Native collection trip with pops...

[alexrex20]

grass shrimp
sunfish
killifish
largemouth bass
largemouth bass
sunfish
crappie
sunfish

Mark

#4 and #5 are smallmouth bass and i'm pretty sure #8 is a bluegill

[alexrex20]

So lets assume that you released them immediately after taking the pictures. Then where did you catch them?

definitely not at the Chinese GPS coordinates he manually attached to the images.

[troy tucker]

ek, I think its cool you go fishing with your pops. I love to go with my kids and took my pop fishing almost every fothers day. til the day he passed. I know you are a smart fish guy and it sounds like you are a good kid too...

Great pictures of Native Fish.

[wesleydnunder]

#4 and #5 are smallmouth bass and i'm pretty sure #8 is a bluegill

Nope, not smallies. Look at the mouth and markings.

Mark

[wesleydnunder]

Largemouth bass:











Mark

[alexrex20]

On smallmouth bass the mouth does not extend past the eye.

They all have similar markings as juveniles.

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[alexrex20]

Either way, at the size in the pictures in the original post, they are undersize and illegal to keep.

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[wesleydnunder]

Smallies were introduced to a few cold-water rivers and reservoirs in texas. Most of those are in the Edwarsds Plateau.

Smallies also have vertical bars, not the horizontal bar of the largemouth.

Mark

[eklikewhoa]

Either way, at the size in the pictures in the original post, they are undersize and illegal to keep.

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[troy tucker]

I'm not sure about this but can't you have ponds or small lakes stocked with fish by TPWL?

[jeb102385]

Nice call Mark... I also think some if not most of those fish are illegal to keep. Just fyi

[black_knight]

Here's some helpful links to those of you who collect fish in the wild.
Keeping native fish=possesion (unless you have some special permits). This is a general discussion on Texas fishing regulations: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/regulati.../general.phtml
These are allowed methods of collection:

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/regulations/fish_hunt/fish/devices.phtml

This discusses bag limits. Note that usually you can keep in posession about 2x bag limit, and some ypes of fish have no limit:

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/regulations/fish_hunt/fish/freshwater_limits.phtml

This is a good article written by an avid collector, that I found:

http://www.aquariumlife.net/articles/native-fish/46.asp

[eklikewhoa]

Nice links, think the admin and some of the members have posted in the stickied threads about this.

I'm sure there are a lot of tanks with a bit of duckweed or the like... most are quick to point fingers

[sunkenmetal]

Nice links, think the admin and some of the members have posted in the stickied threads about this.

I'm sure there are a lot of tanks with a bit of duckweed or the like... most are quick to point fingers

This is true

[wesleydnunder]

I'm not sure about this but can't you have ponds or small lakes stocked with fish by TPWL?

There used to be a TPWD program whereby they would stock a private pond after they asessed that it would sustain the microcosm. If they stocked it for free you had to allow the public to fish the pond. If you paid for the stocking you didn't have to let the public have access. I don't know if this program still exists.

Mark