What Am I?

[Comfortably Numb]

Caught this 10 incher today on a suspending squarebill crank. Hit while bait was suspended a couple secs in about 6' water.

Bad pic but the scales were large and down the entire sides. Totally silver. Pretty large mouth.

Looks like a grass carp or maybe herring? Would either be predatory fish? The lake has carp, but not grass I dont think. And arent they usually sterile?



Thanks....Bill

[Ratherbfishing]

It might be a local term but I believe that is a creek chub or chub minnow.  Could be wrong but that's what it looks like to me.

[Comfortably Numb]

Thanks thats it. I heard of them but didnt know they were a predatory fish.

[tomustang]

Looks to be in the minnow family, maybe a fallfish

[Bluebasser86]

Looks to be in the minnow family, maybe a fallfish

X2, looks like a Fallfish. Creek Chubs usually have a dark stripe in the same area as their lateral line. 

http://gallery.nanfa.org/v/members/Nate+Tessler/nativenorthamericanfreshwaterfish/cyprinidae/Semotilus/corporalis/Fallfish_+Kennebec+River_+10-12-11_+NT.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=1

[Snakehead Whisperer]

x3 on the fallfish. They're pretty aggressive too.

[Comfortably Numb]

Yup, fallfish it is. My buddy says he catches them in the local rivers up to 16". I guess some got in the lake.

[JayKumar]

We call 'em chubs around here (NJ/NE). Only have them in rivers...that I'm aware of.

[SPEEDBEAD.]

I call 'em musky snacks.

 

Fallfish for sure.

[J Francho]

It's a fallfish.  Creek chubs have a distinctive mouth and are never all silver.

 

Fallfish:

 

Chub: