What is this?

[DTro]

[Cecil]

Looks like a fish of some sort.

[Lowblazah]

Looks like a Golden Shiner

[GlassEyeangler]

golden shiner...caught a lot of them prior to opener.

[roughfish29]

i really don't think its a golden shiner. it looks more like a spotfin shiner to me. i'm really not fantastic at identifying micros. i have caught plenty of golden shiners though

[DTro]

For some reason it didn't seem like a Golden Shiner. There were small schools of them skittering around in the fast current in a big log jam on the MN. I catch lots of big shiners fishing for chubs, but these looked different.

The scales were hard and rough to the touch like a baby carp, but obviously wasn't.

Could have very well been a Golden though.

Thanks

[MinnesnowtaWild]

Those would make some great bait I would imagine. Maybe not for Cats, but for other species for sure.

[RumRiverRat]

Looks like a fish of some sort.

[fishuhalik]

Grass/creek shiner?

[Schollmeier]

Not a Common, Golden, Striped, or Red Shiner. Almost 100% sure that is is a Spotfin Shiner. The picture posted lacks enough details to really be 100% sure. Lyons' online WI Fish ID Database is a really useful tool for IDing tough species, it is WI-centric but (for the most part) the species found in MN are all the same.

[goblueM]

i agree, looks like a spotfin shiner to me. definitely not a golden.

kind of sandpaper-y like skin, right dtro? makes em easy to hold on to

[DTro]

Yeah the scales were really rough, almost dry feeling.

not sure if this helps, but another shot:

[sanka]

I really hope is wasn't a Rudd Minnow.

[Schollmeier]

Dtro - that second picture seals the deal, now I'm raising my certainty from nearly 100% sure to 110% sure that is a Spotfin

[Comit 2]

I was catching a lot of them under the bridge in St Peter last year on cralwers. Much bigger though. I would say how big but that was last year don't want to over do it.