Going to be in watertown TN (outside of Nashville/Lebenon area) This Wednesday and Thursday
I know of a few spots in the area where commonly found fish are
Cumberland Snubnose darters
Rainbow Darters
Fantail Darters
Redline Darters
Logperch
Blackstripe Topminnows
Northern Studfish
and for those interested the last time I was there a good amount of herps were found
Spotted newts
Sirens
and I believe mudpuppies are found in the area
central TN april 8th/9th
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, Apr 02 2009 06:34 PM
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Posted 07 April 2009 - 02:46 PM
Unfortunately I can't go collect fish with you. I know some good spots to the west of Nashville if you're willing to travel that far.
Are you saying you actually caught sirens there before? They're not documented from that part of the state, so if you have pics or an exact locality please let me know! My boss maintains the reptile and amphibian atlases for TN and would be very interested in that information.
Are you saying you actually caught sirens there before? They're not documented from that part of the state, so if you have pics or an exact locality please let me know! My boss maintains the reptile and amphibian atlases for TN and would be very interested in that information.
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Posted 07 April 2009 - 06:53 PM
That'd be awesome!
If you head over to Ashland City (about an hour's drive west of Watertown) you can put in a good day's fishing and herping at Cumberland River Bicentennial Trail and adjacent portions of Sycamore Creek Recreation Area and Cheatham Waterfowl Management Area. The trail itself is a great place to see basking snakes and lizards, as well as plenty of birds and wildflowers. About a mile or so down the trail is a bathhouse; if you go behind the bathhouse you can access a small stream which leads to a wooded slough. Between these two habitats you can find quite a diversity of fish and herps.
This will also put you near the Harpeth River, which has a pretty diverse fish fauna.
If you come there sometime during the afternoon tomorrow or pretty much anytime Thursday I can probably come meet you and show you around.
If you head over to Ashland City (about an hour's drive west of Watertown) you can put in a good day's fishing and herping at Cumberland River Bicentennial Trail and adjacent portions of Sycamore Creek Recreation Area and Cheatham Waterfowl Management Area. The trail itself is a great place to see basking snakes and lizards, as well as plenty of birds and wildflowers. About a mile or so down the trail is a bathhouse; if you go behind the bathhouse you can access a small stream which leads to a wooded slough. Between these two habitats you can find quite a diversity of fish and herps.
This will also put you near the Harpeth River, which has a pretty diverse fish fauna.
If you come there sometime during the afternoon tomorrow or pretty much anytime Thursday I can probably come meet you and show you around.
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Posted 07 April 2009 - 07:26 PM
Thursday sounds good I'll be trying to excape the cold anywaysThat'd be awesome!
If you head over to Ashland City (about an hour's drive west of Watertown) you can put in a good day's fishing and herping at Cumberland River Bicentennial Trail and adjacent portions of Sycamore Creek Recreation Area and Cheatham Waterfowl Management Area. The trail itself is a great place to see basking snakes and lizards, as well as plenty of birds and wildflowers. About a mile or so down the trail is a bathhouse; if you go behind the bathhouse you can access a small stream which leads to a wooded slough. Between these two habitats you can find quite a diversity of fish and herps.
This will also put you near the Harpeth River, which has a pretty diverse fish fauna.
If you come there sometime during the afternoon tomorrow or pretty much anytime Thursday I can probably come meet you and show you around.
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Posted 08 April 2009 - 08:47 PM
If you head over to Ashland City (about an hour's drive west of Watertown) you can put in a good day's fishing and herping at Cumberland River Bicentennial Trail and adjacent portions of Sycamore Creek Recreation Area and Cheatham Waterfowl Management Area....
Rails to Trials?
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Posted 08 April 2009 - 10:59 PM
Yeah, it's a Rails to Trails project. There's four miles of paved and 2.5 miles of unpaved trail, all very flat and level. There are plans to connect the trail to neighboring cities, but I don't know how likely they are to come to fruition. It's a very nice habitat section; the railroad ran at the edge of the Cumberland floodplain, so you can look down into the floodplain on one side of the trail, and up at some pretty impressive limestone bluffs on the other.
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Posted 13 April 2009 - 12:19 PM
Rails to Trails are pretty neat... especially for bike riders.
Being on old abandoned railroad beds they are generally very level or easy graceful grades. Scenic too.
Tallahassee, Florida has one that runs from the city to St. Marks at the beach and river. 50 miles i would guess. Campground at the end. There is the Virginia Creeper trail that looks like a parade on the weekends. Generally it's a long graceful downhill slope coast.
Rails to Trails are good projects and should be supported. I bet plenty of bikers search them out and have a life checklist they are trying to attain.
Killier... you should be fine to find all kinds of critters just about everywhere you are at. I dont get that way enough to pinpoint but i have had many good times just checking out road crossing using my Gazeer. Once after doing a 3 week Texas journey with the family on our way back home we stopped off at a little creek feeding the Harpeth. I had been snorkeling all through LA and TX but was blown away in my home state. Little Cumberland Snubnose's noses turned bright green right before my eyes. An oldtimer sitting on the bank called the fish "Candy Minners" cause of all their pretty colors. Yea, Tennessee is the play to be.
Being on old abandoned railroad beds they are generally very level or easy graceful grades. Scenic too.
Tallahassee, Florida has one that runs from the city to St. Marks at the beach and river. 50 miles i would guess. Campground at the end. There is the Virginia Creeper trail that looks like a parade on the weekends. Generally it's a long graceful downhill slope coast.
Rails to Trails are good projects and should be supported. I bet plenty of bikers search them out and have a life checklist they are trying to attain.
Killier... you should be fine to find all kinds of critters just about everywhere you are at. I dont get that way enough to pinpoint but i have had many good times just checking out road crossing using my Gazeer. Once after doing a 3 week Texas journey with the family on our way back home we stopped off at a little creek feeding the Harpeth. I had been snorkeling all through LA and TX but was blown away in my home state. Little Cumberland Snubnose's noses turned bright green right before my eyes. An oldtimer sitting on the bank called the fish "Candy Minners" cause of all their pretty colors. Yea, Tennessee is the play to be.
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Posted 13 April 2009 - 08:32 PM
Yeah, it's a Rails to Trails project. There's four miles of paved and 2.5 miles of unpaved trail, all very flat and level. There are plans to connect the trail to neighboring cities, but I don't know how likely they are to come to fruition. It's a very nice habitat section; the railroad ran at the edge of the Cumberland floodplain, so you can look down into the floodplain on one side of the trail, and up at some pretty impressive limestone bluffs on the other.
I fished the Cumberland access where Sycamore Creek joins the Cumberland for a week several years back where a rails to trails bridge crossed. Maybe the same place?
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Posted 13 April 2009 - 10:07 PM
That's the one!
The same unused railroad goes all the way to my town (Clarksville). There's talk of the city buying up the property and paving it, possibly eventually connecting the two trails.
Killier- Sorry I didn't get to go collecting with you. You'll have to come back to Tennessee some time! Lots of great fish in Casper's part of the state too.
The same unused railroad goes all the way to my town (Clarksville). There's talk of the city buying up the property and paving it, possibly eventually connecting the two trails.
Killier- Sorry I didn't get to go collecting with you. You'll have to come back to Tennessee some time! Lots of great fish in Casper's part of the state too.
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