#247873 - 07/03/04 01:13 AM
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Loc: BELLINGHAM / EVERSON
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While fishing up here at Fazon Lake with my son today, I caught this "Thing" Don't look like a perch to me. What is it??  
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#247874 - 07/03/04 01:16 AM
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#247875 - 07/03/04 01:22 AM
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River Nutrients
Registered: 11/25/01
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Loc: Marysville
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A golden shiner?
Certainly not a native fish so clearly another illegal introduction.
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#247876 - 07/03/04 01:24 AM
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Registered: 06/08/02
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Loc: Post Falls, Idaho
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How big is it??
It does look like a shad or a shinner.
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#247877 - 07/03/04 02:21 AM
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Three Time Spawner
Registered: 03/08/99
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Loc: Gig Harbor, WA , USA
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Could it be a Tilapia? It kind of looks like an overgrown aquarium fish.
Actually I did a little web surfing and it appears to be a "Grass Carp".
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#247878 - 07/03/04 02:34 AM
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Ornamental Rice Bowl
Registered: 11/24/03
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BAIT!
Seriously....
No adipose, so strike out whitefish.
Definitely not a shad.
Definitely not a cichlid, so strike out tilapia.
I vote shiner.... seems to me I saw something listed in a book on warmwater fish called a golden shiner.
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#247879 - 07/03/04 02:40 AM
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Loc: Seattle
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#247880 - 07/03/04 07:13 AM
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Loc: Puyallup, WA
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#247881 - 07/03/04 09:57 AM
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 01/20/04
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Loc: Mtn. west
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It sure looks like a golden shiner - decurved lateral line a distinguishing characteristic.
However, Europeon Rudd look very similiar and get bigger than golden shiners, but don't know if they have hit the west coast yet.
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#247882 - 07/03/04 03:02 PM
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Registered: 12/23/01
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Loc: BELLINGHAM / EVERSON
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More info?? It was about 8 inches long. I got it on a red worm. (That's a #8 Garden Hackel)  I first saw one of these about 4 years ago at the same lake at a Blue Gill turney. It was about 6 inches long.
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#247884 - 07/04/04 03:42 PM
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River Nutrients
Registered: 11/07/99
Posts: 2688
Loc: Yelmish
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aren't those popular bait over at wenas lake for big brownies?
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#247885 - 07/04/04 08:42 PM
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Smolt
Registered: 05/16/04
Posts: 85
Loc: Cape George
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I agree, golden shiner, AKA golden roach in the midwest. Dynamite bait for northern pike and largemouth bass. I hope the lake you caught it in has a large number of upper food chain predator fish. They have been known to completely overrun lakes in the midwest resulting in fishery management poisoning the entire lake to eliminate them.
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#247886 - 07/04/04 09:47 PM
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Yep..that is what it looks like. (LOL..and I thought it was a shad..Doh!) Here is one from Aquatic.org.  MB
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#247888 - 07/06/04 01:29 PM
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Juvenille at Sea
Registered: 07/10/02
Posts: 123
Loc: Duvall, WA
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I looked it up in the 2003 edition of "Inland Fishes of Washington" published by UW press.
It could be either a golden shiner or a Tui chub, but I lean toward the Tui.
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#247889 - 07/06/04 01:39 PM
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Juvenille at Sea
Registered: 07/10/02
Posts: 123
Loc: Duvall, WA
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Actually, now that I've read a little more, I'm leaning back toward the shiner, based on some fin details, though I wish It was golder. At any rate, you may want to pay me no mind.
Interestingly, the Tui is native, at least to parts of WA, which I did not know. The shiner, as I expected, is an exotic.
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#247890 - 07/06/04 09:23 PM
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River Nutrients
Registered: 11/25/01
Posts: 2834
Loc: Marysville
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Checked my copy of the 2003 edition "Inland Fishes of Washington" regarding the distribution of the Tui chub and Golden shiner.
"In Washington, tui chub are confined to reservoirs, ponds,potholes and warm, slow-moving reaches of lower Crab Creek in the Columbia Basin."
"In Washington, golden shiner are presently established in Long Lake, Kitsap County and Fazon Lake, Whatcom County."
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#247892 - 07/07/04 02:39 PM
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River Nutrients
Registered: 10/04/01
Posts: 3563
Loc: Gold Bar
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Boy those Shiners sure do look like a shad
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