About "Mystery Creeks": I love small streams, but some of my favorite little trout streams are too small and too fragile to publicize here. If you recognize one of these, you already understand why I'm keeping it a secret. These are the kinds of places that lose a little bit of their charm if you see someone else's week-old footprint, and I don't want to do that to them.Underwater photos from Mystery Creek # 19
Hundreds of creek chubs and common shiners take the long path around me through the barren shallows of a silty backwater area. It looks sort of like a Mars landscape, doesn't it?
There's a brook trout running with this school of creek chubs and common shiners at the head of a crystal clear spring.
There's a brook trout running with this school of creek chubs and common shiners at the head of a crystal clear spring.
A small creek chub hides behind a rock under a cut bank.
Plant life thrives year-round in this spring head, which never dips far below the temperature of the ground water.
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