007 Posted November 8, 2007 Report Share Posted November 8, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rizzo Posted November 8, 2007 Report Share Posted November 8, 2007 I have no idea but it looks like it would make fantastic bait Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greencoachdog Posted November 8, 2007 Report Share Posted November 8, 2007 Yup!!!... bait! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Shark Posted November 8, 2007 Report Share Posted November 8, 2007 They almost look like small fallfish. Was the mouth soft? Not positive though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemo Posted November 8, 2007 Report Share Posted November 8, 2007 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
007 Posted November 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerritt Posted November 8, 2007 Report Share Posted November 8, 2007 looks like a Creek Chub to me... http://www.gen.umn.edu/research/fish/fishes/creek_chub.html G. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BITEME Posted November 8, 2007 Report Share Posted November 8, 2007 gizzard maybe me thinks emerald shiner but kicking Pike bait Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Bender Posted November 8, 2007 Report Share Posted November 8, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuchikubo Posted November 8, 2007 Report Share Posted November 8, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted November 8, 2007 Report Share Posted November 8, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdotfisherman Posted November 8, 2007 Report Share Posted November 8, 2007 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.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunkerbasshunter Posted November 8, 2007 Report Share Posted November 8, 2007 looks like agood bait to me lol. that on a hook in some pike water woud be deadly! Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickingfrog Posted November 8, 2007 Report Share Posted November 8, 2007 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abberz Posted November 8, 2007 Report Share Posted November 8, 2007 Looks like a Creek Chub Great for bass in the summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuhaman Posted November 9, 2007 Report Share Posted November 9, 2007 Yup, that would be a fallfish. Lots of em in that part of ontario Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keram Posted November 9, 2007 Report Share Posted November 9, 2007 I'm not an expert by any means, but I would say it is a BAIT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moosebunk Posted November 9, 2007 Report Share Posted November 9, 2007 I'm with fallfish. And yep, they do make great bait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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