Bill,
Yes I see your point.
That site only covers fish that inhabit virginia. So I may or may not have something else. Unless you know from elsewhere that it only lives in west virginia/east tennessee of course. But even with that I do believe that is my mystery minnow. Same shape, same coloring, same characteristics. It seems like the mouth might be a little higher up on mine(might be how I held and looked at them) and color is slightly washed out on mine. They live in the brighter part of the lake where most of the fish have brighter colors anyway though so I think that might be it.
Letting one sit out for awhile then put him in the water clears the coloring up for a better look. Did that with the 9" warmouth I caught last weekend, let him sit in the boat for 2 hours then revived him and put him on a stringer. I went and looked at him later and all I could think was "now THAT's a nice looking warmouth
." If Rocky1 can get a look at one with its "default" colors he can look through the pictures at
EFISH and maybe at the least find one that looks kind of like it and go from there. What do you think?
