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Our photographer was a student from NIU. They are pretty good shots, especially considering considering that she was on the shore (nobody wanted to risk a digital camera in the water).

The shot of a bunch of people standing around in front of the seine is actually a bunch of us trying to "run" in a weaving pattern down stream as "beaters" chasing fish into the net. It worked surprisingly well.

Running in a current on algae covered rocks does not make for grace and coordination. One of the taller men went down. I was so glad he didn't break the wrist which he reflectively put out to break the fall.

The couple on the white shirts and matching waders were our hosts. Newly weds and fishheads!

Can you imagine collecting with your spouse? (I wish!)

Jeremy is with the Illinois Natural History Survey and in addition to all sorts of other things, was our score keeper. Bernadette is the same lady featured in the October TFH where she is with her pre-school class looking at a tank of natives.

I'm the not so svelte figure with the highly reflective head and cute (but very useful) little yellow bait bucket which could be carried quickly across the water to the holding buckets on shore, usually in the shade. (See the shot with the battery powered aerator.)

That bucket could also trail along behind a person on a rope. It didn't create so much pull that one would be dragged downstream across the state.