Never know what is swimming in the bay
 

Caught this fish Jan. 20th near the bridge in about 50 feet of water.

Looks to be a hybrid - wonder where it swam from ?


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It was shaped like a Perch - wide and thin but had stripes like a Rock. Mouth was much smaller than same size Rock.

Caught one of the hybrids in the fall...Looked a lot more like a striped bass than a white perch...Broken stripes caught me off guard for a while...It's hard to believe they are still living...And it looks like living well...

Amazing that the one you caught looks so perch like....

I don't know if they can cross breed, but rockfish and and perch are the same genus (Morone)....

I asked about hybrids on Tidal Fish - some offered very good info / ideas.

Likely it came from Pa. - hybrids are in the Conowingo lake.

Seems to be two hybrids used. One is White Bass / Striper - the other is a White Perch / Striper.

The one I caught really fits a Perch / Rock mix.

The son of on one of my coworkers is a commercial fisherman and was running a gillnet a few weeks ago near the Patapsco and brought up an unusual fish. It was a 5' long Sturgeon. Saw a picture of it last week so it is confirmed. How would you like to be trolling and see that on the end of your line!

I'm reading a book right now about the "bounties of the bay" back during the 1600's and the book claims that big Sturgeon were quite abundant at the time.

FWIW:

Big Sturgeon were often shot with rifles to feed the work crews when Conowingo was built. Think that dam really hurt a lot of fish populations.

Some would swim far upriver to spawn - now they are stuck.

Really not that long ago.

Few Sturgeons are caught each year in nets in Md - the Delaware river has more of them.

Know a diver who has bumped into a few of them up there on a gravel piece of bottom. Here I though Cownose Rays were spooky.