What kind of fish am I holding? My guess is River Redhorse. No it does not look like a horse. Yes its a live fish. Yes its not a big fish. Its also not troute, or a largemouth base. I doubt its a smallmouth either. Add your S…A… commet here (I would).
OK, it was cought on the Pigeon River in NE Indiana. It was one of the bigger ones I caught. Ran into a guy fishing next to the Ontario Dam. His best was 17" Brown Trout, not too bad. Any way what the heck kinda fish is this?
By the way, how does every upload such large pictures?
I put photos on my photobucket.com site, and then put the image into the post. Instructions are on the site here. Be sure to make sure the photo is less than 800 pixels wide or it will mess up the rest of the posts after it. Or just put in a link to a larger photo at photbucket or some other hosting site.
I’d be happy with smallmouth. Now that you mention it the mouth does look similar and it does have a stripe or two on the cheek, but its faint. The coloring is not what I would expected. Still… a smallmouth would be good.
I vote for a smallie too. It’s tougher with little fish. I recall an Ichthyology class once, when we got to our fish ID test, EVERY fish in it was 4-6" long. And pickled. Sigh.
One of the key characters of a smallmouth is the “small” mouth–at least compared to its close kin. Note that the hinge point of the jaw does not extend past a line drawn vertically down from the eye. On the Kentucky or spotted and the largemouth the jaw extends past the eye…works even with small, pickled Micropterus…
