Crayfishes in lakes.

[Sharp]

In my favorit lake is normal brown crayfishes and also these blue crayfishes too. Are those also in UK, Canada or other places in the world?

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Crayfishes/slides/blue_freswater_lobster4.jpg

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Crayfishes/slides/blue_freswater_lobster5.jpg

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Crayfishes/slides/blue_freswater_lobster.jpg

[Jonathan Bird]

Sharp,
Did your links change? I'm not seeing the pics.

Jonathan

[Sharp]

Sharp,
Did your links change? I'm not seeing the pics.

Jonathan


No it is no changed. I will get it open after day or two.:(

[Neptune7]

Hi Sharp,

We do have them in our lakes and in the St-Laurence river in Canada. There is a lot of them but they are very hard to find. They don't come out in the view because the bass eat them ferociously. You gotta turn over the rocks to locate them then the viz gets bad...

Pierre

[scubagirl]

We see them a lot in the freshwater part of the St. Lawrence between Prescott and Rockport. They tend to be out in the open more in the spring and fall.

A couple of years ago I dove a small lake with some friends up at their cottage, and all we saw was crayfish, crayfish and more crayfish (no other fish at all).

Here are some photos from a November dive a couple of years ago:
http://scubagirl.smugmug.com/photos/44401503_bJDdT-M.jpg
http://scubagirl.smugmug.com/photos/44401500_mapUW-M.jpg

[Sharp]

We see them a lot in the freshwater part of the St. Lawrence between Prescott and Rockport. They tend to be out in the open more in the spring and fall.



Just same looking like our lakes scubagirl.:) Those are more active in could season. And that time the sun is not shining so much that in middle of summer. It might also effect about the action?

In the second picture crayfish is staying in the small hole. It looks like clay. It is the sama material like in my favorit lake here i Finland.

[scubagirl]

In the second picture crayfish is staying in the small hole. It looks like clay. It is the sama material like in my favorit lake here i Finland.

Yes, there is clay underneath the silt in the river. My buddy was bored picked up the poor little crayfish from the hole. When he put it back down, it wasn't very happy, it was waving its pincers at us. :(

[Sharp]

I gues that this crayfish was asking my: Do you want a new haircut?;)

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Crayfishes/slides/monster_freswater_lobster.jpg

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Crayfishes/slides/monster_freswater_lobster2.jpg

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Crayfishes/slides/monster_freswater_lobster6.jpg

[Sharp]

From a distance this crayfish looked like any other one.

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Crayfishes/slides/old_lobster_with_out_scissors_and_one_eye3.jpg

But when I get closer I notice that he hasen´t had any scissors anymore. Also his another eye was totally blind and another was going to be blind in future. I didin´t notice those details by my bear eyes. Only after I watch pictures on my screen at home.

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Crayfishes/slides/old_lobster_with_out_scissors_and_one_eye.jpg

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Crayfishes/slides/old_lobster_with_out_scissors_and_one_eye6.jpg

http://www.pasilensu.com/kuvagalleriat/Crayfishes/slides/old_lobster_with_out_scissors_and_one_eye2.jpg


Like I told earlier: macro lens has given my a hole new level of watching things under water.

[solisti]

Thats the good thing about photography. When you get home you finally really see what you were looking at!

[Jonathan Bird]

They are cute....they look like little baby Northern Lobsters!

[solisti]

Heres a couple more crayfish photos (+ some waterlily) from yesterday:

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg27/solisti/vv10060906.jpg
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg27/solisti/vv10060908.jpg
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg27/solisti/vv10060909.jpg
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg27/solisti/vv10060901.jpg
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg27/solisti/vv10060911.jpg
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg27/solisti/normal_vv10060910.jpg

Sharp, did you some time ago ask about the 'smoke' over holes in the bottom? Cause yesterday I found several holes where 'smoke' (fine sand?) was coming from and there were hundreds of tiny creatures around these holes. ALso the crayfish were found around the holes. Could it be crayfish in the holes and these tiny critters baby crayfish? (and where can I get a good cheap macro lens for E-300? :rolleyes: )

heres a photo of the smoke:
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg27/solisti/vv10060904.jpg

[Kelly]

Thats the good thing about photography. When you get home you finally really see what you were looking at!

Especially if you're diving deep air... that's why we take pictures, so we can remember what we saw ;) :D

There are lots of crayfish in Lake Simcoe, and some in Lake Ontario. A friend of mine who is a fish nut, says they are very 'delicate', if they can live in a body of water, then the water there is usually pretty clean. That's probably why we don't see many in the heat of summer, with all the algae growth.

[scubagirl]

I like the 4th photo very much: the lily pads against the sky. Very nice!

[tkelly]

The lilly pads shots have a great compostion. They are a great take on an often mundane subject. Nice work.

[Sharp]

Heres a couple more crayfish photos (+ some waterlily) from yesterday:

On the two first pictures it looks like the crayfish is dancing.:)

Sharp, did you some time ago ask about the 'smoke' over holes in the bottom? Cause yesterday I found several holes where 'smoke' (fine sand?) was coming from and there were hundreds of tiny creatures around these holes. ALso the crayfish were found around the holes. Could it be crayfish in the holes and these tiny critters baby crayfish? (and where can I get a good cheap macro lens for E-300? :rolleyes: )

heres a photo of the smoke:
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg27/solisti/vv10060904.jpg

Yes, it looks excatly same kind of smoke what I have seen.

Very good lilly photos - summer... After one month there will be also lillyflowers.

[solisti]

one more crayfish. Not the sharpest one, and lots of silt around (due to our battle for the photo and the time of year), but I like the composition so I thought I'd post it anyway:

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg27/solisti/vv10060912.jpg

[Kelly]

I took my newly certified cousin out for a dive on Saturday, and shot this little guy, with my 10.5mm fisheye, and of course, cropped him forward. ;)

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e33/dewiz/Crayfish.jpg

[Sharp]

one more crayfish. Not the sharpest one, and lots of silt around (due to our battle for the photo and the time of year), but I like the composition so I thought I'd post it anyway:


Very good composition solisiti. Silt and black backround give the mystery feeling.

[Sharp]

I took my newly certified cousin out for a dive on Saturday, and shot this little guy, with my 10.5mm fisheye, and of course, cropped him forward. ;)



Good eye contact Kelly and very interesting colors on that crayfish: blue scissors and brown body.

[solisti]

Very interesting colours indeed, Kelly. Mine were also taken with Zuiko 11-22 at 11mm. I was actually hitting the poor creatures with my dome, the shots are not cropped! :eek: (if you dont count 2x cropping factor of E-300)

[Kelly]

Thank-you Sharp & solisti :)

Wow! I doubt I could get that close to it, without it scrambling off. One minute it's there, and the next, it's just a silt cloud, l'il buggers are fast! I might try to get closer next time I'm at that site, with a macro lens. :o