What kind of fish is this? Not big at all had a hump on its head.

Definitely horny head chub. The creeks and rivers around me are full of them. I used to do some yearly maintenance work for a old veteran who would shein for the horny heads and would keep the smallest ones. He would gut them clean the outside and can them like sardines or similar. I never tryed them but he swore they was greatest thing since slice bread. I've cooked a couple big ones ive caught and it wouldn't be my first fish to go for if I was hungry.
 
An old guy that I grew up around would take the big knotty heads and grind them up and make fish patties out of them.
They weren’t too shabby.
 
HandyDave said:
Definitely horny head chub. The creeks and rivers around me are full of them. I used to do some yearly maintenance work for a old veteran who would shein for the horny heads and would keep the smallest ones. He would gut them clean the outside and can them like sardines or similar. I never tryed them but he swore they was greatest thing since slice bread. I've cooked a couple big ones ive caught and it wouldn't be my first fish to go for if I was hungry.
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Use them as bait. One of the biggest largemouth bass I’ve ever landed was caught on one of those.
 
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