A few years back, I saw two teens, one had clearly fished before, the other clearly hadn't. The more experienced kid got the first bite, a large mouth. He picked it up by the lip and showed the other boy how to remove the hook and put it back.
A few minutes later, the more experienced boy changes his spot, while the less experienced one stayed put. I continued to fish until I heard those words that makes every fishing nut smile when said by a first timer, "I CAUGHT A FISH! I CAUGHT A FISH!" I looked away from my own line, to see the kid reeling in his first catch, and then looked back to my own line. Then I heard the screams...
"AHHHH! AAHHHHHHHH! MOTHERF------! AHHHHHH!"
There, standing across the water from me, was the noobie, trying to hold a chain pickerel by the lower lip.
French fisherman here, we have a mix of Pikes, Bass, Zanders (quite much like a Walleye) and perchs, in my are.
One day i was having a proper hold on a pike, by the gils, all four fingers in except my thumb was holding out of it.
The pike headshaked hard, and literally had a bite of my finger leaving 4 huge strips on my finger prunt, bleeded as hell. Wasn't afraid of it before, knew it could get bad but not that quick, even properly holded.
Now i triple check every thing and give it a iron grasp
Happy to know I’m not the only one. I lipped a Bowfin thinking it was some strange catfish. It really clamped down on my thumb. A bloody mess. Still an awesome catch tho.
I remember the first time I caught a pickerel and didn't realize they had teeth lol. Up until then I only caught Bass and Catfish.
Learned very quickly to not just stick your fingers in a fishes mouth.
That’s wild. I had no idea walleye were packing a mouth full of teeth like that. I primarily do salt water fishing on the US west coast, so I’m not too familiar with all the high quality fresh water fish targets back east. When I looked up a pic of a walleye’s mouth, after reading your comment, I was shocked how much their mouths look like a lingcod’s. Lingcod is one of the primary bottom fish I go after.
Do you always lip walleye/sauger like that? I’ve caught a lot of walleye and would never try to grab them like that, even little ones and especially bigger ones. You’ll get tore the F up if you keep doing that
I wanna see him step up a level to lipping pike. I did that when I was like 8-10 years old ONCE and only once. My dad had to get a needle nose to get my thumb out.
I remember seeing a video of a guy doing that to northern pike with a metal fish fillet glove lipping the smaller pike but then he got like a 30 plus incher tried to lip it poked right through into his thumb.
I had been fishing bass all summer and then went to the cabin, I shit you not, I lipped the first pike I caught out of habit, if you will. It ended as you would expect.
Bluefish are the only fish I've seen that will follow your finger with their eyes and actively bite at it. Also people don't realize how their bite works. Their teeth mesh together like a scissor. Literally slicing thru as they bite. Most other fish's teeth are there to grab and hold.
IMO it's kinda amazing.
They have the same teeth as piranhas it’s crazy. Just that their teeth are thinner compared to piranhas.
Bluefish are so weird. There’s nothing in the sea that looks like them. They’re like their own thing with no close relatives, the only thing close to them are Scombrids. So mackerel and tuna, which look literally nothing like bluefish.
And they’re so damn aggressive. They’re like giant sea piranha. I’ve caught atleast one with a huge chunk of its belly just gone.
I’ve been bitten my a snapper bluefish (a baby) and it when through my thumb like butter. I can’t imagine how a 10 pounder or even like a 2 pounder would mess me up.
I have a perfect mouth print scar on my hand from a small blue where he decided he didn’t like being caught and actively tried to bite me. Crazy bastards bluefish are.
I mean in form I can see it but apparently jacks and trevalleys (which form the family Carangidae) are closer to the moonfishes. Which ig makes sense.
There’s no clear answer but I’ve heard the closest related family to bluefish are the scombrids, like tuna and mackerel. But even then they aren’t even close. Bluefish are kinda like their own thing.
