It's fun catching and keeping some species of native fish. They are hardy and free.😀

@Fishtory

2 жыл бұрын

100%

That pumpkin seed fish is adorable. I can't believe I haven't seen that for aquariums! I'd want one. I would expect they get a lot bigger. I always liked Bluegil and Crappie when Bass Fishing with my dad. I was always sad everyone hated them lol. Way cooler and more fun to catch and see than a bass for me. Just not as impressive to brag about lol.

@Fishtory

2 жыл бұрын

I would much rather catch a pumpkinseed fish or hybrid /sunfish than a bluegill or bass. It is far more exciting to pull in some beautiful colors in my opinion than saying "fighting a bass" is hard lol...we are used to 40lb salmon out here...so a 4 lb fish is pretty laughable comparably . And the pumpkinseeds get 4 to 6 inches usually...not very large honestly

Thanks for sharing with us Alexander, I love your blue truck

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

Haha thanks... it's a piece of crap...but it's my little 21 year old piece of crap lol...so I love it too

Man ! You do know your fish ! 👍👍❗️😊 thanks for the awesome close up's.

@Fishtory

2 жыл бұрын

Sure thing. I'm trying to learn what's in my own backyard each summer. Sunrise every day I hit a new lake

Thanks for sharing your trip last day in sin city for me

@Fishtory

2 жыл бұрын

Have a good day in Vegas and then have fun leaving Las Vegas lol

Thank you for sharing about our local NA Aquatic Wildlife. Alexander, please share about those Aquatic Species that are on the Critically Endangered Species List and how to connect to our local branch of CARES, and other Agencies and Associations that monitor and help to protect our own Species. It is so important to remember that there is a natural food chain that balances the local micro and macro environment and with each extinction, it greatly affects those species around them. I thank you for your videos on your various topics. I can tell that you care and that in your videos that you try to pass on your passion on to others. Great job.

Man you are alright with me! Totally appreciate your very well put together video👍 In montesano feeling anxiety because of how much fun I'm missing

@dknohoward6933

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yea! I liked and of course commented 😊 Let's barter with shrimp perhaps

Very nice wetlands. 😊

@Fishtory

2 жыл бұрын

Why thank you haha

Koaw's Guide to Sunfishes is a great resource for identifying sunfish species. He spent a lot of time and energy learning about them to create this guide.

@Fishtory

2 жыл бұрын

Oh thanks for the tip! We don't have any native species to this area, so it's always crazy to see what ends up spreading and or hybridized.

In the voice of Ozzy: No More tears! Lol

@Fishtory

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha I missed a golden opportunity!

Awesome to see what you have in the wild in the US!! Those Mozzies sound Massive!! I thought they were going to carry you off for a moment there!! At least those little guys will be keeping the larvae down in numbers a little!! Good to see you, Andrea and Critters in the UK. .XxX..

@Fishtory

2 жыл бұрын

Haha yes. The big worry among biologists is that the dojo loaches will eat all the fish food....well they're safe for now at least lol...I have bites on top of bites on top of bites.

Bluegills, the trophy of my youth! Thank you for showing us the Pumpkinseed. Yes I could look them up in a book but temporary live caught is so much better.👍

@Fishtory

2 жыл бұрын

Same with me as a kid haha. Thanks for tuning in and I'm glad you enjoy it

@Chris_Stanley007

2 жыл бұрын

We had a Bluegill derby in the town I grew up in. All catch and release, prizes included heaviest catch (weight) and biggest individual one caught. Loved those every summer. Won it once for my age group when I was a kid. Fun times. Cookouts and contests, games and stuff.

I live 10 miles off I-90 in Minnesota. Forget how long it is sometimes haha

@Fishtory

2 жыл бұрын

Haha right? I've driven the whole thing out to you... that's a long boring drive with some sections of immense beauty in between a lot of nowhere

In Texas, summer puddles are called Lakes. ;)

@Fishtory

2 жыл бұрын

Haha true ... in Texas yall have a lake on every ranch or bass basin in every field, it seems haha. My family is all out in the Paris, mt. Pleasant, Texarkana and Beaumont area of the state

@brocal

2 жыл бұрын

@@Fishtory very cool I'm in Rockwall not far from there. I'm jealous seeing how pretty the fish are up there and how easy they are to get to.

