fished at high park lake. mostly this day was to acquaint my wife to some of the mechanics of casting a fly. she did well. no fish for her but she enjoyed herself.
i spent most of my time with leona so made maybe a dozen casts with one of quiviria kids chartreuse too simple panfish flies. got one fish and i have no idea what kind of fish it is. someone id this fish?
This made me very happy. My wife Leona.
Looks like the dreaded Asian Carp.
looks like y’all are right branhap, probably the silver one… this one was caught in an urban lake in derby kansas, high park lake. not good news.
Big Shad???
My guess (based on reading a fish book). A gizzard shad.
shad does account for the spot. although some kind of shad was my first thought i had no real idea what it was. didn’t fight much i’ve had 5" gills tussle a good deal more. the education continues.
Hi Wes,
One more vote for a shad. I never try to touch one if I catch it, the smell is pretty bad, and the smell sticks to you or your boots or clothes.
Regards,
Gandolf
i didn’t notice any more or less odor with this fish than any other normal fish. in fact it seemed pretty clean. like i said not much of a tussle but sure did slam that green bug.
i didn’t notice any particularly strong odor with this fish. no more or less than any other healthy fish.
Looks like a huge thread fin shad to me… But we don’t have them here so I could be wrong on that… I don’t think the asian carp have the spot… and are filter feeders so not likely to be caught with any kind of gear… from what I’ve seen they are also the ulgliest fish on the planet!
Gizzard shad! A big one at that. I hope you cut him up and used him for catfish bait…
That’s just a big ol’ shad! That pattern is actually just a slight modification of a pattern from steveks. He uses estaz or something similar for the body. It does catch fish though! If you go back, I’ve caught a bunch of shiners on an unweighted yellow boa yarn leech before. Shiners and shad are both stinky things… Great for cut bait!
if this one is big what’s tha average size for these smelly piscadors?
3-5" I’d say. Lots of fish eat 'em… White bass LOVE em.
Wes: According to my fish book the threadfin shad grows to about 8 inches and the gizzard shad to 15 inches.
Tim
