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Title: Need help identifying Pitt Meadows fish (solved)
Post by: dkmr1 on April 26, 2016, 04:49:52 PM
Hi there,

Saw this fish in a small pond in Pitt Meadows and am trying to identify it.  It was about 8" long and was hiding near lily pads. There are sunfish in the pond as well. Sorry for the poor quality photo.

Thx. Donna

(http://i844.photobucket.com/albums/ab3/dkmr1/image_zpsvkudsnkv.jpeg)
Title: Re: Need help identifying Pitt Meadows fish
Post by: milo on April 26, 2016, 05:23:53 PM
Hard to determine 100%, but it looks like a rainbow trout to me.
Title: Re: Need help identifying Pitt Meadows fish
Post by: firstlight on April 26, 2016, 06:32:25 PM
Looks like a Large Mouth Bass to me.
Title: Re: Need help identifying Pitt Meadows fish
Post by: Noahs Arc on April 26, 2016, 06:42:56 PM
The forward facing eyes and that big ol lip say large mouth to me. It's not a carp. Looks like it's well fed too.
Title: Re: Need help identifying Pitt Meadows fish
Post by: Rieber on April 26, 2016, 06:58:53 PM
Big mouth bass unless that's a koi/bass hybrid. Could be a Snakehead but my money is on the Large Mouth Bass.
Title: Re: Need help identifying Pitt Meadows fish
Post by: losos on April 26, 2016, 07:04:02 PM
Looks like a young snake head.
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Post by: Old Blue on April 26, 2016, 07:07:22 PM
Looks like a TROLL!!
Title: Re: Need help identifying Pitt Meadows fish
Post by: poper on April 26, 2016, 09:27:40 PM
Looks like you were at meadow gardens, lol, seen lots of those guys swimming in and around there.
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Post by: sbc hris on April 26, 2016, 09:53:26 PM
Looks like a bass to me too...
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Post by: Rieber on April 26, 2016, 10:03:36 PM
Looks like its full of salmon fry with that chubby tummy. Maybe swallowed a couple frogs.
Title: Re: Need help identifying Pitt Meadows fish
Post by: dkmr1 on April 26, 2016, 10:27:34 PM
Thanks for your help everyone.  Poper, it's not meadow gardens. It's a little pond off McMyn by McLean Park. Lots of frogs and other wildlife.  I don't know a lot about fish but it was bigger than the little sunfish in there and it wasn't skittish or fast moving like a trout. The waterway runs along the Lougheed for a bit then shoots south towards the Fraser. I will see if I can get another picture this summer.

Thx again.
Title: Re: Need help identifying Pitt Meadows fish
Post by: leaping steely on April 26, 2016, 10:34:48 PM
100% largemouth Bass.
Title: Re: Need help identifying Pitt Meadows fish
Post by: milo on April 26, 2016, 10:56:08 PM
 :o
Quote from: leaping steely on April 26, 2016, 10:34:48 PM
100% largemouth Bass.

You are right. It seems to have two adipose fins - frontal and posterior. That pretty much excludes trout.
Title: Re: Need help identifying Pitt Meadows fish
Post by: FishOn36 on April 26, 2016, 11:05:29 PM
Quote from: dkmr1 on April 26, 2016, 10:27:34 PM
Thanks for your help everyone.  Poper, it's not meadow gardens. It's a little pond off McMyn by McLean Park. Lots of frogs and other wildlife.  I don't know a lot about fish but it was bigger than the little sunfish in there and it wasn't skittish or fast moving like a trout. The waterway runs along the Lougheed for a bit then shoots south towards the Fraser. I will see if I can get another picture this summer.

Thx again.

Definitely a bass
Title: Re: Need help identifying Pitt Meadows fish
Post by: bbronswyk2000 on April 27, 2016, 07:36:27 PM
Sadly every pond waterway in Pitt Meadows has bass, including the golf courses
Title: Re: Need help identifying Pitt Meadows fish
Post by: Rieber on April 27, 2016, 07:43:51 PM
Quote from: bbronswyk2000 on April 27, 2016, 07:36:27 PM
Sadly every pond waterway in Pitt Meadows has bass, including the golf courses

What's really sad is that's all I expect our grandkids to have left to fish for. With water temperatures constantly on the rise, Bass and related species will be the only ones left swimming.
Title: Re: Need help identifying Pitt Meadows fish
Post by: bbronswyk2000 on April 27, 2016, 08:57:18 PM
Quote from: Rieber on April 27, 2016, 07:43:51 PM
What's really sad is that's all I expect our grandkids to have left to fish for. With water temperatures constantly on the rise, Bass and related species will be the only ones left swimming.

The warming temps is pretty scary. More ocean fish that are usually further down south may work their way up here.
Title: Re: Need help identifying Pitt Meadows fish
Post by: firstlight on April 27, 2016, 10:55:24 PM
We will be fishing for Blue Fin Tuna in Burrard Inlet. :o
Title: Re: Need help identifying Pitt Meadows fish (solved)
Post by: dkmr1 on July 07, 2016, 06:32:23 AM
Got a better picture of the fish I saw last year. My first fish I've caught since I was a kid. Definitely a bass.

(http://i844.photobucket.com/albums/ab3/dkmr1/image_zpsmod4rpyy.jpeg)
Title: Re: Need help identifying Pitt Meadows fish
Post by: dave c on July 07, 2016, 12:29:22 PM
Quote from: poper on April 26, 2016, 09:27:40 PM
Looks like you were at meadow gardens, lol, seen lots of those guys swimming in and around there.
x2. 14th hole. Large mouth bass for sure. Seen them mny times