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New to fishing and help to identify please - sueg6255 - 08-02-2009 [fishin]Took our son fishing today on Pigeon River. Was a nice day and caught some big and small mouth bass and some bluegill. But my son caught this and we can't find anything in any pictures that looks close to this. Does anyone know what this is?[inline 100_2478.JPG] [signature] Re: [sueg6255] New to fishing and help to identify please - Dryrod - 08-02-2009 [font "Comic Sans MS"][#008000][size 3]Hi there sueg and welcome to the membership. Your son's catch looks like a carp to me. But then again not being an ecologist I could be in error. Posting your question on the Fresh Water forum might provide you with an answer[/size][/#008000][/font]. http://www.bigfishtackle.com/forum/gforum.cgi?category=70 [signature] Re: [sueg6255] New to fishing and help to identify please - lurtch - 08-03-2009 thats a red horse sucker i cought about 20 of them today...theres alot of them in michigan rivers.. [signature] Re: [lurtch] New to fishing and help to identify please - Dryrod - 08-03-2009 [font "Comic Sans MS"][#008000][size 3][img]../../../images/gforum/dumb.gif[/img]Could be except a red tail has a pronounced V shape tail, whereas the picture shows a tail almost squared.[/size][/#008000][/font] [signature] Re: [Dryrod] New to fishing and help to identify please - lurtch - 08-03-2009 its deffinatly a sucker ans i always called them redhorse..ive seen alot of them..i was up north catching brookies this weekend and cought as many of these suckers as i did brookies..talk about a cheep thrill try hooking into a 24 inch sucker thats fighting like a trout.. [signature] Re: [sueg6255] New to fishing and help to identify please - wiperhunter2 - 08-03-2009 Welcome to the site Sueg, I also think it is a sucker. The suckers I have seen all have their mouth facing down and the lips look like sucker lips. WH2 [signature] Re: [wiperhunter2] New to fishing and help to identify please - sueg6255 - 08-03-2009 Thanks everyone for answering. I didn't think it was a carp but everyone kept saying it at the river. It does have a v for a tail the picture just didn't show it very well. My son sure had a great time bringing this thing in. It is a very different looking fish that is for sure.[fishin] [signature] Re: [sueg6255] New to fishing and help to identify please - Dryrod - 08-04-2009 [font "Comic Sans MS"][#008000][size 3]Hey there sueg - this looks like your son's fish.[/size][/#008000][/font] [center][inline fs.jpg] [/center] [signature]