Eastern Silvery Minnow finally? Near Pee Dee River, NC
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taldridge0321
, Jul 31 2016 04:55 PM
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taldridge0321
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Posted 31 July 2016 - 04:59 PM
Caught a few Tessie Darters as well, I also clearly saw a shiner about three inches long, with a solid red head and plain silver body. I looked it up and what it looked like in my book was a Pinewoods Shiner but I couldn't ever catch one. 
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gerald
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Posted 31 July 2016 - 06:30 PM
Sorry Tim - #1 -6 looks like satinfin shiners, not silvery minnows. #7 is too small for my ID skills. The redhead minnow you saw was probably a rosefin shiner, introduced to the Cape Fear and PeeDee drainages from the Roanoke basin to the north. Haw River and tribs around Greensboro and Burlington have a lot of rosefins now, and also red shiners from the Ohio/Mississippi basin. Wine glass photo-tank is a nice touch!
Gerald Pottern
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taldridge0321
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Posted 31 July 2016 - 07:02 PM
Sorry Tim - #1 -6 looks like satinfin shiners, not silvery minnows. #7 is too small for my ID skills. The redhead minnow you saw was probably a rosefin shiner, introduced to the Cape Fear and PeeDee drainages from the Roanoke basin to the north. Haw River and tribs around Greensboro and Burlington have a lot of rosefins now, and also red shiners from the Ohio/Mississippi basin. Wine glass photo-tank is a nice touch!
Haha darn! Maybe next time haha. Wine glass was my mother's touch since I caught the Darters in her backyard haha.
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mattknepley
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Posted 02 August 2016 - 04:49 AM
Eastern Silveries tend to drop scales very easily, too. It's often a good clue as to whether you do/don't have them in your bucket. They give me trouble too and I use scale dropping (or lack thereof) as one of my id cheats.
Matt Knepley
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gerald
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Posted 02 August 2016 - 08:55 AM
Now that Stephen mentions it I DO see faint orange in the tail on #2,3,4. So yes, maybe they're fieryblacks just beginning to get red pigment.
The three Cyprinellas in the PeeDee basin are satinfin, whitefin, and fieryblack (excluding the "chub" Cyprinellas).
Gerald Pottern
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"Taxonomy is the diaper used to organize the mess of evolution into discrete packages" - M.Sandel
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