Swatara Creek

[swattishman]

Hey i just wanna know it is warmer out anyone floating the swatty or wading it let me know if you are we've been out three times this last week and my buddy caught a sixteen inch fall fish on very light tackle it was awesome and anyone ever catch a pinkish fish with kind of horns on its forhead i pulled one out and it really kinda creeped me out and it kinda barked like a croaker and also let me know what you are using i used to use three inch black power grubs and jighead and they never let me down untill now cant figure it out
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[JeffGorecki]

That fish mite be some kind of sucker. Try useing green punkin tubes. or a zoom soft jerk bait in peral whit works well on the creek
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[swattishman]

Sweet man thanks for the input yeah that fish was freakin weird it looked like something that might have come from TMI lol but who knows yeah i was just out again last night and used a pumpkin seed power grub and caught a real nice ten inch smallie so i was stoked [fishin]
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[davetclown]

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I missed a little on this photo, it is pinkish and dose get a bony horn like not on its head.

this is a giant rainbow minnow. common in michigan so its a good chance they are in your state as well..


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this is a white horse sucker, the redhorse suckers can be pinkish in color. Body shape the near the same only a little more slender.


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this is a chub minnow, note the shiny little horns on top of it head. It is a bit freekish, some of the horns come out quite a ways and can be a bit pinkish in the sun light. This one when you look it streight in the face it looks like a devil fish.

do any of these have a body shape simmilar to your horny fish?

the barking dose throw me off a bit, the only fish I know that bark are cat fish and dog fish.

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Dog Fish is a barker
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Redhorse Sucker not a barker

In the attachments below are a mudpuppy and a cat fish, both are barkers.

[swattishman]

Hey thanks for the photos man that must be all that is, is just some sort of chub but it was quite the interesting fish and the barking noise wasnt necesarily a woof noise but it just made a funny noise when pulling the hook out of his mouth but yeah those pics were deffinately helpful and actually kinda cool to look at what is the one with the spots towards the bottom
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[boatnik13]

Great picture show! Never realized so much diffrence > I just called it musky bait cause after we caught all them types at the swatty > we used them for bait ( In march ) for musky at the Rt. 39 dam down to the stone bridge.
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[wetflyguy]

Anybody doing any catfishing on the Swatty yet?
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