Brett Miller

Fisheries Biologist and USAF Veteran. I love my family, fish, and sports.

[Brett Miller @BrettMiller89]

@DavidEickholt Any word on the pursuit of Kezza Giffa? I haven’t seen anything about him in a few weeks.

[Brett Miller @BrettMiller89]

@Nicktalurus I take it he didn’t know what the world record was?

[Brett Miller @BrettMiller89]

I got to see my first melanistic shortnose gar at Milford Reservoir today. We were out doing research on blue catfish and channel catfish with @KState today when this rare looking gar surfaced. Seeing this along with leucistic and piebald blue catfish in the same day is special.

[Brett Miller @BrettMiller89]

@Nicktalurus I get your frustration. I wouldn’t be happy either, but what can you do…

[Brett Miller @BrettMiller89]

@bencneely Here are a few other pictures. 65 sites done across the upper half of the reservoir. The next two days will be focused on the lower half. The goal is 130 sites across four days of sampling. Hopefully catch rates remain constant as we move down the reservoir.

[Brett Miller @BrettMiller89]

@DirtyDog650 @bencneely @marty_hamel Another example from the same reservoir.

[Ben Neely @bencneely]

Leucistic Blue Catfish are cool. Leucistic Blue Catfish from Milford Reservoir, KS are the coolest. But how prevalent is this mutation? Do anglers care? Does pigmentation influence angler behavior? We don't know either. Ask me or @BrettMiller89 in a month or so.

[Brett Miller @BrettMiller89]

@FishFlores3 @patagonia For those curious, this fish was 44 lbs and 42” long. Come fish for blue catfish at Milford Reservoir in KS!

[Brett Miller @BrettMiller89]

@DirtyDog650 Any chance you collected lengths and weights on those? I’m working with some folks on developing Ws equations for Orangespotted Sunfish and Longear Sunfish.

[Brett Miller @BrettMiller89]

@Huskr1 Happy anniversary!

[Brett Miller @BrettMiller89]

@Nicktalurus Thinking of you and your family Nick! Hoping everyone is safe despite all the damage.

[Brett Miller @BrettMiller89]

@Nicktalurus @bencneely @chanskiCCO Perfect. If possible, could you freeze 20 whole specimens too? I have a guy in Wisconsin who contacted me needing some from Kansas for a morphology study. I can get them from you whenever you get them. Thanks!

[Brett Miller @BrettMiller89]

@chanskiCCO @bencneely Sweet, thanks! We’ll need GPS locations too, but we can pull a basic lat/long for any lake in your district when it comes to that point.

[Brett Miller @BrettMiller89]

@bencneely @chanskiCCO If you find any Longear Sunfish or Orangespotted Sunfish, could you gather length and weight info for me? I’m doing a project on them with some folks in the southeast. Thanks!

[Brett Miller @BrettMiller89]

@bencneely @chanskiCCO El Dorado?

[Brett Miller @BrettMiller89]

@DavidEickholt If Proctor does come to Iowa, I wonder if that would influence Nick Brooks to reconsider Iowa?

[Brett Miller @BrettMiller89]

@DirtyDog650 What are your water temperatures currently? Also, is there a threshold where you notice catch rates drastically decrease?

[Melissa Wuellner @wuellnerfish]

Looking for my next grad student. Fish folks, share widely!

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[American Fisheries Society @AmFisheriesSoc]

Does fish-finding sonar impact anglers? Angler catch of Blue Catfish was not influenced by live-imaging sonar in this controlled experiment. However, there was evidence that the use of live-imaging sonar influenced angler perception and behavior @thekdwp https://t.co/jszNx1y0Af

[Brett Miller @BrettMiller89]

@FishFlores3 I’m going with 960