Please Help with Freshwater Fish ID :)

I found a better pic. Sorry for not providing this one earlier.

In that photo the mouth looks to small for a pikeminnow.  Probably a peamouth.

In that photo the mouth looks to small for a pikeminnow.  Probably a peamouth.

Yeah, looks like it is a peamouth. I tried to find any recipes for it in the net, but nothing. Anybody knows is it edible and what is the best way to cook?

In that photo the mouth looks to small for a pikeminnow.  Probably a peamouth.

Yeah, looks like it is a peamouth. I tried to find any recipes for it in the net, but nothing. Anybody knows is it edible and what is the best way to cook?

I agree with Snowpro, the second photo shows that the fish's mouth is way too small for it to be a northern pikeminnow.  Both peamouths and northern pikeminnows are members of the minnow family, as indicated by the lack of an adipose fin.  Out here in Montana, peamouths have a distinct rusty reddish band along their side and on the side of their head.  The article on how to distinguish between a northern pikeminnow and a peamouth indicates that in the main Columbia River peamouths only have the reddish band during the spawning season.

Like northern pikeminnows, peamouths have many small bones, which make them a pain in the butt to eat unless you pickle them.  So I would be pretty surprised if anybody produces any peamouth recipes.

Peamouths are real easy to catch.  If you are taking some kids fishing and want to give them a good time, go find a school of peamouths.  They'll be pulling them in as fast as they can get their lines back in the water.