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Help Identifing this fish

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Caught this while throwing a cast net. Never seen this fish before

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looks like a gizzard shad to me ...
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You were on one of my stink fish holes. You can have them all.
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is it a razorbelly?
used to catch em in mullet net by the hundreds, thats what we called em. very sharp on the belly. and a pain when caught in a net.
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How did it taste :roll: :lol:
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Looks like a shad to me also. Were you cast nettin' on Lake Jackson? :roll:
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Just Fish wrote:Looks like a shad to me also. Were you cast nettin' on Lake Jackson? :roll:
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Big eyes, little head.... id call it a "dork fish"!!!
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Flanders wrote:Big eyes, little head.... id call it a "dork fish"!!!


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Flanders wrote:Big eyes, little head.... id call it a "dork fish"!!!
if it had little eyes and a big head we'd call it an Obama fish
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That is not whitebait! As the west coasters would call it Scalled sardine, Harengula jaguana!

It is a gizzard shad though Dorosoma cepedianum
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Gizzard Shad.. Ochlochnee River is full of them.
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Looks like an LY to me.
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It's bait
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