One or several males make a nest, which is a pile of small stones about 1 foot in diameter, on clean gravel. The stoneroller is of little sport value, although it can be caught on small wet flies or bits of worm. It is a good bait fish. Distribution of the stoneroller in NY state. Dark dots represent where actual samples of stonerollers were taken.
White dots represent historic distributions.
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