Rock bass are introduced to washington, the only sunfish native to west of the rockies is the sacramento perch

@Fishtory

2 жыл бұрын

Correct. They have been here for 100+ years though, so I call them "local" not native... which is true of so many trout, bass amphibians, gray squirrels, starlings etc. What I'm not sure of, is what year the first northern pike minnows entered the Puget sound/Columbia River basin, as well as carp and channel cats. Most bass and trout other than cutthroats and kokanee are also historically not native, but I've found accounts going back to the 1880s talking about hiking fingerling trout up to lakes in the foothills surrounding Seattle and mining towns... I'd love to find a mapped progression of habitat expansion by species, if you know of such a thing?

@jessehunter362

2 жыл бұрын

@@Fishtory USGS’s nonindigenous aquatic species has records for a lot of them, but not northern pikeminnow. It’s also based on their own records, so it’s not always accurate overall.

Ngl love the meme thumbnail

@Fishtory

2 жыл бұрын

Why thank yuh

So rad Alex. It's when you put out videos like these that make me want a biotope tank. Have a good one bro 🤙

@Fishtory

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man...I'll try and show creeks, and large lakes soon too

I live in Indiana and the blue gill we have don't look like the ones you have.

@Fishtory

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah they're actually talking about making some new species out of 5 or 6 blue, pumpkinseed fish and sunfish ...or hybrids of the mixed varieties, having their own species by regions ... we'll see what happens

Dude, NICE. I live in the area between Mill Creek and Everett in Washington state, found a run off ditch type pond thing in an old Buffalo field next to an Albertsons. I find lots of crayfish there and have found some sort of juvenile pan fish there last year. I'll have to scope out these spots you've shown, pumpkin seed fish are so cool.

@Fishtory

2 жыл бұрын

Oh right on! I used to live at Thrashers Corner! When jr was almost farm land in the late 80s /early 90s as a kid

@Tantidar

Жыл бұрын

@@Fishtory Must have been interesting and a little saddening to see the area develope overtime into what it is now, I moved here in the mid 90's and used to have a green belt in my backyard. I would collect green tree frogs for fun back there and then let them go into the forest at the end of the day, now the green belt has been chopped down and there are multiple large sprawling subdivisions and neighborhoods and I hardly ever see tree frogs. However over the years I noticed a huge influx of Northern red-legged frogs which as a young teen in the 2000's I thought they were super cool, but now I miss those little tree frogs. I saw your stream on collecting at Ronald Bog and the Twin Ponds while I was out fishing with my net too (great minds fish alike lol). It looked really fun so I too plan on going out now with a camera to do something similar, maybe I'll stumble into you while fishing haha that would be rad. I used to work at a Greener Today on aurora a couple years ago and I always passed Ronald bog going to work, I always wondered if anything lived in there and was shocked you found fish in it.

@Fishtory

Жыл бұрын

@@Tantidar yeah! If you wanna meet there sometime at dusk or sunrise someday let me know...I pretty much just find the same 5 species most days...but every 3 or 4th time there something new and surprising shows uo

@Tantidar

Жыл бұрын

@@Fishtory That sounds like an epic plan, man. Currently I work on the weekends so I have Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays off but my schedule is pretty flexible. I can message you more details and see what works best for you, whats the best way to contact you? Instagram?

I wonder what kind of fish we have in Los Angeles 🤔 I know we can't just touch anything

@Fishtory

2 жыл бұрын

Just do it lol... get Dr Anthony to wrote you a note lol

Awesome video! Living in the Adirondack Park it would be a crime to take baby fish, if one were caught .

@Fishtory

2 жыл бұрын

I contacted the rangers on duty each day and didn't keep anything I caught other than invasive species.

Why does the thumbnail look like that one wojack meme

@KoroWerks

2 жыл бұрын

Lmfao it really does

👍🙏❤️🤠🎸

@Fishtory

2 жыл бұрын

Love it. Thanks

The opiate epidemic is so bad they've hooked the deer! Lol

@Fishtory

2 жыл бұрын

You know it

Do y'all have reticulate sculpin up there? I can never tell whether it's a banded sculpin or reticulate, unless it's in a ditch, then they're almost always reticulate.

@Fishtory

2 жыл бұрын

Yes it's in the state, but I think farther south *most the time*... but it's one of those really specific ones, where you have to count fin rays to be sure, since the phenotypes overlap

I know want to start a native olympia pond tank.

@Fishtory

8 ай бұрын

Lawerance kent had one for a while... i think there's a video on my channel of his native tanks with some mud minnows he had a license for

I read an article of cocaine using bears Drug using deer is not out of the realm of possibility haha

@Fishtory

2 жыл бұрын

Lol no, but syringes probably are lol

1st

@jordantyler29

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry had to

@AndreaDingbatt

2 жыл бұрын

@@jordantyler29😎👍👍

@Fishtory

2 жыл бұрын

Winner winner