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Indiana => Ice Fishing Indiana => Topic started by: gruntngrin on Jan 19, 2010, 06:32 PM

Title: Fish ID
Post by: gruntngrin on Jan 19, 2010, 06:32 PM: Got this out of the minnow trap in the creek thats in the back yard.I have no idea what kind of fish it is.Does anyone know what it is?

(http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j254/commando64/102_0402.jpg)
Title: Re: Fish ID
Post by: fishinator on Jan 19, 2010, 06:40 PM: looks kind of like a walleye minnow
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Post by: GAMBELL on Jan 19, 2010, 06:41 PM: Log perch

Here look at this
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://pond.dnr.cornell.edu/nyfish/Percidae/logperch.jpg&imgrefurl=http://pond.dnr.cornell.edu/nyfish/Percidae/logperch.html&usg=__ogYb57PGvpMozMNBsnP-R_-c1ng=&h=394&w=1008&sz=87&hl=en&start=3&tbnid=Ix50aa02KErTCM:&tbnh=59&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlog%2Bperch%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den
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Post by: greensider on Jan 19, 2010, 06:41 PM: baby eye
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Post by: Greg2ha on Jan 19, 2010, 07:02 PM: Cool! Looks like a Walleye fry.
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Post by: A- bomb on Jan 19, 2010, 08:21 PM: aaaah! the old blacksided darter in a winter phase...
only eaten by the largest pike in any given body of water...only the alpha eye can get to it before that monster pike....did you say you let it go??

not sure about that but does look like this...
http://www.btdarters.com/pages/blackside.html (http://www.btdarters.com/pages/blackside.html)
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Post by: Curt on Jan 19, 2010, 09:19 PM: Looks like some sort of darter to me also.
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Post by: pooley on Jan 19, 2010, 09:30 PM: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://pond.dnr.cornell.edu/nyfish/Percidae/logperch.jpg&imgrefurl=http://pond.dnr.cornell.edu/nyfish/Percidae/logperch.html&usg=__ogYb57PGvpMozMNBsnP-R_-c1ng=&h=394&w=1008&sz=87&hl=en&start=3&tbnid=Ix50aa02KErTCM:&tbnh=59&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlog%2Bperch%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://pond.dnr.cornell.edu/nyfish/Percidae/logperch.jpg&imgrefurl=http://pond.dnr.cornell.edu/nyfish/Percidae/logperch.html&usg=__ogYb57PGvpMozMNBsnP-R_-c1ng=&h=394&w=1008&sz=87&hl=en&start=3&tbnid=Ix50aa02KErTCM:&tbnh=59&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlog%2Bperch%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den)
Title: Re: Fish ID
Post by: AlgaeKilla on Jan 20, 2010, 12:08 AM: this is a log perch here. Yours looks awfully dam similar. You can't tell in this picture, but the fins are identical.
(http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t88/AlgaeKilla/LogPerch1.jpg)
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Post by: river_scum on Jan 20, 2010, 04:54 AM: i dont think it has a log perch nose though. they have a pointed rubbery nose. log perch are very common around here. i have gotten lots of them in my bait traps too. not good bait though, must be to spinney.?
Title: Re: Fish ID
Post by: GIBBS on Jan 21, 2010, 04:16 PM: Quote from: A- bomb on Jan 19, 2010, 08:21 PM
aaaah! the old blacksided darter in a winter phase...
only eaten by the largest pike in any given body of water...only the alpha eye can get to it before that monster pike....did you say you let it go??

not sure about that but does look like this...
http://www.btdarters.com/pages/blackside.html (http://www.btdarters.com/pages/blackside.html)
Man that s&^%$ is killen me! lmoa :roflmao: :clap:
Title: Re: Fish ID
Post by: abishop on Jan 21, 2010, 05:54 PM: LOOKS LIKE EITHER A WALLEYE OR SAUGER.
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Post by: justatrout on Jan 21, 2010, 06:31 PM: baby wally
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Post by: marmooskapaul on Jan 21, 2010, 06:36 PM: Sir, it looks like you are in possesion of an under size walleye. The proper authorities have been notified. ::)

Paul
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Post by: fishygene on Jan 21, 2010, 07:02 PM: a bomb is right me thinks. baby eye wheres the white tip. baby sauger wheres the spots my 2 cents fishy
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Post by: Derslayer1 on Jan 22, 2010, 04:50 AM: SAUGER
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Post by: GIBBS on Jan 22, 2010, 06:46 AM: I AM STILL LAUGHIN. Man that's funny, what A,BOMB said that is. Yep lil baby walleye.
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Post by: frozennut on Jan 22, 2010, 09:31 AM: Could be a Greensided Darter, the darters are hard to tell apart with out
having an ictheologist standing next to you counting lateral line scales and
dorsal fin spines ::) but that would be my shot in the dark.

COOL CATCH!!!
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Post by: imob34 on Jan 22, 2010, 12:39 PM: Biologist brother just told me that he is 100% sure it's some sort of darter
Title: Re: Fish ID
Post by: crappie66 on Jan 22, 2010, 02:22 PM: Did you keep it?

I would put it in an aquarium and let it grow some to see what it actually is.
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Post by: frozennut on Jan 22, 2010, 03:56 PM: Yeah Darters are way cool in an aquarium!!!
I have set up a couple of small stream tanks with
these guys and they are neat to watch, but that one is
full grown. Put a smallie in though and you will wake up with
a bronze football swiming in your tank ;D