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 Re: Can someone please identify this fish for me?
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10/24/11 09:25 PM
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Shake n Bake
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If it is a goo, then it is sh@#% to eat, tastes like bad tuna fish with a cotton texture. Fun to catch but slimy ans nasty to eat.
When in doubt, jerk.
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Re: Can someone please identify this fish for me?
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10/24/11 10:25 PM
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captdavid
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Shake n Bake, I'm with you! the ones we caught on Rayburn and below the dam on Livingston, wern't fit to eat. Of course they were bigger, 2-25lbs. We gave them away or traded for a ciuple of beers. capt david
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Re: Can someone please identify this fish for me?
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#6768134
10/24/11 10:43 PM
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It's a Freshwater Drum. He caught it in Ray Roberts LAKE.
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Re: Can someone please identify this fish for me?
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10/24/11 10:45 PM
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It looks like something I would throw out and hope it didn't hit the bank on its way back
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Re: Can someone please identify this fish for me?
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10/24/11 10:56 PM
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Fishspanker
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It's definitely a Goo. Good for not really anything but the occasional excitement of having a good one hooked until you get the extreme downer that it's a Goo.
Last edited by Fishspanker; 10/24/11 10:56 PM.
The Sheep who only fears the Wolf is eaten by the Shepherd.
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Re: Can someone please identify this fish for me?
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10/25/11 02:34 AM
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They make good cut bait for catfish.
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Re: Can someone please identify this fish for me?
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10/25/11 02:44 AM
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Destroyer
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They have rocks in their heads. My dad used to cut them out for me when I caught one.
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Re: Can someone please identify this fish for me?
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10/25/11 04:57 AM
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Grindle
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Hence another name for it is Rockhead Drum. The freshwater drum have "rock-like" structures of bone in their heads believed to aid in maintaining balance. Bigger fish can have marble size "rocks" in their heads.
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Re: Can someone please identify this fish for me?
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10/27/11 04:57 AM
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jm_tx
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They have rocks in their heads. My dad used to cut them out for me when I caught one. Haha! Same here! I have great memories of my dad doing the same thing when I was a kid. People don't believe me when I tell them that they do have 'rocks' in their heads.
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Re: Can someone please identify this fish for me?
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10/27/11 01:02 PM
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HENDO
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FISH ON!!
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Re: Can someone please identify this fish for me?
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10/27/11 02:44 PM
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psssst:
Most (if not all, I'd have to check) fish have otolith, not just drum.
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10/27/11 05:03 PM
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The fish is definitely a freshwater drum, and belongs to the Family Sciaenidae, to which ALL of the "croakers" belong. The 'croaker' comes from the fact that all have muscles beside their swimbladders that they use to vibrate the swimbladder with, creating a 'croaking' or 'drumming' noise. In the case of larger individuals, this drumming can be heard quite some distance from the water, especially during the spawning season.
With respect to the "stones" in their heads, they are known as otoliths, and are responsible for a fish's ability to maintain it's orientation in the water, and are equivalent to the semi-circular canals in our own ears. There are three pairs in the head of fish, with one pair being much larger than the other two. In many cases, the size of a fish can be pretty accurately estimated by the size of their otoliths. For example, black drum otoliths recovered from Indian Middens around Chesapeake Bay indicate that the fish weighed as much as 200 lbs. I have a pair from a 4-45 lb black drum that are about the size of a nickle, in diameter.
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Re: Can someone please identify this fish for me?
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10/28/11 12:55 AM
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City Slicker
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Last time fishing with some buddies in the Trinity ,a drum was
caught and left on floor of boat for awhile. Threw it back in and it swam off on the surface .A litle later we saw an Bald Eagle swoop down and pluck it off the surface of the river. Makes a day fishing even better
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