Please identify this fish for me!
 

I took the kayak down to the Collins Scenic River for the first time today. Had a blast catching small bass and bluegills. I caught three very large fish that appear to be bluegill. Can someone identify this fish ...

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Looks like a female shellcracker.....and a good one at that. Female shellcracker lack the bright colors of the male.......many are mistaken for something else.


Regards

Here is pic of drab female shellcracker.

Regards

Definitely looks like a slab momma shellcracker great catch!

Nice catch.

Huge shellcracker!


Mike

Nice that's a beast

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One thing I learned when I moved up here to Tennessee over 10 years ago all the fish have different names in Louisiana.. Dat fish rite der the shellcracker would be called a lake runner.. The other one posted in the other thread, the warmouth we call a goggleye.. A bowfin we call a choupique.. A largemouth bass is a green trout.. When I first arrived here I asked a guy where round these parts can I catch some sac au lait ( sock-o-lay)??? The guy says sac a what?? You know a sac au lait.. He had no idea what the hell I was talking bout... Couldn't think of what else they would call it. Then later on I figured it out and told him it was a crappie..

That's funny. Well hopefully we can straighten you out. LOL. My wife's actually from Bossier city La. area if you know where that is.?

Yes sir I know where Bossier city is... I'm from way south of Bossier though, just outside New Orleans, a little town called Westwego..

sac au lait
 

I know what that is. I'm from New Orleans. Been here in Tennessee for 11 years.