Trip To Blue Springs

[Fly guy]

Went down to blue springs creek today. I fished downstream of the N bridge. Only caught two fish both about five inches in length and i don't believe they were trout. Quite possibly a minnow of some sort? They had a green back silver pinkish sides with three horizontal black stripes. Any help identifying them would be cool. There were schools of them in all the pools almost. Also a really nice bwo hatch today in the area around 2:30pmish.

[Buzz]

It was some type of minnow or another. I'm not up on my minnow identifications, but there are some guys on here that are. A 5 inch trout is unmistakable, IMO. You will see at 5 to 10 dark dots on the side of the fish, Parr marks.

Example from Crane Creek:

[mic]

Mostly likely Horny Head Chubs. That was the first fish I ever caught at BSC.

[Geoff]

No chubs aren't striped like that. Probably some dace in winter coloring. There are lots of those in that creek.

[Fly guy]

I was thinking a dace or some kind of chub. Should have taken a pic oh well

[Al Agnew]

The coloration sounds like bleeding shiners, but they don't hardly ever get any bigger than 4 inches. I've caught a lot of them on flies while fishing for trout. Only minnows that get to 5 inches or more and are likely to take flies are creek chubs and hornyhead (or the closely related red-spot) chubs, and striped shiners (striped shiners, contrary to the name, don't have horizontal black stripes, by the way). Google bleeding shiner and see if that was your fish.

[Fly guy]

Nope definitely not a shiner it looked a lot like a red belly dace minus the red belly part. I am sure I will have another one take a fly when it happens again I will just have to snap a picture.