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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5859168" data-attributes="member: 19675">Actually, it depends.They aren't common, and dont exist in every dry ecosystem, but there are certain fish, amphibian and crustacean species that can go into dormant states when things get dry, emerging only when seasonal or flash flooding occur.<a href="http://www.caver.net/shrimp.html" target="_blank">The Story of the "Tadpole Shrimp"</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anostraca" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anostraca</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lungfish" target="_blank">Lungfish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a><a href="http://whozoo.org/Anlife99/lashawn/africanlungfishindex4.htm" target="_blank">Slender African Lungfish: WhoZoo</a><a href="http://desertsurvivor.blogspot.com/2008/09/looking-for-fish-in-desert.html" target="_blank">Desert Survivor: Looking for Fish in the Desert</a><a href="http://www.desertmuseum.org/books/nhsd_adaptations_amph.php" target="_blank">Adaptations of Desert Amphibians & Reptiles</a>So, if you want there to be fish, etc., let it be so.  But given what is known about them, the shrimp- or your FRPG variant thereof- would be the best bet- according to NatGeo, " the microscopic eggs can remain dormant for a season or for hundreds if not millions of years, and can survive temperatures of extremes of over 124 degrees F and below zero, the eggs are strewn with the wind and will hatch only after a certain amount of water pressure is present thus ensuring a new generation lives on, but not all eggs will hatch every time."(And who knows what they taste like?)As for catching them...well, that will be tricky, and will be dependent on how many there are, how shallow & turbulent the water, and their proposed fishing technique.(I, for one, would not be keen on "noodling"/"hand fishing" in a fantasy world...)</blockquote>

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