🔴 LIVE - Frank is in a ditch

Well, I need to know if I am rotated or not. Am I coming through his landscape or is it sideways? Need a little help. Apparently it's sideways because I'm not getting the full picture. Apparently. All right. Pain in the butt. I can't get it to rotate. It's this thing. Hi, Lance. Trying to get this stupid thing to rotate and I don't want to do it. Nuts. What's that? Nothing. All right. and who's this wade quite a title yeah we're good i'm gonna show you frank here in a bit we are up at bio aquatics and have located a uh a little creek a stream that has a lot of remarkable things in it so we're gonna go check it out we were here two weeks ago near caridina shrimp, and a lot of very cool plants. I stayed up on the bank, but this time I'm going to try to climb down in it. Let's see if, see what we can see. Let me show you where we are. Right alongside the road, all kind of traffic coming out, and here's the ditch. When we pulled up a minute or two ago, we saw a little alligator in here, but he was a little tiny one. Wasn't, wasn't near five foot and frank's throwing bugs in feeding the fish what's coming up midas yeah what's that one that looks like a dempsey or something with the orange trim on the fins it's not a lot of little fish you know midas not midas jewel yeah the red ones there's plants over on the other side we got those before now i showed them to ones in the water i showed them to chuck no not pointing it no i'm pointing it right there and um he said it didn't look to him like they were illegal he thought he took some home to kind of scope them out this is where club biologists one of our club biologists there's a wild china's in there too see there's one right there oh yeah yeah probably can't see the little fish through the camera it's too much reflection on the water that's not a jewel i don't know what that is i don't know that you can catch them either yeah i'm sure i don't know how i want to get in there the safest way to be that way but there's a big hole right there up here what about walking through the water deep right there but on the edge walk that edge to there and this edge to there i can't come any deeper i don't know if i can get down here i don't know either that's kind of steep you get back up it's not going to be easy want me to help you down no i'll get down there i want to decide what to do pretty creek it's not a turtle that's a stick isn't it so we want to get down there to that shallow why don't you take your bucket and go on down i will figure out what i'm going to do what i might do is just sit down here then i can walk in if i sit right there i don't know which side shower or this or that but it's It's not that tall. Don't leave it in front of them. Oh, I know. You might be walking with the water right there. Really? You walk over here a little. Yeah. That'd be the easiest way, probably. See that big hole? Yeah, I got it. Oh, yeah. The regular grass shrimp, is that what you got? Yeah. I think I want to get over. Don't pull me. I'll probably get around here. Watch that stick. You see it? Mm-hmm. That's where we're going, I guess. I don't know where I want to go from here. Right there. All right. Where the buckets are. Back to the buckets. Yeah, I'm good. They're shiners in here. Yes, I see a little school of them. Put the net in and just push it up. They'll go in the grass. See them? Well, they're shiners about five feet in front of you. Put the net in and push it. Put the net in and push it. I want to get some of these shiners. You're letting them get away. They are what I'm looking at is. They're two inches long. yeah you should have brought the good net yeah you don't have your bucket yeah let's save the Formosa yes right are they really I'm kind of one-handed here so I really can't get in that and get down in there I'm on no no I'm fine I don't want to go I don't need to get in the water there's no benefit to getting in the water other than get my shoes wet. I lost that last big female. I'm trying to see what this says. I got a bunch of comments here. They're in the field. Greetings from Argentina. They should be doing some cool fish trips there. Hit the like button. Greetings from the UK. Come to who? I can't read. The sun's shining on my camera. I can just about read the the notes. I can't read who they're from. Frank uses the pull method. I use the push method. Frank believes he gets more with the pull method. I believe I get more with the push method. Who are you going to believe? The guy who's down here getting them. Yeah, I know. How's that? That's why I'm bitching at it the way I am. Oh, there's a nice black. You want to see a nice black? A black shrimp? Yeah, you bet. Please do not point it at it. I got it. I'm looking right at it. That's a nice black one. Nice. There's another one. No, that's a fish. What are they? Are they promosas? Two mollies and a promosa. Okay, there's another one of the strange shrimp. Oh, there's a bunch of them down here. Oh, there's another beautiful black. I've got to get these. Go for it. Can you put my phone in your pocket? Yep. In my wallet. yep time it takes him to let his cigarette two shrimp die nice if i could get you know i need to go back and get in the shade where i can look at this i think we've got all the close-ups we need i'm gonna try to get back over here in the shade so i can read comments and not have the sun cooking me yeah if i sit down i won't fall down there now i can almost read this i don't know Dwight, hope you're doing well Yeah, I'm doing good, I'm alright James Lance, Fisher and Fever Hey Fisher and Fever I need to talk to you We need to get together Who's this car dude from the UK What? Yeah, do you know Lee Cardew? I don't think so Quite a title All is well, yes Alright, yeah, I'm chilling Sitting in the dirt, right Got a little bit of sun on me If I can slide over a little bit i might be able to get out of the sun i'm not sure i can do this i'm