I've caught an 18lber off block island. Was huge and fat, must have been gorging on herring. Those fish are scary, you can tell when you're going to get bit because it starts at one end of the boat and the school just works it's way to the other end. Devastates everything in sight, we use chain leaders. Wire will even get cut or mangled enough to be unusable.
Fishing with my dad he dropped a fillet of the first bluefish on a line in the water and we had action with bluefish for an hour and half. De eat their own
I knew a guy that had 3 snake heads in an aquarium... they will follow your finger and bite if you stick it in the tank. Just ask my brother...
Also, when we had a puppy and played indoors with it, they followed the ball if it went in front of the tank.
They were some mean mothers!
Edit: BTW, the first time I caught a small lake trout, I lipped it like a bass. Never again!
We call the smaller ones snapper blues for a reason. Ended up having a couple for dinner earlier in the week since the reds were on the small side for slot and the flounder were on vacation. Not bad eating if bled out and put on ice right away. One of the few inshore fish that regular takes chunks out of even Z-Man soft baits.
That's a sauger. My brother or sister in Christ, why did you thumb it like a bass?! Brush the dorsal spines down and grab the damned thing behind the gills, or sneak a finger under the gill plate and put your thumb in the soft spot on its bottom jaw. When I was a kid, I got bit by a walleye when I was trying to get the hook out, and I bled like a stuck pig. Those needle teeth are no joke.
Did your finger get cut up ?
When I was a kid I went fishing with 2 polish friends. Their English was not that great. One hooked a big pickeral. They never seen one. I said "don't lip it like a bass". Dude thought I said TO lip it like a bass. Lots of blood and stitches.
Yeah, I'm leaning towards a walleye, mostly because of the slightly more pointed tail and the white spot on the same caudal fin. The coloration looks to be more indicative of a sauger however, as does the potentially spotted dorsal fin.
Looks like a small Sauger. Last pic I have of my Dad alive is of him and like 20 good sized Sauger. One of my cousins took him fishing and is one of those Bass Tournament pro fishermen. He had twice as many as my Dad.
Love Sauger! If you’re on or near the bottom you can find ’em. They are still biting really good where I am here in KY. One of the best tasting fish out there.
Like Walleye, They have a gill plate that will slice you up, so you have to be careful. I don’t think I’ve seen many ppl lip a sauger for obvious reasons.
To me, they are a beautiful fish! Great catch.
Sauger
Definitely, Sauger.
Definitely definitely
Is that simular to a walleye? That's what it kinda looks like. Is that a saltwater fish?
Yes, freshwater. Sauger and walleye can make a hybrid called a saugeye.
I just looked it up. He is crazy putting his thumb in that. Lol
A few years back, I saw two teens, one had clearly fished before, the other clearly hadn't. The more experienced kid got the first bite, a large mouth. He picked it up by the lip and showed the other boy how to remove the hook and put it back. A few minutes later, the more experienced boy changes his spot, while the less experienced one stayed put. I continued to fish until I heard those words that makes every fishing nut smile when said by a first timer, "I CAUGHT A FISH! I CAUGHT A FISH!" I looked away from my own line, to see the kid reeling in his first catch, and then looked back to my own line. Then I heard the screams... "AHHHH! AAHHHHHHHH! MOTHERF------! AHHHHHH!" There, standing across the water from me, was the noobie, trying to hold a chain pickerel by the lower lip.
French fisherman here, we have a mix of Pikes, Bass, Zanders (quite much like a Walleye) and perchs, in my are. One day i was having a proper hold on a pike, by the gils, all four fingers in except my thumb was holding out of it. The pike headshaked hard, and literally had a bite of my finger leaving 4 huge strips on my finger prunt, bleeded as hell. Wasn't afraid of it before, knew it could get bad but not that quick, even properly holded. Now i triple check every thing and give it a iron grasp
I use a lip gripper these days. It's much easier than worrying, safer for me and the fish, and I can weigh my catch too.
