We actually had a good collecting day. I have 5 northern studfish to send to
Jay, all young adults. Just working a riffle with a net I caught 6 different
species of darter--greenside, rainbow, Tennessee snubnose, black (snubnose),
stripetail and fantail. We hardly used the seine so we didn't catch any of
the Percina species in the deeper pool. Steven caught a beautiful warmouth
sunfish that we released, I'd have taken a picture but it was raining too
hard at that point. And Steven netted several mountain shiners, _Lythrurus
lirus_, which he kept (I did too, now that I think about it...). I also
snagged a few more stonerollers.
I don't recommend tornado collecting but it worked for us. Air temp was
about 60 F so it was not difficult being in the water, but water temp was
definitely lower than it was last June (big surprise!). So we survived,
hooray!
--Bruce Stallsmith
Tornado Alley, Huntsville, AL, US of A
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