Golden Shiner(Notemigonus crysoleucas)
Quick Facts
- Size Range: Up to 12 inches
- Native Species?: Yes
- Food Value: Not edible, but great bait.
The golden shiner is a freshwater baitfish. They live in schools and are planktonic feeders and grazers. They have prominent scales and are often golden and silver colored depending on the amount of tannic acid in the water. They are an important forage fish for larger predators like bass and catfish. They are sometimes used for bait by anglers.
They live in slow moving freshwater systems and ponds throughout the southeastern U.S.
Shiners can be chummed up with bread and caught on tiny hooks with bread balls and dough mixtures. Shiners are commercially raised for bait too, but the wild ones are hardier on the hook.
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Related Fishing Methods
Dead Bait
Dead bait consists of many different types of bait that is no longer alive. Dead bait is still attractive to many fish as they are normally feeding by smell and dead bait is the ticket for smell. Fresh cut fish, dead shrimp, half crab, shucked clam, cut squid and all popular examples of bait that will catch a wide variety of fish. Many sport fish that are predators, will gladly take the opportunity to slurp up a fresh dead bait. A redfish is equally happy to chase down a baitfish or slurp up a dead shrimp on the bottom. Dead bait has the benefit is being easy to obtain, maintain and transport, as opposed to live bait which takes livewells, quality water control and can be harder to obtain.
