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I'll put some pictures in the comments because I don't know how to put them here (if I can) yet.
I'm not an angler, I'm a "what's that? It held still long enough to get a picture" person of birds, butterflies, mammals, fish... plants, whatever seems interesting. I got some pictures of fish on a recent trip, and I'm doing my best on the internet to identify but I'm not seeing any one obvious "Of course, it's THAT!" matches so I figured I'd ask some people with more knowledge than I have.
If y'all are able to access my photos via my page, I've got several more pictures of them in a Batch Image Set (as well as a few pictures of the setting for context). These were taken early June, 2022.
I'm thinking some kind of darter, and maybe a Southern Redbelly Dace because of the dark outline above and below the obvious gold/yellow stripe near the lateral line or Ozark Minnow because the dorsal/back is darker and I just spotted the grey fish with lemon fins in the background and am not sure where to start IDing that!
Thanks for any replies.
This was a small flowing body of water (creek?) only a few feet across, I could wade across it and keep my thighs maybe my knees dry. It was within the actual town, had some vegetation along the banks and a few overhanging trees on one edge. I don't remember how fast the current was, but it wasn't fast enough for me to remember it as "rapids" or slow enough for me to wonder if it was moving much at all.
(just edited this to make the pictures larger than a postage stamp!)
Master of over thinking and "hey squirrel" and if not that, I'm probably wondering hey, what's that...
I would guess that the darters in the first picture are rainbow darters. The grey fish with yellow fins is a southern redbelly dace and there are others around. The fish in the middle that's a little bigger is a bleeding shiner
2017: Total species (44), New (12)
2018: Total (94), New (50)
2019: Total (116), New (49)
2020: Total (63), New (9)
2021: Total (72), New (11)
2022: Total (151), New (59)
2023: Total (134), New (48)
2024: Total (32), New (13)
Cool thanks!! I think those were all fish I was thinking as not impossible contenders so that makes me feel happy I was going down the right lines. Happy fishing!
Master of over thinking and "hey squirrel" and if not that, I'm probably wondering hey, what's that...