Pictures of fish/aquatic species in, on and around fresh water shipwrecks

[Northdiver]

I am hoping this online community of scuba divers can help me in my search for any pictures/video of fish and/or aquatic life that have been captured in, on and around fresh water shipwrecks. My focus is on the Great Lakes, but I will take anything at this point, since I am hitting a brick wall in my search. No specific species in mind and this is personal quest to see if anyone has these types of pictures. All of us have seen pictures of salt water wrecks, teaming with life, but I am looking for the flipside for freshwater and if life is just as abundant. Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance and I hope all your dives are a new adventure!!!!

 

[CheddarChick]

I have some on my Photobucket spot. If you see anything you need PM me and I can email them to you. I am not a professional by any stretch of the imagination .
cheddarchick - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

 

[VooDooGasMan]

Try googling free dive greatlakes pictures or snorkling , Something like that. The only way I could spearfish is without scuba. There is a freediver that catches pictures and vid in the great lakes.

 

[moneysavr]

this is a quick clip shot NE of Milwaukee this seldom dived wreck lays in about 135'fsw Island City
she is covered in fish nets and floats and is a dangerous dive if a diver was to become entangled.
at the end is a shot of a live bourbot aka lawyer
YouTube - Island City
fish on and around Great lake wrecks tend to be Bourbot -gobie-walleye-perch-carp
small mouth bass are the most curious and tend to make great dive pals!
most trout blast of at speeds faster than 20 MPH away when they hear your bubbles so tend to be a hard one to get a shot of. small fry fish hang on wrecks early in the year in schools
PM swimjim on SB as he has hours of dive video covering most fish found on the wrecks we dive.
The Great lake wreck sites do not offer the life like sea life or ocean but there is a fact that structure dose attract life in the vast baron lake beds bottom.

Brad

 

[Dean810]

Hey Brad, what type of sucker is it that hangs around the Niagara? That's not meant as a pun!

-Dean

this is a quick clip shot NE of Milwaukee this seldom dived wreck lays in about 135'fsw Island City
she is covered in fish nets and floats and is a dangerous dive if a diver was to become entangled.
at the end is a shot of a live bourbot aka lawyer
YouTube - Island City
fish on and around Great lake wrecks tend to be Bourbot -gobie-walleye-perch-carp
small mouth bass are the most curious and tend to make great dive pals!
most trout blast of at speeds faster than 20 MPH away when they hear your bubbles so tend to be a hard one to get a shot of. small fry fish hang on wrecks early in the year in schools
PM swimjim on SB as he has hours of dive video covering most fish found on the wrecks we dive.
The Great lake wreck sites do not offer the life like sea life or ocean but there is a fact that structure dose attract life in the vast baron lake beds bottom.

Brad

 

[moneysavr]

Hey Brad, what type of sucker is it that hangs around the Niagara? That's not meant as a pun!

-Dean

Thats right Deano suckers too! thats right you hit the one in the fish video!

 

[Divers Incorporated]

We have a bunch of pictures of fish taken at Gilboa, White Star, and Portage on our website. As part of our PADI National Geographic course the students have to take pictures underwater. They are not all that great for the most part but if you check out some of the Great Lakes trip pages there are lots of fish pictures. The Kingston, Ontario past trip report has a bunch of good ones.

Hope this helps

Rich

 

[ComputerJoe]

Fish I have seen around shipwrecks varies by depth. Shallow stuff <20' deep there are white bass, suckers, pike you name it. As you go deeper the species you will find vary but you can about guarantee gobies down to 100' or more. On the deeper wrecks you will find Burbot as the most common specie. Next might be white suckers, then you might see a school of whitefish now and then. I'm not much of a fisherman but I hope these observations help.

 

[Renthorin]

This is where I want to go in 08:

Michigan Freediving

Looks like a wreck in one of the picts and lots of fish.

 

[caymaniac]

Here are three pics from Tobemorey Canada (Georgian Bay/Lake Huron), there are plenty of wrecks and fish but strobe metering is difficult. First pic are Bass and
second is a Burbut, third is my son on part of a wreck in Big Tub harbor