Please identify this fish

[hockey1099]

My good friend caught this pike the other weekend. When he gutted it, he found the other fish inside. He insists its a perch or a small walleye. I disagree.

Can you please tell us whether the fish is either:

1. Perch
2. Walleye
3. Smaller Pike
4. White fish
5. Burbot
6. Sucker

I have listed everything it could be (species in the lake). I am not allowed to say what i think it is as he believes it will influence the result.

http://www.outdoorsmenforum.ca/picture.php?albumid=661&pictureid=2010

[lyons6]

That looks like a sucker to me.

[FishingFrenzy]

Definatley a sucker. No point in keeping em because there bony as hell. and there is absoloutly NO way its a walleye or perch.

[Bassett]

White fish or sucker, i say white.

[flyguyd]

Sucker

[ToCatch]

looks like a sucker... looking at the lips closely... that pike was hungry, big meal, to his size!!!

[WayneChristie]

sucker, the scales are too small for a white. maybe get a pic of the mouth and you will know for certain. not a perch or walleye, zero % of that

[hockey1099]

looks like a sucker... looking at the lips closely... that pike was hungry, big meal, to his size!!!

the pike measured 75cm. On a really old spring scale it weighed 11lbs. The weight may be off as the scale was very old but i had my tape measure to it so the length is accurate. I caught one 78cm and it weighed 10lb on the same scale. My fish weighed less as it didnt have a massive meal already in its belly

[baitfisher83]

It's a sucker, and a pretty good size one by the looks of it.....Pike are insane eaters

[lone wolf]

sucker or white - a closer look at the mouth would tell for sure

definitely not a perch or pickerel

[Grizzly Adams]

looks like a sucker... looking at the lips closely... that pike was hungry, big meal, to his size!!!

Once caught a 6 " pike, on a 5" spoon.:lol: Apparently, to them, size doesn't matter.

Grizz

[Fishfinder]

Sucker has my vote. And yes, one hungry pike!

[hockey1099]

This was pre gutting. he looked real fat. The one on the bottom had the fish inside

http://www.outdoorsmenforum.ca/picture.php?albumid=661&pictureid=2011

[ToCatch]

bottom one the one with the sucker in it?...fat for sure!

[hockey1099]

bottom one the one with the sucker in it?...fat for sure!

yep. my bad for not stating it. i fixed my post

[kinwahkly]

Sucker for sure!!!! Ive caught a lot of them.

[DaveFish]

Pike will go after/eat anything. I've seen a pike chomp down on a skrat/ducks like jaws does /w people.

[Fishfinder]

Pike will go after/eat anything. I've seen a pike chomp down on a skrat/ducks like jaws does /w people.

HaHa I watched "JAWS" on t.v. last night. Horrible classic:)

[Krisrf]

the pike measured 75cm. On a really old spring scale it weighed 11lbs. The weight may be off as the scale was very old but i had my tape measure to it so the length is accurate. I caught one 78cm and it weighed 10lb on the same scale. My fish weighed less as it didnt have a massive meal already in its belly

I would be throwing that scale out as those weights are way off for the length.

Kris

[hockey1099]

I would be throwing that scale out as those weights are way off for the length.

Kris

Thats what i thought. I am going to buy a digital one. The scale was my buddies dads and it has to be 25 years old. Im betting closer to 7lbs based on the length

[Big Red 250]

Sucker has my vote. And yes, one hungry pike!

I agree.

[Big Red 250]

I once caught about a 3 lb pike on a red and white daredevil and when I pried open it's mouth to remove it, the tail from it's last meal was in the back if it's mouth. It's last meal was a river chub.

[Krisrf]

Thats what i thought. I am going to buy a digital one. The scale was my buddies dads and it has to be 25 years old. Im betting closer to 7lbs based on the length

That's where I was thinking around. Two weeks ago my pops caught one in that 76 cm area and the rusty scale said 5 but I felt that was a tad light as it wasn't noticeably a skinny fish. Felt closer to 6 pounds.

Kris

[e40water12]

Yep thats a sucker fish, I caught one of those last weekend, I threw it back.

Nice pics of pike fish,

[BBJTKLE&FISHINGADVENTURES]

Looks like a long nose sucker to me .

[fredieC]

Sukerrrrr................!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[valve god]

sucker

[blwlaw823]

I think that's a sucker.
But that sucker looks too big to fit in the pike shown in the picture tho.

[AK47]

Looks like white sucker to me.

[hockey1099]

I think that's a sucker.
But that sucker looks too big to fit in the pike shown in the picture tho.

http://www.outdoorsmenforum.ca/picture.php?albumid=661&pictureid=2012

It fit just fine. The guys whose hands these are is about 6'8" and 270lbs

[rapalaman]

your mystery fish is actualy a young red horse sucker they are comon in a lot of lakes and rivers in this provience they get upwards of 20 lbs the dark back is red horse and the silver colord back is a white sucker when they mature there fins become very red they are also the staple food sorce for northerns.

thanks
Greg.l

[alodar]

definately a sucker.

[hunter49]

The fish must be real hungry where you caught that pike! Out of curiosity was it a lake pike or a river pike?

[AK47]

your mystery fish is actualy a young red horse sucker they are comon in a lot of lakes and rivers in this provience they get upwards of 20 lbs the dark back is red horse and the silver colord back is a white sucker when they mature there fins become very red they are also the staple food sorce for northerns.

thanks
Greg.l

Respectfully disagree. Shorthead Red horse suckers ( which by far are most common red horses here) have red fins and yellowish tint to their scales even when they are quite young - I caught tons of THAT size red horses and that fish in the pictures is not one of those. It is white sucker. Longnose suckers on the other hand have way smaller scales and darker body than fish in the picture. And where did you get that they can grow to 20 lbs? Maximum reference I found was 10.

[rapalaman]

i looked at the pics again and yes you are right they are white suckers my mistake. and as for the size of red horse suckers my family lives at cold lake which is about 4 hours north east of here and 2 of my uncles comercial fish and pretty much every year they pull out red horse suckers 15lbs one of them about 6 or 7 years ago they pulled up a 18 lbs sucker now im not sure why but in cold lake they get huge! they are not considerd a sport fish so they have no place in the record books but i know for a fact if they do add sucker the record will come from cold lake.

thanks again
greg.l

[cribfisher]

There are several types of redhorse suckers. The silver is one of the biggest with the largest recorded weight of about 20 kg.

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?ID=2997