As promised here are some photos from my first trip to the SE corner of my state last year at the very end of March. All the fish shown in the pictures were caught hook and line. In a total of maybe 3 or 4 days hitting spots from right along the Oklahoma/Arkansas state line to the Blue River in more south central Oklahoma. I apologize a head of time for the quality of the pictures. There not as good as the ones I posted from my November trip.
This first location was located in Antlers along the Kiamichi River where 271 crosses the river. There is a small city park there with a boat ramp to the river and a small little feeder creek that flows from a pond on the edge of the park to the river. This creek was loaded with fish. I seen or caught sunfish, shiners, stonerollers, darters, and topminnows.
Campostoma spadiceum (Highland Stoneroller) this was the first Highland I caught but certainly not the last. It came from the spot shown above with the tree limb in the water. There were a few of them schooling along the bottom amongst the leaves. Usually anglers talk about how hard it is to catch a stoneroller hook and line. But I have found that the Highland is extremely aggressive when it comes to taking a baited micro hook. After looking at all my pictures though this is sadly the best quality photo I have of a Highland. The good news is I kept one for my aquarium from this trip so ill be able to post more photos of this species if people would like.
Cyprinella whipplei (Steelcolor Shiner) this guy also came from the creek shown above.
Etheostoma radiosum paludosum (Orangebelly Darter females) I seen a couple male darters at this creek but couldn't get a hook set when they struck the bait. I did manage to catch both these females from the same small hole which is shown above below the riffles.
Notemigonus crysoleucas (Golden Shiner) this shiner was actually caught from a small road side pond/swamp just to the east of McKinney Creek on Highway 3 a couple miles from the Arkansas border. The only other thing I caught here were Western Mosquitofish but I have wanted to go back with a net. Because it looked like a perfect place to catch pygmies and other topminnow/killifish species.
North of Idabel where road D4615/N4625 crosses the Little River there is an old city park that has a closed gate. Through this park there is a small creek that flows into the Little River. This creek was also loaded with various fish species. I seen sunfish, bass, topminnows, shiners, darters, and stonerollers. Probably the highlight of this creek were the Orangethroat Darters which could be found all throughout the creek and were in full spawning colors.
Etheostoma spectabile pulchellum (Orangethroat Darters).
Cyprinella whipplei (Steelcolor Shiner) from the same creek shown above. Within this creek I caught both Steelcolor Shiners and Blacktail Shiners.
Cyprinella venusta (Blacktail Shiner)
Now I believe this is a Fundulus notatus (Blackstripe Topminnow) but I could be wrong. This guy was also caught from the creek north of Idabel. In fact this exact topminnow has been inhabiting my aquarium since I caught it.
This topminnow was caught from a different creek, Coon Creek in Broken Bow where road N4690 crosses the creek.
Pimephales notatus (Bluntnose Minnow) caught from East Boktuklo Creek north of Broken Bow Lake.
Blue Creek north of Broken Bow Lake. This creek was full of large Bigeye Shiners and Orangebelly Darters. Catching darters at this spot was a snap. Because they would be gathered at the base of the small waterfall and as soon as you allowed a baited micro hook to plunge to the bottom of the waterfall. They would consume the bait within 15 seconds.
Etheostoma radiosum radiosum (Orangebelly Darter) from Blue Creek shown above.
Etheostoma radiosum paludosum (Orangebelly Darter) from Bios D'Arc Creek south of Ada on highway 377.
River Otters crossing a road on the upper Glover River. As soon as I pulled up to this location. I got out my car and started taking pictures of the location as I usually do on my fishing trips. And to my surprise right after I took the first pic I noticed something trying to swim upstream in the river. I watched for a second trying to figure out what I had saw when all a sudden I seen 4 little heads pop up in the water. Right away I knew what they were because I had just seen one a couple weeks before at the Oklahoma Aquarium in Jenks, OK. Within a minute of spotting them they all crossed the road and were out of sight forever.
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