I want to thank Scott for really helping me out with my thesis research this winter at my University. Without getting into too much detail, I had to create dummy internal acoustic tags in varying weights for brook trout. I was expecting all the brook trout between 25-50 grams. I was notified a few days before the start of the project that the fish were between 100-150 grams—which was a serious problem and put me in a tough spot. After frantically brainstorming and searching I came across the site and found that the tail weights would fit perfectly into my dummy tag molds and weigh approximately what I needed. Emailed Scott and less than 24 hours later I drove up to Mass and Scott hooked me up with a ton of tail and belly weights---and refused to take my money!!!
Scott—thanks again for helping make this project successful.
Here are a few pics of the colorful brook trout. The males display some incredible orange and red coloration when they take on that funny football shape
Mike
WOW Mike awesome pics very tnx for posting that. I think that's some of the prettiest brookies you could see! Way cool!
NICE... and good on both of you!
It's been a while since I've been on here but I wanted to update this thread since this study is now fully published in the Journal of Animal Biotelemetry. Scott, check out the acknowledgment section at the end!!
lol not necessary but tnx. Cool and glad you got something out of it! Nice brookies :bhappy: