Other Species Latest Catch Pics Thread

[Woody B]

FWIW White Perch are actually a Bass species related to White Bass and Striped Bass.    Sometimes called "Silver Bass".   

[VolFan]

There are tons of them in the Catawba chain 

[Jar11591]

On 7/20/2023 at 6:13 PM, Woody B said:

FWIW White Perch are actually a Bass species related to White Bass and Striped Bass.    Sometimes called "Silver Bass".   

Yep, white perch, stripers and white bass are in the family Moronidae or “temperate bass”, where largemouth and other black basses are in the centrarchidae or “sunfishes” family under the genus “micropterus”  

[TnRiver46]

On 7/20/2023 at 6:13 PM, Woody B said:

FWIW White Perch are actually a Bass species related to White Bass and Striped Bass.    Sometimes called "Silver Bass".   

Sounds delicious 

[Woody B]

White Perch are considered invasive here.  People love to use them for Catfish bait.   When I catch one I put it in my livewell then give it to the next boat I see catfishing.

[VolFan]

I have no problem catching them when I don’t need them for bait. Forget the bait and they disappear ? They’re everywhere in Wylie and Mtn Island.

[Bluebasser86]

White Perch are annoying but excellent catfish and striper bait. Big bass seem to enjoy them also. 

[MN Fisher]

13 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Sounds delicious 

They're actually fairly decent - I'd take home all I could back in MA.

[Fallser]

1 hour ago, MN Fisher said:

They're actually fairly decent - I'd take home all I could back in MA.

They are tasty.  I use to fish for them when I was much younger in the Bohemia River in NE Maryland.  They're considered a semi-anadromous fish.  They don't spend time in salt water like striped bass.  Around here they live in brackish water and move into fresh water or slightly brackish water to spawn in March.  If you hit a large school you can quickly fill a stringer.    

[MassBass]

I used to get big ones in some New Hampshire lakes, well over two pounds. They are a very strong fighting fish at that size. In Winnipesaukee where the state record was caught, they would get as big as the smallmouth, 2-3lbs or more. Sometimes deep crankbaits would get them. 

[VolFan]

If I could catch white perch to two pounds I wouldn’t fish for anything else. The big one are a ton of fun.

[FryDog62]

Dang gravel lizards keep hitting my bass lures.. 

[MN Fisher]

Just now, FryDog62 said:

Dang gravel lizards keep hitting my bass lures.. 

Well, fillet them up...that'll teach them.

[Way north bass guy]

Finally got out for a salmon fish today. Took a buddy and his wife and daughter out, got three nice eater size salmon and three lake trout. I also finally got to burn last years gas out of the boat, now I’m working on burning up some fresh stuff?. 

[A-Jay]

53 minutes ago, Way north bass guy said:

Finally got out for a salmon fish today. Took a buddy and his wife and daughter out, got three nice eater size salmon and three lake trout. I also finally got to burn last years gas out of the boat, now I’m working on burning up some fresh stuff?. 

Nicely Done ~

Congrats

btw- killer looking cutlass . . . 

A-Jay

[TnRiver46]

Got my second ever pike today, had lots bite me off . Pretty crazy in swift water, in the neighborhood of 23”. Release video didn’t quite work out, he squirmed away. Also had bald eagles with us all day 

 

[gim]

20 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Got my second ever pike today, had lots bite me off . Pretty crazy in swift water, in the neighborhood of 23”

Snot rockets! Looks at the slime dripping off the tail. It’s like a bad sinus infection lol

[TnRiver46]

@gimruis, he slimed everything and I was bleeding haha. I was still pretty thrilled, hard to get em with those bite offs 

[T-Billy]

Super tough bite last night. Only managed three dink LM and this nice channel. It didn't roll up in the line like cats are apt to do. Just big headshakes and pulling hard for deep water. I thought I had either a giant eye or small muskie the whole way in until I saw it.

Took a bit, but I found the bass in deep 10' - 14' milfoil after daybreak. All dinks. None over 1.5#. Then surprise surprise, I dropped my Zoom Mag II down into a clump in about 12' and stuck this 42". My first muskie in awhile. Got lucky and stuck it clear out in the tip of that toothy yap. Only had my little 22x32 net with me. It was quite the fiasco landing it, but got r done. 

 

 

 

[A-Jay]

37 minutes ago, T-Billy said:

Super tough bite last night. Only managed three dink LM and this nice channel. It didn't roll up in the line like cats are apt to do. Just big headshakes and pulling hard for deep water. I thought I had either a giant eye or small muskie the whole way in until I saw it.

Took a bit, but I found the bass in deep 10' - 14' milfoil after daybreak. All dinks. None over 1.5#. Then surprise surprise, I dropped my Zoom Mag II down into a clump in about 12' and stuck this 42". My first muskie in awhile. Got lucky and stuck it clear out in the tip of that toothy yap. Only had my little 22x32 net with me. It was quite the fiasco landing it, but got r done. 

