RIVER MINNOW ?

[fish4thepeck]

Does anybody remember the River minnow. All the old timers use to go up to hales bar and catch them with a steel cone shaped trap with a handle. They caught them below Nicka-jack for a few years then they just disappeared They were a soft sucker type minnow. Similar to a steelback but were pearl color and a turned down mouth.. The real name I think was River Chub but everybody just called them River Minnows You were almost guaranteed a Kentucy when fishing with one. A lot of people would actually use a tiny minnow hook and a piece of worm to catch them. I hadn’t seen one in years just wandering if anybody had any information on them?

 

[DHaun]

Log Perch perhaps?

I caught a smallmouth on a live log perch and 5 more after it died next to Chickamuaga Dam last year. I caught the little fish fishing for bream next to the wall. I'm waiting on one of these local CFF lure makers to replicate one!

 

[fishinvol]

DHaun - 7/21/2007 3:01 PM

Log Perch perhaps?

I caught a smallmouth on a live log perch and 5 more after it died next to Chickamuaga Dam last year. I caught the little fish fishing for bream next to the wall. I'm waiting on one of these local CFF lure makers to replicate one!

Hey David, you should have TR19 look at that. He can probably match it. He builds crankbaits.

 

[DHaun]

I was bream fishing at the time with my kids next to the wall at the Dam when no turbines were running. I knew what the species was due to reading past posts on CFF. After I caught it, I just threw that little guy over the side of the boat with split shot on the bottom and put the rod in the rod holder. Every so often I would look over and the rod would have a fish on it - all smallmouth. No cranking or lure action was involved. Maybe a jig next to the wall might fool them. They eat those things like candy - even dead. I wonder if its a legal species for bait shops to sell for bait?

 

[japlata]

It has markings similar to a log perch, I could be wrong of course but I believe the log perch has fins similar to a yellow perch and the sauger.emoScratch

 

[fish4thepeck]

No guys, I'm not talking about logperch aka.. wallclimbers, jackminners . Here is a pic of the closest thing I could find. also going to include pic of a stoneroller aka... steelback, creek minner.

 

[fish4thepeck]

pic of stoneroller ....sorry about my computer skills look at next thread

 

[fish4thepeck]

pic of stoneroller

 

[BigFishGuide]

Old timers call them Wall Crawlers. I have not seen many of them in the last couple of years. I usually see them while sauger fishing in the winter and late fall around the walls of the dam. They are super quick and hard to catch. They can almost guarantee you a smallie if you have one on.

Wish I had a bucket of them right now.

 

[Ramhurst]

There's a minnow that is in Carters Lake that the old timers call a darter and at times is a pretty good bait, but then at times its just like any other live bait, I guess when the fish are on them they hit 'em but when their not their not.

 

[DoubleB]

Is this it?

 

[fish4thepeck]

The minnow I am talking about is not in the Darter family. The pic of the minnow is close to what I am talking about. Me and my Dad and every ole river rat that fished the River in the sixties Knew it as simply RIVER Minnow. I am not talking about wall climbers ( real name LOG PERCH). My theory on the absence is---- they started disappearing a little while after I 24 came thru. and Nickajack was built. Could be related to their spawning habits. Also about this time the smallmouth started disappearing from the River. (Am real glad the Smallmouth are on a comeback.) Also we went thru a period when the water quality was really bad. The Minnow I am talking about was 3 to 4 inhes long.