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Hey guys,
I'm back again. ;)
Anyone have any idea what type of carp this fish is: [URL]http://www.pbase.com/image/143058597[/URL]
It measured 12 1/4" in length and had a really slimy covering. I caught it at Hickman Creek in Lexington just using the good old-fashioned nightcrawler under a float.
Any help is appreciated.
DAVE
Looks to me like a Golden Redhorse. Also known as fall fish, suckers, or squawfish. Very common in creeks, I catch them all the time. They can get pretty big, ( I've caught them as big as twenty inches) but they don't hardly put up a fight. -Nice fish, Rico
Golden Redhorse, known to most Kentucky fisherman as a plain ole common Sucker..
Thanks for the info, guys. Another one to add to the species collection. Appreciate the help.
DAVE
Good flathead bait
It looks like a white sucker. Redhorses usually don't have such a protruding mouth, and they usually have red fins and tail. Fallfish and squawfish are minnows, not suckers. They're something completely different.
I love catching suckers, they usually give you a heckuva fight on light tackle. I caught a 16-inch golden redhorse once that nearly pulled me in. The fight it gave me in that river had me thinking it was a 4-5 pound flathead!
I'm going with Pyromaniac on this one ... it looks like a white sucker ... the scales would be a lot larger if it was a redhorse ...
I know my KY/VA trashfish, from intentionally targeting them a hundred plus times a year since 1982... I haven't caught a lot of suckers but I have paid attention to theeir distinguishing characteristics and spent an irresponsible amount of time reading and posting at roughfish.com...
It does look like a white sucker by the pic here.
[url]http://fw.ky.gov/pdf/kyfishid.pdf[/url]
Looking at Hlleonard's link I'm actually leaning towards the white sucker too. My reasoning is the dorsal fin being non-concave in my image.
I wonder if there are any biologists I could get a second opinion from? ;)
DAVE
I'll post it on the roughfish boards. There's a guy over there who works for the Minnesota DNR and has probably forgotten more than I'll ever learn about roughfish.
Looking at your photo gallery, it's hard to tell if your bullhead is a brown, black, or yellow. I think your shiner is a striped, though it could possibly be a common, white, or spotfin, though I need to have a closer look. That's the problem with bullheads & shiners, there are so many species that look the same at a glance...