Duskystripe shiner
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Carmine Shiner
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Bigeye Shiner
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Please click on the photos. The thumbnails really don't do them justice.
I was in the Ozarks for a few days last month (tying at the Sowbug Roundup) and caught a few micros. Unfortunately, the only darter I caught was a female, and she's as drab as a hen pheasant. Still, the fish are everywhere, they're fun to catch and some of them are really pretty.
You start out trying to catch anything, and the challenge is to identify what you've caught. Then progressively, the challenge becomes to find and catch different species that live in your general area, and then to catch specific species that you haven't yet caught. And then it's to catch the fish that you know are there but you haven't yet figured out how to catch. It is not unlike a trout angler going from wanting to catch ANY fish, to wanting to catch lots of fish, to wanting to catch big fish, to wanting to catch challenging fish.
It seems I can't get the Daiwa Hinata anymore. I do have tanago rods from Nissin and Shimotsuke, though.
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