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:
[url]http://www.bowfinanglers.com/bowfininfo.html[/url]
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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:
[url]http://www.bowfinanglers.com/bowfininfo.html[/url]
Oh No it's a snakehead.LOL
>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.........[url]http://campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/howard.whiteman/field/fish/fishgallery/fishgallery.htm[/url]
>
According to this website ie sounds like a "Golden Redhorse"
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.
Yeah, sounds like a bowfin to me.
Bowfin
Did it have a round tail fin?
I'm gonna just HAVE to go with the alligator gar/catfish cross. That's definately what it was.