seining this Sunday

[ladyfsu]

If I'm reading the charts right, low tide is a little after 8am on Sunday morning at Fred Howard Beach (Dunedin)....have to consider daylight savings time.

I have my educator's licence and 2 seine nets if you want to join me. The water will be chilly but still should catch some cool things. If it IS low tide...you shouldn't have to go much deeper than...well...THERE! I'm looking for things for my school tanks... things like baby puffers, urchins, pipe fish, etc...BRING YOUR BUCKETS and BUBBLERS!!

If you are interested in joining me, pm me.

Maybe we can even do a Cpt. Jacks by 11 in Tarpon Springs wOOOOT! but no karyoke for me (unless you are buying!!!!!)!

 

[guntercb]

Good luck seining. I would love to join you, but I busy this Sunday. Please let me know if you go again. I do not mind pulling a sein net and would really enjoy the outing.

Good luck,
Chris

 

[reefrubble]

My wife,and I did that back in the early 70s ,off Indian Rocks Beach. We got some really neat stuff. I would like to watch,but I don't know if my wife,and I can make it. Ted

 

[BlitzK]

I wish I could make it. (there might be a small chance).

...Just don't forget to bring your Saltwater fishing license!

 

[fish_taste_good]

wish I could go but I bet i will be waking up late after watching the gator basketball game.

 

[ladyfsu]

that was cold Fish, lol

OK well I got a couple PM's about it. I am not an early riser usually, but I need to hit low tide...and Blitz I won't forget to bring it...I have a collector's licence because I went to a marine teacher's program last year.

OK well if anyone wakes up and wants to go out there, I'll be on the left (south) side with my husband and a couple little ones.

 

[cymbiline]

Where is this beach my son and I would be very interested in doing this. We seined up in NY with the local Aquarium and would very much like to do this again. Where is Fred Howard beach the only Howard beach I've heard of is up in Tarpon Springs? Just let me know specifics.

Bobby

 

[ladyfsu]

YES the one in Tarpon Springs (eek, I said Dunedin didn't I. That's Honeymoon Island).

FRED HOWARD IN TARPON SPRINGS!!!

 

[amheck]

What kind of stuff can you pull in doing this? Just curious.

 

[ladyfsu]

Well, as the water gets warmer you get more. I ideally want things for my classroom tanks.

Pipe fish (usually tons)
Seahorses
all kinds of small fish & crabs, sea urchins, starfish, shrimp
puffer fish

just playing around for an hour a month ago (I didn't have a seine net, just a dip type net and walking the beaches) I got a pipe fish, 2 scallops, 8 starfish, a small horseshoe crab, a sea squirt, lots of little green shrimp (forgot their names).

as it warms up, these grasses get FILLED with EVERYTHING. Basically every type of swimming organisms grows up in these grasses.

I snorkel there some and it's amazing what's around everyone (even the fishermen...these fish are smart not to get caught). I was in 3-4 ft water snorkeling and saw over 20 snook that were HUGE, and the biggest one when I turned around was right in my face and scared me to death (well over 36 inches). Schools of sheepshead, zillions of pin fish, some speckled trout, mangrove snappers.

I'll take pictures. Hopefully it will be a good trip. Then maybe we can get some more of us out there or another place in a month when it gets warmer.

I'm JUST today starting to put together our school website. It's www.reefrascals.org ... you'll see pics there too.

 

[Aquatic Hamster]

This sounds really cool.

 

[ladyfsu]

Low tide is at 9:15...so SLEEP ANOTHER HOUR...I'll get there at 830!!!

Someone forgot about daylight savings time

 

[BlitzK]

If you go in the evening low tides (saturday evening) the tides will be almost 2' lower than at 9am Sunday morning...

 

[Aquatic Hamster]

Wish I could go. Maybe I can catch your next trip.

 

[SSFiero]

I'd like to go too. I want to bring my brother and sister. They just need to show me their grades are up to par.

 

[ladyfsu]

It's too crowded in the afternoon is why I'm doing it that early. I usually have good luck (crowd wise) in the morning. But that's good to know for when I go more this summer and not on the weekend.

 

[Sailor_jon]

Ft. Desoto seining

Ft. Desoto seining

It is cool to seine local stuff, I took a Marine Biology class is HS (70's) and we netted with our class at Ft. Desoto and pulled in all sorts of good things for our handmade aquariums. We built the tanks from used door glass and slicone. Then we filled them with all local animals. we got colorful and hardy killifish redfish, bluecrabs, seahorses, pipe fish, even a school of baby mullet that were 2"long. Its amazing how cool the local stufff can be. This is of course before anyone at our level had a clue about protein skimmers, wet-drys..etc, and we were loosing most everything in the tanks at about 4-6 months.

Good luck..it should be fun!

 

[fish_taste_good]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7073423#post7073423 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ladyfsu
that was cold Fish, lol

I'm sorry. I never even noticed the FSU part in your name.

I apologize.

Hope you guys have fun.

 

[reefrubble]

ladyfsu, How was your trip to the Beach? Please tell us what all you cought in the net. Ted

 

[ladyfsu]

Well, it was pretty good. The tide was higher than we would have liked and still so early in spring so not as many in the net...

BUT...

wOOOOT! it was fun!

LOTS of GIANT pipe fish
a cool flounder
cow fish
many shrimp
sea horses
tunicates like crazy
lots of minnows (TINY pin fish, blennies, and other tinies I don't know what are yet)
sea robin
blue crabs
hermit crabs
snails


It was fun! Bobby and his son Randall (gosh I hope I got that right) from this forum were there and somehow I don't have a pic of his boy Randall. Very very nice guys!

In another 4-6 weeks it ought to be crazy out there. All together a good trip!! Maybe we can get a group together for another trip in a month. Preferably somewhere less than 60 minutes away from New Port Richey, but I'll bring the nets.

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