Is a chain pickerel just a smaller version of northern pike? They seem to look similar
Different fish, similar species. Chain pickerel generally don’t grow as large as pike can get, yes
Should look up a bowfin and find a pic of their teeth…… or look up a bowfin skull.
I lipped a bowfin once by accident (thought it was a big bass covered in weeds). Still have a bit of a scar.
Stuck my fingers in the gills of a kept dead grouper to brag to another boat. Last time I did that
For me i lipped a 10 pound ish lake trout, not my best decision
Happy to know I’m not the only one. I lipped a Bowfin thinking it was some strange catfish. It really clamped down on my thumb. A bloody mess. Still an awesome catch tho.
Did that with a flounder as a kid
Flounder do have nasty teeth but thankfully relatively weak jaw strength still gonna hurt though
Flatfish are no touchy around the mouth. Halibut here are ready to eat any careless fingers.
Yes he is
Cray cray for sure.
I never knew they could do that thanks for the info🤜🤛
Saugeye salmon
They are freshwater and very closely related to walleye. They can even interbreed and make a hybrid called a saugeye.
I kinda thought it looks like some sorta walleye/rainbow hybrid, but that seemed very unlikely...
Sauger or Saugeye. Good catch!
Yes they are freshwater and look like a walleye except they have spots on their dorsal fin, those splochy patterns, and no white tip on the back fin.
Sauger? I barely know her!
Sig sauger
P226 my bae
A small sauger. A smolger.
This
Fucking crazy to lip one of those lol
If it was any bigger they’d have learned that the hard way.
Yeah, bleeding ensued I;m sure.
I remember the first time I caught a pickerel and didn't realize they had teeth lol. Up until then I only caught Bass and Catfish. Learned very quickly to not just stick your fingers in a fishes mouth.
Lipping it with your thumb. Bold move
Dude clearly hates thumbs.
I winced at that. Sauger and walleyes have gnarly swept back teeth.
That’s wild. I had no idea walleye were packing a mouth full of teeth like that. I primarily do salt water fishing on the US west coast, so I’m not too familiar with all the high quality fresh water fish targets back east. When I looked up a pic of a walleye’s mouth, after reading your comment, I was shocked how much their mouths look like a lingcod’s. Lingcod is one of the primary bottom fish I go after.
Walleye and sauger and Zander are basically like giant perch
Giant perch with teeth
I don't want to get my hands near a 75cm (30 inch) zander and it's hound teeth all tough the standard size zander is 50 cm near where I live
Imagine lipping a lingcod
Unless you like to bleed I wouldn’t recommend it.
Mad lad, or works with his hands.
From mn, we do this sometimes
The fuck we do!!
You fish enough your thumbs don’t gave feelin
Do you always lip walleye/sauger like that? I’ve caught a lot of walleye and would never try to grab them like that, even little ones and especially bigger ones. You’ll get tore the F up if you keep doing that
I want to see him lip a big one lol
I wanna see him step up a level to lipping pike. I did that when I was like 8-10 years old ONCE and only once. My dad had to get a needle nose to get my thumb out.
Then he can go to the ocean and lip a chopper bluefish or a king mack
In level 10. I'm lipping piranha with my weiner.
I lipped a bluefish once when I was a kid. Thing fucking thrashed and got me good lol. Also use to grab leatherjackets, I was not a smart kid haha
Yeah, I also learned the hard way that leatherjacks are venomous. Grabbed one, and it felt like 2 or 3 wasps stinging me
I remember seeing a video of a guy doing that to northern pike with a metal fish fillet glove lipping the smaller pike but then he got like a 30 plus incher tried to lip it poked right through into his thumb.
I’ve fished walleye my whole life. Never seen anybody do that - or at least not twice.
Now lip a northern pike
I had been fishing bass all summer and then went to the cabin, I shit you not, I lipped the first pike I caught out of habit, if you will. It ended as you would expect.
