State Record Broken Twice in One Night

[DTro]

Fishing the backwaters of the Minnesota River this evening for some White Bass (caught probably 50 in the 14-17" range).

On consecutive casts PapaGrump and myself hooked into two monster Mooneyes. His was 2lb 1oz and mine was 2lb 10oz and 20".

Looking tonight at the record, it's 1lb 15oz

I'm pretty sure these were mooneye and not goldeyes. If so, record was broken on consecutive casts as Brian caught his first.

Fun Stuff. What a night with 7 species caught!

[Huntin&Fishin]

Go on this under Goldeneye. Nice fish

http://www.gen.umn.edu/research/fish/fishes/natural_history.html

[DTro]

yep, sure looks like Goldeneye.....oh well.

The site I looked at showed a Goldeneye with no underbite.

[Huntin&Fishin]

Those are still real nice fish. I've never caught one, do they put up a good fght?

[Dan Thiem]

Wow! Them are some huge ones! We catch moon eyes too but not that big! Goldeye, mooneye, dang near the same thing.

I see the last picture where it's around the 20" mark. The record Goldeye Shows 20.1" so them are some dang nice fish! Congrats!

[so haaad]

Looks like someone signed up for a credit card at a particular sporting goods giant in Rogers.

[Shack]

Dtro,

I know were your guys were fishing! Is their an abandoned 14-16' boat around were you were fishing?

[fiskyknut]

Those are Goldeye for sure. Nice BIG ones too! Anal fin on a Mooneye always starts a bit behind their dorsal, whereas on a Goldeye it's even with or slightly in front of dorsal. Iris on Mooneye is silver colored, gold on Goldeyes.

Fisky

[Tyler Holm]

Those are the largest dang Goldeneye's I've ever seen. Nice work fellas. I hit 2 mooneyes this weekend, but they were less than half that size. Great Job.

[Kurt Paulsen]

Wow those are really nice! So I guess the spring Goldeye bite is not over yet! I look for these toothy guys all around mankato. Last year I had 3 over 2lbs, but never enough for the record... Aren't they fun fish? The toothed tongue thing is just awesome.