Need help to identify a fish caught on Lake Barkely!!

[charlie1]

It's almost for certain a bowfin, also called grinnell, mudfish and dogfish. The bowfin has a couple of little "whiskers" on it's upper "lip" close to it's nostrils. Check out this site:

http://www.bowfinanglers.com/bowfininfo.html

[Wormin]

Oh No it's a snakehead.LOL

[BankBeater]

>I have seen some gar that
>have the blunt nose, it
>is kind of like a
>genetic defect or some sort
>of injury that it might
>have sustained a a early
>age. Here is a web
>site that carries the pictures
>of common fish in Kentucky
>you might be able to
>recognize it off of there.........http://campus.murraystate.edu/academ...ishgallery.htm
>


According to this website ie sounds like a "Golden Redhorse"

[mfishyboy]

i nkow exactly what it was.. i catch them more in the river than in the lake.. it was a grennel im not sure how to spell it but that is what it was.

[trentonc2000]

Yeah, sounds like a bowfin to me.

[mhall]

Bowfin

[Wormin]

Did it have a round tail fin?

[JoeB]

I'm gonna just HAVE to go with the alligator gar/catfish cross. That's definately what it was.