What kind of fish is this?

[007]

Hey all,

 

I was just looking through my photos from fishing trips this year and I found these of some type of fish that I caught in Mazinaw Lake, Bon Echo Provincial Park on the Thanksgiving weekend. Bearing in the mind that I have caught my fair share of small fish this year I thought I knew what they all were but this was a new one for even me! It's not a common shiner, golden shiner or a creek chub as I've caught those before - what is it? Is it an Emerald Shiner? There were lots of them hanging around a fallen tree - many of them were bigger than the perch I caught in there!

 

 

 

Thanks for reading - hopefully one of you will be able to identify it for me and then I can add it my list of species caught! At least it's a fishing related post!

 

Cheers

007

[Rizzo]

I have no idea but it looks like it would make fantastic bait

[Greencoachdog]

Yup!!!... bait!

[Badger Shark]

They almost look like small fallfish. Was the mouth soft? Not positive though.

[Nemo]

Check here great resource to ID all your fish..

 

http://www.fishbase.org/Country/CountrySpe...124&id=2953

 

If not Fall fish some kind of Cisco or Shiner but the dots in the lateral line scales and the scale shape seem to confirm Badger SHark

 

Edited November 8, 2007 by Nemo

[007]

Thanks guys. I'm not convinced its a fallfish though - the colouration and fins don't seem to be right.

Badgershark - the mouth was soft. The band of blue colour down its side was very vibrant.

 

Any other suggestions welcome.

 

007

[Gerritt]

looks like a Creek Chub to me...

 

http://www.gen.umn.edu/research/fish/fishes/creek_chub.html

 

G.

[BITEME]

gizzard maybe

me thinks emerald shiner

but kicking Pike bait

[Wes Bender]

I am pretty sure it is a mooneye or possibly a goldeye. They are similar and both found in Ontario. MNR site says goldeye are found in Northestern Ontario.

[wuchikubo]

I would say it looks like a silver chub. Macrhybopsis storeriana.

 

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2792

 

 

Doesn't look like the mooneye I caught before, eye is too small. Scales are too small too.

[Jon]

99% sure it is a fallfish. An expert told me the pointed tips on the tail and the black pigment on the scales are what he looks at.

 

Jon

[tdotfisherman]

I caught one of those this past summer.. I had never seen one before and I was a little confused.. I just told myself it was a baby Tarpon, and let it go..

[lunkerbasshunter]

looks like agood bait to me lol. that on a hook in some pike water woud be deadly!

 

Cheers!

[kickingfrog]

It's tough to make a positive id with just pictures but, by keying it out I'm leaning to wards fallfish. The main points I'd use being: each scale with dense pigment anteriorly and fewer than 50 scales along the lateral line.

 

Or... that's the monster Wayne, Glen and I saw in Georgian Bay the other week ;-)

Edited November 8, 2007 by kickingfrog

[Abberz]

Looks like a Creek Chub

 

Great for bass in the summer.

[kuhaman]

Yup, that would be a fallfish. Lots of em in that part of ontario

[keram]

I'm not an expert by any means, but I would say it is a BAIT

[Moosebunk]

I'm with fallfish.

 

And yep, they do make great bait.