Fall Colors on the Till Plain Streams of South Central Ohio
Big Darby Creek, Paint Creek, Stoney Creek and Deer Creek
October 9th and 10th, 2004
Text: Todd Crail
Photos: Joshua Brown, Dave Neely
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The first haul at Big Darby Creek sets the pace of the weekend... Banded, bluebreast, greenside, rainbow and vareigate darters with a side of stonecat madtom!
Photo: Joshua Brown
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Dave Neely shows Todd Crail and Dan Hagley how to raise madtoms from deep within the stream rubble.
Photo: Joshua Brown
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"..and spotted darters, and tippecanoe darters, and bluebreast darters, and slenderhead darters, and northern madtoms, and..."
Jeff Riebe and Nick Zarlinga recount the day, while Dan Hagley looks on.
Photo: Joshua Brown
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Dr. Ted Cavender, Currator of Fishes at the OSU Museum, stops by to take a look while Dan Hagley, Kathy Duffey and Dave Neely give a tally of the day's NANFA event on Big Darby Creek.
Photo: Joshua Brown
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"Gollum" Crail sorts through another fine Big Darby Creek seine haul as Dave Neely, Dan Hagley and Emily Cushman look on.
Photo: Joshua Brown
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Nick Zarlinga and Jeff Riebe try to get as far away as they can from the ODNR gun range at Deer Creek.
Photo: Joshua Brown
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Tony Bozic contemplates the meaning of life while Todd Crail, Jeff Riebe and Nick Zarlinga chase sunfish at Yankeetown Road.
Photo: Joshua Brown
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The Critter Gallery
The Fish Lists!
Stream by Stream
Darby Creek:
Grass pickerel - Esox a. vermiculatus
Central stoneroller - Campostoma anomalum
Spotfin shiner - Cyprinella spiloptera
Steelcolor shiner - Cyprinella whippeli
Streamline chub - Erimystax dissimilis
Gravel chub - Erimystax x-punctatus
Bigeye chub - Hybopsis amblops
Striped shiner - Luxilus chrysocephalus
Emerald shiner - Notropis atherinoides
Silverjaw minnow - Notropis buccatus
Silver shiner - Notropis photogenis
Rosyface shiner - Notropis rubellus
Sand shiner - Notropis stramineus
Suckermouth minnow - Phenacobius mirabilis
Bluntnose minnow - Pimephales notatus
Black redhorse sucker - Moxostoma duquesnei
Northern hogsucker - Hypentelium nigricans
Blackstripe topminnow - Fundulus notatus
Stonecat madtom - Noturus flavus
Northern madtom - Noturus stigmosus (SE)
Rock bass - Ambloplites rupestris
Green sunfish - Lepomis cyanellus
Pumpkinseed sunfish - Lepomis gibbosus
Orangespot sunfish - Lepomis humilis
Bluegill sunfish - Lepomis macrochirus
Longear sunfish - Lepomis megalotis
Smallmouth bass - Micropterus dolomieu
Spotted bass - Micropterus punctulatus
Greenside darter - Etheostoma blennioides
Rainbow darter - Etheostoma caeruleum
Bluebreast darter - Etheostoma camurum (ST)
Fantail darter - Etheostoma flabellare
Spotted darter - Etheostoma maculatum (SE)
Johnny darter - Etheostoma nigrum
Orangethroat darter - Etheostoma spectabile
Tippecanoe darter - Etheostoma tippecanoe (ST)
Variegate darter - Etheostoma variatum
Banded darter - Etheostoma zonale
Logperch darter - Percina caprodes
Slenderhead darter - Percina phoxocephala
Paint Creek:
Central stoneroller - Campostoma anomalum
Spotfin shiner - Cyprinella spiloptera
Striped shiner - Luxilus chrysocephalus
Emerald shiner - Notropis atherinoides
Rosyface shiner - Notropis rubellus
Sand shiner - Notropis stramineus
Bluntnose minnow - Pimephales notatus
Bullhead minnow - Pimephales vigilax
Suckermouth minnow - Phenacobius mirabilis
Creek chub - Semotilus atromaculatus