 

 

 

Nice Muskie but you're wearing the wrong hat ! 

A-Jay

[gim]

11 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Nice Muskie but you're wearing the wrong hat ! 

A-Jay

At least his jeans aren't riddled with holes.

[Way north bass guy]

Got out early this morning again with another buddy to try for some salmon. Managed to get 4, all about 3-4lbs, and one laker about 6lbs. We also stopped at some shoals on the way back in from the deep water and hammered on a bunch of smallmouth, but nothing over about 3.5lbs. Was a pretty nice day to be on the water. 

[Buzzbaiter]

Despite having lived in Maryland for years, I had never caught a rockfish. I went on a few trips in past years to remedy that, but I had zero clue what I was doing so I always blanked. Now that I was headed south for college, it didn’t sit right with me that I, a Maryland native, had still not caught the state fish. Yesterday, I set out to change that. I found a park on an island facing the middle of the Bay and went to work.

 

The day started on a strip of beach. Without knowing where to begin, I found an inlet to a salt pond and walked into the water. I had a 5 inch white Kalins grub tied on and launched it out as far as I could (I did this on a M-F spinning rod spooled with 15lb braid and an 8lb test leader, which became problematic later on). I promptly snagged a peanut bunker. This would not be the first marine life-form I snagged that day. It occurred to me that I was set up on top of a large shoal of bunker, which seemed like a good place to be. After many casts, I moved further down the beach.

 

After moving down the sandy flats making a number of casts, I started to lose hope. I moved down until I found a small point with rocks along it. I made a few casts from shore, got snagged, broke off, and tied on another grub. An NRP officer spawned in out of nowhere and told me that most of the people catching fish were going far out into the water and casting into deeper water, where there were submerged concrete chunks. I took his advice and walked out.

 

I started snagging a bunch of jellyfish and found them wrapping along my legs. I found a new adversary that day. After more casting, I started feeling little bumps at the end of my line. I didn’t know what they were, but they didn’t feel like big fish. I made a few more casts where the taps were coming from, and felt my rod load up. I thought I was snagged until my reel started singing. To my disbelief, I finally had a fish on. After so many fruitless trips to the Bay, I was used to not catching anything. After so many times going for them, I finally pulled into a rockfish. He fought hard, but not as hard as the ones that would come after. I released him and caught another smaller one, about 10 inches long. 
 

It didn’t take long before the jellyfish scared me out of the area. A crab (I assume) nipped the tail off of my grub, so I switched to a 4 inch Keitech Easy Shiner. I walked back into the sandy beach and casted past the schools of bunker. Nothing. The fish weren’t there, and still wouldn’t have bitten for the fact that my swimbait blended in with the other bunker too well. I figured that it was better to be too flashy than too natural when going for rockfish.

 

After a lunch break, I came back to the point I was at earlier. I fished the opposite side of the point with the Easy Shiner, without any results. Rather than fall back on the grub, I decided to open up a box of plastics I got back in high school. It had a bunch of rigid saltwater swimbaits, which I didn’t care for. Coming from a world of Keitech and Yamamoto baits, I had it in my had that softer plastics were quality plastics, so I never bothered using them. Speaking of Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits, I found within the box an old Zako that I picked up off the ground earlier that year. I figured, “why not?”, and threaded it onto the jighead. The jellyfish weren’t as dense this time around, so I marched out into the waves and bombed the Zako out. I worked it with a steady reel and an Alabama shake. It didn’t take long before a rockfish ate the Zako. This one fought *hard*. At first, I wasn’t fighting the fish as much as I was trying to hold onto my rod. It didn’t help that my reel was locking up. After a short fight, I wrestled the fish to hand. It was the biggest fish of the day.

 

The head of the Zako blew out after that fight, so I swapped it out for one of the swimbaits in my tackle box of assorted plastics. I believe it was a DOA CAL swimbait. I flung my lure out, started cranking it through the water, and pulled into another fish. This one popped my line clear off. I don’t know that I’ve had many, if any, fish break off from fighting pulling hard. I’ve had fish wrap me up in sticks, and I’ve had toothy critters slice through, but never a strong fish snap my line. I retied, this time with a Cocoahoe Minnow (I believe that’s what it was). I caught three more fish. I hooked into one last fish that evening, but he broke me off. I felt him go for a hard run and knew that something was going to give. After six rockfish, I felt that I had succeeded in my mission to catch a rockfish. I left for home and went to bed, a little more than satisfied. My parents, on the other hand, didn’t take too kindly to the fact that I didn’t bring any fish home.

