This one was surprisingly straightforward to identify. The lack of a sclerite at the base of the lateral hump narrows the field quite a bit, and the other options followed fairly obvious characteristics to Clostoeca, which only has one species, Clostoeca disjuncta.
CaseyP on Jun 28, 2010June 28th, 2010, 10:44 am EDT
drove past your hometown on Saturday. would love to fish with someone to get to know some water near-ish to Arlington, VA. don't mind walking, but hate those vertical trails in the Park. Shanandoa? (sp?) Rappahanock? (nope, can't spell that one, either!)
Oldredbarn on Jun 28, 2010June 28th, 2010, 3:10 pm EDT
Ditch,
I lived in Norfolk until I was nine...Does that count? I lived in the "Tide Water" not the "Piedmont"...I fished in the Chesapeake Bay and the Dismal Swamp...Flounder instead of trout.
Folks here in Michigan eat Perch & Blue Gills like they are candy. I ate Flounder the same way and didn't know it was an expensive fish until I was an adult.
Harry Murray's book on smallmouth taught me a great deal about smallies...
Anyway! Welcome aboard!
Spence
"Even when my best efforts fail it's a satisfying challenge, and that, after all, is the essence of fly fishing." -Chauncy Lively
"Envy not the man who lives beside the river, but the man the river flows through." Joseph T Heywood
Casey let me know little stoney isn't that up and down brookies are small but the lake holds some larger just need deep i hate carring to rods while fishing.