Re: NANFA-- Erymyzon
CEFCHURCH_at_aol.com
Wed, 5 Apr 2000 20:36:19 EDT
In a message dated 4/5/00 5:44:47 PM US Central Standard Time,
archimedes_at_master.localink4.com writes:
<< I've written before about the creek that flows through my back
yard, and how it dried up completely this year. Now we've had
about 2 weeks worth of rain, and the creek is flowing again.
Just
this afternoon I netted a 4" creek chubsucker near my
house. I
wonder where he was hiding all this time? In a deep pool far
downstream, or in a crawdad burrow? Whereever he came from, it
didn't take him long to find greener pastures.
>>
I had never thought about crawdad holes for refuge before. Wonder if
it
could happen?
When I was in college (Bloomington, Indiana) and lived next to a large
forest, there was a stream running at the back of the property. It
never
dried up, but all the fish above a four foot waterfall would disappear
during
the winter and then show back up in the summer.. There were no deep
pools
that I could find above the water fall that had fish. (Well, any I
observed.) I always wondered how they got back or where they
hid.
Chuck Church
Indianapolis, Indiana USA
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