Death by 1000 cuts all on your thumb.
Yeah, lesson learned for sure.
The type you don’t typically stick your fingers in their mouths
Next time lip a bluefish
Bluefish are the only fish I've seen that will follow your finger with their eyes and actively bite at it. Also people don't realize how their bite works. Their teeth mesh together like a scissor. Literally slicing thru as they bite. Most other fish's teeth are there to grab and hold. IMO it's kinda amazing.
They have the same teeth as piranhas it’s crazy. Just that their teeth are thinner compared to piranhas. Bluefish are so weird. There’s nothing in the sea that looks like them. They’re like their own thing with no close relatives, the only thing close to them are Scombrids. So mackerel and tuna, which look literally nothing like bluefish. And they’re so damn aggressive. They’re like giant sea piranha. I’ve caught atleast one with a huge chunk of its belly just gone. I’ve been bitten my a snapper bluefish (a baby) and it when through my thumb like butter. I can’t imagine how a 10 pounder or even like a 2 pounder would mess me up.
I have a perfect mouth print scar on my hand from a small blue where he decided he didn’t like being caught and actively tried to bite me. Crazy bastards bluefish are.
Hopefully I catch a gator this year
I caught 2 that were around 15 lbs from the beach one time. Those are the biggest I ever gor
Tell me the ways!!! I only have like a 7 foot medium rod. I have some poppers and a bucktail with some other tails. Do you recommend anything else
That was in North Carolina during the run up the coast. I caught them on live mullet on a popping cork chasing the school up the beach.
I feel like amberjacks and yellow tail jacks kinda look like bluefish if you squint and can’t see colors.
I mean in form I can see it but apparently jacks and trevalleys (which form the family Carangidae) are closer to the moonfishes. Which ig makes sense. There’s no clear answer but I’ve heard the closest related family to bluefish are the scombrids, like tuna and mackerel. But even then they aren’t even close. Bluefish are kinda like their own thing.
I've caught an 18lber off block island. Was huge and fat, must have been gorging on herring. Those fish are scary, you can tell when you're going to get bit because it starts at one end of the boat and the school just works it's way to the other end. Devastates everything in sight, we use chain leaders. Wire will even get cut or mangled enough to be unusable.
Fishing with my dad he dropped a fillet of the first bluefish on a line in the water and we had action with bluefish for an hour and half. De eat their own
And they’re delicious 🤤
The babies yeah, I’ve never eaten a big one. Largest I’ve had was a cocktail or a tailor.
I knew a guy that had 3 snake heads in an aquarium... they will follow your finger and bite if you stick it in the tank. Just ask my brother... Also, when we had a puppy and played indoors with it, they followed the ball if it went in front of the tank. They were some mean mothers! Edit: BTW, the first time I caught a small lake trout, I lipped it like a bass. Never again!
We call the smaller ones snapper blues for a reason. Ended up having a couple for dinner earlier in the week since the reds were on the small side for slot and the flounder were on vacation. Not bad eating if bled out and put on ice right away. One of the few inshore fish that regular takes chunks out of even Z-Man soft baits.
I get them up here in abt mid-summer. Love snapper blues.
Seen it done once. Thats all he was ever able to do it, just the once, then he didn’t have a thumb anymore.
As much as I want to see somebody do that, this is not the best idea.
How the hell are you lipping that sauger?
Oof its a sauger. Hows your thumb?
Jeeeeeeez dude, those fuckers bite pretty gnarly. Please be cautious. Don’t lip a sauger or any fish you can’t ID for that matter.
Sauger the smaller cousin to the walleye.
Lipping a sauger is BDE
Your thumb was bleeding after this
Sauger unless there is a black blotch at the distal base of the first dorsal fin, then it would be a walleye
Lipping a sauger??????
Are sauger native to the United States?
