Other Species Latest Catch Pics Thread

[N Florida Mike]

Ive never seen a warmouth with a tail that big though, and the shape is different.But Ive only ever caught warmouth on a soft plastic bait either. The head and war paint by the gills are that of a warmouth.

Ive never seen a cross between warmouth and copperheads before… not sure it’s even possible.??‍♂️

[bulldog1935]

All Lepomis sp. sunfish hybridize readily - here, long-ear with green.  

 

 

[TnRiver46]

8 hours ago, bulldog1935 said:

All Lepomis sp. sunfish hybridize readily - here, long-ear with green.  

 

 

Dropping knowledge, thanks 

[mrpao]

23 hours ago, N Florida Mike said:

 

Looks like warmouth-bluegill/redear hybrid.

Has the colors and slightly bigger mouth like a warmouth. But the body shape of a bluegill or redear. 

 Definitely interesting.

[N Florida Mike]

Ive seen some hybrids with different types of bream, but never with a warmouth.

[bulldog1935]

warmouth are Lepomis gluosus - whether you see them or not, it happens.  

 

[Bluebasser86]

Thought I kept missing a bass near a clump of grass, should have known it was a warmouth when it came back a third time.

[gim]

I went back to the same lake I was at earlier this month and caught a couple of even bigger tiger muskies.  These were 40 and 38 inchers.  There was a massive low pressure front approaching today and I'm sure that was a trigger this morning.  The 40 incher got major air.

[TnRiver46]

On 8/28/2021 at 3:15 PM, gimruis said:

I went back to the same lake I was at earlier this month and caught a couple of even bigger tiger muskies.  These were 40 and 38 inchers.  There was a massive low pressure front approaching today and I'm sure that was a trigger this morning.  The 40 incher got major air.

Wow!!! Looks fun 

[gim]

3 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Wow!!! Looks fun 

I couldn’t get anyone to come with other than the dog. When I caught the first one I was near shore. After I got it in the net, I looked around for someone because I had heard a voice say “whoa” when it jumped. Two guys were standing on a nearby dock and waved me over to take photos. Turns out they watched the whole ordeal happen and I hadn’t noticed.

 

On the second one, another boat was fishing nearby when I netted it and they offered to come over and help with photos. I think those two guys were more excited than I was.

 

I’m very grateful that there are still people in this world that are willing to help a guy out. I’m sure part of the reason they were so willing was to see a large fish, but without an extra set of hands, I wouldn’t have good photos. Maybe I can train the dog someday.

 

A muskie net is extremely important too because the fish can safely sit in it down in the water fully alive until I lift it out.

[TnRiver46]

1 hour ago, gimruis said:

I couldn’t get anyone to come with other than the dog. When I caught the first one I was near shore. After I got it in the net, I looked around for someone because I had heard a voice say “whoa” when it jumped. Two guys were standing on a nearby dock and waved me over to take photos. Turns out they watched the whole ordeal happen and I hadn’t noticed.

 

On the second one, another boat was fishing nearby when I netted it and they offered to come over and help with photos. I think those two guys were more excited than I was.

 

I’m very grateful that there are still people in this world that are willing to help a guy out. I’m sure part of the reason they were so willing was to see a large fish, but without an extra set of hands, I wouldn’t have good photos. Maybe I can train the dog someday.

 

A muskie net is extremely important too because the fish can safely sit in it down in the water fully alive until I lift it out.

I know I enjoy seeing live dinosaurs in person 

[Bluebasser86]

My prefishing day last Friday for my kayak tournament on Saturday did not go well. I did get a few bonus fish though. The only thing I caught on a crankbait despite throwing the stupid things until my arm was about to fall off. The flatheads were about carbon copies of each other, but one was barely hooked while the other almost swallowed it.

 

[RealtreeByGod]

On today's episode of Identify The Hybrid Sunfish, we try to figure out what the hell this is.

 

 

My guess was greenie x shellcracker, but I'm terrible at telling the difference at a glance. I called every green panfish regardless of species a bluegill until like 2 years ago. 

[HaydenS]

2 minutes ago, RealtreeByGod said:

On today's episode of Identify The Hybrid Sunfish, we try to figure out what the hell this is.

 

 

My guess was greenie x shellcracker, but I'm terrible at telling the difference at a glance. I called every green panfish regardless of species a bluegill until like 2 years ago. 

Bass food

[bulldog1935]

long-ear and red-breast.  

 

How's this for shoulders on your 1/8-oz ML?  

 

[Bankbeater]

The bass around here have already started moving shallow in some lakes.  I was back in a small pocket and thought this channel was a bass until it started to fight.  I caught it on a finesse worm on a split shot rig just outside of some water willows.

[TnRiver46]

11 minutes ago, Bankbeater said:

The bass around here have already started moving shallow in some lakes.  I was back in a small pocket and thought this channel was a bass until it started to fight.  I caught it on a finesse worm on a split shot rig just outside of some water willows.

Bet that one stretched the string!!! I got hungry just looking at it 

[Bluebasser86]

22 hours ago, RealtreeByGod said:

On today's episode of Identify The Hybrid Sunfish, we try to figure out what the hell this is.

 

 

My guess was greenie x shellcracker, but I'm terrible at telling the difference at a glance. I called every green panfish regardless of species a bluegill until like 2 years ago. 

