Buy your Art of Micro Fishing MICRO FISHING HOOKS now! Florida’s African Jewelfish Identification Debacle By David Parker and Tim Aldridge (A handful of African Jewelfish (Hemichromis bimaculatus) caught and photographed by Florida resident and multi-species angler Shane Cribbs) Of the thirteen currently recognized species of Jewel Fish/Cichlid (Hemichromis), there …
Read More »Top Ten Shiner Species Found in a Piedmont North Carolina “Shiner Heaven”
Buy your Art of Micro Fishing MICRO FISHING HOOKS now! “Shiner Heaven” By Tim Aldridge Rocky River Watershed-Piedmont Region, North Carolina. This beautiful stream is a tributary of the Rocky River, although the Pee Dee watershed is very close by as well. …
Read More »Top Micro Fishing Methods for Catching Micro Suckers on Hook and Line
Buy your Art of Micro Fishing MICRO FISHING HOOKS now! Suckers are often overlooked in modern fishing and micro Suckers are even more overlooked. Though tricky, micro Suckers can be caught by hook and line. We prefer nighttime headlamp micro fishing for the best results with micro Suckers as they …
Read More »Common Fish Bait Bucket Species in North America
Buy your Art of Micro Fishing MICRO FISHING HOOKS now! “Bait bucket” species are fish species that are used to catch larger fish and are commonly sold throughout North America. As a result, a lot of bait bucket species are released when the fishing is done into local waters where …
Read More »Minnow Identification Guidelines: Key Identifying Characters by Genus
Buy your Art of Micro Fishing MICRO FISHING HOOKS now! Key Identifying Characters by Genus: Minnow ID Guidelines Citations include Peterson Field Guide, Freshwater Fishes of VA, AL, MS, TN, OH and Wisconsin and Carson et al 2010 -261 native “minnows” and 10 introduced species, formerly all in the family …
Read More »Photo Tanks for Pictures of Your Microfishing Catches
Buy your Art of Micro Fishing MICRO FISHING HOOKS now! I have been through a lot of phototanks; from glass bottles, Betta tanks, Q tip containers, photariums, and even plastic bags. Some work well and some just plain don’t. We get a lot of questions about which one to pick …
Read More »The Super Sunfish Grand Slam Part Four Black Banded Sunfish
Buy your Art of Micro Fishing MICRO FISHING HOOKS now! Black Banded Sunfish (Enneacanthus chaetodon). The striking and elegant Blackbanded Sunfish was beginning to become my nemesis during the Summer of 2020. I had always found them easily in South Carolina with dip nets, but catching one hook and line …
Read More »The Super Sunfish Grand Slam Part Three Mud Sunfish
Buy your Art of Micro Fishing MICRO FISHING HOOKS now! Mud Sunfish (Acantharchus pomotis). The Mud Sunfish is both unique and uncommon, making it a top contender for the Super Sunfish Grand Slam. I had never seen one, not in thirty-five years and not in the past three years of …
Read More »The Super Sunfish Grand Slam Part One Bluespotted Sunfish
Buy your Art of Micro Fishing MICRO FISHING HOOKS now! Bluespotted Sunfish (Enneacanthus gloriosus). On my first trip to the Lumber River drainage in the Summer of 2016, I was targeting a few different species of black water fish. I had read an article a week before about an older …
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