Check out the Montana Native Fish blog, basically he is working towards catching every one of Montana’s native species that attains sizes of over 6″.  Which is awesome, another person crazy enough to even attempt catching a Blue Sucker.  Lots [read more]

Earlier this week I added this one  to my lifelist…
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The pic sucks but you get the idea…

Got my first (and 2nd, 3rd, and 4th) Greaters recently… blanked on River Redhorse though. This is the reason for no posting the last week…

Two of the four were even gave a nice full on jump, like several body [read more]

Got out yesterday – mostly for some ‘Head Hunting – I chased some sewer water panfish too…
Yellow:

Brown:

Black:

Some bonus catches:
Orangespotted Sunfish:

Freshwater Drum:

Channel Catfish

More to come – I’m going for a White Crappie and Longnose Gar re-match today – maybe some trout [read more]

According to this article native endangered roughfish populations in the Colorado River Basin are improving thanks to increasing springtime base flows.  Populations of native species are now flirting with double digit percentages of the catch in samplings on the Yampa, [read more]

Hit the Splatte yesterday.  The locals fired up the irrigation ditches and the water dropped to next to nothing.
Tried Czech nymphing and skagit swinging to no success.  None of the carp I saw were actively feeding, just holding.  Things learned:

Carp [read more]

Finally snagged a copy of this book (at a good price too), its hard to find as it is out of print.

Ian James is one of the originals to pursue roughfish on the fly.  His writing is entertaining and educational, [read more]

Here is some basic information and ID tips for the Bigmouth Buffalo – the star of the last fish ID quiz
Where is it found?

As you can see  Bigmouth Buffalo found mostly in the Mississippi-Missouri River drainages and it is native [read more]

The answer to last week’s fish ID quiz is, of course, D is the Buffalo.
Roughfisher and an Anonymous entry both score all 5 possible points for correctly ID’ing the Buff and the Carp species, congrats!
Details to follow soon – including [read more]

Ok, truthfully all four of these fish are different species.
However, one is a native (to North America) sucker species.

Ictiobus cyprinellus (bigmouth buffalo)

The other 3 species are non-native carp species.

Ctenopharyngodon idella  (grass or white amur carp)
Hypophthalmichthys molitrix  (silver carp)
Cyprinus carpio (common [read more]