Newbie, Help ID species

[Hoang Nguyen]

Good morning all. 

I've been lurking for a while now, really like the board, hope to make it to a beer tie one day when work/life allows.

I was hoping some of you all could help I.D. a fish I snagged down in Waynesboro this past weekend, South River just south of the bridge in town.

Here's a smaller one of what I think is the same species:

Still pretty new to fly fishing, caught more sunfish/bluegill than I can count. 1 smallmouth and whatever that ^ thing is. No trout yet.

I don't know where to begin to search or keywords to search against, besides sorting through the VGIF species list (which I didnt find any to look like this guy).

Caught this decent sized bluegill too:

[Rob Snowhite]

Fallfish. Did it make any noise? Loud little critters. 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallfish

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[Hoang Nguyen]

Why yes, come to think of it, it did make some funny sucking noises while I was trying to free it. Just as your link described.

I was afraid I was going to kill it, as it was making some what I assume to be gasping sounds.

[TurbineBlade]

I kinda like fallfish.  We didn't have those in MO, so I was confused when I hooked one on the SF several weeks ago.  Actually, I caught one that was larger than any of the SMB I ended up catching....and one of the 3-4 I caught was a "croaker".  Like the catfish.  

Gene

[Brendan]

think it might be a different strain of the chub family, and never caught one over twelve inches out there, but missouri definitely has suckers/chubs/fallfish. 

i don't necessarily mind them except the big ones that get my hopes up for a trophy trout. caught one a few years ago pushing 20" on a midsize trout stream in central VA. still remember the feeling of when i realized it wasn't a trout. solid fight at least.