Just looks like a regular redbreast sunfish to me?

[N Florida Mike]

Looks like a redbreast/ pumpkinseed mix?

[bulldog1935]

In the west, pumpkinseeds are replaced by long-ears.  

Every drainage has its own strain markings, east to west in the TX hill country:

San Gabriel

 

Guadalupe

 

Sabinal

 

Frio

[NYWayfarer]

Esox attack! The Chain Pickerel in my area are very active this past week.

 

[CrankFate]

Just back from the Yellowstone park area. Fished the Lower Madison and Gallatin Rivers in Montana. It was difficult, since we never fly fished before. Special thanks to a guy named CJ who got us started on how to use a fly rod and even gave us the ant fly he was catching on. Another guy we ran into at the Axtell Bridge also helped us out. I managed a decent catch of decent rainbows on the gallatin just north of Big Sky in the last 2 hours of the trip. My kids were able to pick a few rainbow and cut throats at the Damselfly FAS, which was heartbreaking because the fish were gulping all over the place, but the 50+ MPH winds made fishing impossible, even with spinning gear.

 

In the first two hours fishing, my older son got swept away in the Gallatin, my wife thought he was going to drown. But it was only 100’ to 10” water so I wasn’t worried. He did a few years of swimming school going back a few years.

 

The people were great. One of my sons left his rod on the ground at a relatively well known spot that other people passed through about every 20-30 minutes when we were there. We went back two days later, with a guy fishing there, and the rod/reel was right where he left it. A $110 setup would last about 15 minutes here in NY before someone took it. It was like we were in a different country.

 

I should also mention the fly shop Montana Troutfitters was very helpful with getting us started on which flies to use and where to fish. They also had a nice selection of flies at Fins and Feathers. We stopped there quickly after losing all of our dry flies. Unfortunately because I am used to happy Gilmore style casting, I snapped the line several times hard enough to sound like a firecracker. I assume the flies just vaporized by how loud the noise was.

 

These are my PB Rainbows. This is one crossed off my bucket list. 
 

 

 

[TnRiver46]

2 hours ago, CrankFate said:

Just back from the Yellowstone park area. Fished the Lower Madison and Gallatin Rivers in Montana. It was difficult, since we never fly fished before. Special thanks to a guy named CJ who got us started on how to use a fly rod and even gave us the ant fly he was catching on. Another guy we ran into at the Axtell Bridge also helped us out. I managed a decent catch of decent rainbows on the gallatin just north of Big Sky in the last 2 hours of the trip. My kids were able to pick a few rainbow and cut throats at the Damselfly FAS, which was heartbreaking because the fish were gulping all over the place, but the 50+ MPH winds made fishing impossible, even with spinning gear.

 

In the first two hours fishing, my older son got swept away in the Gallatin, my wife thought he was going to drown. But it was only 100’ to 10” water so I wasn’t worried. He did a few years of swimming school going back a few years.

 

The people were great. One of my sons left his rod on the ground at a relatively well known spot that other people passed through about every 20-30 minutes when we were there. We went back two days later, with a guy fishing there, and the rod/reel was right where he left it. A $110 setup would last about 15 minutes here in NY before someone took it. It was like we were in a different country.

 

I should also mention the fly shop Montana Troutfitters was very helpful with getting us started on which flies to use and where to fish. They also had a nice selection of flies at Fins and Feathers. We stopped there quickly after losing all of our dry flies. Unfortunately because I am used to happy Gilmore style casting, I snapped the line several times hard enough to sound like a firecracker. I assume the flies just vaporized by how loud the noise was.

 

These are my PB Rainbows. This is one crossed off my bucket list. 
 

 

 

Sweet! Sounds like a fun trip, nice fish. That whipping sound is when you don’t wait long enough at the top of the back cast and the fly comes off (line breaks). Basically there is still slack in the line and then you start the forward cast, creating the bull whip sound. We call that the “buck fifty” cast (because that’s how much money you just lost). Everything works much better when fly fishing with smooth, slow, nice and easy casting motions. No herky jerky snappy business, no power, no muscle

[CountryboyinDC]

Got out on the South Fork of the Shenandoah over Labor Day.  The Front Royal Gauge was down to almost 3' Saturday, after having been blown out Friday and earlier.  Still kept the hordes from descending until almost noon.  Second time this year catfish crushed my smallmouth baits.  Biggest went about 25"; hard to get a good measurement without the bump board, but he definitely wouldn't fit between the gunwales of my kayak which are 22" apart.  One destroyed my spinnerbait. Another, maybe 2" or 3" smaller a Keitech.  And the biggest (and only) smallmouth would be lucky to be 7".  So my story is I was fishing for catfish all along.

[CrankFate]

21 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Sweet! Sounds like a fun trip, nice fish. That whipping sound is when you don’t wait long enough at the top of the back cast and the fly comes off (line breaks). Basically there is still slack in the line and then you start the forward cast, creating the bull whip sound. We call that the “buck fifty” cast (because that’s how much money you just lost). Everything works much better when fly fishing with smooth, slow, nice and easy casting motions. No herky jerky snappy business, no power, no muscle

That’s funny or not ? because we literally lost close to a buck fifty worth of flies. There are a few places to fly fish not too far away. We’ll try them this fall.