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     James Mallory (Jimmimallo) BOC INITIATE Username: Jimmimallo Post Number: 20 Registered: 8-2005 Rating: N/A |
Last night I was catfishing at the spillway and catching some ok sized blues when I caught the strangest fish I have ever seen. It was silver with large scales like a carp and a small mouth kinda like a gasper goo, but it was shaped like a panfish kinda lika a huge crappie body and it had a sharply forked tail like a tuna. It was around 16" and at least 2lbs. This is a spillway in central texas and I have never seen a fish like it before. Any clues what it might be? | ||
| George W Ostrom (Katfshn50)  BOC EMPERORUsername: Katfshn50 Post Number: 4793 Registered: 11-2003  Rating: N/A |
Asian Carp maybe? Looks like ya described one to a tee. Scurge of the water! LOL!  DON'T WRITE A CHECK WITH YOUR MOUTH THAT YOUR BUTT CAN'T CASH SOME PEOPLE JUST DON'T KNOW THAT THEY JUST DON'T KNOW BROOKLAWN,NEW JERSEY | ||
| Jerry Trew (Jtrew) BOC EMPERORUsername: Jtrew Post Number: 5823 Registered: 3-2002  Rating: N/A |
Looking at the fish from the side, were the eyes situated much lower in the head than normal? The eyes of a bigeye carp are actually just below a horizontal line drawn through the head. Sorry, but I was unable to find a picture of one.  Jerry, Little Rock, Arkansas | ||
| victor schlemmer (Cdiverus) BOC INITIATE Username: Cdiverus Post Number: 25 Registered: 4-2005 Rating: N/A |
IT MAY BE A WHITE DRUM. | ||
| larry mckissack (Mckiss) BOC INITIATE Username: Mckiss Post Number: 19 Registered: 5-2005 Rating: N/A |
sounds like a white drum ,if it was yellow with red tips fins on the bottom ,red carp is what we call themgot a pointed mouth for sucking off the bottom | ||
| robert rutherford (Curledchub) BOC INITIATE Username: Curledchub Post Number: 1 Registered: 12-2006 Rating: N/A |
hi all new to the forums but been catfishing for awhile. this mystery fish sounds like an aligator shad its just an overgrown shad thats a bit more prehistoric with the body armor. | ||
| Doyle Shoot (Doyle)  BOC PALADINUsername: Doyle Post Number: 821 Registered: 2-2005  Rating: N/A |
Robert, welcome to the BOC, this is a great place to talk fishing.  
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| AJ Whittle (Cumberland_river_catman)  BOC SQUIREUsername: Cumberland_river_catman Post Number: 148 Registered: 6-2009  Rating: N/A |
Yep could be a asian carp.. as they will go for anything. BOC Squire AJ Whittle Serving the Community Since June of 2009 1 Time BOC Giveaway Winner | ||
| Filipe Silva (Fillybass21) BOC INITIATE Username: Fillybass21 Post Number: 3 Registered: 1-2007 Rating: N/A |
quillback maybe, sounds like it but it could be a number of things. | ||
| Karl Parker (Katfishkarl) BOC INITIATE Username: Katfishkarl Post Number: 4 Registered: 7-2010 Rating: N/A |
might be a spade, they hang around the rigs but move in shallow to spawn No no...that log has eyes..... | ||
| Karl Parker (Katfishkarl) BOC INITIATE Username: Katfishkarl Post Number: 6 Registered: 7-2010 Rating: N/A |
wait sorry. i was thinking saltwater. No no...that log has eyes..... | ||
| Richard Wilkes (Gohot229) BOC INITIATE Username: Gohot229 Post Number: 2 Registered: 8-2010 Rating: N/A |
Ya know, the asian carp were introduced as a food source for imigrants as I believe the story goes, not sure, correct me if I'm wrong, but most of us at one time or another have caught one and out of curiosity cleaned it up and tryed cooking it. Well in Utah there's alot of carp in the Bear river in Cashe Valley, the nothern most part of the state. So having caught a nice size one with a bow and arrow w/line, I took it home, cleaned it and baked it in one of those blue porcelin pans we all cook the turkey's in come Thanksgiving. Well it was done and outwardly the layers were flaking as they should I thought, but after cooling it down a bit, what a 'snotty slimey meat fish it was' YUCK. However some years later down in California in Vail lake my friend caught a fiew carp and a fiew cats as well. They had to 4x4 and sneak in, ( I wouldn't have myself) but never the less they did. Now they, (a Cechoslovokian family) took the fish, skinned it and with alot of paprika, and nearly as much as the carp in volume filled the pan on the sides with potatoes and Hawian sweet onions. Mind you these potatoes and onions were 'sacrificial' and not to be eaten, they were there to draw out the snotties, but the final outcome was a fish that was not snotty in any fashion, with firm layered tasty meat. It was more than excelent, I kid you not. Far better than my first attempt in Utah, no comparison, not even close. So there are ways to prepare them so's they don't turn your stomach and roll your eyes. |
