy.

Wally
----- Original Message -----
From: John Bongiovanni <bongi_at_cox-internet.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 8:24 PM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- Unidentified Sculpin

> Wally,
>
> While I was fishing on the Clarion, I was standing on a rock in the
> middle of the river and watched one of these guys jump repeatedly out of
> the water. Nothing was chasing him, he was by himself and he'd clear at
> least 2 ft in the air. Not a 50 lb carp but impressive nontheless! I
> can see why they would be difficult to keep.
>
> You were not the locals. The locals were down in Cook's forest.
>
> John
>
> Wally Billingham wrote:
>
> >Not this local John ;-) if they are Northern Hog Suckers, good luck
keeping
> >them alice in a tank, I have never been able to do it. I would really,
> >really like to but it just wont work.
> >
> >Wally
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: John Bongiovanni <bongi_at_cox-internet.com>
> >To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
> >Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 4:16 PM
> >Subject: Re: RE: NANFA-- Unidentified Sculpin
> >
> >
> >>Good for you Todd, I think that was actually the fish I had in mind.
> >>
> >When I was up in NW PA with Walley we saw those everywhere and some of
the
> >locals called them sculpins by mistake.
> >
> >>John
> >>
> >>
> >>>From: "Crail, Todd" <tcrail_at_northshores.com>
> >>>Date: 2002/09/03 Tue PM 02:59:36 CDT
> >>>To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
> >>>Subject: RE: NANFA-- Unidentified Sculpin
> >>>
> >>>Is it possibly a Northern Hog Sucker?
> >>>http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/dnap/rivfish/hogsuck.html
> >>>
> >>>I'm not sure if you're in the range, but they look very "triangular"
> >>>
> >from
> >
> >>>above. In the picture you can see how wide the head region is in
> >>>
> >comparison
> >
> >>>to the tail.
> >>>
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