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boatnup

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Posted: 09:15pm - Jan 7,11

Was out this afternoon on a small pond. My bait was a small black jig tipped with waxies. The action was non-stop nothing big, all gills around six to seven inches but very thick! This fish took my bait, bringing it up through the hole and noticed it looked like a perch with some orange on the bottom fins. When I took the hook out I noticed no stripes like a perch. This fish was around nine inches long. Any thoughts on what this fish is?

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Posted: 09:22pm - Jan 7,11

Looks like a large golden roach.

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Posted: 09:49pm - Jan 7,11

We just caught 1 on Bangs a couple hours ago with a jig and waxie... I think it is a sucker - I told my buddy to put it on a tip up but he threw it back.

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Posted: 09:55pm - Jan 7,11

I've caught similar looking fish. The ones I've caught look like a type of carp, based on the scales

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Posted: 10:02pm - Jan 7,11

Radar is right on the money, I gaurantee its a large golden roach

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Posted: 10:10pm - Jan 7,11

XX Large golden roach. Gonna have to start keeping them as bait, not just throwing them back in the hole.

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Posted: 10:39pm - Jan 7,11

Put it on a tip up if you have one along.

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Posted: 12:37am - Jan 8,11

Yup, roach. Lots of big ones like that in Busse as well.

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Posted: 12:54am - Jan 8,11

roach. maybe a silver one and not a golden

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Posted: 06:27am - Jan 8,11

Yup, I'd say a Golden Roach. There are other Roach members which are all part of the
Carp family and they are abundant in the Chicago lakes and all over the world.

I never hurd of the Silver Roach.

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Posted: 07:04am - Jan 8,11

really? hmm

boatnup

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Posted: 08:04am - Jan 8,11

Thanks for the help guys. A tip up would be a good idea. I want to try Willow Slough maybe this week, I should have saved it and tried for a northern!!

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Posted: 08:16pm - Jan 8,11

It looks like a type of carp to me!

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