Can someone please help identify this fish for me? (Page 2): Black Drum, It Will Live..... as for the baby cats, the spawn is pretty much over.... the future is theirs...

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Can someone please help identify this fish for me?

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Jul 6, 2019 21:58:30 #

WhiskerKnight

Black Drum, It Will Live..... as for the baby cats, the spawn is pretty much over.... the future is theirs

Jul 7, 2019 08:51:59 #

charlykilo Loc: Garden Valley Ca

Still confused? Was the pond salt? Texas says black drums are salt water.

Jul 7, 2019 09:06:21 #

doc alden

FS Digest wrote:

Pls tell me what kind of fish this is, it looks really nice, caught it earlier in the local pond, BTW when I was returning it, it moved really slow at first, it wasn't hooked in the gill at all, but it'll still live right? the pond probably goes 10-12 feet deep max.

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by Lrkz2

That's a banded tucumnarf, thought to be extinct. Worth a ton of money! Should've kept it.

Jul 7, 2019 12:57:11 #

Raybies93

Golf courses use fertilizers and pesticides at a much higher rate than homeowners. This residue depending on the structure of the course possibly will drain into the water hazards or ponds. Sometimes the fertilizer will cause huge plant and algae growth in these waters so sometimes they add algae inhibitors. So the pond may be loaded with chemicals, but if it is not in a drainage path for the chemicals, it could be fine. If the fish seem healthy, its probably fine.

Jul 7, 2019 19:16:24 #

Jim Kay Loc: Franklin, Virginia

It is a Tilapia. a type of Chiclid.

Jul 7, 2019 21:10:56 #

captobx

Tilapia? Is that a fresh water fish?

Sold in Foodlion, filleted, if course!

Captobx

Jul 7, 2019 22:23:31 #

teabag09 Loc: Chesapeake, Virginia

FS Digest wrote:

I never released them, but I never caught a fish like this one before in this pond, and ive been here a while, I also noticed a few days ago their were hundreds of baby catfish, is it possible the people who run the golf course/lakes put it in there with the catfish? Just a wild guess I wouldn’t know... after I put it back in though it moved really slow, taking a guess do you think itll live? It was still able to swim away, just slowly after pausing for a second.

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by Lrkz2

If those baby catfish were in a mass at the surface gulping air you were looking at BOWFIN aka GRINDLE fry. If you have a fine net and can, catch them and throw them on land to kill them. Mike

Jul 8, 2019 12:45:44 #

Jim Kay Loc: Franklin, Virginia

No need to play God. Bowfins do not overpopulate or out compete Bass or other prey and put up a terrific fight when hooked. They may also have been Catfish fry/

Jul 8, 2019 12:54:40 #

teabag09 Loc: Chesapeake, Virginia

Jim Kay wrote:

No need to play God. Bowfins do not overpopulate or out compete Bass or other prey and put up a terrific fight when hooked. They may also have been Catfish fry/

Jim, in a large body of water you are right. In a small enclosed body they can be devastating as they have no natural predators, pump out hundreds of fry per female which by the way stays close to the swarm of fry and protects them and they grow quite large with big appetites for other fish. Do you fish? Aren't you playing God when you keep and kill a fish? Mike

Jul 8, 2019 12:59:46 #

Jim Kay Loc: Franklin, Virginia

Yes I do fish and I keep a small percentage of what I catch which just makes me another predator.

Jul 8, 2019 16:46:34 #

fishsniff

Just thought I'd clock in on the fish ID question. In less than 60 seconds googling photos of drums and tilapia fishes; the fish in the above photo that's being held out for identification is unquestionably a tilapia. No drums come even close. Do the Google photos comparison and full see for sure: tilapia identical.

Jul 8, 2019 18:56:46 #

teabag09 Loc: Chesapeake, Virginia

Jim Kay wrote:

Yes I do fish and I keep a small percentage of what I catch which just makes me another predator.

I also only keep what I intend to use or supply others with and I'm defiantly a predator but only, like you, what I'm going to use. Tight lines and may you aim be true. Mike

Jul 8, 2019 21:12:27 #

fishrmans Loc: Waushara Cnty Wisconsin and Port Charlotte Fl

NOT a black drum. Not even close. This is a tilapia. Not a native fish but very good eating.

Jul 9, 2019 03:52:30 #

Lfos847 Loc: N E Florida

He said it was from a pond. Isn’t a drum a saltwater fish? Talapia in Florida have those dark stripes also.

Jul 10, 2019 16:26:21 #

Ronniewilliams44 Loc: West Palm Beach, FL

Tilapia

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