| #1  01-26-2006, 08:05 AM | ||||
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| ultimate challenge(what size hook) I defy even the smooth one to know how too catch this on rod and line  lol  http://channels.aolsvc.co.uk/learnin...25050009990004 __________________ 24 beers in a case and 24 hours in a day , Game on www.exmouthsaa.co.uk I have the body of a God, Pity its Buddha :-0     |
| #3 01-26-2006, 09:04 AM | ||||
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| Re: ultimate challenge(what size hook) LOL - but Im sure shaun would find a hook size __________________ Richard|Sea Fishing |Carp Fishing| Spud Gun | Zander fishing | Fishing Reports | Hunting Reports |
| #4 01-26-2006, 10:05 AM | ||||
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| Re: ultimate challenge(what size hook) sorry phill dont know if its because its an aol channel this is the gist A tiny fish discovered in Indonesia holds the record for the smallest backboned creature known. Paedocypris progenetica is a relative of the carp but measures just 7.9mm. Scientists found the fish in highly acidic peat swamps on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Dr Ralf Britz, a zoologist at the Natural History Museum in London, said: "This is one of the strangest fish that I've seen in my whole career. "It's tiny, it lives in acid, and it has these bizarre grasping fins. I hope we'll have time to find out more about them before their habitat disappears completely.'' Paedocypris was discovered by an international team led by Tan Heok Hui and Maurice Kottelat, from the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research in Singapore. Experts at the Natural History Museum analysed the fish's skeleton and the complex structure of its pelvic fins. The adult is transparent, giving the appearance of a fish larva. It lives in dark, tea-coloured waters with an acidity of pH3 - at least 100 times more acid than rainwater. The swamps were once thought to harbour very few animals, but recent research has uncovered a wide range of creatures there that occur nowhere else. Forest fires damaged the peat swamps in 1997, and they are also threatened by logging, urbanisation and agriculture. Several populations of Paedocypris have already been lost, say the researchers. The fish is just 1mm smaller than the previous holder of the smallest vertebrate record, an 8mm species of Indo-Pacific goby. Britain's smallest fish is the marine Guillet's goby, Lebetus guilleti, which measures 24mm. (thats not on the species hunt ) __________________ 24 beers in a case and 24 hours in a day , Game on www.exmouthsaa.co.uk I have the body of a God, Pity its Buddha :-0 |
| #5 01-26-2006, 11:19 AM | ||||
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| Re: ultimate challenge(what size hook) Finding a small enough hook wouldn't be the only problem. How'd you stop you hook line and bait being disolved in the acid???? Rich. |
| #6 01-26-2006, 04:38 PM | ||||
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 Re: ultimate challenge(what size hook) Hook no problem line no problem I have some titanium thread from fly tying that is so thin and so strong you could land moby dick on it!! Th eproblem would be the float it would disolve in the acid I think |
| #7 01-26-2006, 05:41 PM | ||||
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| Re: ultimate challenge(what size hook) Can we have it added to the species hunt list Richard. As an expert at catching small fish, I recon a XXXXX finewire barbless size 96. just got to get my local tackle shop to order some.  __________________ One man's fish is another man's poissons http://www.deepsea.co.uk http://www.wildtrout.org |
