what kind of fish?

[Woodrow]

Ive cought a few of these things and not really sure what they were. It was about 4 or 5 inches long.http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x114/randyscott44/DSC00593.jpg for those fish lovers, it felt no pain.http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/images/icons/icon7.gif

[BlacktailStalker]

Looks like a freshwater bullhead to me.

[Gateholio]

Hybrid!!!!

[Phoneguy]

Fresh or Salt water?

[MooseNuts]

Sculpin ??

[Cap'n rotten]

it is a sculpin[bullhead]of some kind.looks like a type called a midshipman?

[kaptkannon]

I agree that it looks like a sculpin.


Looks like a freshwater bullhead to me.

As far as it being a freshwater bullhead, freshwater bullheads look like small catfish, whiskers and all.

[ruger#1]

looks like a minni cod , but it is a sculpin. caught lots of them in the harrison river.

[Derek_Erickson]

Those, are from the ocean I believe!

I remember when I was younger swimming in the ocean they were everywhere! someone called the bullheads when I asked

[BlacktailStalker]

I call everything that ugly a bullhead because their relevance of importance to me is little, although the big boys will eat those after spawning :) I too agree it is a sculpin. I'll be more specific for the sculpin lovers next time lol

[Wild one]

like every one else said it's a sculpin

[Big7]

You can talk to our biologist at our office Woodrow and he will tell you all you need to know about the little fella (as many have said, it's a bullhead.)

[kloosterboer]

looks like a staghorn sculpin to me. You can catch them just about anywhere.

[Bow Walker]

Fresh water - salt water...doesn't matter. There are species that inhabit both. Salt water they're called Sculpins of one type or another. Like everyone else the fresh water ones I used to always refer to as bullheads.

Caught many of them off the docks at Silvery Beach when i was a tad myself.

[OOBuck]

Any bullhead I have seen have larger horned gill's.

[Browningmirage]

Cottid...More specific name for them (as long as it is a freshwater species which i believe it probably is). They are extremely important, and great for taking pictures of as they dont move at all. I honestly think they are a beautiful fish, and like i said, extremely important in fresh (and salt) systems

[Bow Walker]

Are you sure it's fresh water? Look at the mottled coloring and the dorsal fin configuration, and the "lips". That's gotta be an immature Ling cod?

[ruger#1]

Bullhead

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Bullheads may mean two different kinds of fish:
In Eurasia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia), certain sculpin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sculpin) are called thus, such as the European bullhead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_bullhead), Cottus gobio.
In North America (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America), some catfish from the family Ictaluridae (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ictaluridae) are known as bullhead catfish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullhead_catfish):

The black bullhead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_bullhead), Ameiurus melas.
The brown bullhead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_bullhead), Ameiurus nebulosus.
The yellow bullhead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_bullhead), Ameiurus natalis.

[6 K]

Sculpin A.k.a. bullhead

[Fisher-Dude]

It's a sculpin, but we used to call them bullheads when I caught hundreads of them in Okanagan Lake as a kid. They have been known to decimate the feed in pure trout lakes. One of my biology teachers told me he was studying salmon fry, and was amazed that a single 5 inch sculpin would be able to eat 15 - 20 emerging alevin at once. :?

Important to the ecosystem? I remember throwing some on the ice at Rose Valley Dam as a kid, and the ravens wouldn't even eat them. Interesting thing was, they were still alive the next day when we came back to do some more fishing! :shock:

[mark]

Important to the ecosystem? I remember throwing some on the ice at Rose Valley Dam as a kid, and the ravens wouldn't even eat them. Interesting thing was, they were still alive the next day when we came back to do some more fishing! :shock:[/quote]

:sad: this is the first fish I ever cought as a little kid! I was so proud I made mom cook it, and yes I ate it! Ravens dont know what their missing!

[Fisher-Dude]

:sad: this is the first fish I ever cought as a little kid! I was so proud I made mom cook it, and yes I ate it! Ravens dont know what their missing!


http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e70/Fisher-Dude/MarkRaven.jpg

[kaptkannon]

European Bullhead
The bullhead Cottus gobio L. is the only freshwater cottid found in the UK. The Cottidae (sculpins) are mostly marine fish, with around 300 species worldwide. A small species, the bullhead exceptionally reaches 15 cm in length and a weight of 28g. It is easily identified by its large head (which can account for 25% of body length) with eyes on the top and a dorso-ventrally flattened tapering body adapted to life on the bottom of flowing waters.
Derek Lippett/Environment Agencyhttp://www.english-nature.org.uk/lifeinukrivers/species/species_images/bullhead4.jpg

North American Black Bullhead:

Diagnosis: The black bullhead is a robust bullhead, uniformly black or olive above and whitish or pale yellow bellow, with squared caudal fin, dusky chin barbels, 16-20 anal rays, a light vertical bar on the caudal peduncle, black interradial membranes on most fins, and a roughened (but not serrate) rear edge of the pectoral spine.
Ecology: It inhabits lakes, ponds, swamps, and pool habitats of streams of all sizes, particularly those in low-gradient creeks. Its breeding and feeding habits are simila to those of other species of Ictalurus.
Distribution: The black bullhead is common in all parts of the state. Yet there is evidence from an examination of the distribution map of new species, that it was formerly even more ubiquitous than it is now.

http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cfruf/images/bio4950/ameiurus_black_bullhead.jpg

Hopefully this helps.

[Browningmirage]

It's a sculpin, but we used to call them bullheads when I caught hundreads of them in Okanagan Lake as a kid. They have been known to decimate the feed in pure trout lakes. One of my biology teachers told me he was studying salmon fry, and was amazed that a single 5 inch sculpin would be able to eat 15 - 20 emerging alevin at once. :?

Important to the ecosystem? I remember throwing some on the ice at Rose Valley Dam as a kid, and the ravens wouldn't even eat them. Interesting thing was, they were still alive the next day when we came back to do some more fishing! :shock:


Thats gotta be backwards...I know when we get morts, we leave them (and salmonids) for the birds, and the cottids get eaten waaaayyyy before anything else does; kinda like put them out there and walk away and before you can turn around again, they are gone. We have found the birds will eat these over juvenile salmonids ever time.

As for eating lots, we found one about 10cms with a coho smolt in its mouth that had to go at least 20cms. Theyre impressive. Also, they are a natural part of the ecosystem, noone in their right mind would introduce them, because in reality they arent much interest to anyone.

[Fisher-Dude]

They've been "introduced" to a couple of lakes in the Kelowna area - including Beaver and Rose Valley Dam. The trout fishing definitely went for a shitter in both lakes not long after the sculpins showed up. Word is, someone was using them for bait. :mad:

[browningboy]

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e70/Fisher-Dude/MarkRaven.jpg

Thats awesome!!