Baitfish ID

[Pilchard]

What's this? Nice looking bait. Anything I should know about them? Special regulations, are they hardy or do they die easy, what likes to eat them, etc?

 

[RUGER]

Creek chub ?

 

[Setterman]

Where'd you catch it?

 

[Pilchard]

Where'd you catch it?

In an ankle deep creek in Williamson county. Caught them every cast on a little spinner

 

[Pilchard]

Creek chub ?

Wasn't that. Way more slender and bigger scales. Mouth was also not under it like a creek chub.

 

[CATCHDAWG]

Golden Shiner maybe?

 

[Pilchard]

Golden Shiner maybe?

Not that, unless a golden shiner is different than what I'm used to in FL. Not sure how to describe it but this fish was solid, dense scales. A shiner is a much softer fish than whatever this thing is.

This guy was bright silver on the sides like a bonefish.

 

[TNLynn]

Creek chub. Mouth in front. Stone roller mouth on bottom. I say its s chub.

 

[megalomaniac]

I always called them creek chubs as well

 

[woodsman04]

I don't know what they are, but I think it's a type of shiner. I use a cast net to catch them and creek chubs wading creeks. Those and the regular creek chubs are good bait for smallmouth, stripers, and flat head cats in my experience.

They do not live long. I use a bait cooler with an aerator. But you put more than -15-20 in a 35quart cooler and they die quickly. I've never used them in cooler weather though. I usually only use them during the summer dog days when most fishing is slow.

 

[Pilchard]

I thought this was a creek chub.

I caught one of these also but this is not what's in the picture in my first post. Perhaps I have been calling the wrong thing a creek chub

 

[Lincoln Co Archer]

I always called that a stone roller. Much easier to keep alive than a Shad.

 

[Pilchard]

I don't know what they are, but I think it's a type of shiner. I use a cast net to catch them and creek chubs wading creeks. Those and the regular creek chubs are good bait for smallmouth, stripers, and flat head cats in my experience.

They do not live long. I use a bait cooler with an aerator. But you put more than -15-20 in a 35quart cooler and they die quickly. I've never used them in cooler weather though. I usually only use them during the summer dog days when most fishing is slow.

I think you are right. Some kind of shiner. No idea which kind but google images seems to agree that you're in the right family at least.

 

[Setterman]

In an ankle deep creek in Williamson county. Caught them every cast on a little spinner

I am pretty sure it's a striped shiner

 

[rukiddin]

That's a striped shiner.

 

[Pilchard]

I am pretty sure it's a striped shiner

Thanks buddy!