Zak Slagle

🐟Biologist - Lake Erie 🎣 Recreational Fisheries Management, 📡Spatial Ecology, 📈 SciComm. (and I make 🍺).

[Erin Caldwell @ErinMcL_photo]

It was a beautiful morning to tag smallmouth bass on Sandusky Bay. @zakjslagle

[The Civil Rights Lawyer @johnbryanesq]

Some have asked for pics of the Revolutionary War fort we discovered inside an old plantation house in West Virginia. Almost none of the original Rev War frontier log forts survive. Historians believed an old log fort know as Byrnside’s Fort was still there, inside the walls of this large house. But…

We had to buy the property first before being able to take a crowbar to it to see if the logs were inside the walls. I was 90% sure they were there…

[Ohio Chapter of the American Fisheries Society @ChapterOhio]

We're accepting abstracts for the OCAFS annual meeting, Mar 14-15 at Deer Creek State Park, Mt. Sterling, OH. Submit at https://t.co/RXr7RHWnQU. Deadline Jan 19.

Side-scan Workshop on Fri.

Conf lodging rate $107/night. Call 1-800-282-7275. Use block code GOCA til Feb 12.

[Ohio Div of Wildlife @OhioDivWildlife]

🎣 Recent historic hatches will provide a strong Lake Erie walleye fishery for many years to come! 🤩

[Zak Slagle @zakjslagle]

@ItsMeEeth @JoJoFromJerz We're gerrymandered to hell.

[Chris Vandergoot @eriefishdoc]

https://t.co/xOO2eOofhA

M.S. Project @UToledo w/ @WDHintz studying juvenile lake sturgeon movements associated with @GLATOS_Fish

please RT

[Zak Slagle @zakjslagle]

Our Lake Erie bass tagging research was recently highlighted by @ohioseagrant (who also funded):
https://t.co/Pj73vjxFPg

[Zak Slagle @zakjslagle]

@graham_raby That sucks! It'll be sad but interesting to hear what other abundance changes you might observe. For reference, here's their abundance in western Lake Erie (where numbers have stabilized):

[Graham Raby @graham_raby]

At the sites we seine each year for my fish course, last year was the first where the invasive round goby showed up. We caught 22 gobies in total. This year, we caught 1,116 (same sites, month, fishing effort). Exponential growth is a helluva drug.
[photo: @zakjslagle]

[Zak Slagle @zakjslagle]

@KBW_Fish You gotta hold it out further so it looks huge! 😆

[Peter Euclide @peuclide]

Two days left in #AFS153 ! Both @HookLab and I are around if you want to stop by and say hi to learn more about possible PhD and Masters positions at @PurdueFNR

[Zak Slagle @zakjslagle]

@KandaceRGriffin @ABELlabMSU @AmFisheriesSoc Your presentation was great. Slick animations!

[Zak Slagle @zakjslagle]

Talking 2:20PM Thurs - what can we learn from a Smallmouth Bass jaw tag project once considered a failure? That's the goal in the Failing Successfully Session at #AFS153.

[Zak Slagle @zakjslagle]

@eriefishdoc What's in the glass? Oktoberfest? 🤔

[Zak Slagle @zakjslagle]

Attending #AFS153? I'm talking on Thurs (2:20PM) about comparing jaw tag and acoustic telemetry study results for SMB on Lake Erie. Hope to see y'all there!
@GLATOS_Fish @FaustMd1

[Brad Utrup @BradU42]

Amazing collaboration with Bassmaster Elite series pros on #LakeStClair this past week to study movement of tournament caught fish. Got tags in fish from as far away as Lake Erie and Huron! Awesome teamwork all around through the entire process. 📸🎣⛈️🌈

[Zak Slagle @zakjslagle]

@BradU42 @FishBio_Briggs @MDNR_Fisheries Think I'm going with the Classic Greengill.

[Zak Slagle @zakjslagle]

@muskie_time Looks like a Shorthead Redhorse to me, but they're notoriously tough to ID to species. Need lateral line scale count and underside of mouth shot. If you catch the often, check this out: https://t.co/8hyzogzuXm

[Zak Slagle @zakjslagle]

@ajfaff (we do see occasional gobies in perch stomachs but way more common in larger fishes)

[Zak Slagle @zakjslagle]

June trawl - where the sportfish are tiny and numerous!

[Zak Slagle @zakjslagle]

@ajfaff Mostly midges and spiny water flea. These are June samples - other months found in our Angler Report: https://t.co/xwMYKokINR