I decided to try my minnow net on my way back from fishing the connecticut river (I caught a redbreast sunfish and a largemouth bass fishing), I decided to test at the Ashuelot in Ashuelot (a subsection of winchester, a town in New Hampshire) by a recycling center, I made alot of casts off a bridge, many were flubs, but I got ONE minnow.

I wish I had a picture of it to show you (the digital camera images were blurry and I couldn't figure out how to upload them, the program to do so kept saying "camera not found") but it was different from the usual bait shop minnow. It has a brownish back, silvery sides, but it's sides had a speckled "sandy" complexion to it. It's snount was sloped giving it a slightly elongate look and it's mouth was tiny and slightly on the down side of the snout almost like a suckers mouth (but not a sucker mouth) . It seems to stick mainly to the bottom of the clear plastic container i put it in (no tank yet). I am debating bringing it to a bait shop or not (as i haven't got a tank yet for keeping it).

Edited by FirstChAoS, 03 May 2009 - 07:07 PM.

I decided to try my minnow net on my way back from fishing the connecticut river (I caught a redbreast sunfish and a largemouth bass fishing), I decided to test at the Ashuelot in Ashuelot (a subsection of winchester, a town in New Hampshire) by a recycling center, I made alot of casts off a bridge, many were flubs, but I got ONE minnow.

I wish I had a picture of it to show you (the digital camera images were blurry and I couldn't figure out how to upload them, the program to do so kept saying "camera not found") but it was different from the usual bait shop minnow. It has a brownish back, silvery sides, but it's sides had a speckled "sandy" complexion to it. It's snount was sloped giving it a slightly elongate look and it's mouth was tiny and slightly on the down side of the snout almost like a suckers mouth (but not a sucker mouth) . It seems to stick mainly to the bottom of the clear plastic container i put it in (no tank yet). I am debating bringing it to a bait shop or not (as i haven't got a tank yet for keeping it).

Was it a darter?

Was it a darter?

No, definately not a darter, only one dorsal fin. Though looking at pics of darters i can see it has a very similar face shape to the speckled darter in the darter forum.

Edited by FirstChAoS, 03 May 2009 - 08:23 PM.

could be a goby or a sculpin (i hope its a sculpin)

could be a goby or a sculpin (i hope its a sculpin)

I am looking at pics of fish, it sort of looks like one of the smaller dace species like a blacknose. (which has the right coloration and look to it)

I am looking at pics of fish, it sort of looks like one of the smaller dace species like a blacknose. (which has the right coloration and look to it)

In a way this is very interesting to me as it is my first experience with a non gigantic dace variety. I am used to dace as silvery )or in some cases purple) fish who take your bait in trout streams or gather in spawning schools, tiny dace are sort of new to me. Bait stores tend to have shiners not dace, and none of my bio classes in college dealt with local fish much.