Todd, his friend Ryan, and myself hit the little miami today, as well as the Ceasers creek tail waters.
Collecting was tough. Fish were few and far between, likely due to recent cold temps, ice, and then high water. Nonetheless had a great time, great conversation, and a few fish.
Species:
Rainbow darter E. Caeruleum
Fantail darter E. flabellare
Banded darter E. zonale
Greenside darter E. blennioides
Mottled sculpin Cottus bairdi
Spotfin shiner Cyprinella spiloptera
Bluntnose minnow Pimephales notatus
Central stoneroller Campostoma anomalum
White sucker Catostomus commersoni
Northern hogsucker Hypentelium nigricans
Stonecat Noturus flavus
Bigeye shiner Notropis boops
Striped shiner Luxilus chrysocephalus
River chub Nocomis micropogon
Green sunfish Lepomis cyanellus

Might have missed a couple

That was a lot of fun, I wish we'd had more time. The only thing I would note is that the bigeye shinner was ID'd streamside as a bigeye chub (Hybopsis amblops), which I probably said bigeye shiner. This is a problem, as in my memory now, I'm questioning what I saw, and it may actually have been Notropis boops. I guess we'll just have to go back and look

What really sucks is when you get a seine load of sand, mimic, juv striped, bigeye chub and shiners all in the same scoop. This happened to me on the Little Buffalo. It's almost not worth bothing to sift through

The Jello reference is still cracking me up. The night before I got tired of all the hippies at the Yonder Mountain show we were at and went out to the car (I'm getting too old for concerts I guess). CD 101 had some kind of "retro" block on, "Holiday in Cambodia" was one of the songs, and I was thinking I need to listen to more DK's lol.

Now if you play guitar too... You'll have to meet your "mental triplet", his name is Jeff Grabarkiewicz, and you are soooooo screwed on becoming a mussel geek He and I were so much a like conversing over email prior to meeting that his wife thought we would even look the same heeheehee.

Todd

The Jello reference is still cracking me up. The night before I got tired of all the hippies at the Yonder Mountain show we were at and went out to the car (I'm getting too old for concerts I guess). CD 101 had some kind of "retro" block on, "Holiday in Cambodia" was one of the songs, and I was thinking I need to listen to more DK's lol.

This place is freaking me out. Jello Biafra references along with sand, mimic, juv striped, bigeye chub and shiners in the same post! I've said this before....high rate of punks found their way in the native fish arena.

Glad you guys got out again. I hope I can tag along soon.

Uland is a pUnK wRoCker too!

Yeah get this ice off the mass, get the fish back in their niches, we'll be out in the field!

Todd