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Saturday, August 26, 2023

Central Illinois fishing 2023

Shortnose Gar (Lepisosteus platostomus)

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I'm interested in all kinds of fishing, and would much rather catch a new species of fish than a trophy game fish any day. I'm rather new to the sport so I find myself learning something new every time I go out. Thanks for stopping by!
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My Blog List

  • Cool Green Science
    Chasing Unicorns: A Photographer’s Journey Documenting Rhino Conservation
    1 day ago
  • 1000fish's Blog - Steve Wozniak's hunt for fish species
    Mucinex for the Soul
    4 days ago
  • Something Fishy Going On
    Species Hunting Adventures On Sardinia: Part 2.
    5 days ago
  • うまっこのブログ
    なんと二釣行連続のコイフナ
    2 weeks ago
  • Soortenjager
    Soortenjagen in Gambia
    3 months ago
  • Bryanlikestofish
    Better Out Than In
    4 months ago
  • Ken Jones - Writer & Pierfisherman
    2024 — Al Pietrosilli’s Kid’s Day on the Pier — Marin Rod & Gun Club
    8 months ago
  • The Fisheries Blog
    8 Questions for the 2024 Presidential Candidates of the American Fisheries Society
    1 year ago
  • Fish I Have Caught
    Costa Rica
    1 year ago
  • Isaac's Fishing Corner
    1 year ago
  • Fish Finding: An Ichthyological Adventure
    A Summer in the USA - Backtracking to Arizona
    2 years ago
  • Fish Nerds
    Wild vs Stocked Brook Trout Tiger Sharks and Ocean Conservation ep 296
    3 years ago
  • MuskieBait Adventures
    Australia 2019
    5 years ago
  • Fat Boy's Outdoors
    The Walleye Fisherman That I'll never forget...
    5 years ago
  • Conflicted About Fishing
    Squid Hounds on the Vineyard
    5 years ago
  • Fishy Jackson | Legendary Angler
    2/18-2/21/19: AQUA-D Jr kind of made debut
    6 years ago
  • Lifelist Fishing
    Chasing Species in the Southern Appalachians: A 2018 NANFA Convention Report
    6 years ago
  • Bass on the Golf Course
    Party Boat Wreck Fishing
    6 years ago
  • Manitoba Fish Species on the Fly
    Bigmouth Buffalo
    6 years ago
  • moxostoma
    Flying Gar Feeding Frenzy
    7 years ago
  • In the Current
    Native Species of the Month: Virgin River Chub
    7 years ago
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    Fishing in Windsor, Ontario
    7 years ago
  • Virginia Fishes
    Sea grass restoration project
    7 years ago
  • Travelling Man
    A Suriname Adventure.
    8 years ago
  • Spooled: Kamran Walsh's Guide to Fishing
    Beyond a Shadow of Trout
    8 years ago
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    The scariest faces in the deep-sea.
    8 years ago
  • PRIMITIVE FISHES
    How long can fish live?
    8 years ago
  • Chronicles of Eli | a neverending piscine pursuit
    Stalking Zebras
    8 years ago
  • Catching Them All
    Dabbling in the Ozarks
    8 years ago
  • Fishing Jersey Channel Islands
    The colder months are out the way!
    9 years ago
  • Bay Area Backwaters
    Spring fishin
    9 years ago
  • TNACI Field Notes
    9 years ago
  • Clinch Chronicle | Science for the Conservation of the Clinch Dace
    The Narrow-Minded Scientist
    9 years ago
  • Shark Blog
    I'll be back…(again)
    9 years ago
  • In the footsteps of Steve Wozniak
    Twenty-one
    9 years ago
  • Fishing in Central Missouri
    Rock Bridge State Park, Boone Co.
    9 years ago
  • D Heaps fishing adventures
    A good day fi we - Essequibo river Guyana 2014
    10 years ago
  • Schogsky and Hutch : Fishing Adventures!
    Good News Day!
    10 years ago
  • Lifelist Fishing
    Catalina Island & Long Beach, CA - June 2014
    10 years ago
  • ANGLING WORLD 魔魚釣界
    Sea Fishing
    11 years ago
  • XstreemFishing.Com Blog
    Late Afternoon Troll
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  • Mission Impossible : To catch 100 species of saltwater fish from British waters in 3 years
    A 4-year wait ends in style : Day 1 back in Wales
    11 years ago
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    -Alligator Gar [Skull] of The Past…
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    11 years ago
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    Carp and Water Voles
    13 years ago
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    Moving my activities to Ben Cantrell's fish species blog
    13 years ago

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