Stephanie Guyotte, UR- Well at least the fish are well fed!

Well sadly today was my last trip out fishing and I caught nothing, and I mean nothing. I am going to say that I am not a good fisher person. I felt many nibbles and had a few things on my hook but they just seemed to jump right off. Really I'm not sad that I did not catch anything but I am very disappointed that I can not contribute any good scientific data about the clearnose skate. I did collect salinity and subsurface water temps so at least it was not a total loss.

Garth: Section 201 - Hello! So how exactly did you choose your locations? Mabey I missed this is a previous post. Were these locations chosen perhaps based on time of year, mating, feeding etc.? 

Thank you for the question Garth!

I picked my locations based on just the environment and nothing else (well for the onshore location my aunt lives right there so that was a determining factor too). For instance I was thinking about fishing off of one of the parks on riverside drive but that location is an estuary with mangroves and I wanted a environment that was predominantly one or the other. If you have ever been to Rose Bay in port orange it is clearly mangrove ( to be noted that mangrove is a type of estuary) dominant. The estuary location is in the intercostal but that was the best I could do with no boat.  Also I had to fish at night by myself most times so I also wanted to pick locations that I felt safe fishing at, I love science but I'm not sure if I'm ready to kidnapped for it!! What I was hoping to figure out with this data was the things you mention, and yes some of the things you mentioned are brought up in older posts. Thanks again for the question!