Fish ID: silver redhorse or shorthead redhorse?

[Geezle]

I haven't learned how to tell these two apart yet. I know it's just a sucker, but I like to know exactly what it is I'm catching :)

This guy was definitely the biggest sucker I've pulled out of the river this year.

http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii181/GeezleHerps/Phone%20pics/101610_153600.jpg
http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii181/GeezleHerps/Phone%20pics/101610_153601.jpg
http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii181/GeezleHerps/Phone%20pics/101610_153700.jpg


edit: my guess is silver

[Steven Noel]

Shorthead Redhorse

[flyguyd]

Big sucker!!

[sturgeonhound]

X2 on the shorthead redhorse.....red fins, the high angled dorsal fin and non-notched lower lip are the key indentifiers. The silver has a larger, more round dorsal fin, V shaped lower lip and the fins are quite silver.

SH

[Deano85]

How do they fight?

[maclennanchris]

They dont seem to put up much of a fight...these ones with the red fins. I caught another with smaller scales and was a darker colour and they seemed a bit more of a fighter...

[Geezle]

How do they fight?

They fight a lot better than a walleye of similar size, that's for sure! They thrash around a lot, more like a pike, but they don't have the same strength. :)

[Christofficer]

I double dog dare you to eat one out of the NSR.

:burp:

LOL

[Geezle]

Thanks guys! Based on how the fins looked when I compared the two species by their pics on Wikipedia I guessed silver redhorse, but it sounds like I'm likely wrong. Glad I asked :)


I double dog dare you to eat one out of the NSR.

:burp:

LOL

Man, I'd have to be *reeeeeeally* hungry to fry that bad boy up! :bad_boys_20: