Name that fish..
 

Characteristics..

Does not eat any known bait...I snagged it with a crankbait by accident..

Very rough pre historic like scales...

Vegetarian for the most part..

Found in all the central FL lakes..

Incredible! This is a freshwater fish?

Yes sir..sure is and surprising enough sold in probably every state..(-: that was a hint..

Looks like somethig i have seen before somewhere- looks somewhat familar but cant place it- its a fish "sold" ( at the fish market?)in about every state?
This is a replica of a odd one they catch here( but i have seen diffent fish& picts that made them look a bit diffent then this to)

No sir...the stores that these are sold at are...Walmart...and probably every state..

Walmart to eh- must be pretty commen hmmm.

Do ya know the one i put up there?( they get pretty big- pretty commen to in one form or another)


Just a post from the poltical forum i though you might like( nothing to do with poltices tho)

http://www.youtube.com/user/sleepymanbanjoboys

The one you posted Mr.Fish looks like a Jew Fish to me...

Is there another name for Jew fish? The ones here like in my pict are fresh water of course.

Seems you picked a hard one to guess C7( but it sholdnt be if its in walmarts etc lol

Yes jewfish?500 Pound Goliath Grouper Sea Bass Jewfish Fish





More videos for jewfish » -i thought you maybe ment grouper... its not that though- nope.They dont get that big here (anyways -the one i posted lol.

Hint-The fish in my pict do look longer of body then that example imo- but i think its just the angle the pict was taken from is all.

Heres the mouth of another of the same kind( as my first pict).

Not a vaggin/ veggie eater ;)

To be fair some of those saltwater ones do look a lil diffent maybe .

But heres some from utah( though it looks just like Wy to m e);)




Dont know who that person is...

My picture fish only gets to be about 2 pounds when fully grown..People DO NOT eat them..Them are mostly bought for their CLEANING SKILLS hint hint

Ohhk bought live then? - in the pet dept- some kinda alge eater, bottom sucker cleaner?lol


IStill dont know its name off hand( latin for scum sucker? ;) )

When my son was in the MP,s in germany& we visted him- we went to there walmart - they had large tanks of fish to eat- like trout etc. I (saw) that sams clubs in china sells pretty good size live turtle to eat.

Plecostomus- close?

No sir...that's not it..the fish will only be in Walmart"s that sell fish tanks and fish..this fish will cost about 3.99 each and will ne about 2 inches long..when they are bigger they put them in lakes..and that is the problem..


Sorry..you are correct on the scientific name....I checked it out (-;


The Walmart name would be Algae Eatter....the common name is Sucker mouthed catfish

There non native to the area? evasive speices?I have heard/seen etc about quite a few things down in fla- snakes lizards, plants fish etc getting to be a problem or out of control in the wild etc. Not just there of course but elsewhere to.

That fish i posted is native to wy- but on the east side of the contintanal divide only- but some claim its bad for waters here on the west side of the divide -that hold lake trout, smallmouth bass, rainbows etc& bad for those fish- that are also non native to those waters also or here at all maybe even.

Go figure- maybe based on what one makes the most moneys & is the most popular etc hmmm...... I think they like to eat them popular fishs s yep.

Thanks Chuck-i seem to me missing links & ppls post today till i goback& reread things again( sometimes more then once even)

a good one - I only got it though because you gave me all those hints etc to. I was stuck on the though of it being food & in the food dept(& native species etc too yep lol.

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Yep those lake trout are for sure not native to here either i dont think or those german browns etc etc & many other:s13:s either(including walleye that came from up river( but down south in Co after a flood & illegal trasnplants etc in the past.

I was thinking along the same line as that.. In fact I used to have a large one that killed an Oscar on me.. It was a loarge Oscar and it kept sucking on the side of it. More so after I cleaned the tank as we have soft water here with very little Algae in it..

I actually have one of only a handfull of wells in the state here that has soft water..

Your blessed with such good water Phil..my parents in MD have very hard water..kills the inside of the toilet..rich in iron

Kinda looks like a Plecostemas <sp?>

looks like a goby to me.

Yes Mr. Fish Knightia got it correct

Scientific Name ...Plecostomus
Pet Store Name ...Algea Eatter
Common Name......Sucker Mouthed catfish

Gangly's Name for It.....Tank Cleaner

Lol Gamgly needs to get some bass on the board..(-;

I need to for sure. I have tried lake conroe for 4 trips now and have struck out on every trip. Getting awful tired of it. Im about to give up on conroe for the rest of the spawn and go back to the honey hole to see what I can do there.

You mean you totally struck out? Not even a dink?

Yes, I do realize this.. They have asked me if I would be interested in hooking up to a town waterline if they were to put one in going by me.. You can pretty much guess my answer to that one.. A BIG NO WAY!

Not even a dink....very disappointed in my results. I'll have to figure out where they are at because I honestly don't have a clue at this point.

I Googled Lake Conroe and watched alot of videos..I wasn't thrilled with the fish sizes and the pressure that lake gets..It looks like the successful fishermen fish the creek tributaries that have the stumps ,pads etc..and even then..the size I saw wasn't huge..You may want to find another lake..or get on some Lake Conroe forums and get alot of information.

The lake is good, multiple share lunkers came out of it last season. Mike Iaconelli pulled in stringers averaging over three lbs per fish in the Texas BASS classic that is held there. The fish in that lake are big. The only problem is that the lake conroe HOA decided to throw in butt loads of grass carp and they ate all the vegetation in the lake. The lake is BARE other than stumps, so the fish are spread out and can be hard to locate. Once you locate them though, you can usually catch fish on those spots darn near year round, its just hard to find those spots and fisherman on this lake are tight lipped. Also add in the fact that the lake has gone up 6 feet in almost 2 months has made it that much harder to locate them.

I'll figure it out eventually, I just havent had any luck with it yet. It doesnt halp that the fish finder on the front of my boat went kaput which means I have no clue what depth Im fishing or where the structure is while Im fishing. I basically drive around in water depth that I think they will be in, go in circles until I find structure in the area, then fish that area pretty good. It hasnt worked out yet, but I'm confident that once i get on them I will be able to pattern them pretty quickly.

I would think Tezas would have stringers of 5-7 pound bass ..for pros that is...Texas is right up there with hFL and Cal. ....I believe Lake Fork produces monsters.

We have always called it a picasimus, ive fished central FL my whole life

Which Lake's do you fish?

I typed that wrong chuck, his stringer average was 5-6 lbs, my fault. The lake is solid, its just hard to pattern because of the lack of strucutre/cover.