Did you try and get down in Chick Creek?
Todd
The Muddy Maumee Madness, Toledo, OH
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
http://www.farmertodd.com
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From: <Prizma-in-aol.com>
To: <nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 9:31 PM
Subject: NANFA-L-- first snorkel of 2006
> may 4.
> i just got back from snorkeling crayfish springs in chickamauga, ga.
flows
> through chickamauga battlefield, part of the bloody civil war. i obtained
> permission from the mayor as no swimming signs are posted. not much was
observed.
> stonerollers, sculpin, sunfish, bass, maybe a drum. lots of plants tho...
i
> was hoping for much more as it is quite beautiful and inviting.
> i headed over to flintstone, ga where i have snorkled many times over the
> years. rock creek which waterfalls off of lookout mountain just-in-the tn
/ ga
> line. the years have seemingly made the creek progressively more silty.
> something is going on in a big negative. however getting above a side
stream
> yielded very clean substrate. this was my first snorkel of the year and
the temps
> were comfortable in my full body wetsuit-in-least for the first couple
hours.
> darters seen were breeding and colorful snubnose, rainbows, redline, 1
> speckled out of color, 1 greenside and several dusky of which i caught
one to see
> if it can accilimate to the cement pond. lots of bigeye chubs which are
cool
> to see in their simple elegance, plenty of stonerollers ( nicely
colored )
> and stripe shiners... the big males in pealescent breeding mode. one of
the
> biggest stripes ive seen dominated one edge of the pool. he was not
building or
> occupying visible nests as the substrate seemed to offer nice cobble in a
> long swift curving flow against a steep bank. also cool were some of the
> biggest hogsuckers ive seen... even bigger than the 2 redhorses that were
trapped
> in the same pool i was enjoying. the largest hogsucker and the red horse
were
> laying side by side and sometimes quivering. it did not seem like full
scale
> breeding tho. also i saw the biggest longear ive ever witnessed. plenty
of
> fry were seen along the edges and eddies. all and all a nice kickoff to
the
> snorkeling season.
> i then stopped-in-a spring fed fishing pond and collected shrimp and
> gambusia to feed rayman's bowfin and collected about a 1/2 dozen small
shiner fry
> that i will put in a planted 10 gallon and see what they become. hum...
shiners
> living in a pond. goldens? i dont get to snorkel this as the visibility
is
> nil. dissapointing in that rock creek lacks any diversity in shiners and
> minnows...-in-least i have not seen any beyond the 3 mentioned.
> casper in the tn drainage.
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