What is this fish?

[Trailmaster]

I was out fishing today and caught a few of these, they don't list them in the reg's as a fresh water fish here, I caught it in a lake in duncan.
http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff287/Trailmaster10/Fishing/DSC_0117.jpg
http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff287/Trailmaster10/Fishing/DSC_0113.jpg

[NaStY]

Fresh water crapies....

[308Lover]

Google "crappies" and hope to hell some jackass didn't plant them here. They would be death to trout fry. Keep BC free from "crap" fish like this one.

[Jetboater]

Pumpkinseed sunfish is what they are...

[358win]

Jetboater's correct. Quenelle LK is full of them.

[rocksteady]

I have always referred to them as sunfish.......

Usually they go hand in hand with lakes that have perch....Probably the same guy transplanted both.....

Really bony....

Great fun for little kids to catch...BUT Terrible for a fishery..

[Andy83]

its a pumpkinseed sunfish jetboater is right.

[islandboy]

Pumpkinseed sunfish is what they are...

Agreed. Caught lots of them in the lakes around Victoria 30+ years ago.

[ElkMasterC]

Pumkinseed. JB's right.
http://www.ocfa.on.ca/pumpkinseed.jpg
On the list of "Invasive Species" of BC.
The people that stock these should be made to pull weeds all day long, all summer long, in wool shirts and trousers. Purple Loosestrife, Kudzu, Russian Thistle, they have lots of work to do.
Best get started.

[doubled]

PS Sunfish, garbage fish. Nothing a good dose of rotedone would not fix.

[PGK]

Pumpkinseed sunfish. Invasive, illegally introduced species. May as well kill them, I hear they taste great. You also might want to report the location to the ministry.

[NaStY]

They looked pretty crappy to me :roll:

[Trailmaster]

I was thinking a stripped sun fish but with that pic its a pumpkin seed, I will have to give fisheries a call, I am sure some one may have called about it it is a popular lake.

[shoot to kill]

yup pumpkin seed

[wolverine]

Yup, It's a pumpkin seed shit fish. Only good for under the rosebush. Makes em grow like you won't believe. Where are you fishing, Mill Lake in Abbotsford?

[Phil]

I've got those little buggers in my back yard trout pond. They are a disease to all that is pure and natural to the trout world. Sunfish or pumpkin seed is correct.

[Ron.C]

Looks like Dougan lake. I was there earlier this evening with my nephew and he caught a ton of em. Only a few trout though. There was a guy shore fishing who told me fisheries was there earlier telling him to kill everyone he caught. Like many said above, illegally introduced species

[OOBuck]

I just read this and found it very interesting, seem the crappy fish
are toxin detectors

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14898133/

[Jagermeister]

The pulpmill that I worked for used rainbow trout fry for toxicity testing on the mill"s effluent.
Those pumpkinseed for bream can stand some pretty stagnant water so using them as a water canary might not be as good as it is intended.

[spreerider]

they make good aquarium fish, able to survive tropical temps for long periods of time, able to take very low oxygen levels, will eat anything they can fit in their mouth.
I had 3 in a 25g tank for 9 years, they look good as well alot nicer than some expensive tropicals and you dont need to heat the water. :)

[ferndogger]

yep, sunfish. used to catch them all the time growing up in Ontario. They are everywhere there, throw a worm out and you will have on in no more then a minute. If you catch a 100 or more you could make a decent meal, it just might take a while to clean them:)

[mr.280]

Yes some friggin sun fish. Most of the time when you find these little buggers in a lake in BC it's because some doorknob is trying to intrduce small mouth bass to the lake and these little buggers are one of the bass's primary pry.

[Chuck]

Pumkinseed. JB's right.
http://www.ocfa.on.ca/pumpkinseed.jpg
On the list of "Invasive Species" of BC.
The people that stock these should be made to pull weeds all day long, all summer long, in wool shirts and trousers. Purple Loosestrife, Kudzu, Russian Thistle, they have lots of work to do.
Best get started.


X12! People just can't leave well enough alone eh?

[Spokerider]

They are a pretty fish, especially the males [ as in your pic ].

Small mouth bass get real big eating them!

[wolverine]

they make good aquarium fish, able to survive tropical temps for long periods of time, able to take very low oxygen levels, will eat anything they can fit in their mouth.
I had 3 in a 25g tank for 9 years, they look good as well alot nicer than some expensive tropicals and you dont need to heat the water. :)


Holy Crap!:eek: That describes half of us in here.:biggrin:

[PGK]

they make good aquarium fish, able to survive tropical temps for long periods of time, able to take very low oxygen levels, will eat anything they can fit in their mouth.
I had 3 in a 25g tank for 9 years, they look good as well alot nicer than some expensive tropicals and you dont need to heat the water. :)

What you are talking about is highly, highly illegal

[spreerider]

I know that now, i ment to say that in my post, this was about 15 years ago, funny you can not transport sunfish but you can transport carp and koi all over the place...

[Tikka270wsm]

Somenoes Lake has been infested with those Pumpkinseed Sunfish for years now as well as Dougans, Quamichan and Shawnigan. Somenoes is connected to the Cowichan River via Somenoes Creek and those little buggars are in the river system now too. I've seen them as high as Murray Canyon. They don't seem to get as big in the river as they do in the lakes though.

[338 whisper]

That is pumpkin seed sun fish and big bass love them. duck lake is loaded with them and perch and tha bass go about 6 plus pounds and they are a hoot to fish. I fish it all the time.

[moosehunter16]

Pumpkinseed sunfish is what they are...

Jetboater is correct they are pumpkinseed sunfish.