Species Identification

  • H Bria
    Posts: 1
    July 22, 2020 at 10:37 am #1959155

    Please help identify

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    JEREMY
    BP
    Posts: 3896
    July 22, 2020 at 10:53 am #1959162

    Take a bite of it and see if it tastes like chicken. If I don’t its probably a minnow.

    Erik Swenson
    Posts: 425
    July 22, 2020 at 11:23 am #1959194

    Hard to tell the size. If I were to guess though I’d say emerald shiner.

    Buffalo Fishhead
    Posts: 302
    July 22, 2020 at 6:46 pm #1959357

    I would go with a member of the shiner family, but I don’t think it is a emerald shiner. Maybe a common, river or mimic shiner?

    Buffalo Fishhead

    rubberduck
    east bethel
    Posts: 436
    July 22, 2020 at 10:21 pm #1959438

    Do do do do da do…..

    popcorn
    Posts: 64
    July 23, 2020 at 8:51 pm #1959777

    Appears to be young golden shiner.

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    Buffalo Fishhead
    Posts: 302
    July 23, 2020 at 9:24 pm #1959794
    popcorn wrote:

    Appears to be young golden shiner.

    You could be correct, the reason I did not suggest golden shiner is I could not see (even when I blew the photo up) the “decurved” lateral line that is characteristic of the golden shiner.

    Sure helps to have these little fish in hand to determine what species they are.

    Buffalo Fishhead

    popcorn
    Posts: 64
    July 23, 2020 at 10:17 pm #1959814

    I agree having them in hand is better than pics any day. The lateral stripe and mouth is what made me think golden. A quick look on wiscfish provided a pretty close match.

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