I caught this little guy while fishing down around Truman dam. I'm guessing that it might be some type of darter, but it's just that....a guess.
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I caught this little guy while fishing down around Truman dam. I'm guessing that it might be some type of darter, but it's just that....a guess.
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We don't have any around here, but I think that is a sauger.
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Originally Posted by blackhawk961
And if it is a Sauger, it may have a size limit, I know most states do.
Sauger is a cousin of walleye, and have plenty of teeth I think
Definitely a Sauger, and they do have teeth. Most MLL is 14'' in states that have them. Can't tell the length w/ no reference. Check your State regs. Fine eatin'! Where there's one, there's more!
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Originally Posted by DOFC
https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=OIP.M3c...3&h=114#inline
Thanks to Labsandslabs for nailing this one. It turns out that it is a Logperch Darter. I should have been more specific in the OP that the picture was very close to the actual size of the little fella. As I stated in the OP, with a mouth like that and lack of dental ware, it definitely wasn't a walleye (or cousin sauger). This picture is from the internet.
Dead ringer.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8327/8...dfa58997_b.jpg
Wallleye and sauger have the same length limit which is 15" They do not get as big as a walleye but taste just as good. You will find sauger deeper than walleyes when you find them, at least in the Mo and Miss
cute little thing to
Well... I learned something today.........again!
Yep fooled me too. We don't have many, if any, here in SC but I saw and caught some when I worked for the COE at a campgound on Cordell Hull Lake in Tennessee.
It is also pictured in the MOfish app. Thanks for the pic.
I was in college while Truman was underway. We had a class assignment to collect fish samples on the Truman drainage to document species diversity. We netted on on Tebo creek. I am 61 now that was in 1976 and that is the only one I have ever seen.
Per Caleb, Log Perch is correct (I'm hoping Caleb grows up to be a Fishery Biologist)
Hope that's not what your wife says... LOL.
She was well aware of the fact going in.:biggrinQuote:
Originally Posted by G.Gordon