Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: hank4hire on October 13, 2009, 05:18:56 PM
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Not very experienced angler, need some help idenfying a fish.
Went out to the gary point (tidal fraser) to try my luck with coho's this morning and caught what I thought was a pikeminnow however it had an andiposal fin which pikeminnows don't have.
Description: about 14 inches long, white stomach, greyish green on top with white spots, sharp jagged teeth
Couldn't identify it so threw it back, pretty sure it wasn't a salmon or bull trout
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could have been a juvenile lingcod. did it have large pectoral fins? anyways a picture would have helped.
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did the fish you caught look like this?
(http://i860.photobucket.com/albums/ab163/bc_angler/untitled.jpg)
just kidding,sounds like a bull trout.
(http://i860.photobucket.com/albums/ab163/bc_angler/P1000814.jpg)
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I think that was it, good thing i threw it back then
thanks guys
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lol nice pic. ;D
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Hilarious...i take it youre not an artist by trade ;D
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Didn't want to start a new thread. Sorry don't have a pic but caught an eel shaped fish by Jericho today. Not on Rod's list of fish and not like anything that I found under long body fish on google. Any ideas? About 10 inches long
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Lamprey?
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Nope def a fish. Looks like a needlefish but with a short round head.
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Amazing this thread has got to a page long without being hijacked by the holier-than-thou crew criticizing people for not being able to ID a fish.
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No one is criticizing him because he let it go, which was definitely the right thing to do!
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Greenling?
(http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fm-gp/rec/images/species/greenling.jpg)
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Nope less fishy more rely body as in couple cm all the way... not on the government website either...
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Snakehead?
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prettier. Oh well I guess we'll never know.
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did the fish you caught look like this?
(http://i860.photobucket.com/albums/ab163/bc_angler/untitled.jpg)
LOL. An allusion to the old Yellow Pages commercials :)
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Its a kelp greenling, i have taken many photos of these underwater and it is definately a kelp green ling.. A clarification here, at least the fish in reply number 11 is
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Eulachon?
(http://www.redorbit.com/media/uploads/2004/10/45_4f722fc4d6451ae7e5023996d3bb3fe3.jpg)
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Ok last clue... looks like a firefish but without the spike and with a more sane cold water camo pattern aka green, brown, grey.
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Didn't want to start a new thread. Sorry don't have a pic but caught an eel shaped fish by Jericho today. Not on Rod's list of fish and not like anything that I found under long body fish on google. Any ideas? About 10 inches long
Sounds like a pacific snake prickleback: http://www.fishbase.us/summary/Lumpenus-sagitta.html (http://www.fishbase.us/summary/Lumpenus-sagitta.html). Fairly common on sand-mud bottoms..I've caught them before using small hooks baited with worm/shrimp off Belcarra pier while fishing for other species. They are not true eels as they have a separate tail fin and spines on the dorsal fin; true eels have no fin spines and have the dorsal and anal fins joined at the tail end. Pricklebacks are a large family of marine fishes well represented in BC waters but most species are seldom caught by fishermen..they are generally too small to eat anyway...scuba divers may encounter them more often.
Not sure whether they are edible although I've read from one source ('Coastal fishes of the Pacific Northwest' by Andy Lamb) that they can be deep-fried into a 'crispy snack'. :)
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ding ding ding we have a winner