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    Post by Fern Tue Dec 06, 2011 12:14 pm

    I'm sure we can make it a day and time that you could come with! Just gotta bring a net and a bucket! A battery operated air pump is a plus if you want to bring stuff back with you cheers
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    Post by crw.npt Tue Dec 06, 2011 2:36 pm

    Sounds good to me. Just let me know when you were thinking. I'm pretty much free on sundays and mondays, but on mondays I'd have to make sure my mother-in-law could watch the boys.
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    Post by Fern Tue Dec 06, 2011 4:41 pm

    How old are? they I bring my 6 & 9 year old kids with and we make enough noise so we dont have to worry about water moccasins.
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    Post by crw.npt Wed Dec 07, 2011 2:11 pm

    They are only 2, so not quite ready for expeditions yet, but soon. And trust me, I cant wait for expeditions with them.
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    Post by joefish72 Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:32 pm

    Sounds to me like we need to create a new thread and pick a date to go collecting. I think it would be a great way to meet and greet and maybe get a few more members for the fish club.
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    Post by crw.npt Thu Dec 15, 2011 9:11 pm

    Sounds good to me too. I would pretty much just be along for the ride, considering I have no tanks running, but I'd love to meet some people in person, not just on the 'net.
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    Post by Fern Sat Dec 17, 2011 12:15 pm

    Joe you got any good areas yet? And what all do you get there?
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    Post by joefish72 Mon Dec 19, 2011 5:34 pm

    Fern wrote:Joe you got any good areas yet? And what all do you get there?
    I go to Lakes Park with my kids. So far we have got least killies, mosquito fish, marbled mollies. People tell me there are cichlids in there but I've never seen any.

    I've been scoping out "Grenada Lake" which is on 41 just south of Alico road, they are building some kind of bridge next to it. The local kids say there are all kinds of fish like blue gill and bass. I'm willing to bet some people have tossed in stuff from their fish tanks so who knows what else is in there.

    When it rains and the gullies flood we just go to the corner of my street, so far I got some kind of killies, something that looks like a skinny marbled molly, mosquito fish, and hopolo catfish. I did see a cichlid once but it stayed at the edge of the culvert pipe and would dart in if you got within 10 feet of it.
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    Post by zeketaz Mon Dec 19, 2011 5:45 pm

    There are some beautiful cichlids in grenada lake. My parents live right by it and I used to go fishing in it lol
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    Post by crw.npt Wed Dec 21, 2011 1:51 pm

    Yay! Hows the access to Grenada Lake? I drive by there quite a bit and have really wanted to fish it. Lakes Park does have cichlids for sure. I was talking to an older gentleman who was fishing there one afternoon and he had a stringer full of mayan cichlids. Good sized fish too. He said he was getting lunch! I've seen big gar in some of the little ponds by the train station there as well.
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    Post by zeketaz Wed Dec 21, 2011 2:03 pm

    Not sure if there is still a trail by where my parents are but one could always be made and it's on a kind of dead end street. Don't know how to get to the rest of the lake....it's huge
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    Post by crw.npt Wed Dec 21, 2011 4:24 pm

    Kayaks!!!! Light weight, easy to manuever, and you could use two and drag a seine net! Or just fish... But I bet you could mighty close to some gators with one Wink
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    Post by joefish72 Thu Dec 22, 2011 1:58 pm

    Granada lake has penty of open areas where you can access. You could just go from the 41 side since that has all been cleared for construction.

    Lakes Park, I guess I need to bring a fishing pole next time we go.
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    Post by crw.npt Thu Dec 22, 2011 7:33 pm

    Thats kinda what I was thinking Joe. It's all fishable too, except the bridges. Probably 'cuz they don't want you catching passers-by on your backcast.
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    Post by Fern Sat Dec 24, 2011 10:14 pm

    Mayan cichlids are good eating! I catch them in my parents canal!
    Where is Granada lake?
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    Post by joefish72 Tue Dec 27, 2011 12:18 pm

    Fern wrote:Mayan cichlids are good eating! I catch them in my parents canal!
    Where is Granada lake?
    U.S. 41 Just south of Alico Road. Coming from your house it would be on the left, just look for the construction and the big dirt hill and that's where it is.
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    Post by crw.npt Wed Dec 28, 2011 2:52 pm

    I've thought about parking at that old gas station and wandering around over there. There aren't any signs or anything that say no parking or trespassing so I assume that would be fine, right?
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    Post by joefish72 Thu Dec 29, 2011 1:00 pm

    crw.npt wrote:I've thought about parking at that old gas station and wandering around over there. There aren't any signs or anything that say no parking or trespassing so I assume that would be fine, right?
    I don't see why it would be a problem. Trannys Unlimited parks that huge box truck over there all the time.
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    Post by Fern Fri Dec 30, 2011 11:41 am

    Oh ok I think I know where that is!
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    Post by crw.npt Thu Feb 23, 2012 7:50 pm

    You get any more ID's on these fish Fern? I was thinking those little spotted puffer-looking guys might be be juvenile sunfish of some variety. The body shape looks right. Do we have any Elassoma sp. around here, cuz thats what I first thought. But maybe just a Lepomis sp juvie.
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    Post by Fern Thu Feb 23, 2012 10:10 pm

    ok grenada lake is pretty trashed, me and Zeke went there on a whim, nothing much other than spiders and shrimp and loads of dragonfly larve.


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