just kind of sitting in a bit of a hole there's a hole right alongside me there that's marginally better all right this is as good as it's gonna get what do we got here really pretty little creek it um kind of opens up right here it's a bit of a fishing hole we saw some fish in here oh maybe six inches long um threw some bugs in and they came up for them it's maybe two foot deep if that and then it shallows out immediately yeah i thought i saw some yeah i see them some shiners yeah a bunch of them bigger ones too we need a cast net or we could do a seine yeah that's the way i'll just bring a seine up here yeah put a net there and then seine through them yeah that's right that would be we can catch everything in here that way sure enough i'm sitting on something sharp that's relatively uncomfortable oh cool well we're getting black shrimp Neocaridina which is pretty nice so i'm going to try to get a colony of them going back at this shop fortunately there are no mosquitoes yet if there were i'd be back in the van i think yeah good idea bug spray wonder what's up in the culverts probably alligator yeah I'm sure just about exactly who went up in there Frank is hitting hitting the black shrimp so that's pretty cool yeah really i don't need to drink this true enough car dude i'm doing pretty good i gotta see the doctor on friday i just finished a battery of tests find out why my blood pressure is up it just all of a sudden went up but then all of a sudden You know, my weight went up, too, and I think it was because I was off diuretics for about, I don't know, two, three weeks. And put weight on real quick. I don't know if you can, no, you can't see the fish. I need to get a polarized lens for my phone. You need a what? A fire eel. Yeah, they're not coming in. Ain't got none. I got tire tracks and snowflakes. No fire eel. I've got four tire tracks. Four or five, I've got a bunch of them. Well, they're sitting there. No, got them last week. They're right above the lungfish in that top row. You've got to look for them. They hide. Well, I've had two of them for months, and I just got the other two because I forgot I had the first two. Yeah, they're snowflakes. What did I say? Oh, no, they're snowflakes. you're right you're right Alex's Aquatics hello hello i think the seaweeds are getting me i'm getting little bites little teeny tiny nasty bites hi frank chevy fish says hi frank i'm sure she can what sort of fish do you catch in the stream tell us what kind of fish are in here frank a lot of pomosa bluefin killifish um some bass some i don't know there's two different Looks like Jack Dempsey, but I don't think it is. Mollies, yeah. Yeah, it's about six or seven species we've seen so far. Jewels, and at least two species of shrimp. Plus all kind of water bugs and plants. A lot of plants. Just some of the coolest plants. And they're all growing down there. A lot of ferns, yeah. This is a very prolific little spot. and extremely tannin water, as you can tell. So here we are, sitting in the woods, catching little fish. And I'm just kind of sitting on the bank because I'm relatively disabled currently. I've got one hand, and I'm having trouble walking on uneven ground. Cardude says, incredible, Father Fish. Patreon, thank you, Chevy Fish. and father fish facebook show you fish doing their job here thank you so much see what frank's doing frank loves this he lives for it yes that's kind of messed up when i do this does the list of comments doesn't call the chat doesn't come up does it can you all see the chat where'd he go is that more or less muck you're pulling up algae is there really huh the algae's full of shrimp he says sam is here hi sam might as well since you got a load of them sam dam is here and billy billy dog billy dog yes does he do this every day and what does he do with his catch Yes, he does this every day, and he brings it into Father Fish. We have increasing numbers of tanks with native fish in them. Right now there are two, three, four, five, six, about ten tanks with natives, and it's ever-increasing. Right, we've got vats all the way in the back, outdoor vats, that have uh fairy shrimp scuds daphnia and uh grass shrimp and then we've got vats and tubs in the front of the store outdoors that have uh little critters and mostly they're scuds and daphnia this close-up is kind of interesting the water is moving enough that it's hard to see anything but you can see what the fish are doing you can really almost see a fish yes a lot of What he catches is used for food to feed other fish. I sound low. I'm just being quiet, Sam. Yeah, it's a little hot and I'm kind of tired, so my voice is low. I don't feel down particularly. I'm just being a little more conversational. I don't have my YouTube voice on, probably because I'm a little tired. But I'm trying to do that. I'm experimenting with not having my high nasal voice where I talk so loud and so fast everybody can hear me and understand me and nobody wants to listen so I'm talking more quietly and pleasantly and watching Frank pretty cool he will spend one or two hours doing what he's doing until he's finished Frank is a man of enormous patience and detail what you got in there thank you oh wonderful who said that who said that this is a good voice who said that i can't read it chevy fish no Sam Dam thank you Sam Dam well yeah i agree do you quarantine them in effect we do because we put them in with other natives, so we're keeping our natives pretty much separate. There are some tanks that we've moved natives into that have captive bred fish in with them, but they kind of hang around for a while. We've got them for a week or so before we do that, typically. So there is some quarantining, and it's helpful to do it because we do run across parasites, funguses you know there are problems especially in the summer in wild in wild slow water you get more disease cold water you don't so much but when it gets real warm midsummer in slow