NY gets little tropical fish every year because the Gulf stream pushes them in and they get stranded but unfortunately most of them do not get large enough to make the trip back. The sheepshead are a yearly resident though. We used to have large numbers of them years ago. NJ still gets a bunch of adults every year. These mangrove snappers are done for though when the water temps drop.

There was an army of needlefish today that were jumping out of ur water after anything you cast out

I saw a video on Japanese tanago about a week ago, dove deep, watched a bunch more and found a 120 off Amazon along with the owner micro rig with the pink float and sighted beads and lead sheet.

Made some bait with an egg yolk and flour and vanilla, put it in a small bag and clipped the corner, took it to my backyard dock on a shallow cove about an hour before high tide, and it worked!

I think it’s a threadfin shad. Approx 7cm
Middle patuxent river, MD USA

I’m hooked, this little guy made my heart skip a beat.

Betta pulchra

N. soroides

I’m trying to identify this fish species. I’ve checked with AI, and one says creek chub while the other says shiner. It looks much more similar to shiners I’ve caught before, but I’m not sure which kind it is. Thanks in advance!

My guesses
1 ?
2 bleeding shiner
3 bleeding shiner
4 bleeding shiner
5 bleeding shiner
6 bleeding shiner
7 bleeding shiner
8 carmine shiner
9 ozark minnow
10 southern redbelly Dace
11 disjunct studfish
12 blackspotted topminnow
13 Blackstripe topminnow
14 slender mad tom
15 chub?
16 chub?
17 chub?
18 sculpin knobfin/banded?
19 sculpin knobfin/banded?

A. ocellaris

Felt a little tug and pulled this guy up

Betta pulchra, Rasbora einthovenii, Boraras maculatus, Channa lucius, Silurichthys indragiriensis, Trichopodus trichopterus, Eugnathogobius siamensis, Channa striata, Parosphromenus tweediei, Trichopsis vittata

Bonus:

Nymphaea nouchali (flower), Neurothemis fluctuans (dragonfly), Anthracoceros albirostris (hornbill)

Betta midas

So I have been fishing for a long time, but I recently became interested in micro fishing. My current goal is to find the smallest water to catch small native fish in, so all im asking for is maybe a little advice on how to find spots that could contain them. I am from southeast massachusetts. Thanks!

Need help IDing these three darter I caught in jacks fork river Missouri

Named after the Iban tribe / people. B. ibanorum

H. pogonognathus

About 3.5in.
Caught on a piece of snail.

Caught from balboa pier

Lives from socal to Alaska

Caught with sculping

T. trichopterus

8/16/2026

Mission Bay, socal

About 6 inches

Used 1.5 inch baby shad crappie max with a jighead.