What is this fish??

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Comment by dick tabbert on October 23, 2012 at 4:56pm

Lets not forget Northern Pike.

Comment by Allen Morgan on October 23, 2012 at 4:27pm

Yup, Golden Shiner.  They do make good LMB bait, as well as Striper/Wiper bait.  For LMB's, just pass a large hook through the fish between the dorsal fin and the tail, on the top.  Gently lob it near some weeds, and keeping slack in the line, let the fish swim into the weeds.  A LMB will INHALE that thing.

For Stripers/Wipers, I've heard about impaling a tine of a treble hook through the mouth and out the top of the head, and suspending the fish below a large float or balloon in an eddy near swift current in a river known to contain these fish.  Wait for the float to go under or run along the surface; if a balloon, it will usually pop.

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on October 23, 2012 at 1:02pm

Golden shiner - the only fish I've ever caught on anything in the Berkley Gulp! line. They liked the Asticots (maggots) an awful lot. Great fun to catch when they are schooling.

Comment by John Sheehan on October 23, 2012 at 11:54am

http://bigbluegill.com/photo/photo/search?q=Golden+Shiners

Comment by dick tabbert on October 23, 2012 at 10:15am

Looks like an overgrown shiner to me.

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on October 23, 2012 at 8:59am

Golden Shiner....I catch them on crickets, worms, silent stingers, micro jigs and plain hooks in the Carolinas.......

Comment by DAVID L EITUTIS on October 23, 2012 at 8:42am

LOOKS LIKE A SHAD TO ME and out east I hear these are a targeted species by fly folk !

Comment by chris kowaleski on October 23, 2012 at 8:21am

Looks like a bass minnow from the bait shop here! Some type of shiner?