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Title: Fishes of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk Counties Kansas - 1959
Post by: evanstrail on March 08, 2011, 08:14:00 PM
Came across this while researching something completely different:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/34523/34523-h/34523-h.htm

Maybe this belongs in Good Old Days, but fishing stories are often told in cafes and coffee shops so . . .


Title: Re: Fishes of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk Counties Kansas - 1959
Post by: W. Gray on March 08, 2011, 08:36:07 PM
I wonder if the parrot minnow mentioned as taken in Rock Creek (Big Caney tributary) could talk?
Title: Re: Fishes of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk Counties Kansas - 1959
Post by: Wilma on March 08, 2011, 08:40:19 PM
Ha, ha, Waldo.  Ha, ha.
Title: Re: Fishes of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk Counties Kansas - 1959
Post by: W. Gray on March 08, 2011, 08:42:23 PM
Well, we could never positively determine where the Elk River began, but now, because of this book, we know it is (or at least was) full of Notropis boops.
Title: Re: Fishes of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk Counties Kansas - 1959
Post by: frawin on March 08, 2011, 08:47:46 PM
Quote from: W. Gray on March 08, 2011, 08:36:07 PM
I wonder if the parrot minnow mentioned as taken in Rock Creek (Big Caney tributary) could talk?
Waldo, I bet your Uncle fished for them and used crackers for bait.
Title: Re: Fishes of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk Counties Kansas - 1959
Post by: W. Gray on March 08, 2011, 08:56:45 PM
You and Wilma are both cards.
Title: Re: Fishes of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk Counties Kansas - 1959
Post by: frawin on March 08, 2011, 09:00:29 PM
Quote from: W. Gray on March 08, 2011, 08:56:45 PM
You and Wilma are both cards.
Wilma and me? I think it was someone else that wondered if the Parrott Fish could talk.
Title: Re: Fishes of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk Counties Kansas - 1959
Post by: W. Gray on March 08, 2011, 09:10:17 PM
Hey, I was just trying to carry on an intelligent conversation.

There are some fish that walk across the street, you know.
Title: Re: Fishes of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk Counties Kansas - 1959
Post by: Ole Granny on March 08, 2011, 09:53:34 PM
While reading, I could almost taste the yellow bullhead.  It has been too long...  Thanks
Title: Re: Fishes of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk Counties Kansas - 1959
Post by: W. Gray on March 09, 2011, 10:38:38 AM
Some additional information in the book:

Elk River drops an average 14.4 feet per mile.

Annual precipitation in Elk County is 35.1 inches.