I've been out working on our rusty crayfish monitoring survey the past three days (Friday, Monday, Tuesday), but we end up seeing alot of fish in the process. With 2-3 other people we used a 3 m wide seine with 1/4" mesh and made 15 kicks at each site proportional to the available macrohabitat (pool, glide, riffle, run). I made it to 16 of our 21 sites; every major bridge crossing from the mouth to the state line except the interestate corssings. Unfortunately I don't have a good by site list available, but many things did not differ as we went upstream.

Etheostoma blenniodes - Greenside darter
Etheostoma caeruleum - Rainbow darter
Etheostoma flabellare - Fantail darter
Etheostoma olmstedi - Tessellated darter
Rhinichthys cataractae - Longnose dace
Nocomis micropogon - River chub
Campastoma anomalum - Central Stoneroller
Pimephales notatus - Bluntnose minnow
Luxilus cornutus - Common shiner
Notropis buccatus - Silverjaw minnow
Notropis rubellus - Roseyface shiner
Notropis ameonus - Comely shiner
Notropis hudsonius - Spottail shiner
Cyprinella analostana - Satinfin shiner
Micropterus dolomieu - Smallmouth bass
Lepomis megalotis - Longear sunfish
Lepomis cyanellus - Green sunfish
Lepomis auritus - Redbrest sunfish
Amblopites rupestris - Rock bass
Noturus insignis - Margined madtom
Cottus giardi - Potomac sculpin
Hypentelium nigricans - Northern Hogsucker

Do you have any pictures? I'd love to see a few, especially of those Potomac sculpin and rosyface and satinfin shiners.

Of crayfish yes, of fish no. I should have pictures of those specimens from earlier in the year since we went to a photovouchering primarily. I'll see what I can find.

Thanks! I'd love to see the mudbugs too.

I'm assuming this was all in the mainstem? I don't see any of the smaller stream species.

No Semotilus corporalis? They are plentiful in the Shenandoah which isn't that far upstream on the Potomac.

All mainstem and I cannot recall a single fallfish which does seem kind of odd..

Damn I'm Jealous. I haven't been out of the office in a few weeks.

Did you happen to get a pic of the comely shiner?