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Anyone know what this fish is? #6430792
01/16/19 10:13 PM
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Re: Anyone know what this fish is? [Re: Mark K] #6430797
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I do not see it very well but it appears to be a northern mudminnow.

Re: Anyone know what this fish is? [Re: Mark K] #6430805
01/16/19 10:17 PM
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That is it. Thank you.

Re: Anyone know what this fish is? [Re: Mark K] #6430867
01/16/19 11:09 PM
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Definitely Umbra limi, the central mudminnow.

Re: Anyone know what this fish is? [Re: Mark K] #6430924
01/16/19 11:43 PM
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Pre-cursor of a good walleye meal is my humble opionion.

Re: Anyone know what this fish is? [Re: Mark K] #6430925
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Yep mudminnow. The first one I ever saw I found on the ice as I was chopping a hole in the ice for a muskrat set. It splashed up on the ice and I put it in my coat pocket to take it home to id it. I remembered it about 3 hours after I got home and it was still alive. Put it in a glass of water and it lived on my counter for 4 days until I let him go. Very tough fish. They stay alive on a hook forever too but aren't very good bait. A emerald shiner will outfish a mud minnow 20 to 1.

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Re: Anyone know what this fish is? [Re: Mark K] #6430986
01/17/19 12:45 AM
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Looks like our Blackfish. They are a delicacy here. Can freeze them and they come back to life.

Re: Anyone know what this fish is? [Re: Mark K] #6431043
01/17/19 06:45 AM
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Re: Anyone know what this fish is? [Re: Mark K] #6431050
01/17/19 06:55 AM
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Yup. We often get them in minnow traps in the swamps. Great aquarium fish for kids, but very poor bait. They thrive in swamps that kill moat other fish due to lack of oxygen. And yes, have had them live all night laying on a wet parking lot. Not even a puddle, just wet...put that one in an aquarium and it lived for years.

Re: Anyone know what this fish is? [Re: Mark K] #6431128
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Its not a Walleye!!!


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Re: Anyone know what this fish is? [Re: Mark K] #6432143
01/18/19 12:19 AM
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We have the Eastern mudminnows out here. They are darker in color and also poor for bait. Must be they either stink or taste bad.

Re: Anyone know what this fish is? [Re: Mark K] #6432201
01/18/19 02:32 AM
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Mudminnows see a fish coming in and remain still, when hooked in the lip.....then in the tail they struggle to get away and gulp their history.
they will gulp air when the O2 level drops that is why you find them around rat slides in the houses.

Re: Anyone know what this fish is? [Re: Mark K] #6432208
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Here's how folks here catch them.


Re: Anyone know what this fish is? [Re: Mark K] #6432506
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Back in the day when fox equalled a UNCLE BEN, and that's not the old Canadian beer brand, knew so fellows that trapped these minnows and just put them into a 2 gallon pail and fermented them over the summer and used the black paste for lure attractant. Did not know how they could afford a new Big Red Honda every fall.
And now look fox prices are equal pay to a Canadian beer a cheap one granted.

Jeff that was an interesting design for the funnel and attachment.....going to change my muskrat funnels like that

Re: Anyone know what this fish is? [Re: Northof50] #6432638
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Originally Posted by Northof50


Jeff that was an interesting design for the funnel and attachment.....going to change my muskrat funnels like that


These traps are also used for Muskrat, mink and otter here. Its a traditional trap for under ice, and works great. (legal here).

Re: Anyone know what this fish is? [Re: Mark K] #6432678
01/18/19 03:02 PM
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Good reason they are poor bait. As hardy as they are I wouldn't want to eat one either.

Re: Anyone know what this fish is? [Re: Mark K] #6432771
01/18/19 04:42 PM
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These small fish were and still are a very important food source in the winter for Yupik Eskimos's in western Alaska. In the middle of winter you can chop a hole and get protein, (that taste good ) They are eaten whole frozen, or boiled, and used for dog feed as well.

Give anyone here a bag of them and you will be thanked profusely.

If you find a place that they are boiling in a hole to breath oxygen, you can catch fox all day long. As fox get fat sitting there eating them all day.

I suggest give them a try smile

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