So I decided to start fishing. I took a tiny hook, put a split shot and a small red worm on there. I found a small tree down in the river and saw a ton of 4-8" fish behind it, figuring I could catch something. And I was right. Here I caught the majority of the fish I caught for the day.
I saw a ton of 1-3" small mouth and caught one on rod:
Then I was catching tons of these (hornyhead chubs?)
Then I started to catch common shiners:
I also did a little rock flipping for darters.. I had seen a bunch of LARGE Rainbows, couple looked to be orangethoats as the coloring from above was slightly different but I wasn't able to catch any of these. I had also seen some bandeds (wasn't able to catch) and another two I thought I ID'd correctly from above the water, but they eluded me. I saw definely what looked like a Gilt Darter and another that really reminded me of Redline Darters, but those are native and Gilts are extremely rare (so I have heard...)
I also saw some stonerollers that were eaily 10" long.. they were in a little bit deeper water and couldn't get a shot or catch them... must have been because I wasn't wearing my copper colored shirt, orange and white arm bands, and my sombrero with spikes on it... oh well.
All in all I caught roughly 20 or so of the "hornyhead chubs", 5 common shiners, 3 rainbow darters, 100 crayfish, one smallmouth, and 20 or so blackbanded topminnows. I will definately be taking my wife back for the bowfin/smallmouth fishing (didn't see any bowfin...)
