What kind of minnow is this? 2025
Avalonjohn44 reply :
This little guy jumped right into the bank trying to escape something today. Don't recognize it. Any ideas? Its back was a lot more purple in real life...
00 mod reply :
Sure looks like a bass to me!
Jeff
A-Jay reply :
It's a bass only smaller ~
And if we're asked to guess the weight, I'm going to dig out my left eye with a ice cream scoop !
A-Jay
Avalonjohn44 reply :
It looks like a tiny bass, but I've never seen that coloration before.
Jake the Cake reply :
Looks like the Shiners we use here in the Ozarks/Midwest, but THAT much purple and those stripes down the fat part of the body make me think it's something else. Definitely has the outline/physique of a bass, just very very tiny.
mrmacwvu1 reply :
Hell that would be my personal best this season
Wayne P. reply :
wisconsin heat reply :
Largemouth bass, covered in oil!
Molay1292 reply :
juvenile striped bass
Avalonjohn44 reply :
On 3/11/2016 at 8:26 AM, Molay1292 said:juvenile striped bass
I don't think it's a striper, this was found in a 10 acre pond that's only a few years old.
scaleface reply :
Its not a keeper .
Florida Cracker2 reply :
On 3/11/2016 at 8:32 AM, scaleface said:Its not a keeper .
Well...it could be. Just need a coffee-can full and your set.
N Florida Mike reply :
Baby bass
flyingmonkie reply :
Hold it close enough to the camera and you might get a Minn Kota hat. 
everythingthatswims reply :
Largemouth. He looks that way because the water is cold and muddy (or at least stained from the looks of the photo). Time to find what he was running from!
Kevin22 reply :
Stressed out largemouth...
BassWhole! reply :
On 3/11/2016 at 8:26 AM, Molay1292 said:juvenile striped bass
Is this Hellen Keller?
That's a bass.
Fishin Ethan reply :
You could of put it in a fish tank. I have a fish tank of little bass that guy would be a nice addition to my tank
Molay1292 reply :
On 3/12/2016 at 12:13 AM, reason said:On 3/12/2016 at 12:13 AM, reason said:Is this Hellen Keller?
That's a bass.
Is this Hellen Keller?
That's a bass.
Have you ever seen juvenile striped bass?
Turtle135 reply :
that is a largemouth bass
since we are playing this game, make a guess on this one:
flyingmonkie reply :
Bluegill!
I have a 120 gallon cattle trough on the side of the house - I net these out of drainage ditches and stick them in the tank to grow up. Great learning experience for my little girls.
BassWhole! reply :
On 3/12/2016 at 5:30 AM, Molay1292 said:Have you ever seen juvenile striped bass?
Yes.
You think this fish looks like the OPs? Come on! Its a bass.
Gundog reply :
On 3/12/2016 at 5:30 AM, Molay1292 said:Have you ever seen juvenile striped bass?
That photo only kinda looks like the OP's original photo because its blurry. If you clear it up it looks nothing like the baby bass in the first pic.
Paul Roberts reply :
Wow. Neat coloration. It's a bass. I believe it's a largemouth. Morpology checks out. It doesn't appear to be a spot. Definitely not a smallmouth.
I've never seen coloration like that -in a bass. Is this pond clear of aquatic vegetation? Any cover at all?
Molay1292 reply :
On 3/12/2016 at 12:13 AM, reason said:On 3/13/2016 at 1:58 AM, reason said:Yes.
You think this fish looks like the OPs? Come on! Its a bass.
Is this Hellen Keller?
That's a bass.
I think the shape of the fish and the color is close. I have seen a lot of juvenile bass and never seen one colored anything like that. I agree that it is most likely a LMB. I made a guess and thought the object was to have a good time with it, not to take the opportunity to insult someone else. Anyway nothing lost either way.
Darren. reply :
Whichever, it reminds me of this...
Molay1292 reply :
That's strange Darren, I don't see the resemblance between a fish and a swallow.
Darren. reply :
On 3/13/2016 at 8:25 AM, Molay1292 said:That's strange Darren, I don't see the resemblance between a fish and a swallow.
Never said resemblance, LOL...
"Reminds" ... humorous, what kind of fish is this?
Looks like a baby bass, looks like a baby striped bass...
African swallow, European swallow debate...fish debate,
both debates...oh nevermind.
Maybe I'm the only one who can relate the humor.
Molay1292 reply :
On 3/13/2016 at 8:39 AM, Darren. said:Never said resemblance, LOL...
"Reminds" ... humorous, what kind of fish is this?
Looks like a baby bass, looks like a baby striped bass...
