> Just a short note on what my family and I found this weekend along the
green
> river. Nothing to match the skills of Steven or Casper.
>
> We first fished with hook and line below the green river lake dam. Noah
(5)
> and I fished while the other guys played on the playground. Noah caught
his
> first fish on hook and line - a small green sunfish that ambushed his worm
as
> he was bringing it back to cast again.
>
> While we were fishing, Julie and the other boys (Daniel 7 and Samuel 4)
> decided they wanted to go swimming. Seeing the writing on the wall, Noah
and
> I quit fishing and went to look at a nice box turtle Julie caught in the
> water. Yes, it was a box turtle, yes it was in the water, on the bottom
> looking stuck. We returned it to the forest.
>
> While I was looking at the turtle, Noah told me he wanted to catch the
fish
> with the orange spots. Turned out to be a whole school of fundulus
catenatus
> cruising around. I ran up to the car and got the seine and after a few
> minutes,we scored the entire school (about 12), including a couple of
really
> nice males.
>
> We packed up and spent a while hunting down a place to fish. We finally
found
> a really nice teeny tiny state park that included a 1 car parking lot, and
the
> confluence of two small streams. The big pool where they met was about 3
feet
> deep and the water was crystal clear. We could see a school of common
shiners
> (we netted them later) milling about looking for someting to eat to come
> downstream.
>
> We didn't catch too many different fish, but the area is really beautiful.
> The kids had a great time swimming and fishing. Noah caught quite a few
fish
> by himself and with me seining. Julie is looking for an excuse to go
back.
>
> While we were there, we caught:
>
> common shiner
> creek chub
> central stoneroller
> fundulus catenatus
> rosefin shiners (pretty common here)
>
> bluegill
>
> orangefin darter
> spotted darter
> logperch
> orangethroat darter
> rainbow darter
> greenside darter
>
> I'm pretty sure I caught both rainbow and orangethroat. I'm more familiar
with
> rainbow
>
> Anyway - a good time with the family. Julie is pretty much hooked on
> collecting. All I have to do is be sure that there is a place to play for
the
> kids and I am home free. If the kids can play safely, I even have someone
who
> likes to seine and doesn't mind getting wet. She's not all that fond of
mud,
> though.
>
> In case you are interested, the nature conservance has a small slide show
of
> darters inthe green river drainage. Look here:
>
>
http://nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/kentucky/slideshows/sld67.
h
> tml#
>
>
> Geoff Kimber
> Lexington,KY
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