picked up some new native fish today.

[The_Nuge]

a few black and brown bull heads and a hand full of mud minnows.. one of them is huge! not sure what the sliver one is.. looks like a silver feeder fish but i got them from bait tanks and the supplier catches wild minnows so i dont know how a gold fish would get in there.. what is it?

 

[gar man]

A better pic of the head/mouth region would be helpful but by the looks of it I believe you have a juvenile common carp. Btw thats one very big mud minnow! Ive caught them before but never that big, congrats! You plan on keeping the mud minnows?

 

[The_Nuge]

im not sure yet. I dont need them all thats for sure! i could part with a few.

I thought it might be a carp but wasnt at all sure. im not sure what to think of that.. maybe ill try to grow it out just because i can..

 

[ReelBigFish]

The supplier could have caught a released pet goldfish......to me it looks like a goldfish instead of a common carp.

 

[kzimmerman]

Definately goldfish, the lack of an underslung suckerlike mouth and barbels gives it away. Goldfish have become established in many, many areas. A stream I used to fish alot in salisbury had a lot of them. They would take a small nymph or something similar, quite fun on my 2 weight fly rod, but not as much fun as the redfin and grass pickeral.

 

[KittyKatFish100]

It looks like a koi to me not a goldfish. Suppose it could be a carp but I've never seen one that small

 

[The_Nuge]

carp and golds are close enough genetically that you might not be able to tell them apart easy.. could go either way i guess.

 

[kzimmerman]

Koi are identical to carp except for the coloring, and some scale differemces (mirror, leather, ect.) So, you would still see that underslung mouth and barbels.

 

[Rays of Sunshine]

Great fish!!

 

[Northern Pike]

awesome fish, and that is a common carp I can see tiny barbels if you look close enough in that pic