Had a farm visitor today. We are about a mile away from the nearest water but for whatever reason lately we have an osprey that likes to bring his treats over to eat in big dead doug fir on our place.

Any idea what kind of fish this is?

The osprey appears to be holding an American Shad with a really good relative weight.

Keith

Dead.

I'm about 60 miles from the coast. Don't think it could be a shad.

Buffalo Carp maybe?

Drum

How close to a river are you? Shad could show up in any river in western Oregon.

American Shad were introduced to the West Coast in the 1800s. They now range from Alaska to Mexico on the West Coast. American Shad living in the oceans swim huge distances up rivers to spawn in fresh water, in huge numbers. There are lots of landlocked populations, that still breed. Even some fairly small ponds have breeding populations. With the RW of that shad I would guess it was landlocked. Landlocked fish get heavier and are less streamlined. All the major rivers in Oregon have American Shad.

We have American Shad in Ohio and we are probably 400 miles from the coast.

Keith

Was what I thought.

First thing I thought was shad. Osprey love them here

Boy that photo sure looks like a moss bunker also......jk

Shad. They can be in any small lake.

I don't think shad the dorsal fins don't look right for shad. White Bass would be more by what I see.

My first impression is carp

lm going with Tarpon
Or a juvenile pig castrator fish!

With the mouth area missing I have to go with common carp

We do have grass carp near by. There is the coastal mountain range that separates us from the coast so we are about 35-40 miles from west flowing streams that shad might be in. A tributary to the Willamette is 130 miles to the Columbia where there are shad.

The ventral fin on my pic looks bigger than the pic of a shad that Turtledale posted.

Huge anal fin is kinda throwing me off maybe buffalo.

Cisco

Never heard of Buffalo fish in Oregon.