Fishermen! Please Help Identify this Fish for me!!! * Mandatory PIC included * EDIT: FIGURED IT OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shilala]

Give a man a fish...

 

[SilentZero]

Its a troll fish

 

[sharkeeper]

Appears to be a juvenile member of Etheostoma sp.

 

[TTM77]

I saw these guys laying on shore in CA. Have no idea what it is.

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/TTM77/P1010093.JPG

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/TTM77/P1010094.JPG

 

[OulOat]

Originally posted by: TTM77
I saw this guys laying on shore in CA. Have no idea what it is.

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/TTM77/P1010093.JPG

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/TTM77/P1010094.JPG

Sea slug?

Op, your's look like a young trout or salmon.

 

[Analog]

Originally posted by: shilala
Give a man a fish...

Thanks Shilala! Your page made the difference. See edit above.

 

[Tylanner]

Originally posted by: shilala
My Dad told me about those when I was a kid. It's a bunghole darter. You never go skinny dipping around those little bastards.

Ahhh Carnivorous Barking Spider Hunter, I know them well.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: yellowfiero

Originally posted by: shilala
Give a man a fish...

Thanks Shilala! Your page made the difference. See edit above.

Cool..

As for how it got there...

Well.. Obviously it didn't fly.

What's the pond's source?

 

[TTM77]

Originally posted by: OulOat

Sea slug?

Op, your's look like a young trout or salmon.

I don't think they are slug. They swim like squid. Has 2 fin on the side that they make wave to swim.

 

[Analog]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: yellowfiero

Originally posted by: shilala
Give a man a fish...

Thanks Shilala! Your page made the difference. See edit above.

Cool..

As for how it got there...

Well.. Obviously it didn't fly.

What's the pond's source?

Just a basic crater - farm pond dug years ago for backfill, no outlet or source, in the middle of a field of hay.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: yellowfiero

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: yellowfiero

Originally posted by: shilala
Give a man a fish...

Thanks Shilala! Your page made the difference. See edit above.

Cool..

As for how it got there...

Well.. Obviously it didn't fly.

What's the pond's source?

Just a basic crater - farm pond dug years ago for backfill, no outlet or source, in the middle of a field of hay.

If it didn't have a source, if would've dried up by now, no?

Even if the source is the water table....

That's really the only explination AFAIK, unless someone introduced them on purpose...

 

[Analog]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: yellowfiero

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: yellowfiero

Originally posted by: shilala
Give a man a fish...

Thanks Shilala! Your page made the difference. See edit above.

Cool..

As for how it got there...

Well.. Obviously it didn't fly.

What's the pond's source?

Just a basic crater - farm pond dug years ago for backfill, no outlet or source, in the middle of a field of hay.

If it didn't have a source, if would've dried up by now, no?

Good question, the water table will give it a static level, plus any rainfall / snow. It drops to its low level in the fall, high level in spring. A differential of about 2'.

 

[khurios2000]

mutant pike ???