Johnsfolly

Its a male redbreast sunfish. The redbreast and green sunfish were the only aggressive fish in the creek that I was fishing. Didn't get a chance to throw a line in the Potomac due to high number of people everywhere and low water like this spot. Looks nice kind of like sections of lower Current river. Need to figure out where fish would be holding. Wish that it wasn't 3 hours from house.

Casting a small jig to a 12 to 13 inch smallie and hooked this guy. Did not catch a bass today 😒. Smallies in MD are snobs. Rejected all those good MO baits. Going for LMB tomorrow. Not likely to get a 20 inch fish just want to post an actual bass photo.

Your juniper is looking good!

Nice fat fish buddy! Early lead is not a bad place to be!

Congrats to Pat! That is a great blue catfish!

This always makes me laugh!

Nice new profile photo! Looks very relaxing.

Though not likely to catch a bass larger than 12 inches, I donated to CAM. So put me on the list Jeff.

I was going to get into taxonomic research, genetic confirmation and assignment of new species, etc., but it's probably because they wouldn't give him a new truck at the MDC. So they pay him to update that book.

I sent the photo onto Robert Hrabik who is currently revising the Fishes of Missouri guidebook. His response was highfin carpsucker.

Congrats on a very nice rainbow! Go catch some more! We used to fish some strip pits that we called extreme adventure fishing. Similarly we would often have to climb up and down cliffs to get to the water. I once caught a 6+ lb channel cat which I am certain someone switched at the last minute for the 8 lb bass that was on my line . I thought about keeping the catfish for dinner. I looked at the catfish and then at the 16 foot cliff above me and then at the catfish.... Needless to say that catfish swam off strong !

So I pulled out the Fishes of Missouri 2nd edition to look over this guy again. The first pair was between the quillback and the other carpsuckers (i.e., highfin and river). The features for the quillback were: A lack of a projection on the lower lip - well we can't see the lower lip The upper jaw does not extend beyond the front of the eye - hard to tell from the photo but looks like it might not extend beyond the front of the eye. Quillback had 36 or 37 lateral line scales - this fish appears to have 36 again hard to tell from the photo; the other carpsuckers have from 34 to 36 lateral line scales The length of the snout is about equal to the distance from the back of the eye to the upper end of the gill opening - on this fish the snout is much shorter than the distance from the back of the eye to the gill opening Based upon that last feature, I went to the pairing for the highfin and river carpsuckers. For a highfin the primary dorsal ray is approximately as long or longer than the length of the dorsal fin - it does not appear that on this fish that the dorsal ray is that long For a highfin the standard length (length from tip of snout to the base of the tail (caudal peduncle)) is les than 2.6 times the body depth (distance from belly to top of the back) - for this fish its standard length is 2.26 times its depth The river carpsuckers does not have a long primary dorsal ray and its length is at last 2.6 times its body depth. To me the weight of evidence is that @Al Agnew is correct about this fish being a highfin carpsucker.

I'm talking about out here in the Chesapeake. we have really bad water quality here in the summer. Also people around here think that fish are indestructible. I have been really bad at catching any eaters this year. Only had a meal of catfish this year. I'm slacking for sure.

Healthy looking fish Jeff! Last year there was really high catch and release mortality in the summer from the recreational fisheries. So we are being asked to refrain from any striper fishing if the water temp gets too hot to hold adequate O2 levels.That may be most afternoons in the shallower waters near the banks.

Looks like more investigation is needed ! I'll dig thru some keys and see if there are identifying features in the original photo possibly those that have been discussed already or others that will help with this id.

She sounds hideous. Well she's a guy! Have to be my favorite lines!

Jeff I would agree with you that it is likely a quillback. @curtisce pretty cool fish. @BilletHead is right am a bit jealous of a cool catch like that guy.

Congrats! It's been a while since I have seen that nice of a brown trout from that river.

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The hard decision to make is to cull the deer. Snipers would cost far less or better yet sell tags to bowhunters and actually make money. Still having 2000 deer castrated or not will still result in collisions.

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That looks great Marty! I will keep an eye out for a lid. I haven't seen a hammered piece before, but I do dig around looking for iron. So maybe I will stumble across one.

I always liked the last two weeks of Aug as prime time hunting the hickory stands. Favorite times to get a mess of squirrels🙂

All of this is BS and pandering to the participation award generation. No hurt feelings. I guess the saying sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me has be rejected😒.

I have an honorable mention; not real a goal per se. I want to get a photo of all of the fish species that I have caught. After a couple of tries that failed mainly due to moving to MD and flooding, I pulled off a hail Mary and caught and photographed an Ozark bass. I used information provided to me from fellow OAF folks and picked a likely spot on Finley creek to give it another try. I was fishing a John Deere microjig about 14 inches under a float. I caught two green sunfish before getting an Ozark to bite and be photographed. Now if I can catch a Roanoke bass. May have to be a 2021 goal .