after me and a couple of buddies looked at the fish everyone said that it was a golden shiner
ya i got the picture offline but i got the picture of the fish that looks exactly like the one i got.
and in the regulations there is a page that says report any unfamiliar and invasive species
so i called them and told them that there is i different species that could make it into the hatchery
i was just concerned about our future fish and their health
and i didn't know that they would come all the way up to the hatchery
and i read that the golden shiner is food to the cuttroat trout,,that is good,.
but the only thing that i a worried about,. is if the come up in mass numbers they mite get into the spawning beds and destroy the salmon and steel head eggs
for instance Evans creek where it meets the rogue there is a little cliff and when you look off that cliff the water is black with the pike minnow and the golden shiners ,, literally thousands of them,.
what would happen if they moved up into the spawning beds?
thanks for the incite guys and Colby me and you have got to go fishing for coho sometime ill show you some really good ways to catch them
Chubs were probably brought there to use as live bait. Thats just my guess though.