No stripes on this perch!

[Perchcrazy]

Caught this one out of a cory in canada never seen anything like it have you? I was meaning to take it to the dec but never got to it and ended up throwing it out ! maybe ill catch another one this summer who knows! check out more of my perch pics on the ny forum !

[bassman86]

my guess is that it is a cross between a  large mouth bass and a perch.

[river_scum]

bassman
thats what i thaught lol

[dogfish]

NO cannot be a hybred.  That can only happen within the same Genus (ie. Brook trout and Lake trout both are in the Char family, Salvolinus Genus thus you have the splake; or Musky and Northern Pike both in the Esox Genus so you get the Tiger Musky)  The perch is in the Perca Genus and The Bass is in the sunfish Genus (I forget the name... my icthy prof would not be happy here).  Any ways the two could not interbreed.  Sorry if I went on here class for the day is over.
Dogfish

[wallyguy]

we get perch like that here in saskatchewanit is just cross breeding with other strains of perch

[Oagie]

There is a little article in the latest in-fishermen ice fishing mag about blue perch.  The fish in that picture had a blue / silver shimmer to it and didn;t have any strips.  Anyway, the article listed a name and email address of a person who is interested in any pictures of that type of fish.  I dont have the mag with me or I would post the info but I will later.

Oag.

[Fishinut]

Yea, it does look like a bass. Thanks dogfish.....i was wondering what a splake was.

[icefishnfool]

I have caught several in eel bay around the 1000 islands ....that is a BLUE PERCH....and caught a blonde one at deepcreekMaryland  that was all yellow

[Germ]

SOme sort of mutation i would think. Iv'e caught 2 before that i ment to take to the MNR that had a hump in their tail...Anyone ever have that>?

[IceKing]

looks like a largemouth perch. LOL

[crapyking]

I thought a blue perch was a walleye hybred thing. I think it's no more than a reg yellow w/ a pigment problem.

[RebelIceFshr]

Looks like a little white perch.   

[bigredonice]

just looks like a normal yellow perch with a wierd melanistic phase...happens alot in nature, most dont survive past fry state. (you see alot of this kind of thing at hatcheries)

oh yeah, a splake is a cross between a brook trout and a lake trout

Hey dogfish!! you can cross other genus sometimes - ever hear of a tiger trout?? thats a brook trout and a brown trout hybrid.

[Pasquatch]

just looks like a normal yellow perch with a wierd melanistic phase...happens alot in nature, most dont survive past fry state. (you see alot of this kind of thing at hatcheries)

oh yeah, a splake is a cross between a brook trout and a lake trout

Hey dogfish!! you can cross other genus sometimes - ever hear of a tiger trout?? thats a brook trout and a brown trout hybrid.

Lance is right, that's a melanistic mutant,I've caught some skinny bluegills like that before

[kingfshr16]

 OK OK so we know what it really is scientifically, but i do agree it looks like a largemouth perch 

[bigredonice]

its one ugly MF'er if you ask me - that puppy goes back down the hole with the rest of 'em.

[WVBoy]

Maybe its a yellow and white perch cross ?