I'm going to the Wildlife Society's Southeastern Student Conclave in Fernvale, Arkansas in late March. I'd like to do some canoeing, snorkeling, and netting to check out the local ichthyofauna, especially darters and cyprinids. Any particularly fruitful streams I should know of?
Thanks in advance!
Collecting near Little Rock
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Posted 30 January 2009 - 07:26 PM
Head north of Little Rock. The Buffalo River. I've snorkeled it while clear but on a return it was a bit murky. If murky study your gazeer for tribs and spring runs.
Folks canoe it. I saw my first Arkansas Saddled darter there.
The main highway crosses the buffalo and to the east a mile or 2 is a nice camping gravel shoal and bluff amplitheatre. Some of us camped there before the Arkansas convention, 05.
Arkansas is a great state to explore.
Folks canoe it. I saw my first Arkansas Saddled darter there.
The main highway crosses the buffalo and to the east a mile or 2 is a nice camping gravel shoal and bluff amplitheatre. Some of us camped there before the Arkansas convention, 05.
Arkansas is a great state to explore.
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Posted 03 February 2009 - 08:30 AM
I sent an e-mail to your school address with data I got off the Internet, some from Natureserve and some from AR DNR.
Make sure that you don't export any bait.
A crude summary of Arkansas: Draw a big X so the state is cut into 4 pieces. The eastern piece is all rice fields and is boring to even drive through. The western piece is not very interesting fish-wise. The northern is the best - shiners and darters. The souther is okay with Hubbsi, bayous and the Saline River.
All-in-all: the good spots are a good drive from Little Rock.
Make sure that you don't export any bait.
A crude summary of Arkansas: Draw a big X so the state is cut into 4 pieces. The eastern piece is all rice fields and is boring to even drive through. The western piece is not very interesting fish-wise. The northern is the best - shiners and darters. The souther is okay with Hubbsi, bayous and the Saline River.
All-in-all: the good spots are a good drive from Little Rock.
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Posted 03 February 2009 - 12:12 PM
Thanks, Phil; much appreciated!
I want to search out some sallies as well as fish, so I think I will hit four major areas:
Ouachita Mountains/upper Ouachita River
Boston Mountains/upper White River
Buffalo River
Upper White-Village and Cache Rivers.
I want to search out some sallies as well as fish, so I think I will hit four major areas:
Ouachita Mountains/upper Ouachita River
Boston Mountains/upper White River
Buffalo River
Upper White-Village and Cache Rivers.
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Posted 04 February 2009 - 04:17 AM
On interstate 40, at North little Rock at around exit 161, there are a bunch of truckstops. On the south side of the freeway there are a Petro & a Pilot side by side, and if you keep heading south on the road between them for about a half mile or so, it ends on old highway 71. ( I THINK it's called 71. ) Turn left, going east, onto 71, and just a few miles down on your right you'll see a big, gorgeous cypress swamp. I never got to investigate it, but I know it is slam full of fish because they rippled up the water when I approached. Take your camera, too, because you'll want pictures of this place. It's a quick trip from Little Rock that's not far out of your way.
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Posted 28 February 2009 - 09:14 AM
I found some information on Arkansas fish locations. 
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Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality site:
Fish Collection and Habitat Data Files
I made a broad query and then opened the data in Excel.
After a recent trip to north / northeast Arkansas, I realized the data mostly pertained to sites where water quality or impacts needed to be measured. We did better choosing sites from a gazetteer. By the way, we did catch 1500 Stonerollers in 4 days.
A second potential source of data:
Title: Computerization of the Arkansas Fishes Database
Author: Robison, Henry W.; Henderson, L. Gayle; Warren, Melvin L., Jr.; Rader, Janet S.
Date: 2004
" Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality site:
Fish Collection and Habitat Data Files
I made a broad query and then opened the data in Excel.
After a recent trip to north / northeast Arkansas, I realized the data mostly pertained to sites where water quality or impacts needed to be measured. We did better choosing sites from a gazetteer. By the way, we did catch 1500 Stonerollers in 4 days.
A second potential source of data:
Title: Computerization of the Arkansas Fishes Database
Author: Robison, Henry W.; Henderson, L. Gayle; Warren, Melvin L., Jr.; Rader, Janet S.
Date: 2004
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