01-26-2019, 07:32 PM
[#0000FF]Better to have been a goober and lost than to never have goobered at all.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]By the way, it is fairly common to hook "rock fish" around Bird Island. It is a well known spawning area for them and they spread to other areas of the lake. Not to be
with stone fish...a spiny fish with toxic spines. And when those rock fish get big it is difficult to bring them in. Many anglers have broken them off in frustration. Also, some of them rise up and cause boat damage at Bird Island. A few of them seem to favor eating propellers...like the one in the attached picture.
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[#0000FF]Blue cats? Yeah, right. I have been hearing of blue cats and flathead cats in Utah Lake for over 50 years. Heck fire! Some of them get over a hunnert pounds...and nobody can land 'em. All that from "reliable" sources, mind you.[/#0000FF]
[#0000FF]Don't sweat an occasional misidentification of fish. Happens all the time. Even newbie DWR folks have been known to stumble on the occasional fish ID.[/#0000FF]
[#0000FF]The main idea is to keep fishing and keep learning. At some point you will know more than you do now and the lab work is infinitely more fun than classroom.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]By the way, it is fairly common to hook "rock fish" around Bird Island. It is a well known spawning area for them and they spread to other areas of the lake. Not to be
with stone fish...a spiny fish with toxic spines. And when those rock fish get big it is difficult to bring them in. Many anglers have broken them off in frustration. Also, some of them rise up and cause boat damage at Bird Island. A few of them seem to favor eating propellers...like the one in the attached picture.[/#0000FF]
[#0000FF]Blue cats? Yeah, right. I have been hearing of blue cats and flathead cats in Utah Lake for over 50 years. Heck fire! Some of them get over a hunnert pounds...and nobody can land 'em. All that from "reliable" sources, mind you.[/#0000FF]
[#0000FF]Don't sweat an occasional misidentification of fish. Happens all the time. Even newbie DWR folks have been known to stumble on the occasional fish ID.[/#0000FF]
[#0000FF]The main idea is to keep fishing and keep learning. At some point you will know more than you do now and the lab work is infinitely more fun than classroom.[/#0000FF]
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