What kind of fish is this?

[superd222]

Well I dont want it, if anyone wants it for their mother in law Id be glad to give it to you

I would be very happy to take you up on your offer!!! Keep it around for another few weeks in a pail of toilet water and make sure it get's lots of sun!

Too funny man!!!

See you next month!...

 

[tracker]

looks to me like a horny-head chub. big one though..

x2 on a horn chub.

 

[2233]

Sucker.....very boney unless smoked and eaten that way

 

[ontario]

Its a horned chub. I used to catch them quite often back in the day while floatfishing for rainbows. I would toss them all on the banks to feed the coons.

 

[captonion]

Hornyhead chub it is!

 

[dogger1]

it's a chub, rainbow chub can get 10 inches, fathead cubs the same , lake Wilcox is full of them so are most Ontario streams. there fun to catch with a 4 wt fly rod, make great pike bait.

 

[USP]

after I caught a 3 eyed chub a few years ago, no fish with a few bumps on its head would surprise me.

 

[Lt_Data]

I was told it's called a river chub. See them all the time in the Humber river.

 

[dudu]

I think we have a winner. River chub it is. Ugly little thing.

 

[TGC]

Dog fish i think

 

[rebel01]

Around here we call them mud minnows.I think they might be in the chub family.They are excellent walleye bait because of the tough skin and hardiness.I think they spawn in late spring(not sure)but anyhow during this time the females give off some kind of scent that repells predators and beleive me nothing will touch them.

 

[TheCoachZed]

Sure looks like the chub we catch up here. I've only ever caught one with the bumps on his face.

I've cooked a few up once. They didn't taste bad, but their flesh didn't lend itself to cooking - they sort of disintegrated in the pan.

 

[Redfrog]

"if anyone wants it for their mother in law Id be glad to give it to you"

If your serious I'll take that trade, but a deal's a deal. You can't give her back.

 

[fishkinger]

Dear lord y'all, atleast a couple of you folks got it - and apparently this is a group of outdoorsmen? ... it's a figgin' horned chub - plentiful in any freshwater stream across the country. Mostly caught incidently by those fishing for specs or browns in spring fed streams around here.

jf

 

[joe-nwt]

Dear lord y'all, atleast a couple of you folks got it - and apparently this is a group of outdoorsmen? ... it's a figgin' horned chub - plentiful in any freshwater stream across the country. Mostly caught incidently by those fishing for specs or browns in spring fed streams around here.

jf

Well I've fished half the country and I've never seen one. You one of those people who thinks Ontario comprises "the country"?

 

[brybenn]

Chub. Wow that looks nothing like a carp. Wait till bow season opens and the water warms up ill learn howda post pics and show you all what carp look like. Big carp I don't bow nothing under 15lbs

 

[Arctic]

Joe's right, ......only the east has those ugly things, ...somehow related to political centers and big populations!!

 

[blasted_saber]

Its a sucker of some variety (probably common white sucker). The things on its head are called Nuptial Tubercles and indicate its in the the spawning season. They disappear the rest of the year.

Definitely 100% not a carp.

 

[superd222]

It should be renamed to "Mother-in-Law Fish" !!!

...chub(by) and ugly...

 

[fishkinger]

Well I've fished half the country and I've never seen one. You one of those people who thinks Ontario comprises "the country"?

Actually I don't. I just have a clue, unlike yourself. I have fished just about every province East of Ontario, the two immediately to the West as well, and many stateside streams/rivers of Erie/Ontario. However, horned chub are available in every freshwater stream from Ontario to butfuk where-ever you live, so none of my previously mentioned experience would have been required to identify it. Look up their range if you don't believe me - and congrats on fishing 'half the country'.

jf