fallfish

For all I knew, it could have been a four-inch dace or thumb-sized fallfish.

Semotilus corporalis (fallfish)

Golden shiners, American eels, fallfish, yellow bullheads, greenside darters and walleyes used to occur in the watershed but no longer do so.

Common shiners spawn in spring, usually over the nest of a creek chub, river chub, or fallfish, although some males will make their own small nests.

Bait and other fish species in the lake include American eel, common shiner, creek chub, fallfish, golden shiner, landlocked alewives, ninespine stickleback, pearl dace, and white sucker.

The pond also supports populations of largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, yellow perch, white perch, chain pickerel, hornpout, rainbow smelt, white sucker, fallfish, golden shiners, pumpkinseed sunfish and slimy sculpin.

USS Corporal (SS-346), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the corporal, an alternate name for the fallfish, found in streams of the eastern United States.