New Fish

So i was out fishing with some friends at the river the other night and caught a quillback, at least thats what i believe it is, I have never even heard of the fish until i came home to look up what type of fish it was. Anyone ever catch any of these?

Sorry for the blurry picture but it was taken on a cellphone, i just wanted to make sure it was a quillback, thats all.

Technically then...it is "venomous" if stung by or spiked by a venomous spine or bite...."toxic" if poisonous to eat.
As stated though, this fish is neither of those things...not sure if topdog meant the actual "quill" or the whole fish...

The quillback (Carpiodes cyprinus) is a type of freshwater fish of the sucker family. It grows to 26 inches (65 cm) and are deeper bodied than most suckers, leading to a carplike appearance. It can be distinguished from carp by the lack of barbels around the mouth. The coloration is silvery and it has large scales. It is called quillback because of the long filament that extends back from the dorsal fin. The species is widely distributed in the eastern and central United States and is found most often in rivers, creeks and clear lakes where there is loose bottom. It feeds on insect larvae and other organisms in the sediment. The quillback carpsucker is closely related to the highfin carpsucker and the river carpsucker. All three species are rarely caught by anglers due to their feeding habits, but they have been caught occasionally on worms, minnows, and artificial lures. Quillbacks often comprise a large portion of the biomass of warmwater rivers, but they are very difficult to catch with traditional American angling methods.

ORIGINAL: topdog99

ORIGINAL: fish5000

ORIGINAL: topdog99

Definate quillback sucker... pretty big one too....

heard the quill is poisonousjusa sayin


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Technically ,  poisonous is inaccurate . The terminolgy would be venomous , but in any event , that is not true either .

"terminolgy"

jus sayin'

 No worries Topdog , I wasn't offended , but rather found your reply "terminolgy" with the little face rolling his eyes upward humorous ! Thanks for your post  though " Actually was just kidding around " . My reply re: poisonous vs. venomous was based on being taught in grade school [ hammered into really ] of being grammatically correct . I still remember my teacher saying to us as a group " Get a grasp of the English language , take control of it , don't let it control you . Language is all you have . How can you expect others to know what you're talking about if your words are incorrect  " ? Pretty heavy stuff for being in grade school , but evidently it had an impact , he got his msg through , lol . This was public school too !
The "spines" of Catfish also have been said to be "poisonous" and that's easily understandable because when they puncture the skin , very often the immediate area becomes inflammed and getting infected is quite possible .  

Quillback for sure.
Poisonous? He!! no - no idea where that one came from.

Good to see these fish as they only live in CLEAN water.

ORIGINAL: RTH

The quillback (Carpiodes cyprinus) is a type of freshwater fish of the sucker family. It grows to 26 inches (65 cm) and are deeper bodied than most suckers, leading to a carplike appearance. It can be distinguished from carp by the lack of barbels around the mouth. The coloration is silvery and it has large scales. It is called quillback because of the long filament that extends back from the dorsal fin. The species is widely distributed in the eastern and central United States and is found most often in rivers, creeks and clear lakes where there is loose bottom. It feeds on insect larvae and other organisms in the sediment. The quillback carpsucker is closely related to the highfin carpsucker and the river carpsucker. All three species are rarely caught by anglers due to their feeding habits, but they have been caught occasionally on worms, minnows, and artificial lures. Quillbacks often comprise a large portion of the biomass of warmwater rivers, but they are very difficult to catch with traditional American angling methods.

If you going to copy and paste, you should atleast "quote it", and then display a link for further information.  You wouldn't want someone stealing you information, WOULD YA?

RTH originally wrote:

"The quillback (Carpiodes cyprinus) is a type of freshwater fish of the sucker family. It grows to 26 inches (65 cm) and are deeper bodied than most suckers, leading to a carplike appearance. It can be distinguished from carp by the lack of barbels around the mouth. The coloration is silvery and it has large scales. It is called quillback because of the long filament that extends back from the dorsal fin. The species is widely distributed in the eastern and central United States and is found most often in rivers, creeks and clear lakes where there is loose bottom. It feeds on insect larvae and other organisms in the sediment. The quillback carpsucker is closely related to the highfin carpsucker and the river carpsucker. All three species are rarely caught by anglers due to their feeding habits, but they have been caught occasionally on worms, minnows, and artificial lures. Quillbacks often comprise a large portion of the biomass of warmwater rivers, but they are very difficult to catch with traditional American angling methods."


The original story can be found here:  Thanks to WIKIPEDIA

12/0 big river.....lol.

cool fish thats a new one to me. thanks for the pic

What did you catch it on?

Wow that is a real cool fish though
Cool catch

No i didnt gut hook it but it didnt really want to swim away, took it a couple minutes to finally leave my hand and swim away, hope i didnt kill it, id feel pretty bad

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ORIGINAL: RTH

The quillback (Carpiodes cyprinus) is a type of freshwater fish of the sucker family. It grows to 26 inches (65 cm) and are deeper bodied than most suckers, leading to a carplike appearance. It can be distinguished from carp by the lack of barbels around the mouth. The coloration is silvery and it has large scales. It is called quillback because of the long filament that extends back from the dorsal fin. The species is widely distributed in the eastern and central United States and is found most often in rivers, creeks and clear lakes where there is loose bottom. It feeds on insect larvae and other organisms in the sediment. The quillback carpsucker is closely related to the highfin carpsucker and the river carpsucker. All three species are rarely caught by anglers due to their feeding habits, but they have been caught occasionally on worms, minnows, and artificial lures. Quillbacks often comprise a large portion of the biomass of warmwater rivers, but they are very difficult to catch with traditional American angling methods.

If you going to copy and paste, you should atleast "quote it", and then display a link for further information.  You wouldn't want someone stealing you information, WOULD YA?

RTH originally wrote:

"The quillback (Carpiodes cyprinus) is a type of freshwater fish of the sucker family. It grows to 26 inches (65 cm) and are deeper bodied than most suckers, leading to a carplike appearance. It can be distinguished from carp by the lack of barbels around the mouth. The coloration is silvery and it has large scales. It is called quillback because of the long filament that extends back from the dorsal fin. The species is widely distributed in the eastern and central United States and is found most often in rivers, creeks and clear lakes where there is loose bottom. It feeds on insect larvae and other organisms in the sediment. The quillback carpsucker is closely related to the highfin carpsucker and the river carpsucker. All three species are rarely caught by anglers due to their feeding habits, but they have been caught occasionally on worms, minnows, and artificial lures. Quillbacks often comprise a large portion of the biomass of warmwater rivers, but they are very difficult to catch with traditional American angling methods."

The original story can be found here:  Thanks to WIKIPEDIA





I don't think you really need to use APA style on a forum. It's not getting published or turned in for a grade. Just saying.  but you are correct, in any other setting than a forum I would use APA style.
Plus this is not correctly done: The original story can be found here:  Thanks to WIKIPEDIA
 
You need to list the website address & date retrived from that site.
Retreived from www....?????   04/55/2025 etc..

 
 

then the dead fish i saw wasnt yours