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

[miketr20]

I was back in Eddy Creek Sunday morning throwing a spinnerbait into shallow cover.When out of no where this fish approx. 40in long slammed my spinnerbait. I caught this fish and it had a round body, white belly, had small whiskers from the top of its mouth like a catfish, it had scales that were nice size scales,it was a silverish gold color on the top of its back, it weighed approx. 12-15 lbs, and most of all it had a mouthfull wicked looking teeth. Please help me identify this fish, it is driving me crazy!!!

[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.

[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.

[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

[JimDicken]

Did you by any chance keep the fish.. any chance of a picture?
Never seen anything with whiskers that had scales..
Jim

[BassBest]

I have been studying a few pictures of a common carp, they have one or two whiskers on each side of the mouth, and large scales, but not sure about the teeth.

http://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karpis

This address will take you to the pic I am looking at. Maybe if you could give more info on the structure of the mouth or fins maybe?
It's a good possibility we are dealing with a cross.

Elijah Orr
Kentucky Lake Bass Club
Asst. TD
270-354-5285
ede037@yahoo.com

[dcbasser]

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

[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"