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#1 Michael Wolfe

Michael Wolfe
  • Board of Directors
  • North Georgia, Oconee River Drainage

Posted 14 July 2019 - 09:05 PM

Five years ago we sampled this un-named tributary for the first time.  Since then the little creek has had improved culverts and riparian vegetation added.  What was once a ditch filled with kudzu and a little bit of water, has become a pleasant little oasis for a variety of life.  The fish species have not really increased, but the numbers of individual fish has dramatically gone up.  And we are seeing all sorts of amphibians and inverts and insect life.

 

But this is NANFA, so I have to show you the fish and really they are the best fish anyone could want to see...

 

The river architech... big and sexy was easily found... I present the bluehead chub

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Dixie chubs were probably the most numerous fish we saw.  We did not see any tuberculate males, but there were individuals of every size from less than an inch to beauties like this.  I mean if you love yellow (and how can you not), this is a great fish.

dixie+chub.jpg

 

And speaking of yellow, we seemed to have missed the height of color for the yellowfin shiners, but there were a few that were still showing out even in July.  The individuals from this stream always seem to have fins that are clearer close to the body and yellow on the edges with numerous black melanophores on the fins.  It gives them a very interesting look that's different from most others I see.  

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We continue to work with the City of Griffin to monitor this stream and are planning another visit to try to get down to Cabin Creek (that this unnamed tributary flows into) to see if there are other species that might one day colonize this rehabilitated head water.

 


Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin

#2 mattknepley

mattknepley
  • NANFA Member
  • Smack-dab between the Savannah and the Saluda.

Posted 15 July 2019 - 08:28 AM

Grrrrr!  So wanted to go on this one!  Nice Dixie Chub and those fins on the lutipinnis are really cool.  Thanks for all you do for NANFA and fishes, Michael.


Matt Knepley
"No thanks, a third of a gopher would merely arouse my appetite..."

#3 Casper

Casper
  • NANFA Fellow
  • Chattanooga, TN alongside South Chickamauga Creek, just upstream of the mighty Tennessee River.

Posted 15 July 2019 - 10:39 AM

Good Grief Griffin!


Casper Cox
Chattanooga, near the TN Divide on BlueFishRidge overlooking South Chickamauga Creek.



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