What kind of fish is this???

[reeleyz]

My boss has a camp near Kring's Point (St. Lawrence River) and they came across this dead fish washed up in the shore.

Not the best pics. Not sure I have seen teeth this big on a fish in NY. Seems like a walleye shaped head and sort of like a carp body with big scales like a carp. But the teeth are huge.

So what is it???

[youngster]

WOW,, lol   now that's a good 1,   makes you wonder what out there. lol  . be nice to know for sure

[FISHFORPIKE]

Pretty beat up  - Bowfin?

[tree-on]

Pretty beat up  - Bowfin?

X2 looking at the tail.

[taxid]

My guess too. Scales are to big for a salmonid and it appears it has a the caudal fin of a bowfin although it's hard to tell.

[Chowdaire]

X3 on bowfin. Look at the plates on its skull. Used to catch quite a few and also find them dead up there when I was a kid.

[taxid]

X3 on bowfin. Look at the plates on its skull. Used to catch quite a few and also find them dead up there when I was a kid.

Yep!

[big_guy_13021]

That bowfin was somethings super

[reeleyz]

Alright, bowfin it is!

I guess the monster teeth had me scratching my head. I have never caught one. I assumed they had teeth more similar to a catfish or burbot.

[RIVERRAT2]

Yep!
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[lowaccord66]

Bowfin it looks like.  Mean buggers!

[greensider]

bowfin for sure i used to have a skull from one they have some pretty mean teeth

[Centerpindrew]

I just called Jeremy Wade w/ River Monsters.. He said "Bowfin"...

[Clint S]

Wish I had a better pic of the teeth on this one.

[lowaccord66]

I just called Jeremy Wade w/ River Monsters.. He said "Bowfin"...

I called him too and he tried to sell me a river monsters fishing kit