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June 14, 2025: CCA Meeting - Bob Bock

Freshwater Fishes of the Chesapeake Bay Drainage

SPEAKER: Join us Saturday, June 14th, 2025 for a talk by Bob Bock! In this talk, Bob surveys the area’s most frequently encountered sunfish, minnows, killies, darters, sculpins, and catfish in local fresh waters. He describes their care in a home aquarium, relating which make good aquarium residents and which are best left at the collecting site. He also reviews collecting techniques, how to identify your catch, state regulations, and wading safely.

ALSO - we will have food for purchase!

Here are the details:

June 14 @ JOHN F KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL:

1901 Randolph Rd, Wheaton-Glenmont, MD 20902

• Meeting from 1:00-4:30 PM
• Socializing 1:00-1:30 pm
• Speaker at 1:30-2:30 pm
• Break at 2:30-2:45 pm
• Mini Auction at 2:45

Speaker: Bob Bock

Bob Bock operates the YouTube channel “Sonny’s Fish Room.” Informed by conversations with hobbyists, personal experience, and scientific literature searches, the channel focuses on how-to videos and tips for home aquarists.

Bob has been collecting and keeping fish since he was 7 years old, when he brought home two mummichog from the Hackensack River Meadowlands of Northern New Jersey.

Bob likes writing and speaking about aquarium fish and belongs to all the Washington, D.C. area's freshwater aquarium clubs. He is past president of the North American Native Fishes Association and wrote the "Meet the Hobbyist" column of Tropical Fish Hobbyist.