Actually looks like Mullet. Very prolific breeders and quite tasty!

I'm always amazed by the maze of electrical wiring in some of these period photos. This one is a prime example. The pole on the left has an estimated 10 lines per crossbar, with 8 crossbars -- 80 lines of humming electricity! The one on the right side of the photo has 10 crossbars, but too out of focus to count the insulators. And that's before the carbon-arc lamp and overhead trolley lines are factored in. Must have been quite a hum, especially in a rainstorm.

[Those are telegraph or telephone lines. - Dave]

Can’t beat Shad Row, but you couldn’t stop me from trying.

That poor fellow ripped up from stem to stern but emerged victorious.

Looks like shad, a bit larger than I run into around here. Here, we just use it to catch catfish. My grandpa who grew up in Depression era northeast Arkansas and would eat odd things would throw 'em to the critters. Wonder how much this gentleman would charge me for a fish?