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What did I catch?

Post by lskiles » Mon Oct 01, 2007 11:27 pm

I caught this "fish" at Catapillar Island.
I do not know what it is and can not find an identifying picture o the web.

Can anyone tell me what this?

mmm...maybe it is some kind of carp or catfish. I know it sounds goofy, but I really do not know what this is.
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RE:What did I catch?

Post by A9 » Mon Oct 01, 2007 11:33 pm

Sculpin or Lingcod or greenling?
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RE:What did I catch?

Post by Shad_Eating_Grin » Mon Oct 01, 2007 11:35 pm

Hard to tell from the pic for sure, but it looks like a male kelp greenling. The males are more bluish mottled color and the females are more brownish tan.
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RE:What did I catch?

Post by cavdad45 » Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:25 am

It looks alot like a greenling, except you caught it in freshwater. I believe it's just a sculpin, wish I could see the back rays better, though.:-k
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RE:What did I catch?

Post by gcbcaddis1 » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:05 am

Could it be a Burbot (fresh water ling cod). Weird looking either way.
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RE:What did I catch?

Post by Jake Dogfish » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:40 am

It looks like a greenling. Are you sure this is from freshwater? If so it must be a small burbot...
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RE:What did I catch?

Post by dilbert » Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:00 am

It's the rare and endangered Lotagnathus sacchostma.




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RE:What did I catch?

Post by cavdad45 » Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:05 pm

You guys really think that's a burbot? I have never seen one before, but it does look like a freshwater ling. I had no idea they were in the Columbia.

Lewis, do you still have it? If you do, maybe you could run it down to the field office in Vancouver and see what they think it is. :-k
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RE:What did I catch?

Post by dilbert » Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:43 pm

I'm going with Prickly Sculpin, or Mottled Sculpin, or.... some kind of Sculpin.

http://www.livinglandscapes.bc.ca/cbasi ... s_rhotheus
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RE:What did I catch?

Post by lskiles » Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:25 pm

dilbert wrote:I'm going with Prickly Sculpin, or Mottled Sculpin, or.... some kind of Sculpin.

http://www.livinglandscapes.bc.ca/cbasi ... s_rhotheus
I did not pull up the fins for the picture, but they looked like the picture at this web site.

Thanks for all the help.
No I do not have the fish to have it ID...did not think that far ahead.
Yes I am sure I was in fresh water...Catapiller Island is on the Columbia just north of Frenchman's Bar sort of adjacent to Vancouver Lake.
Too bad it is not a Burbot...I did take an O-Tay picture with it just in case LOL
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RE:What did I catch?

Post by EastsideRedneck » Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:30 pm

lskiles wrote: Too bad it is not a Burbot...I did take an O-Tay picture with it just in case LOL
I think this one ought to count as a wildcard, if only for its obscurity. What did you catch it with?
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RE:What did I catch?

Post by Basshunter046 » Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:32 pm

It is deffently not a burbot cause I've caught them out of Rosevelt, Looks like a scupin to me!
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RE:What did I catch?

Post by lskiles » Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:37 pm

EastsideRedneck wrote:
lskiles wrote: Too bad it is not a Burbot...I did take an O-Tay picture with it just in case LOL
I think this one ought to count as a wildcard, if only for its obscurity. What did you catch it with?
I was using a worm five feet under a sliding float.
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RE:What did I catch?

Post by Jake Dogfish » Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:25 pm

Why is it not a Burbot? I have caught them on Roosevelt and other places...
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RE:What did I catch?

Post by mallard83 » Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:46 pm

Looks like a plain old sculpin to me.
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RE:What did I catch?

Post by fishnislife » Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:49 pm

It is a Cottus Beldingi or better know as a sculpin.


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RE:What did I catch?

Post by mallard83 » Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:18 pm

fishnislife wrote:It is a Cottus Beldingi or better know as a sculpin.


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Sure go all scientific on us, I can't even pronounce that.:scratch: JK. LOL.
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RE:What did I catch?

Post by bassackwards » Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:27 pm

fishnislife wrote:It is a Cottus Beldingi or better know as a sculpin.


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I'm willing to give him a wildcardeouth fishyouth (a.k.a. wildcard fish) for that one. I was leaning towards a tadpole on HGH....LOL

Majority rules, if nothing else you get the freaky fish prize.

At the end of the competition if you need an extra fish, just call it a trout or something like that.
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RE:What did I catch?

Post by dilbert » Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:34 pm

Yeah, I would have taken a small photo with the o-tay obscuring the fish and called it a carp. Then I'd jump with it on the trampoline. :bounce:
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RE:What did I catch?

Post by A9 » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:15 pm

Yep those sculpins eat worms up...
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