Identification Help Thread

[Fossil Fish]

(08-30-2014 11:53 AM)Toasty Wrote:  

(08-30-2014 09:40 AM)Fossil Fish Wrote:  OK pros, I need a hand with this one. Caught last night in the Rouge River, I think it's either a common shiner (likely) or a creek chub. There is a well placed piece of dirt at the front base of the dorsal fin, but no dark spot that I saw. The pic doesn't show it too well, but there was a definite blue hue to the fish. The scales are what's leading me more towards shiner, but I could be wrong. Thanks in advance

Definitely an atlantic salmon smolt!

I don't think so. The scales seem too large, there are no spots/bars and most noticeably, there is no adipose fin.