Casper and I met up with Jeremy Monroe and Dave Herasimtchuk, from Freshwaters Illustrated, on the Hiwassee River this past Saturday. We found a lot of inactive Chub mounds, but Dave found an active one and we all spent a lot of time filming and shooting. Casper and I left Jeremy and Dave at the Hiwassee while we moved on to check on the Tennessee Dace place and then on to Spring Creek which is really silty, but interesting.
The architect
The architect inspects his project
The finished project
The inhabitants, Tennessee Shiners,
Warpaint Shiners and
everybody.
Plus one tired architect.
As in most construction project there were bloodsuckers to contend with
There was a tiny interloper though. Casper found this tiny, larval Hellbender, 2"-3", searching for eggs in an adjacent mound.