Hillabee Creek On Friday

I spent Friday driving down to Hillabee Creek in Tallapoosa County with Stan Sung, Tom and his sons from Connecticut, and Andy and John from California. We hit the beautiful spot near Alexander City. We netted some stippled studfish, of course, and a range of other fishes and turtles. The riffles there are full of muscadine and speckled darters, but we didn't see any lipstick darters. The Tallapoosa shiners were just beginning to go in to color, and the pretty shiners were about as colorful as they get with irridescent green on the males. Photos will appear later, I let Stan and Andy do all of the photos on this trip. The funny part of the trip was watching local dudes drive their trucks out in to the creek, and then work their way up a rutted dirt road going up a low hill by the stream at about a 60 degree angle, drive around a short loop road on top, and drive back down. Times are slow, I guess. At least we didn't find any recently executed dogs under the bridge there.