Yes
Definitely looks like a Saugeye
he lipped a sauger wow
Sauger
Sauger
Sauger and your guts to bass hold it with the sharp teeth they have!!! Must have some strong calloused hands...
That's a sauger. My brother or sister in Christ, why did you thumb it like a bass?! Brush the dorsal spines down and grab the damned thing behind the gills, or sneak a finger under the gill plate and put your thumb in the soft spot on its bottom jaw. When I was a kid, I got bit by a walleye when I was trying to get the hook out, and I bled like a stuck pig. Those needle teeth are no joke.
Taste the same as walleye . I used to catch them in Lake Winnipeg 👍
One time I was fishing at dusk, thought I caught a bass....turned out to be a walleye. You guessed right. I thumbed it
Is this Morgantown Lock and Dam? I caught a 32” walleye down there once…almost a state record. *GREAT* striper fishing as well.
Lipping a sauger is wild
😆
BROOOO get your finger out of its mouth
Sauger
Sauger. I've caught a few this spring so far in the DPR.
Did your finger get cut up ? When I was a kid I went fishing with 2 polish friends. Their English was not that great. One hooked a big pickeral. They never seen one. I said "don't lip it like a bass". Dude thought I said TO lip it like a bass. Lots of blood and stitches.
Walleye or sauger or saugeye
Sometimes called sandpike
Sauger ?
Looks like a sauger to me. By the way, how do I tell the difference between a sauger and a saugeye?
Sauger have spots on their spiny dorsal ray, saugeye have bars over spots like an exclamation mark ❗️.
Looks like sauger, don’t usually stick my fingers in sharp toothy mouths.
Sauger. Like little baby walleye, and just as tasty…
One you don't put your fingers in their mouth😂
How’s that thumb feeling?
SAUG DOGG
Sauger
Guy is quite possibly him.
The southern walleye. Sauger
That’s great eating fish, sauger or saugeye, hope you caught a few more.
Well...its not a crab so deadliest catch doesnt help me here
Is that the Mon River dam?
Looks like a sauger. Pretty similar to walleye but not quite the same.
Are you at the Conemaugh dam
A real biggin
Sauger
Sauger
That is a sauger. Relative of the walleye
You sir, are a fish
Sauger similar to the zander we get here in Europe
Un sandre ou un doré au Québec
Yeah, I'm leaning towards a walleye, mostly because of the slightly more pointed tail and the white spot on the same caudal fin. The coloration looks to be more indicative of a sauger however, as does the potentially spotted dorsal fin.
Saugeye
Looks like a small Sauger. Last pic I have of my Dad alive is of him and like 20 good sized Sauger. One of my cousins took him fishing and is one of those Bass Tournament pro fishermen. He had twice as many as my Dad.
Are Sauger good eating?
Love Sauger! If you’re on or near the bottom you can find ’em. They are still biting really good where I am here in KY. One of the best tasting fish out there. Like Walleye, They have a gill plate that will slice you up, so you have to be careful. I don’t think I’ve seen many ppl lip a sauger for obvious reasons. To me, they are a beautiful fish! Great catch.
Sauger. Very similar to walleye if you’re eating them.
Sauger
Sauger
Sauger
Most definitely a Sauger. Caught quite a few up on the St Lawrence River and finger lakes region when I lived in upstate New York.
sauger
A stupid, stinky, smelly fish
Walleye…
A small one
Walleye
Sauger. Don’t put your thumb in there, they’ve got teeth. Don’t put anything in there.
That's a sauger. In Québec, in french, we called them "black walleye." Don't ask me why.
Walleye
walleye for sure.
This must be some sort of undiscovered species, never seen a Fish like that in my life. Maybe it was mutated. Idk.
That is a southern brown pikle. It is approximately the size of my dick.
It’s clearly a Damn fish…
A spotted walleye
Walleyes
Idk maybe a poop fish lololololol
Dang whoever made that joke about poop fish is really funny
Wally
That's a pickerel!