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pumpkinseed is what i was thinking. its not common in CA. it was caught from a reservoir up near oregon border that was also stocked w/ yellow perch (which is also not common out here).

eric, not my blood a guy on my OTHER forum caught the fish. i'll tell him to check for the "extra" teeth next he goes up there.

i agree bruce, beautiful fish.

Great news people!!!!! I have a turtle. I saw this little feller basking in the sun on my pond. Cute ain't he?



Some of you may be asking what does this have to do with the subject matter of this thread, CA panfish???? Well nothing, but if'n DIED is gonna neglect this thread then I'm a gonna hijack it for my own dimented purposes.

That is a fine specimen of a turtle you have there sir! I still like you.

Here's the way I see that cute turtle

Eastland you're going to get it when jhap sees what you've done.

Oh, that's just not right!

May your tighty whities shink two sizes and ride up on you in church.

this fish was caught by a fella on my OTHER forum in a northern CA private pond. it may have been properly identified on the OTHER forum, but i'll throw it out to you guys as he asked me what i thought.........what the heck is it???.........good luck......FYI, i had no clue...




dave

Well, it's some kind of Cichlid.

I've just consulted my Ramchandran Aquatic Animal and Vegetation Reference Book. It's a freak.

The book or the fish?

DIED, that fish wouldn't happen to have been caught in the lake that is next to the chemical factory would it?

I wonder if it had a slightly mango flavor.

good job theo.....i thought this was fairly interesting. following is the quote from the fella (shadbuster) that ID'd it on the OTHER forum:

"It's a red blood parrot cichlid, this is a man-made hybrid cichlid breed for the aquarium trade and it can be pretty expensive running anywhere from 30 to 50 dollars a piece. These fish are a relatively new "species" and are in high demand among aquarium enthusiasts, originally they only came in orange but can now be found in all sorts of colors, they will eat any tropical fish food. A pretty cool catch that you might be able to sell on craigslist since most pet shops will not take fish back and if they do only for store credit. If there are anymore out there they will not pose a treat to the environment since they are tropical fish and will die come winter."


www.aquahobby.com/gallery/e_parrotn.php

i thought you might be interested in this, an incredible example of ptychocheilus grandis (aka sacramento squawfish), the largest of the north american minnow species.

this was caught by a fella on my other forum while trolling for trout at a lake near me:



it weighed about 9 pounds and went ~30-inches.

Nice minnow!!!!

How'd you like to use that as bait!

My question is did you happen to open this large minnow up and see what he had been eating? Just wondering if maybe he would eat other minnows and shiners being so big?

lovelace, i think squawfish are opportunists like many other fish and eat anything they can get their mouths around. this guy probably developed a taste for planted rainbow trout.


i'm on a roll this morning, you have to check this out.
i cant believe my eyes on this one, largest i've caught is 27 pounds from the american river which joins the sacramento river in sacramento. a ways up stream off the sacramento river is battle creek, another well known spawning grounds for chinook.



incredible.

here is a cut and paste of the dept. of fish and game (DFG) story:

"Wildlife officials in northern California last week came across one of the biggest Chinook salmon ever found in the state — a monster more than 4 feet long and weighing 85 pounds.

"We see lots of big ones," Doug Killam, a biologist in the California Department of Fish and Game's Red Bluff office, told the Redding Record Searchlight, "but this one was just bigger than most big ones — it was just spectacular."

The big fish had recently spawned and died, Killam said, and probably weighed about 90 pounds when it began its 100-mile swim upstream from the Pacific to the spot where it died on Battle Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River near the town of Anderson.

The California sport-fishing record for a Chinook salmon is 88 pounds. In Alaska, where they're called king salmon, they get even bigger — the record sport catch is 97 pounds, while the largest commercial catch was a truly phenomenal 126 pounds.

"If someone would have caught this one, it probably would have been a state record," Killam told the Record Searchlight.

Ironically, the sad state of salmon spawning in the Pacific Northwest probably helped this one live a full life. Ocean commercial catches were canceled this year, and the river sport season on the Sacramento drastically shortened."

here's another mind blower........a fella by the name of cherry on my OTHER forum caught this a while back in the CA delta while fly fishing for stripers......it went just over 18 pounds.....



I believe he released it but it was likely a record setting fish.
dang.......

That is a truly remarkable bluegill management device.

That bass is so healthy looking, its scary!

I'm telling ya DIED, someday we need to plan a holiday to the Delta.

Did anyone see the show on National Graphics TV about bass.
They talked about the 25#er that the 3 guys in CA foul hooked,
and had some good shots of bass and interesting info........

mr. medgar, i heard about it and (hopefully) have it set to (properly) record. suffice it to say i have some issues w/ technology.

my info on it is that the fish was called "dottie" and many people wasted spent alot of time trying to "legally" catch her before she died.

jhap, a week on the delta w/ houseboat and tag along fishin craft would be scrumtrillescent..