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[MichaelAngelo]

Poking around a sandy river mouth on the shores of Lake Eerie. 

 

I'm pretty sure I have spottail shiner here (hook-shaped fins, spot on the tail haha, 8 rays, too much pigment to be ghost shiner?)

 

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But in the mix of those guys, I also caught this guy.  Now, right off the bat it looks like a sand shiner due to the stitching pattern on his lateral line.  I'm really not sure though as I'm counting 8 anal fin rays (apparently they rarely have eight).  It could be a more mature spottail shiner?  The fins don't appear to be quite as falcate. 

 

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Unfortunately, those are the best pictures I have.  

Edited by MichaelAngelo, 10 April 2016 - 08:10 PM.

[smbass]

Yes on the Spottail that is the Great Lakes form of that species. The others appear to be N. volucellus Mimic Shiners.

[Sean Phillips]

The first is definitely a Spottail, I catch them on pieces of worm fishing on our beach's pier in Lake Erie during the warmer months.