Question for all you fish experts. The other day, while fishing a 50+ year old gravel bottom strip mine lake (60 acres, 60+ feet deep, average depth around 20 with crystal clear water) we observed a fish that still cannot be identified. The fish was very very dark, about 15"-17" long, thin (shad like), with one small fin on its back. They were in schools of 8-12 darting in and out of the shallow spots. It was too thin to be a buffalo, amur or carp, and it was way to dark to be a shad or freshwater drum. Thoughts?
It didnt behave like a sucker. It behaved identical to a school of shad...just wrong color and too big. Im going to try and return and catch one ASAP.
TWRA - Photo of a Large Gizzard Shad - Jim Negus I bet it was some type of shad. I've seen some pretty dark ones and our local lake a lot of gizzard shad that are over 20"
I'm thinking sucker also. It is a bit late....like a month or more for them to be schooling like that. I've seen hundreds of them acting like you say. Hell, I even speared a couple with a pitch fork while they did this below a dam.
The only thing is these fish are black as night....not light colored Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk 2
