Hocking River at Athens OH
Hocking River OH USGS
Hocking River at Athens OH (03159500) is a real-time streamflow monitoring station on the Hocking River in OH, operated by the U.S. Geological Survey. Riverbot tracks its streamflow and alerts anglers the moment flow and temperature hit their fishing window. 36 fish species are associated with this station in public fish records.
- USGS site number
- 03159500
- Agency
- USGS
- State
- OH
- Coordinates
- 39.3290, -82.0876
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Fish recorded near this station
Sampled at this station's reachHocking River at Athens OH has documented fish occurrence data from USGS Presence/Absence sampling at this monitoring station's reach (COMID 15421121). The dataset includes 36 species with recorded observations.
Species include: skipjack herring (Alosa chrysochloris), rock bass (Ambloplites rupestris), eastern sand darter (Ammocrypta pellucida), freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens), river carpsucker (Carpiodes carpio), and 31 others.
- Skipjack Herring Alosa chrysochloris
- Rock Bass Ambloplites rupestris
- Eastern Sand Darter Ammocrypta pellucida
- Freshwater Drum Aplodinotus grunniens
- River Carpsucker Carpiodes carpio
- Quillback Carpiodes cyprinus
- Highfin Carpsucker Carpiodes velifer
- Spotfin Shiner Cyprinella spiloptera
- Gizzard Shad Dorosoma cepedianum
- Redfin Pickerel Esox americanus
- Banded Darter Etheostoma zonale
- Northern Hog Sucker Hypentelium nigricans
- Channel Catfish Ictalurus punctatus
- Smallmouth Buffalo Ictiobus bubalus
- Longnose Gar Lepisosteus osseus
- Green Sunfish Lepomis cyanellus
- Bluegill Lepomis macrochirus
- Longear Sunfish Lepomis megalotis
- Redear Sunfish Lepomis microlophus
- Smallmouth Bass Micropterus dolomieu
- Spotted Bass Micropterus punctulatus
- Largemouth Bass Micropterus salmoides
- Silver Redhorse Moxostoma anisurum
- Smallmouth Redhorse Moxostoma breviceps
- Golden Redhorse Moxostoma erythrurum
- Emerald Shiner Notropis atherinoides
- Logperch Percina caprodes
- Blackside Darter Percina maculata
- Slenderhead Darter Percina phoxocephala
- Dusky Darter Percina sciera
- Trout-Perch Percopsis omiscomaycus
- Bluntnose Minnow Pimephales notatus
- Bullhead Minnow Pimephales vigilax
- White Crappie Pomoxis annularis
- Flathead Catfish Pylodictis olivaris
- Sauger Sander canadensis
Where these records come from
- Evidence
- Sampled at this station's reach
- Fish were sampled directly on the river reach this gauge sits on, so these species were recorded at this spot rather than inferred.
- Records
- 36 species
- from 36 individual records
- Observed
- Sep 3, 2004 – Sep 3, 2004
- 36 dated records