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Posted: **Fri Jun 06, 2014 1:09 pm**

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Hooked this fella this morning and I am unsure what the heck it is. Was I. About 20' of water on a walleye rig with worms.

Posted: **Fri Jun 06, 2014 1:14 pm**

Looks like a Mooneye to me.

Adam

Posted: **Fri Jun 06, 2014 1:15 pm**

Thats a mooneye, i got one that was 16 inches a few years ago. They're not easy to find around here

Posted: **Fri Jun 06, 2014 1:20 pm**

Musky bait

Posted: **Fri Jun 06, 2014 1:24 pm**

Well you guys are right. That was a first for me. Was about 11-12"'s long and scrappy.
Thought I had a walleye on. At least I was hoping. But neat to get something different too.
Thanks for the feedback
Kerrazy

Posted: **Fri Jun 06, 2014 2:03 pm**

They like to school up so where you found that you'll likely find more. And as someone else has pointed out you're also likely to find some large toothy predators near by as well.

Posted: **Fri Jun 06, 2014 3:08 pm**

We caught a decent number of those down at Petrie Island last season and were calling them Mooneyes until someone else down there told us they were white fish. We'll go back to calling them Mooneyes now.

The ones we caught put up a decent fight and my little guy had fun reeling them in

Posted: **Fri Jun 06, 2014 6:21 pm**

JasonK wrote:We caught a decent number of those down at Petrie Island last season and were calling them Mooneyes until someone else down there told us they were white fish. We'll go back to calling them Mooneyes now.

The ones we caught put up a decent fight and my little guy had fun reeling them in

One easy way to tell the difference is that moooneye lack an adipose fin.

Posted: **Fri Jun 06, 2014 7:13 pm**

I see you are from Gatineau. The French name is une Laquaiche. A mooneye.

Posted: **Fri Jun 06, 2014 7:39 pm**

JasonK wrote: One easy way to tell the difference is that moooneye lack an adipose fin.

And the size of it's eyes.

Posted: **Fri Jun 06, 2014 8:49 pm**

My neighbour tried to say it was a smelt.
Kerrazy

Posted: **Fri Jun 06, 2014 9:08 pm**

Cisco, Lake Whitefish, Freshwater Smelt and Rainbow Smelt all have adipose fins.

They also have small eyes.

Here is a good chart to print out.

http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=& ... 5247,d.cWc

page 2 has the info you're after

Note streamlined body, longer lower jaw and adipose fin. Not the porky body like on a moon-eye.

Posted: **Fri Jun 06, 2014 9:43 pm**

If you really want to geek out and get your fish ID up to par this site is the best by far.

Fishes of Canada's National Capitol Region
Brian W. Coad

http://www.briancoad.com/NCR/ContentsNC ... troduction

An absolutely amazing resource! Keys for Identification especially.

Posted: **Fri Jun 06, 2014 11:56 pm**

My little girl - who we call the cat fish queen - caught one of those couple years ago. I didn't know what it was either. My buddy said it sounded like it was a sheeps head. Then I caught a sheeps head/fresh water drum ( an ugly monster) and I realized my daughter's flat silver fish was not a sheep's head. Next time she hauls one in, I'll tell her its a Mooneye.
Howie

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