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[JasonL]

Was in Lexington, KY for a few days and took advantage of a couple free hours to explore a small urban creek near our hotel just to see what might be swimming in there.

First thing I noticed, besides tons of crays, were liberal numbers of creek chubs ranging from 1/2 inch to this size.



Then started digging around in the rocks with a dipnet and found a pretty good population of darters. I think these are a mix of male orangethroats, female orangethroats and fantail darters.











Before I left I netted this guy. Perhaps a juvenile white sucker?



At this point I called it a day. Here is a pic of said creek. This part of the creek is in a small park but a stone's throw from a heavily urbanized area of Lexington. Traced it on google maps to be part of the Kentucky River watershed. This was near its headwaters.

[Matt DeLaVega]

Love small creeks. Your ID's look right to me.

[dsuperman]

Nice day for you,congratulations and thanks for sharing.

[Chasmodes]

Nice report!