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Strangly Colored Perch

Started by Guest_sumthinsfishy_* , Sep 23 2007 02:55 PM

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#1 Guest_sumthinsfishy_*

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Posted 23 September 2007 - 02:55 PM

I caught this in Ludington, Michigan. It's about five inches long.
Is this a natural color for perch?

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#2 Guest_teleost_*

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Posted 23 September 2007 - 02:58 PM

Looks a bit grey to me. Is that just the photo? Other than that, appears normal to me.

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#3 Guest_ashtonmj_*

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Posted 23 September 2007 - 05:11 PM

I don't see a thing strange about the color at all.

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#4 Guest_fundulus_*

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Posted 23 September 2007 - 05:18 PM

Yeah, it looks like a stressed or dead yellow perch.

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#5 Guest_ashtonmj_*

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Posted 23 September 2007 - 06:22 PM

Stressed like yanked up from 40 feet? :grin:

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#6 Guest_sumthinsfishy_*

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Posted 23 September 2007 - 07:11 PM

It was perfectly healthy. It was pulled up about 3 feet, and it's not just the photo. This is what the other perch look like that it was schooling with.
The only reason I took a picture of it was because it was a different color. When I let it go, it just swam down towards all the sunfish and other perch.

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#7 Guest_TurtleLover_*

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Posted 24 September 2007 - 12:35 PM

Looks normal to me, just a bit of color variation within the population there.

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#8 Guest_dmarkley_*

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Posted 24 September 2007 - 05:52 PM

Hmmm, I suspect it could be a....hybrid!!!!

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LOL, kidding.

Dean

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#9 Guest_sumthinsfishy_*

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Posted 24 September 2007 - 07:03 PM

I was just checking to make sure it was a normal perch.

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#10 Guest_butch_*

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Posted 24 September 2007 - 08:08 PM

Look like normal perch with stressed colors so it probably already stressed out before you caught it. Through I have heard of blue perch before. In fact Mill Laces has some blue perch swimming in it but they were very uncommon. They have blue mucus just like blue walleye which is also have blue mucus mistook for extinct blue pike. The fisherman who caught blue perch already mounted it with normal colored perch.

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#11 Guest_sumthinsfishy_*

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Posted 25 September 2007 - 03:26 PM

Hmmm, I suspect it could be a....hybrid!!!! "

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#12 Guest_Irate Mormon_*

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Posted 25 September 2007 - 05:57 PM

Hmmm, I suspect it could be a....hybrid!!!! "

Not even close. It is CLEAR that these fish are fixing to die :mrgreen:

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#13 Guest_Nightwing_*

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Posted 25 September 2007 - 09:32 PM

It's a typical perch for Lake Michigan or the Big Sable river. They are often silvery or light colored. I think it's due to the clarity of the lake.

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#14 Guest_sumthinsfishy_*

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Posted 27 September 2007 - 05:03 PM

It's a typical perch for Lake Michigan or the Big Sable river. They are often silvery or light colored. I think it's due to the clarity of the lake.

that makes sense. It's just strange though because i caught it in a marina where everything is green, except the bowfins, which are a strange brownish color.

I have been to the Big Sable River many times. Nice salmon, pike, bass, and suckers there.

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#15 Guest_bullhead_*

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Posted 27 September 2007 - 09:56 PM

I have been to the Big Sable River many times. Nice salmon, pike, bass, and suckers there.

We used to fish for brookies on the Sable way inland, near the origin. (Where it was too small to call it "Big".) Very clear water. Most of the trout were tiny, and hard to catch. Lots of deer in the woods. Never tried to catch any fish besides the trout, but the stream looked like prime collecting water.

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#16 Guest_sumthinsfishy_*

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Posted 28 September 2007 - 03:08 PM

The last time I was there, which was about a month ago, I saw a 2.5 foot LMB, a lot of smallmouths, a four foot salmon, and a two foot trout. I also saw about a hundred suckers and carp, and in every square foot there were dozens of gobies. I also saw a couple foot long pike, but nothing was biting.
There are a ton of banded killies there.

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#17 Guest_Nightwing_*

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Posted 31 October 2007 - 09:49 PM

There are a ton of banded killies there.

In the Big Sable, or at Ludington? I've yet to catch a SINGLE Killie any place! I'd love to add some to my tank(all small natives), so if you can put me on to some, I'd appreciate it!

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#18 Guest_sumthinsfishy_*

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Posted 01 November 2007 - 09:43 AM

In the Big Sable, or at Ludington? I've yet to catch a SINGLE Killie any place!

Both. During the spring you can see the males fighting with each other. They are very pretty fish, but very fast. I caught one, but he died a few months later for no apparent reason.