Today on the Columbia

[alanger]

Today we hit the Columbia right off the bank by hydro launch for some wally's. there was about 6 boats passing through the hole and not too much luck passed around. We got a few nibbles, soft bites, nothing too brave. Werent paying attention for a minute and turned around and we hooked into a pikeminnow. got one out of the river.

[alanger]

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[Okano-gun]

Looks like a sucker to me.

[7mmfan]

Nope, dandy pike minnow, way to go my friend, did the world a favor 

[HUNT-HARD]

Sorry man but that is no Pike Minnow. That is a Pea Mouth or also called a Sucker. Pike Minnow has a larger mouth. I grew up on the Columbia and Squaw Fished every summer and made dang good money doing it.

[Shootmoore]

Sorry man but that is no Pike Minnow. That is a Pea Mouth or also called a Sucker. Pike Minnow has a larger mouth. I grew up on the Columbia and Squaw Fished every summer and made dang good money doing it.

 

Pea Mouth, Pike Minnow has a big mouth.  Like Hunt-Hard I used to fish for squaws every summer for cash back in the day.  I have seen way to many pike's and that unfortionatly is a peamouth sucker.

Shootmoore

[jackelope]

 I would agree that that is no pikeminnow.


pikeminnow:

[Gobble]

Squawfish?

[BIGINNER]

Squawfish?

sqawfish and pike minnow are the same fish.

[robodad]

Sorry man but that is no Pike Minnow. That is a Pea Mouth or also called a Sucker. Pike Minnow has a larger mouth. I grew up on the Columbia and Squaw Fished every summer and made dang good money doing it.

Turns out it isn't a peamouth either !! 

Largescale Sucker perhaps ??

http://www.pikeminnow.org/Sucker-Minnow%20Identification%20Guide.pdf

[WARHORSE]

that my friends is the world famouse columbia yellow belly sap sucker! final answer!

[mossback91]

please tell me you didnt eat that thing.......

[woodywsu]

def. a sucker. no pikeminnow or peamouth there. it is either a large-scale sucker or bridgelip sucker.

[Stickerbush]

that is most likely a large scale sucker, maybe bridgelip sucker but definately not a Northern pikeminnow (squawfish) I caught plenty of both of them this last summer! Anyone gettin any walleyes in the wanapum or priest rapids pools? I havent looked at the regs is there a season for them in there?

 

[alanger]

please tell me you didnt eat that thing.......

they are tasty.

smoked some up last nigth


everyone on our boat thought it looked like a pikeminnow so idk.

Should be some good walleye holes down there stickerbrush. should be year round too i believe.