water or standing water there will be diseases there will be fish with fungus on them a bacteria attacks them and parasites get them and so forth so we try not to bring those in when we see that but if they do show up then we look at that hitting the water there then we um we quarantine them all right away so yes there are times when i quarantine fish i just don't quarantine quarantine fish if you understand what i'm saying you're tired i'm tired but never tired of you who said this lee stop with the south park voices although you were really good at it funny say respect my authority in that like that lee nice to see you James aquarium cowboy is here how late am i i don't know how long we've been on we came on about 10 hours we've been on for 32 minutes no well we can always use them for food but we need bigger ones for food we need to do something to catch we need to do something to catch some like two three four inch fish three and four inch fish so we can feed some of our bigger stuff right that would have been good so good to see you jim you're not late you're right on time lamb lanakans what's been the catch so far probably 35 or 40 black Neocaridina, that's been kind of remarkable love to go collecting in Florida, so many exotic species to choose from, I could make my own community tank, it's absolutely true, oh that's you okay a lot of people watch your he's keeping only he's reached the point now where he's only keeping the best of the best, you just saw a fish black stripes, yeah, what's the black stripe and that's the Midas, you saw a Midas, and Midas get quite big in here, you know, they're probably six inches or so in here tops, somebody's calling Frank on his phone and if I take it out of my pocket I won't be able to get it back in because they have so much stuff jammed in there, so it's gonna have to ring, there are, there are gators up in there, up in that culvert in England who's saying this, let's see, Lee in England, we cannot take a fish, let alone a single fish from our waters, so good to see the freedom you have the fish you collect will have a better better life in your care or all or any one of us, that's really true, uh it was a big one, hard to, just saw a big fish here, could be, could be, I'm not seeing one but then I don't have polarized lenses on my glasses, I really need to do something about that, I looked at some the other day at the tackle store but they wanted 50 bucks for them, I decided nah I'll just lose them anyway but they fit over my regular glasses, there's some fish, look at the fish there can you see them? Yes, there are a number of states they're the same way, like not a plant or even a stone, oh no it's terrible, what do you do with little boys who want to go mucking around in the creek, I mean what do you do? I've been doing it my whole life, yeah, what do you do in a state where it's against the law? I don't go to that state screw it, I know it a little, yeah I would have been, I would have been in jail as a six-year-old in Maryland with the laws that were today because I would have done it, I mean screw it, I'd have just Did they make it illegal in Maryland? Yes. you cannot flip over a stone in a creek I would have been arrested It's ridiculous. It's insane. It's obscene. It is an absolute obscenity. It is vulgar. It is hateful. It is... What do little boys do? Violence. It's an act of violence. Same thing little girls do. They're curious about things. Have you found any bluefin killies? Yes Yes, a lot. Yeah, we've got a bunch of bluefin killies A lot of smaller ones too We used to take fish, sand, etc. from my creek It's an aquarium cowboy That would be a bummer, wouldn't it ever? Fun to collect, Sam Downs says Then spend money and get it looking genetic. It'll even do that. Even need to do that. I'm going to try to get up on my feet and come back over there. So I need your help. Over which way? Back to the van, I think. Now that pole is right next to you. I know it is. I know it is. Grab my phone. no watch your foot yep all right you got it almost don't step there step where my foot is right now okay again don't let go of me okay okay wonderful you're okay yeah oops watch that hole there too got it where do you think you gotta go whoa whoa whoa what do you want to do just calm down calm down here okay this is slick now yeah up here is better can you get that I don't want to have to crawl over that log. Let me just sit on the log. I can go down here. Okay, I can do it. Oh, you're stepping on orchid. Really? Yes, a type of African orchid. All right, I'm good. Ground orchid. Thank you. Okay. Oh, my, look at that. I saw that going over there. I thought it was mother-in-law's tongue. It's an African orchid. Really, it is, isn't it? Oh, that is so cool. Look at that. Look at that. Isn't that wonderful? I need to get this screen. There it is. I would mess around on the river and be amazed at the light. My dad built a pond and just let it be. In no time, we had frogs and spawn with tadpoles. I was hooked from there on. He also had birds. Ian is saying my first fish tank, I collected local goby species and wild plants. really fun experience very cool uh let's see lee i had my aquatics and also flies and wild birds and bees and dragonfly i watch a dragonfly being born wow too cold yeah look at the wilder we gotta keep that nice it's actually an invasive it's not not native but it is a ground growing We got water? Great. Yeah, I can. I was going to bring this back to the van. Huh? No, I'm going to take that to the van. Got it, thank you. All right, I'm going to go sit on the log. What is this plant called? The fern? I can't think. It's a fern that dies and comes back. A resurrection fern. It gets green and then it looks like it dies. it's called resurrection fern oh you're tired come on let me get where i can read this and get a reflection i can't read let's see no it's okay i gotta go car dude thank you for stopping Again, we are swimming.