Name this fish

[Swampbucks1]

I have no idea what type of fish this is. I was told it could be some type of goby, someone suggested it may be some type of stickleback? 

Notes: it had NO scales and a trout like skin/mouth.

I'd love to know..

[HUNTER16]

Looks like it has the markings of a muskie.

[Chucker]

I already answered on MFF 

Darter.

[nybigeyes]

How does it feel to catch a snakehead!
Bottom pic is Snakehead.

not darter

[Scientist]

What you caught is a logperch
http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/detail.asp?source=&parkid=&searchText=&allSpecies=&shapeID=992&lshapeID=0&curAbbr=&lastView=default&lastGroup=3&lastRegion=&lastFilter=4&lastShapeName=&trackType=&curRegionID=&size=&habitat=&fruit=&color=&sortBy=family&curFamilyID=&regionSelect=All+regions&regionZIP=&curGroupID=3&lgfromWhere=&curPageNum=8

[polarfisher]

What you caught is a logperch
http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/detail.asp?source=&parkid=&searchText=&allSpecies=&shapeID=992&lshapeID=0&curAbbr=&lastView=default&lastGroup=3&lastRegion=&lastFilter=4&lastShapeName=&trackType=&curRegionID=&size=&habitat=&fruit=&color=&sortBy=family&curFamilyID=&regionSelect=All+regions&regionZIP=&curGroupID=3&lgfromWhere=&curPageNum=8

i would have to say it is also by looking at the picture

[rodrunner]

I name it BAIT..

[Mainehazmt]

my 3yrold  called it a fisshhy

[Danderson]

I name it BAIT..

i agree

[Pasquatch]

I say Darter. So many types, its hard to call it out. Where did you catch it?

[pikeking]

I'd say that's a nice piece of bait right there.

[1MOFISH]

ummmm bait

[dkfry]

How does it feel to catch a snakehead!
Bottom pic is Snakehead.

not darter


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Its not a snakehead.

Compare the gill position between the two and you can see the gills on the snakehead are position alot farther back than the other fish.


Stick it on a Tip-Up.

[Master Angler]

Definitely not a stickleback.  Looks like a Logperch.

[PWR BAIT]

You are right its a log perch.

[ChenBassHead]

Log perch, no doubt.  I've seined several of them this year in my fisheries classes. 

[jayswimmer09]

who cares i bet the bass would love it!!

[PWR BAIT]

who cares i bet the bass would love it!!

Walleyes love them too

[icetechy]

a Tuzzy fish?

[duck doctor]

I would say that you are right about the Logperch thing given the fact that this is there home range:

Range From Quebec west to Saskatchewan; Hudson River drainage in Vermont and New York; St. Lawrence, Great Lakes, and Mississippi River systems; Gulf Coast drainages from w. Florida west to Mississippi and e. Texas.

[Swampbucks1]

Thanks for all the input fellas..I picked it up after swinging a fly, pause, pause, went to roll cast and almost tossed him instead.   It did come out of a great lake trib.

[Mainehazmt]

bait

[panfishman13]

i was going to say it looked like a juvenile bowfin but apparently it's a logperch

[mike304]

http://cars.er.usgs.gov/Southeastern_Aquatic_Fauna/Freshwater_Fishes/Logperch/logperch.html

Looks like a Logperch to me.

[JiggerMan]

log perch....  No doubt....

[vivlamored]

sand pike minnow

[slamminwalleyes]

my 3yrold  called it a fisshhy

I think the kid is right its a fisshhy