What r these lil Fishies? and can I use em 4 Bait in NH??

[DasRottweiler]

  Been trying new places to trap minnows/shiners for hardwater cuz my usual shiner spots have slowed down.
I caught upwards of 50 of these minnows, mostly 1"-2 1/2", and a few 4" ones today. They look like what we used to call "Tommycods" . The real name for Tommycod is Killifish and is a legal baitfish in NH. I`m pretty confident that is what they are but not 100 percent. The pictures are not that good ( gittin a new camera for x-mas) .  Anyone use these in hardwater and are they Killifish/Tommycods?




and sum of the lil ones on my cooler lid(they are about 1 1/2-2")

[Raquettedacker]

   Killfish have red along the end of there fins.. If not killfish could they be fathead minnows?

[Thumber]

Das

I am pretty sure they are not Tommy Cods, If I can remember right tommy cods have 2 or 3 upper fins. Like you said the photos do not really show them that well, They could be Eastern Shiners or Creek Chups.

[ice 45]

I don't know about the top ones but the ones on the bottom look like fatheads

[topher7694]

I agree on the third pic being fatheads...and the second pic looks to me like a plain ol' sucker...that's my guess

[DasRottweiler]

Stay tuned! I`ll git betta pics manyana! I did throw 4 traps in these ponds so I`ll pull em tommorrow and take sum pics of what I git.

[TravP]

fatheads

[james]

copy this link in your browser http://www.lcbp.org/PDFs/BaitfishGuide2005.pdf

for some reason i cant make a link to it.
but anyways theres some good pics of minnows if you scroll down to page ten.

james

[Thumber]

James

This site has some good info all so
http://www.cnr.vt.edu/efish/families/fathead.html

[IceManBran]

They look like fatheads to me too.  GREAT walleye bait, but if you can't use them, send em my way.  :]

[DasRottweiler]

Ya ,apparently I gutta toss em all back! I didn`t see em on the list of legal baitfish to use in NH. They are too small anyways. Goldens are what I`m lookin for. I went today and retrieved my traps- everyone was full of em.
I snapped sum pics, hopefully they are better than the others.

[ice 45]

sure look like fatheads to me

[jibbs]

if they are illegal that is too bad......i would bet a good ole largie wouldn't mind eating one of them......good luck with the trapping......

[JDN]

One of those shiners looks like a brindle that blew up when it ate your bait.Dark line running down body.I catch them in my traps few towns over from you.Bet you caught them in a shallow pond.

[DasRottweiler]

I should have mentioned that I trapped these fellas up outta a brown stained pond with zero water flow/ current- used to be clay pits for a brick factory way back in late 1700s and early 1800s. Shallow -lotsa wood.
 I do not think these are creekchubs, unless they are a different species of them .The first thing I thought when I seen the bigger ones was that they looked alot like a Snakehead I had once.The lil ones do appear to be lil versions of the bigger ones-same tail config and FAT when viewed from above. The word " Fathayd " did pop into mind, are they indigenous to NH?, and also on the list of usable bait? I tossed em in the tank , I`ll have to fish one of the bigger ones out and get sum better pics for yall tommorrow. Should be fun , with over 12 dozen minnows in there. Hmmm, maybe make a lil-mini electro shocker! (wheelz aspinnin!).

The lil ones and the big ones are the same species, I believe. At the very least , all the lil ones are definately the same.
If they are Bridle Shiners,(Notropis bifrenantus), they were removed from the list of usable bait as of 2009.(NH)