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I caught a strange looking fish, I took a photo of it and when I got home, I looked it up, I believe it was a Gizzard Shad, I never knew they got so large (13") 8 years fishing the river and thats the first one I've caught.

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Could it have possibly been a mooneye? Here's a picture:

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Mooneye is what you caught. I catch these on ocasion fishing for walleyes. Northerns and Muskie love these. I had one on the end on my line reeling it in and had a huge 40"+ muskie hit it. It was a site to behold and takes you by surprise. 3 times now muskies have attacked the fish at the end of my line. 2 with the mooneye and once with a silverbass on the end.

Mooneye frys are the school of SHAD you see all over the river if I am right.

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No i'm sure it was a gizzard shad, because a mooney doesn't have a black dot behind the head also the fin on the top fans down, kind of looks like a graylings fins, it was way cool cool.gif

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Mooneye frys are the school of SHAD you see all over the river if I am right.


That is wrong. They are Gizzard Shad. An important forage fish for alot of gamefish. And yes they get bigger than minnow size. When they get to be 8-14 inches in size they go after lures & bait. I caught numerous large shad on the Croix.

Walli your fish is a Gizzard Shad from the details you said.

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Thanks for the info cool.gif

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Walli 1

if you still have the fish cut the skull open if it has rocks in it, its a mooneye, when we were kids we called the rocks pearls

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I only took a picture of it, and released it

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Why don't you post the pic?

Every few years I get a big shad while jigging in the fall.

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