African swallow, European swallow debate...fish debate,
both debates...oh nevermind.Maybe I'm the only one who can relate the humor.
Just messing with you, I knew what you meant.
Bluebasser86 reply :
It's a baby largemouth bass. Bass will get that purplish tint to them in colder water.
On 3/12/2016 at 5:38 AM, Turtle135 said:that is a largemouth bass
since we are playing this game, make a guess on this one:
Yellow perch?
BassWhole! reply :
On 3/13/2016 at 8:12 AM, Darren. said:Whichever, it reminds me of this...
Nice, now I feel like a troll guarding a bridge...
"what is your favorite color?"
Raul reply :
On 3/11/2016 at 6:46 AM, Avalonjohn44 said:This little guy jumped right into the bank trying to escape something today. Don't recognize it. Any ideas? Its back was a lot more purple in real life...
That ain´t no "minnow", that´s a baby bass.
Kevin22 reply :
Fyi striped, white, and hybrids are not even in the same "family" as black bass... And look nothing like them when juvies. They look more the shape of a shad or bluegill, whereas a black bass has the long minnow-like shape with a big flat tail.
Gundog reply :
On 3/11/2016 at 6:46 AM, Avalonjohn44 said:This little guy jumped right into the bank trying to escape something today. Don't recognize it. Any ideas? Its back was a lot more purple in real life...
Only reason I know what it is is cause I catch them that size
A-Jay reply :
Pygocentrus nattereri ~ Invasive
A-Jay
beardown34 reply :
looks like this lunker
Raul reply :
Ok, I had enough with the bragging contest, there you go, I win !
BassThumb reply :
That's a LMB. I would have guessed SMB if not for how far back the jawline extends.
WestMichiganBass reply :
Does anyone think they can identify This fish?? Found this little guy while smallie fishing a river in michigan
Kevin22 reply :
Some kind of stoneroller would be my guess. Probably too big for a dace and its not any kind of panfish/game fish. Search through the native minnows, daces, and stonerollers for the area it was found.
Paul Roberts reply :
On 3/15/2016 at 11:15 PM, WestMichiganBass said:Does anyone think they can identify This fish?? Found this little guy while smallie fishing a river in michigan
That's a darter -a percid (Percidae), meaning in the perch/walleye family. I'm guessing it's a logperch (Percina caprodes).
Scarborough817 reply :
On 3/12/2016 at 5:38 AM, Turtle135 said:that is a largemouth bass
since we are playing this game, make a guess on this one:
yellow perch or bluegill
Paul Roberts reply :
Neither. It is familiar but the group isn't coming to me. I think it's a coastal (brackish/marine) species.
Ratherbfishing reply :
On 3/13/2016 at 8:25 AM, Molay1292 said:That's strange Darren, I don't see the resemblance between a fish and a swallow.
What do you mean? An African or a European swallow?
desmobob reply :
I was recently looking at hard baits on line somewhere and there was a bait that looked exactly that pattern and color and was listed as "baby bass." I thought of this thread immediately. If I had not seen that photo of the little purple-backed bass, I certainly would have wondered why the heck they made a "baby bass" bait with that color.
Tight lines,
Bob
Paul Roberts reply :
I've never seen a bass with that coloration, but young bluegills have that exact coloration: purple back, blue sides, and yellow-orange "breast" (pectoral region). I find that interesting. There is a good reason for it.
Molay1292 reply :
On 3/16/2016 at 10:07 AM, Paul Roberts said:I've never seen a bass with that coloration, but young bluegills have that exact coloration: purple back, blue sides, and yellow-orange "breast" (pectoral region). I find that interesting. There is a good reason for it.
Centrarchidae?
Paul Roberts reply :
That's part of it. But there is likely something ecological too. That's why I had asked the OP'er about the water body.
Avalonjohn44 reply :
On 3/13/2016 at 5:50 AM, Paul Roberts said:Wow. Neat coloration. It's a bass. I believe it's a largemouth. Morpology checks out. It doesn't appear to be a spot. Definitely not a smallmouth.
I've never seen coloration like that -in a bass. Is this pond clear of aquatic vegetation? Any cover at all?
Totally missed the question. There's a lot of coontail, a little bit of early string algae, but other than that, not much in the way of above water cover. Water was stained greenish brown, visibility was maybe twelve inches.
Raul reply :
I stocked tens of thousands of those little critters when I worked at SEPESCA, you can trust when I say it's a baby bass, actually it's a LMB baby.
roadwarrior reply :
Well, me thinks it might be a baby bass...This thread has run its course.
Good night Irene.
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