Hardest thing to photograph ever! If it really is one I deserve some kind of reward or somethin lol




Sorry some of the pics are blurry, I did the best I could

Nice pics! Not sure that's a Chubsucker, though, body shape and scales don't look right.

But, it might be a River Chubsucker, though what I"d heard from TPWD was that those were exceedingly rare. I also don't think that River and Lake Chubsuckers look too different from each other.

The fish I posted was definitively ID'd as a Chubsucker by TPWD. I didn't think that a River Chubsucker looked that different from a Lake Chubsucker, but I'll admit I'm not sure.

It's hard to tell from the pictures, is the mouth on that fish 100% oriented towards the bottom? When fully extended does the mouth face the bottom? It doesn't appear as though it does, which would eliminate chubsucker, but it could just be the way it looks in the pics, too.

Chubsuckers have a mouth just like a tiny buffalo.

It could be one, but I think it may be something else. Perhaps they are juveniles of another sucker species?

Lemme have Bret look at it, too.

Cool fish either way, thanks for the pics!

I caught some shad yesterday and placed three in the Aquarium and 29 hours later they are doing fine. I can never keep them alive in a bait well so I am surprised to see them doing so well.

how do you keep those alive!!!

Over two days and they are still doing fine. I can't believe it.

Keep us posted

I have always wondered if they sell our native fish in europe and asia for aquariums.

The shad are all still alive. I almost lost one that went nuts when I turned only one aquarium light on. I have to move slowly so as to not scare the shad or they try to run into the corners and beat themselves up. Other than that they seem to be fine so far.

are they still alive?

They are doing great. This is the longest I have every kept shad alive. I have two filters on the aquarium and it makes a pretty good current so I think that is what is keeping them going. They swim constantly and do not hover in any one place. They look kind of like piranha in the aquarium.

Found out what my fish was, a central stoneroller
http://www.bio.txstate.edu/~tbonner/txfishes/campostoma%20anomalum.htm

Cool! Good work on the research.

they make good bait lol, have a couple in a part of the creek by my house that are big enough to be caught rod and reel, maybe brett should add them to the list for the multi species contest

If they routinely get over 4", I think they'd probably count. No one's ever entered one before.

The first year we did it, it was any species you could catch in Texas freshwater, aside from non-stocked hybrids lol.

Later, we added the 4" rule to help with identification.