Backbone State Park Species Hunting Part 1

We took a little weekend camp and fish outing to Backbone State Park in Iowa. In this video I managed to add two new species to my life-list. A female hornyhead chub and a bigmouth shiner. As a bonus, I also caught some beautiful spawning common shiners, and a rainbow trout for lunch. This brings my species-count up to 37 species since we started the channel, 36 of them having come from Iowa.

[@EBspeciesfishing]

That bigmouth shiner is actually a spotfin shiner! Definitely from the Cyprinella genus and that should be the only one in the genus in that river. Also, catching that chub on the hook you lost was crazy!

[@teamcramerfishing8441]

After looking at it again, I think you're right. The Iowa DNR has actually not sampled in this specific spot but they have sampled them downriver, so they are present here. I've actually caught a few of these before so no new species for this one. I thought it might be one when I caught it and checked for a spot. It was pretty faint so it was kind of hard to tell, but the overall shape of fish definately looks like a spotfin to me. (Stay tuned for the next video. I catch my best micro ever!)

[@EBspeciesfishing]

@@teamcramerfishing8441 Can't wait!

[@HighEndTroutFishing]

wow your catching different kind species from that river ! very niice ! i did enjoy your video ^^

[@teamcramerfishing8441]

I really like this river because there are a lot of different species compared to the river near my house.