I dont know?!?!?!? 2024
barrybee reply :
Can anyone tell me what this is?????? Shad, Small mouth, Hybrid, Striped???
barrybee reply :
another look
Will reply :
White perch?
barrybee reply :
Ive never heard of white bass or white perch in our area. (North Jersey)
But does look like white bass with the black fins
Will reply :
Compared to this website it looks like a white perch, there is a picture a couple fish down.
http://www.bigtimbercreek.org/fish_of_big_timber_creek.htm
GobbleDog reply :
It's scientific name is habius corpus... or something like that. 
Landis76 reply :
It's a drum guys. Just about the nastiest worthless fish... second only to a grass carp.
Landis76 reply :
After looking at Will's website, I think he is right. I would have called it a drum in Kansas though.
GobbleDog reply :
Shad was my initial thought, but I doubt that's what it is.
:-?
Rattlinrogue reply :
I've caught a few white perch and have never caught one that looked like that.It looks like an overgrown shad.
JayDub reply :
It looks identical to the picture of the white perch in will's link. I'm sure it is.
frenzy reply :
That fish is a Notomigonus chrysoleucas, also known as a wild golden shinner. This fish occupies nearly all suitable water from the Atlantic Coast west through the Dakotas and Texas. This information was brought from a In-Fisherman magazine I had laying around. Vol. 29 No. 2 February 2004 Issue.
RoLo reply :
It's a White Perch.
We used to catch them in Mullica River, NJ., through the "ICE".
They would stack-up every winter in Collins Cove and although the water is brackish
it gets hard enough for ice fishing. However, during the change of the tide
ice-fisherman have been stranded on breakaway ice-flows almost every year :-/
Roger
bassnleo reply :
I also think it's a golden shiner. I just caught one of those from a local lake on Sunday while fishing for crappie.
RoLo reply :
Golden shiners are not as laterally compressed,
they have small tapered heads and no lateral line.
Too, they usually display an overall golden hue.
WHITE PERCH
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bigtimbercreek.org/fish_wh_perch.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bigtimbercreek.org/fish_of_big_timber_creek.htm&h=346&w=685&sz=55&tbnid=btefCPpvEU8Z_M:&tbnh=69&tbnw=137&hl=en&start=6&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwhite%2Bperch%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff
Landis76 reply :
Golden Shiner or White Perch?
There is no way it is a Golden Shiner...it's not even golden. It is white though! 
carpfisher reply :
I would have to agree with Will that it is a white perch. It looks just like the picture in the description on the other website, a white perch.
Rattletrap reply :
It's white Perch guaranteed.
-Drums- reply :
I gotta weigh-in with a white perch vote too. I've caught a whole lot of those in the past.
cajun1977. reply :
white perch also called dinner
Madhouse27 reply :
I'm with Cajun, white perch let's get cookin.
hookset reply :
That is a crappie minnow
guest reply :
A golden shiner has a single dorsal fin. Looks like a white perch to me.
Jim
RoLo reply :
QuoteLooks like a white perch to me.
Ah cumon Jim, you can be more commital than that
We used to catch them by the pail-full in brackish water in New Jersey.
They have excellent flesh and I hear tell that they're sold commercially as "sea perch".
Roger
Matt Fly reply :
QuoteIt's a drum guys. Just about the nastiest worthless fish... second only to a grass carp.
Actually, fresh water drum are good eating fish, better known as Gaspergou, they are live bait eaters, clean fish and strong fighters.
I have heard white perch in this part of the country refered to white crappie, and I always thought that white crappie and white perch are totally different. Looking at the picture and googling everything, it looks like a white perch to me. Reading about them, they appear to be good eating.
George Welcome reply :
Golden shiner: can be gold or silver depending on the water they are in - however they have a single dorsal fin and no visible lateral line.
That fish is a white perch and is very common in NJ. You can walk the shores of a small shallow pond on "ice out" and count those that didn't make it through the freeze by the hundreds.
guest reply :
OK, Roger, it not only looks LIKE a "white perch", it IS a "white perch". Note the deepest part of the body at the front of the dorsal fin, which along with lack of multiple lateral lines separates it from the white bass. The dorsal fin is a deep-notched almost two finned dorsal, like bass. This is a Morone americana, not a perch at all, but one of the temperate bass of which family the striper belongs too. I found a link that might help for you Jerseyites. http://www.njscuba.net/biology/fw_fishes_midwater.html
Jim
Rob G. reply :
If it was partcularly smiley and stinkey then assume a big Shad. If not, then be thinking drug/skipjack.
basspro48 reply :
Definetly a white perch, or as we call'em around here a stiffback perch. I catch 'em by the the bucketful down on the rappahanock river.
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