Please help identify
H Bria
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Take a bite of it and see if it tastes like chicken. If I don’t its probably a minnow.
Hard to tell the size. If I were to guess though I’d say emerald shiner.
I would go with a member of the shiner family, but I don’t think it is a emerald shiner. Maybe a common, river or mimic shiner?
Buffalo Fishhead
Appears to be young golden shiner.
You could be correct, the reason I did not suggest golden shiner is I could not see (even when I blew the photo up) the “decurved” lateral line that is characteristic of the golden shiner.
Sure helps to have these little fish in hand to determine what species they are.
Buffalo Fishhead
I agree having them in hand is better than pics any day. The lateral stripe and mouth is what made me think golden. A quick look on wiscfish provided a pretty close match.
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