Neat, short video describing what a ⁦SD Game Fish & Parks⁩ fisheries biologist does, highlighting one of our #fishsci research projects with them & ⁦@Emily_E_Ball⁩ ⁦Kyle Olivencia⁩ assessing predation on stocked #walleye. Nice job Bob! 👍 m.youtube.com/watch?v=DGOj8a…

Great day w Iowa State NREM #students! Learned about fyke & gill nets, telemetry, backpack & boat electrofishing, boat driving, habitat measurements, diets, & more! Caught lots of fish, including 3 #walleye >25”! Thanks @Emily_E_Ball Kyle Olivencia @FishSciGuy1 & more for help!

Back to identifying #fish diets Iowa State NREM. What are the #SmallmouthBass eating in Lake Oahe?

Nice job @Emily_E_Ball Kyle Olivencia presenting our work on predation of stocked #walleye at the Dakota Chapter American Fisheries Society meeting! Good stuff and lots of interest!

Spring beckons the best from male Missouri Saddled Darters. Normally drab browns & faded hues are replaced with vibrantly contrasting shades of blues, reds, & black in anticipation of spawning season. For a lucky few, these colors will beckon females

. Kyle Olivencia is working hard out in SD tagging #fish and processing stomach contents with SD Game Fish & Parks . Looking forward to heading out there soon!

No big ones this week, but plenty of these bronzeback beauties while out sampling with Kyle Olivencia for his MS research! #FishSci

🚨MS Grad Assistantship in Bass Harvest!!!!🚨 Like Smallmouth Bass? (& who doesn't!!!😃) Come earn a MS degree with us assessing exploitation of #bass in Missouri River reservoirs! Application review begins July 23 but accepted until position is filled. Aug 23 start date

Never pass up the opportunity to help labmates sample! Especially when you’ve been analyzing data and writing for months 😅 Had a great time last night capturing Muskie for tagging!

Congrats to Andrew A for successfully defending his MS thesis on sampling common carp and bigmouth buffalo populations in shallow natural lakes! He earned himself a hand-carved mirror carp crankbait! 😀😀😀

We have a lot of species in grow-out at #VDWR_AWCC. So, I figured all you field biologists might appreciate photos to reference for small juveniles found in the stream…Keep in mind some are endemic to the Clinch/Powell rivers but their close relatives look similar. Thread 👇

A bonus second #SundayFishSketch . This #walleye went to Kyle Olivencia for successfully defending his thesis on smallmouth-walleye tropic interactions. He is heading off to Florida in a couple weeks for his new biologist position!

This past winter I participated in my first Christmas Bird Count. I decided to take a bunch of the footage and turn it into a video of the day! Here’s the link to the video 🙂 *Make sure you chose the best quality to play it in, its up to 4K 👍🏼 youtu.be/8JGtAZrEfXI