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Re: Red-Horse Minnows. [Re: Bittercreek] #7449063 04/24/12 12:45 AM
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A red horse minnow looks almost just like a tiny redfish. I found a few in my crappie minnows last time I got some in San Angelo. Do an image search for bluntnose minnow. These are the fabled "red horse" minnows people are referring to. Not the Red shiner.


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Re: Red-Horse Minnows. [Re: Bittercreek] #7449305 04/24/12 01:38 AM
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yes jake, thats the ones I love. Ive slaughtered countless bass with them




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Re: Red-Horse Minnows. [Re: Bittercreek] #7449722 04/24/12 02:43 AM
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A bluntnose minnow is the same as a fathead minnow, which is the same a rosy red, just the dominant black gene, I think


Re: Red-Horse Minnows. [Re: Bittercreek] #7453413 04/24/12 11:45 PM
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The blunt nose minnow (Pimephales notatus) is closely related to the fat head AKA Rosey red minnow, and just as common, but blunt nosed shiners (Notropis simus) are listed as endangered. One subspecies is extinct. I didn't find any place that was calling them red horse minnows though, and they are only found in the Rio grande, or water shed of the Rio Grande. They are pretty much, even in breeding colors, a sliver shiner.



Re: Red-Horse Minnows. [Re: Jake Wright] #7453541 04/25/12 12:15 AM
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Originally Posted By: Jake Wright
That's a typical spot tail fishing minnow. When I was a kid there were lots of 'red horse' minnows on the Colorado river lakes. Now gone.


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Re: Red-Horse Minnows. [Re: Bittercreek] #7454705 04/25/12 03:40 AM
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Catch em out of the river by the 100's...we use pickle jars with a wire cone in the opening. put it on a sandbar where there is decent current, and you can catch all you want!!


Re: Red-Horse Minnows. [Re: Bittercreek] #7454837 04/25/12 04:14 AM
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Aw, the Good-ole; Days.
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Need to start another Thread, bout Jumbo GrassHoppers; and Limb-lines, Flyrods.


Re: Red-Horse Minnows. [Re: Bittercreek] #7456067 04/25/12 03:18 PM
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Man whatever happened to all the jumbos? When I was a kid u could find those things as big as D cell battery. I haven't seen one like that in 20+ years.


Re: Red-Horse Minnows. [Re: Bittercreek] #11452280 03/02/16 10:29 PM
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Re: Red-Horse Minnows. [Re: Bittercreek] #11452431 03/02/16 11:40 PM
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The Red Shiner is what we called a Red Horse when I was a kid. Caught lots of them in minnow jugs in Red River. That was way back before there were NO stripers in the river and we could slay the sand bass with them.

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Re: Red-Horse Minnows. [Re: BridgeportGuide] #11453285 03/03/16 01:16 PM
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Re: Red-Horse Minnows. [Re: Bittercreek] #11453288 03/03/16 01:18 PM
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Re: Red-Horse Minnows. [Re: Bittercreek] #11454186 03/03/16 06:52 PM
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Caught this pretty guy a few years ago in the net, I believe I was told it was a red horse, is this the same as what y'all are saying?




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Re: Red-Horse Minnows. [Re: Bittercreek] #11454192 03/03/16 06:57 PM
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That's the one I'm used to catching. Pretty little things.


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