Five Species trip from Jonas Green 8/21

[Shady]

Hit the water around 6 am in search of crabs and Perch. Got to my spot across the river and put out my five traps and started fishing. I fished for about 15-20 minutes and caught a couple of Perch. I checked my traps and caught 3 nices ones on the first pull. I kept up the same pattern of fishing 15-20 minutes and checking the traps and caught about twenty white perch 6-10.5 inches, a needlefish, a tiny mystery fish, and two baby stripers. The bite for the Perch was not fast but still pretty good. Crab total was 26 nice muddy crabs up to 6 3/4". This was my best Kayak crabbing trip yet.
Here's a few pictures from the outing:
One of the Baby Striper

Needlefish with jacked up mouth (he was like that when I caught him)

The days take home catch: 26 crabs and 14 white perch 9-10.5"

Somehow I ended up with this little guy on my jig. When I looked at it out on the water I was wondering if it could be a baby snakehead, so I brought it home. A little internet research leads me to believe its a Killifish of some sort. The little guy was about 1.5". Anybody else have any idea?

[J.A. Veil]

Nice job on catching 5 species. I have seen but not caught needlefish in the Severn. I think you are correct about the mystery fish. It looks like the common killifish (a species of Fundulus).

[ictalurus]

Nice variety of species there. Sounds like a good use of time switching between crabbing and fishing.

I think the mystery fish is a naked goby:

http://www.serc.si.edu/labs/fish_inv...naked-goby.gif
http://njscuba.net/biology/sw_fish_river.html#NakedGoby

The head isn't right for a killifish, and killifish only have 1 short dorsal fin. The fish in the pic has two. Gobies are fun to keep in a fish tank if you ever catch live ones in a minnow trap. They hang out around oyster shells or other hard debris (they love old soda cans) and are cool little predators on anything smaller than they are.

[MetroMan]

Nice haul on the crabs!

[Shady]

I made a slightly off target cast and pulled in my jig pretty fast and the needlefish nailed it. Needless to say I was pretty surprised. I think the naked goby id is the right one.

[jsquare]

Nice work on the crabs and perch. They look good all lined up and ready to go in that cool looking sink.

I ran into a bunch of those baby stripers while looking for perch in a sheltered bay on the south river. Nothing like catching stripers so big you can release them through your scupper holes.

[DOGFISH]

That good maybe the stripers had a good spawn. Nice work in the 5.