September Collecting Trip!

Went diving at the bridge wednesday caught a butterfly and a lionfish, saw lizardfish, more butterflies and a small grouper. besides the HUGE amount of local fish and inverts. I plan on diving the bridge after the collecting, anybody want to join me?
 
Christine, This is a collection trip not a vomiting trip....
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Atlantic Ocean Temperatures as of yesterday.

Sorry for the crappy picture, I could not get the satellite to focus correctly.
This weekend should be incredible for collecting.
That is a huge pocket of warm water that separated from the gulf stream.

I hope we get one of those the day of our trip.:D

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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8017234#post8017234 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by emelton
This weekend should be incredible for collecting.

Jeeezzz Eric, You almost made me old heart stop beating I thought I Screwed up the dates!!:rolleyes:


Christine...
You sure are the kinky type......
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..... And as chevy chase said in Moden Problems... I LIIIIIIke IT !
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When I was a kid, I did tons of dragnetting for abit every day, all summer long. Now, as a flyfisherman, I dragnet on occasion to keep in toucb with what the bigger fish might be chomping on. My sons and I used a 20 ft dragnet in Patchogue Bay and caught, among other tings, pompano. Someone in Fishys had a ton of tiny butterfly fish. I was shoicked to see them!
 
Also, if anyone feeds their tanks silversides last year there were more than you could possibly use in a year--bring ziplock bags and you can bag them fro the freezer right on the beach and you'll never have to buy them again.
 
so christine you didnt clean them or anything right? I guess it should be fine to just freeze em and feed em?
 
hey all
at this point looks like there will be hopefully at least ncpars members coming.

what would we need to bring along?i'm thinking a mask and snorkel and maybe a small net?

someone mentioned a frag swap fri night i got a ton of anathlia frags if anyone wants some.
 
thanks brad, I was going to ask what we needed also aside from buckets and ziplocs. I do not have any nets.

what is the approximate time frame (start to finish) of the collecting process --for those who went before.
 
last years collection went for about 2 hrs from start to finish,. if we get really lucky and you plan on keeping anything.. bring a bucket with lid. and it would be nice to give Joe a break and do a turn in net dragging (he is getting on in the years :D ), so I would bring something old and dry's easy. if you have waders they really would come in handy.
of course last year i happen to find out to late how much I out grew mine...
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so I advise to try them on before you come.:D
as far as snorkling etc. if we're going to the same spot as last year, there was a pier or something there that you can look around the pilings for stuff. I don't know what you will find because no one did that. It's a large flat bottom bay .
I plan on bringing a cooler with ice hopefully dry ice ( tons of spearing for my RBTA and bubble coral) and a bucket with lid.
like I said in one of my posts... Joe told us last year the picking were slim and we still caught.
baby box fish,
look downs
gunards
a few baby butterfly's ( raccoon?)
grass shrimps
baby puffers
micro algaes
spearing
even if you don't bring anything home with ya.. it was still very educational and hellofa lot of fun!:)
chuck
 
yea it was alot of fun! my first time ever collecting and i wont forget it! :)

the butterflys we caught were teardrops i think...there so tiny...maybe 2 cm?

awesome experience.
 
well i only know of 5 atlantic butterflies that we could find, racoon and teardrop are pacific. I think most of the butterflies that are caught are four eye. I'm pretty sure it was a reef butterfly I caught at ponquogue bridge.
 
what are the chances of xtra fidller crabs & ghost shrimp?

btw if anyone wants some botryocladia I have a wierd variant growing in my reefugium

thanks
 
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