Need Help With Fish Id, Again.

[Tim Smith]

Creek chubsucker are thicker and smaller and have a bi-lobed anal fin. Shorthead red horse have bright red fins.

39-43 lateral lines scales for a golden red horse.

44-48 for a black red horse.

42-44 for a river redhorse, which are also supposed to have red fins...probably redder than this.

This one has well over 40, but I'd have to blow up the picture to see exactly how many.

I don't see the mouth especially well here, but if it didn't look like a sucker mouth while you were holding it, I bet it was a big chub alright.

Nocomis biguttatus, hornyhead chub is a real possibility.

http://bencantrellfish.blogspot.com/2012/09/microfishing-southern-missouri.html

[Quillback]

striper bait.

Latin name: Striperius Eatiumus

[Ham]

Seemed to be too aggressive to be suckers. If it is a Horneyhead Chub, I'd guess female. No boney bumps and no orange dot behind the eye.

[jdmidwest]

Something you don't normally catch on a rooster tail.

[mhall02]

Seemed to be too aggressive to be suckers. If it is a Horneyhead Chub, I'd guess female. No boney bumps and no orange dot behind the eye.

Horneyhead chub

[bfishn]

Redhorse sucker

Horneyhead Chub

[Wayne SW/MO]

The mouth reminds me more of a chub. I know they will take lures and I catch a lot of them sometimes, even on the surface, when I'm fly fishing the creeks for whatever is hungry. I probably come up with one of them to every 5 or 6 longear.

[Ham]

I thought chub when I caught it, but the lack of orange spot behind the eye and the lack of bumps was odd. Also the extra red fins is odd.

[bfishn]

The red spot and tubercles are only on males.

"Males commonly have tubercles (bony projections) on top of head and a prominent red spot behind the eye."

[Tim Smith]

It's definitely a female if it's a hornyhead. BFishn's picture is of a male.

It would also be really big if it were a chub, but I've caught them that size.