5-day Canoe Trip: 20ish pics.

So I just got back from 5 days in the backcountry at Big South Fork doing some fisheries work. Before I left I got a new point and shoot, underwater digital camera, so I thought I'd share some pics I took along the way with you guys, since Ridefoto has been kinda dead lately.


Did a bit of fishing, caught approximate 54,000 smallmouth bass of this size.



Emergent female dobsonfly (AKA grampis or hellgrammite)





Mah pack.





Fog on the water in the morning.



Another SMB.



Huge log lodged on a BFR.



Bufo Americanus



2



Ashy Darter



Caught this little striper below a riffle.



Boiling up some gruel.



Hot tea in the evening.



BFR!



Freshwater Mussel.



Another BFR, probably 50 feet tall.



River is full of boulders like this. Pretty views the whole way.



Loaded Canoes.



A pic of the rare Duskytail Darter before it bolted.



Another species for freshwater mussel.



A nice walleye I caught the last morning.





.... had a great trip. Not a great photog but hopefully you guys enjoyed the pics. Hope they dont appear too huge!

4 of us went. Snorkeled basically 8-10 hours per day, then fished til the sun went down.
Definitely sore from sleeping on the ground all those nights, so Im glad to be home.

SM cracked the code!

dump said:

looks great! So you caught smallmouth, striper & walleye. Outside of the darters & minnows, is there anything else in the river?

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Also caught some spotted (kentucky bass) bass, but didn't take any pics.

Off the top of my head, I know there are Muskellunge, Lampreys, Bluegills, Redear sunfish, Green Sunfish, Longear sunfish, White bass, rock bass, channel catfish, flathead catfish, stonecats, probably yellow bullheads, .... longnose gar, big and smallmouth buffalo, carp (non-native), various species of redhorse and other suckers, others Im sure too.
Southeastern US is very rich in fish diversity... particularly in the still free-flowing portions of streams and rivers.