LIRA Collecting trip

[qy7400]

Hi everyone,

This Saturday is the clubs collecting trip in Hampton Bays, right off Montauk Highway at the Shinecock Bay. Weather forecast for is partly cloudy and 74, should be a great day for the trip.

Map to the site... we're usually close to Peconic Rd.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=328+e...TkBg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1

Hope you can make it.

 

[crox99]

What time is the collection?

 

[cmantis]

What are you collecting?

 

[qy7400]

Low tide is 3:03 so right around 3 is when things get started, last around an hour.

Collection is for tropical strays, typically spot fin butterflies, puffers, on occasion look downs, some surgeon fish, pipe fish and sea horses. Todd and Joe from Long Island Aquarium help ID everything, most fish though are not reef safe but good for fish only.

 

[duke62]

That was a fun time. Alot of butterfly fish and one huge eel

 

[duke62]

Acclimated and will be my fuge fish Spotfin butterfly

 

[Reef Reaper]

Nice!

 

[JARRETT SHARK]

That was a fun time. Alot of butterfly fish and one huge eel

What kind of ell was it?

Did you get jelly fish because last weekend I got so many that you could not see the fish every time net came up

What else did you get?

 

[duke62]

Mostly local fish. Blackfish,fluke,pipefish and alot of crabs. Not many jellies at all. I would say everytime they pulled the net up there was 50 to 100 crabs at a time

 

[qy7400]

Along with the spot fins we pulled up some puffers, pipe fish and a few gobies; plenty of ghost shrimp and silversides. Also some black fish, coronets, blues and some other locals but were all tossed back along with countless crabs.

Jelly fish were there but didn't seem to bad, actually thought they were less this year.

The eel was a good 2 to 3 feet, surprised everyone. Trying to track down the pics and will post one when I get it along with an ID if Joe remembers.

 

[qy7400]

Big thanks to Christine for the pictures.....

Couldn't ask for a better day...

Getting ready

Joe and Christine pulling the net

LOTS of crabs

The eel.

Can't remember this ID.

Lots of butterflies, this is just one bucket

 

[BrooklynReefer]

Nice. I used to go collecting off LI, but haven't gone for a while. This inspired me to get back out there. Sept is the best month for tropical strays. Sometimes you get some great surprises!

 

[Tarazed]

Really cool!! I wish I could have gone. I'm a science teacher with few tanks in the classroom. We go on a class trip (on a boat) out of Freeport and dredge the bottom, then take a few "creatures" back to the school tank.