Please ID this fish!!
07-18-2007, 01:16 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Fairport ny USA
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Please ID this fish!!
Gang,
I was fishiing off the dock with my 4 yr old son for bluegills, pumpkinseeds and rock bass when he hooked this fish. It was only 6-7 inches long and I lip-landed it like a bass (I can't do that with the average sunfish he catches as the mouths are tiny).
It's built like a bass and has pumpkinseed markings on it's face. It has bizarre markings... notice the white edged fins. Any insight? We called it the 'Weirdo"
I was fishiing off the dock with my 4 yr old son for bluegills, pumpkinseeds and rock bass when he hooked this fish. It was only 6-7 inches long and I lip-landed it like a bass (I can't do that with the average sunfish he catches as the mouths are tiny).
It's built like a bass and has pumpkinseed markings on it's face. It has bizarre markings... notice the white edged fins. Any insight? We called it the 'Weirdo"
07-18-2007, 03:32 PM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 1,085
RE: Please ID this fish!!
It's a green sunfish...
Google 'em... If it was as big as you said it's a BIG one...Most are quite small...
Thier mouth is quite a bit bigger than a bluegill or pumpkinseed, but they tend to be quite a small fish..
What lake did you catch it in..?? I haven't caught any inNY's Finger Lakes, but they are very common in the Tioga County PA reservoirs, the Hammond and Cowanesque dams...
Google 'em... If it was as big as you said it's a BIG one...Most are quite small...
Thier mouth is quite a bit bigger than a bluegill or pumpkinseed, but they tend to be quite a small fish..
What lake did you catch it in..?? I haven't caught any inNY's Finger Lakes, but they are very common in the Tioga County PA reservoirs, the Hammond and Cowanesque dams...
