The golden redhorse (Moxostoma erythrurum) is a species of freshwater fish endemic to Ontario and Manitoba in Canada and the Midwestern, southern, and eastern United States.

It lives in calm, often silty or sandy waters in streams, small to large rivers, and lakes.

The golden redhorse can be found in freshwater habitats across 25 different states in the eastern half of North America.

The Mobile Bay drainage basin in the states of Alabama, Georgia, and southeastern Tennessee also contains the golden redhorse.

Spawning most often occurs in a runs or riffles within the main stream, but some individuals may move into smaller, more well protected tributaries.

The spawning streams are gravel bottomed, as their benthic, bottom-dwelling young prefer to hide beneath the stones after they hatch from their adhesive eggs.

[7][8] The golden redhorse is also pursued by 21st century bowfishing that produces tons of wanton waste, where fish are targeted with bow and arrows at day or night in unregulated fashion.

[6] For example in Minnesota, 21st century bowfishing redhorse waste, exclusively from tournaments, exceeds that of statewide commercial harvest by more than 200 times.

Fishing several inches off the stream bottom with simple worms as bait is a good method to catch suckers.

[9] The IGFA record for the species stands at 4 pounds 1 ounce (1.8 kg) caught from French Creek in Franklin, Pennsylvania in 1997.