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Post by Tim Abbott on Sept 11, 2018 15:02:48 GMT -5
This has me puzzled. I went to Tosohatchee South to get get cardio exercise & see how wet it was. It was predictably very wet & I was walking south on the maintenance road dodging standing water. I looked down & saw some movement and followed it back a ways and here is a baby fish about 1 inch long in a couple inches of water. This area is bone dry months at a time. You could see water running from the woods, but it was over a mile from Taylor creek and would have had to cross the Mormon cow pasture. I have contacted FWC for info.   |
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Post by Ira Runyan on Sept 14, 2018 17:08:20 GMT -5
Tim, they look like the mosquito fish, Gambusia affinis, native to southern and eastern portions of the United States. They don't need much water to survive,and can easily be found in rain water discharges. They only grow to a about 1 to 1 1/2 inches in size.
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Post by Tim Abbott on Sept 15, 2018 5:50:14 GMT -5
Thanks so much Ira.
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Post by Tim Abbott on Sept 18, 2018 17:34:04 GMT -5
Hi Ira, I contacted UF and the ID they provided was eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki). I still don't know how it got to where I saw it. Perhaps FWC stocked them to eat mosquitoes?
Tim Abbott
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Post by frank on Sept 18, 2018 18:21:00 GMT -5
Hunting season for deer began September 15. If Tosohatchee was that flooded the hunt stand sites on Deseret
Ranch located along the Tosohatchee-Deseret property line are probably ankle deep in water. I really like that part of Tosohatchee because it is usually hunt free all year long. Your photo of the woods has incentivized me to get out there
too.
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Post by Tim Abbott on Sept 19, 2018 6:20:17 GMT -5
Do you think Taylor creek may have flooded enough for the water to travel that far, Frank? You could see the road had washed out before this spot. I didn't have rubber boots on so I wasn't able to get to the Taylor creek swamp, there was a big expanse of water where the maintenance road turned west to Deseret fence line and I saw no way around it. I did see a couple deer.
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Post by frank on Sept 20, 2018 7:52:16 GMT -5
It is quite possible that it could be due overflow from Taylor creek. It is only about 1/4 miles to Taylor creek from the junction of the road west to the Deseret fence line and the maintenance road.
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Post by Tim Abbott on Sept 20, 2018 14:06:52 GMT -5
Thanks, Frank
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