What is this fish?
Aug 2, 2020 00:48:33 #
The fins give it away for me. It's a squawfish..
Idaho rivers feed to Columbia.
Idaho rivers feed to Columbia.
Aug 2, 2020 00:50:02 #
Bdubya06 wrote:
The fins give it away for me. It's a squawfish..
Idaho rivers feed to Columbia.
Idaho rivers feed to Columbia.
I'll trust you haha here we dont have much but trout cat panfish carp and plenty of turtles Haha
Aug 2, 2020 00:50:57 #
audigger53 wrote:
They are called Snake Heads here in Maryland. Kill if caught. They do walk on land to go from one water to another. Honest look them up. Good eating so I'm told.
Ya I heard they found those in ga
Aug 2, 2020 00:57:41 #
Been catching those for years here in Oregon.
Dad taught us to throw them on the bank back in the 70s. Need to get them out of the river system. They will eat salmon and steelhead smolt. Have been an issue in our river system for years!
Dad taught us to throw them on the bank back in the 70s. Need to get them out of the river system. They will eat salmon and steelhead smolt. Have been an issue in our river system for years!
Aug 2, 2020 09:38:42 #
EwwWorms
Loc: Inland Northwest
I think you are right. It’s hard to tell sometimes and as you can see I don’t handle fish properly yet... I did manage to release this one.
Aug 2, 2020 14:34:39 #
EwwWorms wrote:
Caught this today at Upper Priest Lake ID - Not sure what it is. He’s back swimming again.
Looks a bit like a bowfin, hard fighter and has fangs. Nuisance fish
Aug 2, 2020 18:50:00 #
Captain Lahti
Loc: Kennewick, WA
FYI If it is a Northern Pike Minnow, it is native to the PNW. In the lower stretch of the Columbia and Snake BPA has a bounty on them because they prey on Salmon smolts, not because they aren’t supposed to be here. The idea is to reduce their number, not eliminate them. Top fishermen make upwards of 100k a year catching them.
Aug 2, 2020 19:00:29 #
Still looks like the Bull trout - caught a few in Priest Lake when I lived there. Never heard of or saw the pike minnow in Priest Lake but that was 10 years ago - just saying for what its worth - all I have to say about it.
Aug 2, 2020 19:58:12 #
Captan Lahti wrote:
FYI If it is a Northern Pike Minnow, it is native to the PNW. In the lower stretch of the Columbia and Snake BPA has a bounty on them because they prey on Salmon smolts, not because they aren’t supposed to be here. The idea is to reduce their number, not eliminate them. Top fishermen make upwards of 100k a year catching them.
The top angler in 2019 made only 53k
Yes your right, the idea is to manage the population not irradicate.
Aug 2, 2020 22:56:22 #
EwwWorms wrote:
Caught this today at Upper Priest Lake ID - Not sure what it is. He’s back swimming again.
Definitely a pike minnow!! And they’re right, super nuisance!! They are native to the PNW. Definitely not an endangered bull trout.
Aug 3, 2020 08:40:25 #
Buck Snort
Loc: Flori-duh
I'm not thinking so mouth not big enough for Pike minnow aka squawfish. I'm thinking a bowfin.
Aug 3, 2020 09:28:33 #
Buck Snort wrote:
I'm not thinking so mouth not big enough for Pike minnow aka squawfish. I'm thinking a bowfin.
Here’s a bowfin. Look at the dorsal fin
Aug 3, 2020 09:30:56 #
Aug 3, 2020 11:31:57 #
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