Pictures From Last Week's Trip To Little Cypress Creek

Here are some photos from last Tuesday's trip to Little Cypress Creek in Lauderdale County, AL, at the County Road 8 bridge. We really intended to go to Cypress Creek at CR 8, but my pre-set confusion lead us astray. We still caught and kept a bunch of scarlet shiners, two bigeye chubs and a rainbow darter, the latter of which is doing well in a lab aquarium. But we found none of the target, highland shiners...

The first picture is a view of the creek, looking down from the fairly high bridge. It's a nice, clean stream flowing over mostly gravel and sand with riffles, riffle pools, flowing pools, all the habitat you'd like to sample on a hot day. I'm sure we could have caught lots of other species here, three years ago we found a few flame chubs at this site.

Here's the back of my truck after netting, with various gear spread around. I'm convinced it's a good idea to keep the spare tire in easy reach. And the hand from the lower left is truly attached to a full body.

Andrew is happy to have a freshly euthanized scarlet shiner to show the world.