We went fishing on the James today and I caught this:
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What is this fish? I would consider it a sucker. One of my bud's calls it a Fall fish.
Whatever it is it sure liked the tube I was using. It put up a pretty good fight as well.
Sorry for the pics. My pic post foo is weak.
I've always heard them referred to as American Sucker. No, really. In lakes they fight like heck for a minute or two and then come up like a stick. We never ate one. I guess they have that herring bone type of structure.
yeah fall fish or silver chub..same thing as far as I know. Catch them in Rapp and other rivers along with an occasional horny head chub while fly fishing for smallies.
I have caught them in the Maury and the James on Yozuri Pin minnows and small crayfish jigs (Trout Slayers) but I have never caught one this big before.
I wonder what the citation size is or if there even is one?
Looks like a cross between a carp and a bonefish.
Hey Man.. howd you do that?
I tried to put pics up and couldnt get it to work.
This is simply a fall fish. Suckers are completely different. This is one of the few native fish (meaning not introduced by Europeans or later Americans) left in many watersheds.
Fallfish. Suckers have a sucker mouth. Fallfish, sucker and chubs are all in the minnow family.