ID This water species..

[CBR]

This thing keeps coming up every now and again on the Bonneville Lock and Dam website cam. Any ideas what it is?


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[DonInDenver]

Is it a lamprey eel?

Do a Google search for lamprey & pacific and you come up with a bunch of info, including this page:
[url "http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/species/lamprey/"]http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/species/lamprey/[/url]

I didn't know before today that there were any lampreys in the Pacific.
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[utwalleye]

It a Lamprey, just look at the site at night time you will see alot more of them. some where on that site you can look up the species
you will see comming thru the dam. later chuck
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[TxGopher]

Yep, it's a lamprey. I've caught a lot of eels on the Potamac and Rappahannock rivers in Virginia and it doesn't look anything like one of them. How big is that thing?
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[Lundman]

Hey Craig - these lamprey eels run mostly at night and if you look on the right side of the fish count numbers they actually count these.

Here is the link for fish counts:
[url "http://www.fpc.org/currentdaily/HistFishTwo_7day-ytd_Adults.htm"]http://www.fpc.org/currentdaily/HistFishTwo_7day-ytd_Adults.htm[/url]

Just like anything that isn't considered "Game Fish" the lamprey is in trouble numbers wise - counts are going down each year...

Tubedude is right - these are the "best" sturgeon bait other then shad. They run up the streams and spawn.
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