The fish in the plastic bag sure does not look like a FHM to me. The bag must be distorting the image assuming CJ is correct. Maybe try another picture showing the mouth? Body shape is also not charactistic of a FHM. Some shiners have the first dorsal ray 1/2 teh length of the 2 dorsal ray. But the first dorsal ray of the FHM is thickened compared to that of most shiners. FHM are at times similar appearing to other fish, but FHM are pretty easy to differentiate from shiners. Try to get us a couple more pics. FHM do live in streams but in my experience are not real common in streams - but it all depends.


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