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Eastern silvery?

Started by mattknepley , Sep 01 2014 06:21 PM

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#1 mattknepley

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Smack-dab between the Savannah and the Saluda.

Posted 01 September 2014 - 06:21 PM

The usual cruddy pics on my part, but the gestalt seems to confirm my field id of H. regius. They are in this drainage, but there isn't a record of 'em this far upstream though.

What do you all think?

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#2 Guest_Skipjack_*

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Posted 01 September 2014 - 06:59 PM

Looks like a winner to me. I had to pull out a book though. Has that pointy Hybog dorsal.

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#3 mattknepley

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Smack-dab between the Savannah and the Saluda.

Posted 01 September 2014 - 08:36 PM

Thanks, Matt. I kinda forgot the whole location requirement. Big Curltail Creek, Abbeville Co., SC. Small trib in the Savannah River system.

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#4 Guest_gerald_*

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Posted 01 September 2014 - 09:29 PM

... and no trace of dark scale edging or stripe ... just plain silver ... and scales fall off easily. if you catch another get a closeup of the mouth from underneath: it's short and shaped like C rather than like U (most shiners).

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#5 Guest_fritz_*

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Posted 02 September 2014 - 10:23 AM

I agree with the ID

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#6 mattknepley

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Smack-dab between the Savannah and the Saluda.

Posted 02 September 2014 - 11:52 AM

Thanks, Gerald and Fritz. That scale dropping info is good a good nugget o' knowledge to have. I seined two of those fish yesterday, and both dropped scales when none of the other species did.

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#7 Guest_Stickbow_*

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Posted 03 September 2014 - 08:37 AM

That ID is what I had come up with when I lived and collected/sampled in the Augusta - Savannah River area.

For what it is worth. Had problems with the rain of silver scales, like catching a Ladyfish in salt water.