Hello everyone. I have been asked to help lead a trip of the Louisville Tropical Fish Fanciers out to Kentucky's waterways to show them our natives. David Cravens and I will be leading this trip. For those of you not at the convention, David is from the Kentucky Center for Mollusk Conservation. This group recently had Bill Flowers speak to them at one of their meetings about native, and now they'll get to see them. Hopefully (pending weather) on June 1st we will be taking single day outing to the Green River for some collecting and fishy fun. We will visit the town of Greensburg KY and will visit the Green proper, and possibly a trib.

Please let me know if you are interested in joining us. Carpooling will be available I will be going from Richmond to Louisville, and from Greensburg back to Richmond, not through Louisville. There will be a caravan from Louisville to the collecting location. I will follow up with more as the details are finalized.

Here's the Facebook page if you want to check it out.
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I would love to go but unfortunitely I only get one weekend off every six weeks and I'm working that weekend. If you ever go out on fridays I'm almost always off then and a random day of the week. Good luck!

I would like to come down again, I will see if I can get away.

Awesome!

If anybody in the Frankfort area needs a ride let me know, just me in my car.

We had a great trip. It was great to get out to the Green River and take some time to teach people that are interested in natives but have no experience. The weather was great, up until it was time to leave and a thunderstorm came in. We spent a lot of time at the Green River proper, but then after lunch we went over to a smaller trib for a while. All together we ended up with almost 30 different species...not bad considering the major had never been in a river, let alone run a seine. David, if you think of something I missed, let me know. It was hard to keep up with everything with so many people. We also caught a new species for me, the Spotted Darter. I hope to follow this up this week with some photos.

LTFF Green River Collecting Trip

Date: June 1^{st 2013}
Location: Greensburg, KY

Species List:

Location 1: Green River

1. Orangefin Darter
2. Gilt Darter
3. Rainbow Darter
4. Fantail Darter
5. Spotted Darter
6. Greenside Darter
7. Banded Darter
8. Tippecanoe Darter
9. Bluegrass Darter (stigmaeum)
10. Spotfin Shiner
11. Steelcolor Shiner
12. Silver Shiner
13. Highland Shiner
14. Mimic Shiner
15. Striped Shiner
16. Bluntnose Minnow
17. Largescale Stoneroller
18. Bigeye Chub
19. Streamline Chub
20. Northern Studfish
21. Blackstriped Topminnow
22. Elegant Madtom
23. Freckled Madtom
24. Bluegill

Location 2: Pitman Creek

1. Orangefin Darter
2. Rainbow Darter
3. Kentucky Darter
4. Fantail Darter
5. Greenside Darter
6. Banded Darter
7. Bluegrass Darter (stigmaeum)
8. Spotfin Shiner
9. Highland Shiner
10. Scarlet Shiner
11. Largescale Stoneroller
12. Bluntnose Minnow
13. Striped Shiner
14. Northern Studfish
15. Longear Sunfish
16. Bluegill
17. Banded Sculpin
18. Creek Chub

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Think you got them all, did see a better picture on facebook of the Lamprey. Pretty confident that it was a Chestnut.

Think you got them all, did see a better picture on facebook of the Lamprey. Pretty confident that it was a Chestnut.

I'm still fairly confident that we caught a Steelcolor shiner, even more so now that I read over the field guide. There was one we caught when you were snorkeling, I put it in somebody's bucket, but it was accidentally released. Also, the Freckled Madtom is a Mountain Madtom. Didn't look like any Mountain Madtom I'd seen before..

I'm still fairly confident that we caught a Steelcolor shiner, even more so now that I read over the field guide. There was one we caught when you were snorkeling, I put it in somebody's bucket, but it was accidentally released. Also, the Freckled Madtom is a Mountain Madtom. Didn't look like any Mountain Madtom I'd seen before..

I'm sure we did catch a Steelcolor, its hard to imagine not with all of the ones we caught. That Mountain Madtom was pretty crazy did we ever ID the small individual we caught?

I'm thinking about hitting the Rockcastle this Saturday, mainly for photos if the levels allow it.

I'm sure we did catch a Steelcolor, its hard to imagine not with all of the ones we caught. That Mountain Madtom was pretty crazy did we ever ID the small individual we caught?

I'm thinking about hitting the Rockcastle this Saturday, mainly for photos if the levels allow it.

I was considering Fishing Creek and Buck next weekend, if it's nice and if the wife allows.

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I was considering Fishing Creek and Buck next weekend, if it's nice and if the wife allows.

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Sounds good, unfortunately I did not manage to find any Ashy Darters and was able to drop my camera in a cup of water with it on frying it. Had set up my photo tank away from the river to avoid that scenario yet still managed to drop it into a cup of 500mL of water. Did some snorkeling and my girlfriend found a Lampsilis fasciola displaying so that was nice.