Carp and other Rough fish pics

[fiddleFish]

A little roughie action so far this year.

Got a few of these yesterday

Turned them into bait - bait for me, that is

[fiddleFish]

First stugie for me this year

[Ray1]

Nice tullibee

[mainbutter]

Wow what great pics we have this year! Fiddlefish, that looks like some seriously delicious bait

[MN BassFisher]

My first ever Tullie. Smaller one from Mille Lacs.

[DEADhead]

awesome tullibee Ray!

[Lunker]

Decided to chase whities for the first time today, definitley a blast on an ultralight with 2lb test. Hooked 4, landed two from 17-18" on a gold swedish pimple tipped with waxies in 50 fow.

[DEADhead]

nice catch lunker! I need to get into some whities myself

[Lunker]

Decided to take another run at it today. Lots of lookers but managed to get a few. Caught four in about 3 hours, gold swedish pimple with waxies or a silver pimple with a dropper line down to a genz worm and waxie, though they preferred the actual baited pimple. These fish are a lot of fun, might have to make a trip over to the bay(lake michigan) where there are huge numbers. These are out of an inland lake in north-central WI. I know these pictures aren't great, but I am taking self-timed photos so bear with me.

[OnAFly]

Nice catch. I hear they are good if fried fresh caught. I know they're good smoked...but what isn't?

[pikestabber]

I hear they are good if fried fresh caught

They are not good fried fresh, they are UNBELIEVABLE. Walleye/crappie guy my whole life, in addition to loving roughies, but I will tell you this...give me a flaky, super white, tender piece of whitefish over walleye any time. That's no joke. One extra row of bones to cut out, but they come out easy, and it's fine dining after that. It's everything you love about walleye except firmer and whiter flesh. Great stuff--had some two nights ago

[pkv]

Lake of the Woods 27 in eel pout.

[reinhard1]

nice fish! they are some of the tastiest fish i have had. good luck.

[1sfer]

"A little roughie action so far this year."

What fish is it in the 1st pic? Eel pot or bowfin?

[OnAFly]

Looks to be a pout.

[MN BassFisher]

Yeah, that's a pout. I was hoping to catch a bowfin (Dogfish) on a tipup at my cabin last weekend, we have a decent amount in that lake and they can get BIG! I've never seen one through the ice. I got my first bass and rockbass of the ice season though so I was happy.

[OnAFly]

That's interesting about bowfin.

In my experience, during cold water periods (early spring) they seem to bury themselves in matted down vegetation. I've seen it a few times while scouting around in a boat. I don't know if this is some form of hibernation, or just a coincidence.

Has anyone caught one in the late fall/winter/early spring??

[Lunker]

I caught one in mid winter but it was at a street runoff discharge on the mississippi, so the water was a few degrees warmer.

Other than that fishing opener is the earliest I have caught them.

[1sfer]

Wanna catch an eel pout for a while but too chicken to venture out to the north, maybe next year...

Glad to see someone else did and showed the pictures here.

[tjbassmaster]

Here are some fish me and my cousin caught yesterday. Well we snagged them some how, so I guess we didn't really catch them. All were caught on the minnesota river.

Gar

Carp

Buffalo

[Chad Peterson]

The top photo looks like some type of gar. Are there gar on the river?

Sniffer

[Lunker]

Yes, there are gar on the MN, Miss, and St. Croix.

[Here-Kitty-Kitty]

Yep too many of those bait thieves in the rivers!

[OnAFly]

Is that a spotted gar or a shortnose gar? Cool pics.

[StillwaterAaron]

Is that a spotted gar or a shortnose gar? Cool pics.

Shortnose Gar

Smallmouth Buffalo on bottom