Esshup,
I do not disagree at all with the visuals.
I just keep coming back to those gill rakers. I have searched for pictures of BCP gill rakers and could find none. I have read descriptions, but having filleted few fish and looked at fewer gill rakers, my frame of reference comparison is poor to say the least. What is "long" and what is "short" is very subjective when I have looked at very few gill rakers.
The only reason I even questioned it is because in my strange interest I've taken in RES for what reason I have no idea, the short gill raker description of the RES from my Internet "book learning" popped into my mind when I saw the mangled fish.
Wish I had more presence of mind to have taken better pictures. Carolynn happened to be with me and I had her take the first picture of the gills with her phone. At that time the fish was still pretty fresh (likely a fresh kill early that morning) and had I thought could have spread the fins out and taken good ID pictures. But I did not think of taking more pictures till late in the day. I had thrown the fish up on the bank and it was sundown when I went back and snapped a couple more pictures with my phone, which takes much poorer pictures and the light of day was almost gone. Why do I think of this stuff after it is already too late?
They are all pictures of the same fish.
