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What are these

Started by Guest_minnowmagnet_* , Dec 08 2009 02:05 PM

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#1 Guest_minnowmagnet_*

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Posted 08 December 2009 - 02:05 PM

I was fishing at a local lake and i saw two yellow fish swiming with a school of mosquitofish, i netted them thinking they were albino mosquitofish, but the appear to be some type of minnow? Albino flathead maybe? what are these?

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#2 Guest_Newt_*

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Posted 08 December 2009 - 02:27 PM

It doesn't look like a minnow to me; maybe a shad or herring of some sort. Where in CA?

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#3 Guest_minnowmagnet_*

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Posted 08 December 2009 - 02:51 PM

It doesn't look like a minnow to me; maybe a shad or herring of some sort. Where in CA?

nor cal, even though it does not show well in the pic, it is yellow.

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#4 Guest_Newt_*

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Posted 08 December 2009 - 05:28 PM

What river drainage? That will help narrow down possible IDs quite a bit. I take back my shad guess; the two shads in your area have more anteriorly positioned dorsal fins. Hopefully someone more familiar with CA fishes will step in.

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#5 Guest_centrarchid_*

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Posted 08 December 2009 - 05:33 PM

Looks like a fathead minnow. Can a closer shot be made?

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#6 Guest_minnowmagnet_*

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Posted 08 December 2009 - 08:14 PM

What river drainage? That will help narrow down possible IDs quite a bit. I take back my shad guess; the two shads in your area have more anteriorly positioned dorsal fins. Hopefully someone more familiar with CA fishes will step in.

it was in a lake without any river contact