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Anyone know what kind of fish this is? My daughter caught it on the Delta and we have no clue what it is

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Thanks!

I don't know, but what did you do with it?

DanO

Looks like some sort of a Goby / Sculpin cross breed. what in the heck is that big bulge in the stomach area? Looks like another head trying to grow.

http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_q ... +0604+0621

Thats about as close as I can find to what you have in the photos. It does appear to be some sort of Goby species.

Yeah, that's a goby. Not sure on the specific species though. When I was a kid I used to catch those all the time on the Delta around rocks with just a small piece of night crawler. Then I'd rig it up as bait for stripers. They sell them live at a lot of tackle shops for the striper fisherman. A lot of the party boats use them too...pretty popular bait out there.

how big is that thing? Looks like a foot or more in the picture.

never seen a goby more than about 3 inches

Mudsucker!! That there is one of the best baits for Striper other that the Bullhead. Yes, I guess the correct name would be a goby.

Now that is a "Bait" Fish..............it's a goby.....pay over a buck a piece at the bait store for it

Its called a logperch (percina logperch, to be exact).....Not a goby, sorry..

http://fwie.fw.vt.edu:8080/ekey/species ... gperch.jpg[/url]

and some Cali info..

http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/datastore/datas ... number=241

bigbass111 wrote:Its called a logperch (percina logperch, to be exact).....Not a goby, sorry..

http://fwie.fw.vt.edu:8080/ekey/species ... gperch.jpg[/url]

and some Cali info..

http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/datastore/datas ... number=241

Thats not a logperch, its a goby and I believe its a yellowfin goby. Heres a picture of a bigscale logperch http://www.westernbass.com/forum/album_ ... pic_id=943

Yellowfin Goby (Acanthogobius flavimanus). They can get as big as 300 mm (1 ft).[/i]

Defiantly not a log perch fins and body shape are much different between the two.

It was about 6-8 inches long, you could see clear through it's body and it had bulging eyes.

Could it be a slimy sculpin?

<img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_RMu8nr3bqQM/SwGdO ... culpin.jpg" /></img>

We got it off the hook and threw it the hell back. This thing gave me the hee bee gee bees.

Next time it's getting used as bait!

Thanks for the replies

Kwin wrote:Yellowfin Goby (Acanthogobius flavimanus). They can get as big as 300 mm (1 ft).[/i]

Uhm, don't think there's any further question - this is a DFG Biologist folks, so I'd believe him to be an authoratative source...

Thanks for responding Quinn - hope things are going well for you down there?

Roger

http://www.delta.dfg.ca.gov/baydelta/monitoring/yf.asp

I'd agree with the yellow fin goby idea.

tunaman wrote:

Kwin wrote:Yellowfin Goby (Acanthogobius flavimanus). They can get as big as 300 mm (1 ft).[/i]

Uhm, don't think there's any further question - this is a DFG Biologist folks, so I'd believe him to be an authoratative source...

Thanks for responding Quinn - hope things are going well for you down there?

Roger

+1

Quinn is the MAN or should I say man jr. sence his boss Mike is the Man

Amen.. Kwin is on top of his game.

They taste like chicken?

I believe the scientific name for this creature is "Bait"

Glad I could help.