Northern hog sucker - Hypentelium nigricans
Stonecat madtom - Noturus flavus
Pumpkinseed sunfish - Lepomis gibbosus
Central longear sunfish - Lepomis megalotis
Smallmouth bass - Micropterus dolomieu
Spotted bass - Micropterus punctulatus
Eastern sand darter - Ammocrypta pellucida (SSC)
Greenside darter - Etheostoma blennioides
Rainbow darter - Etheostoma caeruleum
Bluebreast darter - Etheostoma camurum (ST)
Banded darter - Etheostoma zonale
Dusky darter - Percina sciera
Stony Creek:
Central stoneroller - Campostoma anomalum
Striped shiner - Luxilus chrysocephalus
Silverjaw minnow - Notropis buccatus
Southern redbelly dace - Phoxinus erythrogaster
Bluntnose minnow - Pimephales notatus
Blacknose dace - Rhinichthys atratulus
Creek chub - Semotilus atromaculatus
Hybrid - Phoxinus erythrogaster x Luxilus chrysocephalus
Fantail darter - Etheostoma flabellare
Johnny darter - Etheostoma nigrum
Deer Creek at Yankeetown above the dam's influence:
Grass pickerel - Esox a. vermiculatus
Central stoneroller - Campostoma anomalum
Spotfin shiner - Cyprinella spiloptera
Steelcolor shiner - Cyprinella whipplei
Striped shiner - Luxilus chrysocephalus
Bluntnose minnow - Pimephales notatus
Suckermouth minnow - Phenacobius mirabilis
Creek chub - Semotilus atromaculatus
Northern hogsucker - Hypentelium nigricans
Blackstripe topminnow - Fundulus notatus
Stonecat madtom - Noturus flavus
Rock bass - Ambloplites rupestris
Green sunfish - Lepomis cyanellus
Central longear sunfish - Lepomis megalotis
Orangespot sunfish - Lepomis humilis
Greenside darter - Etheostoma blennioides
Rainbow darter - Etheostoma caeruleum
Bluebreast darter - Etheostoma camurum (ST)
Johnny darter - Etheostoma nigrum
Banded darter - Etheostoma zonale
Logperch darter - Percina caprodes
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Total Species Viewed
Shad and Herrings
Gizzard shad - Dorosoma cepedianum
Pikes
Grass pickerel - Esox a. vermiculatus
Minnows
Central stoneroller - Campostoma anomalum
Spotfin shiner - Cyprinella spiloptera
Steelcolor shiner - Cyprinella whippeli
Streamline chub - Erimystax dissimilis
Gravel chub - Erimystax x-punctatus
Bigeye chub - Hybopsis amblops
Striped shiner - Luxilus chrysocephalus
Emerald shiner - Notropis atherinoides
Silverjaw minnow - Notropis buccatus
Silver shiner - Notropis photogenis
Rosyface shiner - Notropis rubellus
Sand shiner - Notropis stramineus
Suckermouth minnow - Phenacobius mirabilis
Southern redbelly dace - Phoxinus erythrogaster
Bluntnose minnow - Pimephales notatus
Bullhead minnow - Pimephales vigilax
Blacknose dace - Rhinichthys atratulus
Creek chub - Semotilus atromaculatus
Suckers
Black redhorse sucker - Moxostoma duquesnei
Northern hogsucker - Hypentelium nigricans
Killifish
Blackstripe topminnow - Fundulus notatus
Catfish
Stonecat madtom - Noturus flavus
Northern madtom - Noturus stigmosus (SE)
Sunfish
Rock bass - Ambloplites rupestris
Green sunfish - Lepomis cyanellus
Pumpkinseed sunfish - Lepomis gibbosus
Orangespot sunfish - Lepomis humilis
Bluegill sunfish - Lepomis macrochirus
Longear sunfish - Lepomis megalotis
Smallmouth bass - Micropterus dolomieu
Spotted bass - Micropterus punctulatus
Perches
Eastern sand darter - Ammocrypta pellucida (SSC)
Greenside darter - Etheostoma blennioides
Rainbow darter - Etheostoma caeruleum
Bluebreast darter - Etheostoma camurum (ST)
Fantail darter - Etheostoma flabellare
Spotted darter - Etheostoma maculatum (SE)
Johnny darter - Etheostoma nigrum
Orangethroat darter - Etheostoma spectabile
Tippecanoe darter - Etheostoma tippecanoe (ST)
Variegate darter - Etheostoma variatum
Banded darter - Etheostoma zonale
Logperch darter - Percina caprodes
Slenderhead darter - Percina phoxocephala
Dusky darter - Percina sciera
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