Small fresh water stream - trout pls?

[Garp]

[Weeds]

I’m probably the worlds worst when it comes to species identification but I think that might be a creek chub. But I could well be wrong.

 

A fine catch regardless 

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[BillM]

Creek chub. 

[Garp]

Dang

Thanks for the info. Does anyone ever try to eat these?

 

[CrowMan]

Looks like a Fallfish to me. They can get up to 12". When I was a kid, and learning to fly fish, I used to catch them in a local creek. They readily take dry flies and put up quite an acrobatic fight.

Never tried eating one...but you'd need a bunch for a decent meal..

Edited May 27 by CrowMan

[smitty55]

Forked tail indicates Fallfish

https://foodjustify.com/creek-chub-vs-fallfish/

 

Edited May 27 by smitty55

[Weeds]

Fallfish, interesting. I stand corrected. There’s tons of them in some of the creeks around here. Never thought about eating them. Maybe one of these days I’ll give it a go.

[Spiel]

Creek Chub

[akaShag]

Looks like a fallfish to me.  A fellow I knew in a private fishing club a very long time ago, born in Britain and served in WW II, used to catch these in a lake in the Ottawa Valley.  He had his man servant gut them, chunk them up, and boil them.  He claimed they were delicious, but nobody else in the club ever tried any, as far as I know.  People eat practically every species of fish, and I am sure these are edible.

Doug

[CrowMan]

14 minutes ago, akaShag said:

Looks like a fallfish to me.  A fellow I knew in a private fishing club a very long time ago, born in Britain and served in WW II, used to catch these in a lake in the Ottawa Valley.  He had his man servant gut them, chunk them up, and boil them.  He claimed they were delicious, but nobody else in the club ever tried any, as far as I know.  People eat practically every species of fish, and I am sure these are edible.

Doug

Yeah, the Brits are an odd bunch when it comes to fishing.  In "Match Fishing", which is kind of the equivalent of a Bass Tournament (except much smaller fish), they catch as many "minnows" as they can and whoever has the biggest total weight wins..The top "anglers" of these tiny fish are treated like celebrities.

Not knocking the British (I was born there myself), but I guess you got to work with what you have..

 

[Spiel]

Creek Chub

[Rizzo]

pike bait

[troutman]

Creek Chub, zoom in to see dark spot at base of dorsal fin..

[finron]

The fallfish I've caught have a more distinct scale pattern and more of a silver coloration. Years ago fishing a stream in NE Pennsylvania we would catch fallfish up to 18 inches. Good fighters and would readily take our trout lures.

We fished a beautiful stream that fed a large pocono lake. The man who owned this land referred to them as whitefish and preferred them to trout on the table. I have to believe his recipe dissolved the many bones of this largest of Pennsylvania's native minnows.

On a canoe trip through Algonquin I caught a number of similar large minnows (12 inches+) that would readily hit jigs. 

[SirCranksalot]

On 5/29/2024 at 9:30 AM, CrowMan said:

Yeah, the Brits are an odd bunch when it comes to fishing. 

 

 

To say nothing of their 'cuisine'!😃😁 I understand that royals prefer lampreys!😁😄