Yesterday, I did a little sampling in The Little Miami River and Obannon Creek in SW Ohio. In The Little Miami, I caught a fish that I hadn't seen in about four years. I was pretty excited to find a single Slenderhead Darter. Man, did it take some WORK! One man seine in two feet of very fast moving water will give you one heck of a workout!
In a little spring-fed offshoot of Obannon Creek I found a couple of Silverjaw Minnows. and in the main stream found the about largest Rainbow I've yet caught.
Also in Obannon creek I caught what looked to be a juvenile Warmouth with a strange color variation. It was very pale, almost translucent. I could see the pink of the gills through its skin. One eye was completely black, while the other eye was half black and half turquoise. I wish now I had kept it, but I had no tank in which to keep it, so I released it.

-Thom

P.S. Wednesday I sampled The Little Miami in an area I had sampled a half dozen times, and for the first time caught some Mountain Madtoms. I modified my netting technique a bit and bam! There they were.

nice job on the slenderhead! they are a tough find always a treat when you find them. the mountain madtoms are doing really well, had the opportunity to shock them the other day and I was totally amazed at just how many of them there were, the main problem is getting them in the seine without shocking. If you get back down that way to sample again I work in milford and spend a few days a week in that piece of the river. did you get any pics of the warmouth, that is a rare treat on that river as well

nice job on the slenderhead! they are a tough find always a treat when you find them. the mountain madtoms are doing really well, had the opportunity to shock them the other day and I was totally amazed at just how many of them there were, the main problem is getting them in the seine without shocking. If you get back down that way to sample again I work in milford and spend a few days a week in that piece of the river. did you get any pics of the warmouth, that is a rare treat on that river as well

Yeah, I caught a bunch of the Madtoms. once I figured out exactly how and exactly where.
Sorry, I got no pics of the Warmouth. (Likely story, huh? ) My bucket was way down steam, my camera was up in the truck and I just had no place to put him. The one that got away.