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MFF US Northeast => New York => Topic started by: rgfixit on Oct 23, 2017, 05:41 PM
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Got this pig on the Canal today.
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Sorry it's upside down. Near 27". Big for the Canal.
Got some nice crappies and bass as well. A fun October morning.
Rg
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nice fish ole boy ...bulldogs they are
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How do they taste? Had one once where the fillets were a little rubbery. Maybe not fixed right?
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A chunk! What fly did it take? ;D
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How do they taste?
:sick:
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A chunk! What fly did it take? ;D
A night crawler. I was finessing some bass with the light rod and 6 lb test. It hit like a freight train.
How do they taste.......couldn't say. I'll eat the crappies thanks.
Rg
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people mistake sheephead as a nasty bottom feeder ,it's not true they do eat a lot of crawfish but I have caught them on minnows jigs rapalas and so on , I know mid western states love fresh water drum , I ate a few they were solid white flaky meat ...... they fight great and are in numbers ... I give them a thumbs up
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Nice one RG , tons of fun to catch ,
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Sweet..... :thumbup_smilie:
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people mistake sheephead as a nasty bottom feeder ,it's not true they do eat a lot of crawfish but I have caught them on minnows jigs rapalas and so on , I know mid western states love fresh water drum , I ate a few they were solid white flaky meat ...... they fight great and are in numbers ... I give them a thumbs up
I can't comment on how they taste but I see people keeping them as table fare at the Oswego river. As a (I guess former) SCUBA diver I can tell you that they do feed heavily on zebra muscles. I have seen this many times, they go nose down and scrape a mouthful of muscles off the bottom. This is followed by a very loud "crunch" noise which carries a long ways underwater. You will also see them expel a cloud of "sand" sometimes after they have digested the shells. I suppose you can eat them, I like perch.
jperch
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Rubber baby buggy bumper, rubber baby buggy bumper, rubberbabybuggybumper. 3 times fast! :P
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They're definitely shell crushers. The pads at the base of their gullets are lined with rock hard bony bumps.
To me they're a game fish. Catch, enjoy and release. I've made many a summer trip to Irondequoit bay to target them. Get a bucket of crayfish from the creek, pick a point and wear out your tackle.
Rg
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hey they are drum .... pure brutes
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From what I understand you cut them up into chunks and boil. Poor mans lobster. I can not say I have ever ate them. Years ago I caught them at 3 Rivers and always released them.
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To trap's reply...they are not a bad table fare...i have eaten many and just like many other fresh and saltwater fish....you have to cut out the red meat along it's lateral line...then i usually cut them into smaller pieces and fry them like any other fish...they taste really quite good. And as a bonus...you can cut out their "brain" stones...quite unique little stones...check them out on youtube.
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Yes those ear stones (otoliths which all fish have) are quite large in sheephead. The Native Americans made necklaces out of them.
Otoliths are a very good way to age fish btw. Better than scales.
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Collected a lot of those stones in my youth. :)
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Otoliths are a very good way to age fish btw. Better than scales.
I thought scales were for weighing fish.
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The little guy with a sheephead he was jigging for gills and got this one not a monster but he had fun
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The little guy with a sheephead he was jigging for gills and got this one not a monster but he had fun
I'll bet he did!! Those unexpected battles always make me smile too. :clapping:
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Awesome photo
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Great pic! "little Guy" Sure is getting bigger👍
Rg
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Nice sheep young man 🎣👍
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Very nice fish. I bet that was fun.
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we'' again the little guy gets the big fish ..... :thumbup_smilie:
get ready salmon are 2 months away ;D
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we'' again the little guy gets the big fish ..... :thumbup_smilie:
get ready salmon are 2 months away ;D
....hes ready trapper. He said hes waiting to walk the wall with ya
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we'' again the little guy gets the big fish ..... :thumbup_smilie:
get ready salmon are 2 months away ;D
Hey Trapper. They are getting a few in Salmon River already. Kings and Skamania. I know of a couple that were caught yesterday.
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al ...................shhhhhhhhhhhhh
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al ...................shhhhhhhhhhhhh
Don't worry. DSR report is showing no action. So it's all good. :whistling: :whistling: :whistling: :whistling:
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Great pic! "little Guy" Sure is getting bigger👍
Rg
......he is getting bigger for sure...I think carp fishing tomarrow
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Put the bow n arrow down for a day and rod n reel fished found this one on st. Lawrence yesterday
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Fishslayer,
How big is that fish? Looks like it could go 20 lbs.!
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I didn't have a scale with me I'd guess it was right around the 20lb mark
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Holy if it isnt fishslayer where the heck u been hiding buddy
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here are my sheephead "stones" from a sheep head I caught years ago
Also my "Pearl " from a "little neck clam
looking at pearl and clam shell ,the color of the pearl
its a purple in color also matches the color on the inside of purple in the clam .
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Wow...that pearl is interesting...the stones...I have several from steelhead. If your gonna keep shepherd...cut the stones out...many people umake jewelry from them.
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I guess the otolith bones were made into necklaces by the Native Americans.
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Little guy had fun catching this one
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:o
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Little guy had fun catching this one
Way to go Little Guy. That's showing the old man up. :thumbup_smilie: :thumbup_smilie:
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Good job young man ,