Can You Name This Fish????

[BassPR]

Okay guys, I was fishing tonight in one of the canals here around the fountainbleau,Doral area and I catch one on this. I don't know what kind of fish it was and the picture is pretty bad because i couldn't take a better picture before the line snap. I didn't want to grab it by the mouth because i didn't know what kind of fish it was. It took with him $8 rapala back to the water ( d**n it). Do you guys know what kind of fish is this? That's for the help

 

[BassPR]

I meant to say "Thanks for the help"

[BassinLou]

Sorry basspr it's a bad shot. I can't tell

[BassPR]

More description to see if someone else can identify it. No whiskers. Spotted on lower part of the body(breast) and a long anal fin snakehead like.

[LgMouthGambler]

May be a Bowfin?

[fstr385]

Has the colors of a peacock, but thats a really bad picture

[AK-Jax86]

Can't tell by the picture but it looks extraterrestrial

[BassPR]

Not a bowfin and definitely not a peacock. This was something else. I hoped is not another invasive species. It was around 14 or 15 inches long. And a good fighter too.

[fstr385]

An alien spacecraft picked up a bowfin and a peacock and bred them and dropped it off full of eggs to fill waters with a new feisty super fish!

[BassPR]

Yup. That's sounds like it.

[MCS]

Maybe a jaguar? I defer to Lou he is the authority around here on them lol but it looks spotted to me

[B-Dozer]

Name him? OK--Bob

[JellyMan]

Looks like a bowfin, dude.

 

Really it looks like a cross between a gar, pickerel, and bowfin.

 

Check this---->> http://www.kidsfishing.org/images/logos/FreshwaterFishPoster_Small.jpg

[BassinLou]

Got it. Its a jaguar!! I shifted my screen a little and I looked at the pic again. I saw the spots. That's one of the tells of a jag. Here look at this jag I caught one night and tell me if it looked like this?

 

[BassinLou]

LOL. You have to tilt your head to the right to capture the image of the fish. I think it was spinning clockwise when the pic was taken.

[BassPR]

Ding Ding Ding Ding! That's the fish. I couldn't tell it was a jaguar because the jaguar picture on the FWC website looks like a different fish. Thanks BassinLou. And btw I can now add another species to the list.

[Sam]

No idea but I would call him Bob.