Fishing Forum

So my cousin and I went to Jordanelle Saturday afternoon, had a good time and caught about 25 perch in a 1/2 hour after spending 2 hours trying to figure out how to catch them, and I also caught a chub. At first when I caught the chub, I thought it was a trout. Getting it up on the deck, I was surprised at how big it was, as I am used to buying the ones at Sportsmans for bait that are only a few inches long at the most. I almost threw it back, then decided to keep it for bait later on. I took a picture of it at home next to the yardstick as I do all my different species of fish, then spent the next hour filleting 25 perch! (Which were delicous by the way, and no parasites!)
Back at the office, we were discussing my weekend with my buddies, and one of them asked if I was sure it wasn't a whitefish and not a chub. We have a little contest going this year and whitefish is one of the species that is on our list for long fish. Well, we had a proclamation, so we looked up the pictures. The chub and the whitefish each look about the same. The only difference was that the chub doesn't have the second fin on its back. Since I had taken a picture of it, I couldn't wait to get back home (and refer to my picture) to see if I had caught a whitefish. As it turns out, it is clearly a chub (see picture) but what surprised me is that the current state record is only 13 1/4 inches, by Ray Johnson. The one that I caught and hastily measured, was "about" 13 inches, but had I straightened it out and squeezed the tail, it might have gone longer than that. I might have had the record and not even known it! So my question to you all is: Is a 13 inch chub that rare, or does everyone catch them that big but just don't bother to enter it as a record cause it is a non-game fish?
Randy

I've caught some decent sized chubs up at the nelle, but never really cared about measuring them for the books. I usually dispatch them appropriately before sending them back to the depths.
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[cool][#0000ff]There have been several chub grandes caught in the last month that would clearly beat the current state record. Pikeman got one Sunday that was over 14" and would have weighed well over 1.5 pounds. Others have been caught that are over 13".[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There are some large schools of chubs in some of the coves and swimming around the lake. When they move in, they hit almost anything. And, you are right. They put up a better fight than the hatchery pet rainbows.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]If you want fast action on light tackle, fish up in the Rock Cliff arm after ice out for those chubs. You can catch over a hundred in a morning. Great bait for big cats...and seagulls.[/#0000ff]
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Yeah some of us have mauled a few mega chubs up there this winter. All I'll add is, I'll happily allow Johnson to maintain that record! [laugh]
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There was monster chubs (20in+)in the berry before they killed it off the last time...
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You don't want to beat Rays record fish or he may move back here to challenge you .[]
Dang chub fishers anyway .
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ther are some realy big ones right below rock port. wanship spilway right next to the big wall. see them on the banks others discard. way bigger than the record.
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OK, I need a smilie flippin' the bird!! [laugh]
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Definetly a chub, but I was more concerned about the cockroach in the window sill!!
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Me too! That thing may be a record breaker!
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Cockroaches, bubbles, backs-of-earrings, quarters...it's amazing what kind of clutter collects on that windowsill. I took that picture on a GOOD day too! You'd think with the potential of millions of people worldwide looking at my kitchen, I would have cleaned it off first!
...come to think of it, I don't think my wife is going to be too happy when she finds out that I posted a picture on the internet of her very own kitchen sink full of fish!
Randy

Hey...how much did that cockroach weigh?
Did you catch and release or are you having it mounted.
Don't forget to have it verified over on the DWR site...before someone accuses you of a default cockroach new state record.
Did you measure it from tip to tail and get a girth?
I noticed that you didn't hold it up into the camera lens to ENLARGE the actual cockroach.
And exactly which type of cockroach was it?

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