Beautiful area with lots of small creeks and wadable rivers. I tried the South Fork of the New River as well as a few creeks. I couldn't locate any Kanawha Darters, which I was going after, but caught some interesting fish, including at least 25 Mottled Sculpins of all sizes. I was also going after New River Shiners which I hope I found.
Shatley Springs, NC
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Posted 22 March 2017 - 10:00 AM
Guesses largely based on range:
1) Nocomis chub, should be bluehead or bigmouth based on range, but river chub may be introduced there too.
2) Appalachia darter should be the only Percina in the New basin.
3) Warpaint shiner
4) Cyprinella, should be spotfin (native) but whitetail and possibly others could be introduced there.
5) Mtn redbelly dace
6) Pimephales i think, should be bluntnose minnow
7) Redlip shiner
Bluntnose minnow?
9-11) could be Tennessee, Silver, Warpaint, Rosyface shiners ...? cant see enough detail.
12-13) Tennessee shiners
Gerald Pottern
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Hangin' on the Neuse
"Taxonomy is the diaper used to organize the mess of evolution into discrete packages" - M.Sandel
#15
Posted 22 March 2017 - 12:24 PM
Guesses largely based on range:
1) Nocomis chub, should be bluehead or bigmouth based on range, but river chub may be introduced there too.
2) Appalachia darter should be the only Percina in the New basin.
3) Warpaint shiner
4) Cyprinella, should be spotfin (native) but whitetail and possibly others could be introduced there.
5) Mtn redbelly dace
6) Pimephales i think, should be bluntnose minnow
7) Redlip shiner
Bluntnose minnow?
9-11) could be Tennessee, Silver, Warpaint, Rosyface shiners ...? cant see enough detail.
12-13) Tennessee shiners
Thanks Gerald, I completely forgot about the Appalachia Darter when I went up there. I did see some red on the shiners that you said may be Rosyface Shiners, I will see if I have some clearer pictures.
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