 

In a couple of weeks, I’ll be in Florida for college. Though I only just got my first taste of the Bay, I know I’ll miss it while I’m away. On the bright side, there’s a lot to keep me occupied in the Sunshine State. Between Suwannee bass and tarpon, I’m sure I’ll have my hands full. （╹◡╹）

[you]

Not much luck with bass today, so I started looking for gills.

 

Always a good time. Cool to see the color variation, too.

 

[basscrusher]

On 8/5/2023 at 4:53 PM, Buzzbaiter said:

Despite having lived in Maryland for years, I had never caught a rockfish. I went on a few trips in past years to remedy that, but I had zero clue what I was doing so I always blanked. Now that I was headed south for college, it didn’t sit right with me that I, a Maryland native, had still not caught the state fish. Yesterday, I set out to change that. I found a park on an island facing the middle of the Bay and went to work.

 

The day started on a strip of beach. Without knowing where to begin, I found an inlet to a salt pond and walked into the water. I had a 5 inch white Kalins grub tied on and launched it out as far as I could (I did this on a M-F spinning rod spooled with 15lb braid and an 8lb test leader, which became problematic later on). I promptly snagged a peanut bunker. This would not be the first marine life-form I snagged that day. It occurred to me that I was set up on top of a large shoal of bunker, which seemed like a good place to be. After many casts, I moved further down the beach.

 

After moving down the sandy flats making a number of casts, I started to lose hope. I moved down until I found a small point with rocks along it. I made a few casts from shore, got snagged, broke off, and tied on another grub. An NRP officer spawned in out of nowhere and told me that most of the people catching fish were going far out into the water and casting into deeper water, where there were submerged concrete chunks. I took his advice and walked out.

 

I started snagging a bunch of jellyfish and found them wrapping along my legs. I found a new adversary that day. After more casting, I started feeling little bumps at the end of my line. I didn’t know what they were, but they didn’t feel like big fish. I made a few more casts where the taps were coming from, and felt my rod load up. I thought I was snagged until my reel started singing. To my disbelief, I finally had a fish on. After so many fruitless trips to the Bay, I was used to not catching anything. After so many times going for them, I finally pulled into a rockfish. He fought hard, but not as hard as the ones that would come after. I released him and caught another smaller one, about 10 inches long. 
 

It didn’t take long before the jellyfish scared me out of the area. A crab (I assume) nipped the tail off of my grub, so I switched to a 4 inch Keitech Easy Shiner. I walked back into the sandy beach and casted past the schools of bunker. Nothing. The fish weren’t there, and still wouldn’t have bitten for the fact that my swimbait blended in with the other bunker too well. I figured that it was better to be too flashy than too natural when going for rockfish.

 

After a lunch break, I came back to the point I was at earlier. I fished the opposite side of the point with the Easy Shiner, without any results. Rather than fall back on the grub, I decided to open up a box of plastics I got back in high school. It had a bunch of rigid saltwater swimbaits, which I didn’t care for. Coming from a world of Keitech and Yamamoto baits, I had it in my had that softer plastics were quality plastics, so I never bothered using them. Speaking of Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits, I found within the box an old Zako that I picked up off the ground earlier that year. I figured, “why not?”, and threaded it onto the jighead. The jellyfish weren’t as dense this time around, so I marched out into the waves and bombed the Zako out. I worked it with a steady reel and an Alabama shake. It didn’t take long before a rockfish ate the Zako. This one fought *hard*. At first, I wasn’t fighting the fish as much as I was trying to hold onto my rod. It didn’t help that my reel was locking up. After a short fight, I wrestled the fish to hand. It was the biggest fish of the day.

 

The head of the Zako blew out after that fight, so I swapped it out for one of the swimbaits in my tackle box of assorted plastics. I believe it was a DOA CAL swimbait. I flung my lure out, started cranking it through the water, and pulled into another fish. This one popped my line clear off. I don’t know that I’ve had many, if any, fish break off from fighting pulling hard. I’ve had fish wrap me up in sticks, and I’ve had toothy critters slice through, but never a strong fish snap my line. I retied, this time with a Cocoahoe Minnow (I believe that’s what it was). I caught three more fish. I hooked into one last fish that evening, but he broke me off. I felt him go for a hard run and knew that something was going to give. After six rockfish, I felt that I had succeeded in my mission to catch a rockfish. I left for home and went to bed, a little more than satisfied. My parents, on the other hand, didn’t take too kindly to the fact that I didn’t bring any fish home.

 

In a couple of weeks, I’ll be in Florida for college. Though I only just got my first taste of the Bay, I know I’ll miss it while I’m away. On the bright side, there’s a lot to keep me occupied in the Sunshine State. Between Suwannee bass and tarpon, I’m sure I’ll have my hands full. （╹◡╹）

I fish in that region quite a bit.   What park?