Any Fishermen in Here ????

[k062693w]

I have fished my entire life, And I have never seen a fish like this...
Any Ideas ?? I have not looked for it on the web yet, just wanted to see in anybody here knew what it was.
My son caught it in West Liberty, In Mad River..
It has side fins like a butterfly
Beady Eyed Thing !!
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff282/k062693w/Fish002.jpg

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff282/k062693w/Fish001.jpg

[mrstang-gt-46]

sucker fish

[JIMS SVT]

Id say that one came from a fish tank though.

[k062693w]

No it's not a sucker fish... I've caught plenty of those.. It has a mouth like a catfish, And it's fins when psread out look like a cat, but are see through and look like Butterfly wings.. And when it was alive LOL it is almost black!!!!

[k062693w]

I think I found it.. This is what it looked like.. it's called a Mottled Sculpin (Cottus bairdi)
http://www.epa.gov/bioindicators/html/fish_sculpins_genus.html

[YouGotJunk]

That...is one ugly mother fucker! I wouldn't have even touched it...I would've kicked it over in the grass and let it die slow and painfully. That thing looks like some kind of alien fish...

[mach_u]

That...is one ugly mother fucker! I wouldn't have even touched it...I would've kicked it over in the grass and let it die slow and painfully. That thing looks like some kind of alien fish...
+1! That thing is DISGUSTING! :eek:

[DeckerEnt]

Was it caught near a nuclear power plant? LOL DOH!!!
Keith

[YouGotJunk]

I've seen alot of crazy shit and i'm here to tell ya...that fish isn't an ordinary fish. I wouldn't have even took the hook out...I would've cut the line and left it on the bank to die...It makes me sick just looking at it!

[Rick93coupe]

Don't eat the fish out of that water!!! lol

Seriously though, keep asking around, thats a strange looking mutha, I grew up fishing in MN myself and never saw anything like that.

[8banger]

kinda looks like this one....

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j40/traysvega/holston.jpg

Holston Sculpin

[2-8-1]

I was thinking sculpin or bullhead. Or perhaps one of those weird ass catfish from an aquarium.

[k062693w]

I think I found it.. This is what it looked like.. it's called a Mottled Sculpin (Cottus bairdi)
http://www.epa.gov/bioindicators/html/fish_sculpins_genus.html


LMAO !!!! it's the Mottled Sculpin...

[PONYGRL]

1st glance, I would've said must be something caught in the Ohio....:lol:

[wolverine8490]

It does look like a home tank fish. Looks like an algae eater to me with the fins on the side and down the back. Also known as a Pleco.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plecostomus

[2-8-1]

I caught a goldfish once....


How big is that thing, most sculpins are tiny, less that a foot long at the extreme.

[djom1cincy]

You need to call Fish and Game. It could up be a evasive fish and mess up the local fish population. Good chance its from some ones aquarium. It only takes one new fish to mess up the region. Do a search on snakeheads. You will see what I'm talking about. Did you keep it?

[Gearhead]

Sculpin or Goby, if it's a Goby, then it's an invasive species - not native to this area...

[djom1cincy]

I sent out a email looking to find out the fish above. This is the reply I received.


From the above view it looks like a sculpin. In that part of Ohio you should have only one species, the central mottled sculpin (Cottus bairdi bairdi). The specimen in the picture looks like it had been dead for awhile as the eyes are milky and cloudy and the skin is a bit "off" in color too. Normally fisherman don't catch many because they run small. However, now and then a really big specimen that is about 4 to 5 inches long will bite a hook and line. (There was no size scale to the picture so can't see how big it is.) Some fisherman use these as bait for other fish and they are called "muddlers". These are also a good indicator of excellent quality stream habitat. They are very sensitive to low dissolved oxygen and poor water quality. So the stream is in great shape where this fish was found.



Doug Sweet

Superintendent

London State Fish Hatchery

2470 Robert's Mill Road, SW

London, OH 43140