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Title: Today on the Columbia
Post by: alanger on February 21, 2010, 05:17:56 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Today on the Columbia
Post by: alanger on February 21, 2010, 05:22:01 PM: pic
Title: Re: Today on the Columbia
Post by: Okano-gun on February 21, 2010, 10:08:29 PM: Looks like a sucker to me.
Title: Re: Today on the Columbia
Post by: 7mmfan on February 21, 2010, 10:12:42 PM: Nope, dandy pike minnow, way to go my friend, did the world a favor :tup:
Title: Re: Today on the Columbia
Post by: HUNT-HARD on February 23, 2010, 10:40:50 AM: 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.
Title: Re: Today on the Columbia
Post by: Shootmoore on February 23, 2010, 10:46:56 AM: Quote from: HUNT-HARD on February 23, 2010, 10:40:50 AM
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.

:iamwithstupid:

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
Title: Re: Today on the Columbia
Post by: jackelope on February 23, 2010, 11:20:42 AM: I would agree that that is no pikeminnow.

pikeminnow:
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Post by: Gobble on February 23, 2010, 11:22:54 AM: Squawfish?
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Post by: BIGINNER on February 23, 2010, 11:25:58 AM: Quote from: Gobble on February 23, 2010, 11:22:54 AM
Squawfish?

sqawfish and pike minnow are the same fish.
Title: Re: Today on the Columbia
Post by: robodad on February 23, 2010, 12:57:38 PM: Quote from: HUNT-HARD on February 23, 2010, 10:40:50 AM
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 (http://www.pikeminnow.org/Sucker-Minnow%20Identification%20Guide.pdf)
Title: Re: Today on the Columbia
Post by: WARHORSE on February 23, 2010, 01:03:40 PM: that my friends is the world famouse columbia yellow belly sap sucker! final answer! :chuckle:
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Post by: mossback91 on February 23, 2010, 01:12:22 PM: please tell me you didnt eat that thing.......
Title: Re: Today on the Columbia
Post by: woodywsu on February 23, 2010, 01:14:11 PM: def. a sucker. no pikeminnow or peamouth there. it is either a large-scale sucker or bridgelip sucker.
Title: Re: Today on the Columbia
Post by: Stickerbush on February 23, 2010, 03:37:05 PM: 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?
Title: Re: Today on the Columbia
Post by: alanger on February 23, 2010, 03:49:09 PM: Quote from: mossback91 on February 23, 2010, 01:12:22 PM
please tell me you didnt eat that thing.......

they are tasty.

smoked some up last nigth
:EAT:

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.
Title: Re: Today on the Columbia
Post by: DOUBLELUNG on February 23, 2010, 04:46:26 PM: That's a Messican trout.
Title: Re: Today on the Columbia
Post by: shoot-em-dead on February 23, 2010, 04:51:55 PM: You can feed those suckers to your lab and it will make his coat nice and shiny.
Title: Re: Today on the Columbia
Post by: fishcrazy on February 23, 2010, 05:14:55 PM: Quote from: DOUBLELUNG on February 23, 2010, 04:46:26 PM
That's a Messican trout.

:chuckle:

Kris
Title: Re: Today on the Columbia
Post by: alanger on February 23, 2010, 06:08:51 PM: Quote from: DOUBLELUNG on February 23, 2010, 04:46:26 PM
That's a Messican trout.

:chuckle: