Oneida lake "freak" Yellow Perch...pic

[choo-choo]

I posted a pic of this multi striped yellow perch on Ice Shanty....I thought you guy's here might like to see it.....I caught it a couple of winters ago , ice fishing on Oneida lake , and just found it while cleaning out my freezer.....sorry for the freezer burn, but you can still see the stripes well....

[Irish Buoy]

Looks like his mommy was fooling around with a bass

[Big Dave]

Walleye or Saugar mix? Must have been some explaining to do when Daddy perch saw this one.

[panfisher]

Extremely interesting looking fish.... Thanks for posting these photos! (And keeping, not eating!!)

[choo-choo]

Hey Panfisher.....I'm glad you liked the pics.....Most yellow perch have 6 or 7 stripes, as you know,.....depending on the lake. So when this one came through the hole, i couldn't believe it !!! I thought about getting it mounted, because i will probably will never catch another one like it....but never got around to it......maybe i'll wait for a 12 inch, 20 striped perch!!

[BSmaster]

I caught this freak perch in Tioga, PA last week.

[panfisher]

Bsmaster....What.....? Duh....what? What duh what is that???....... Got any other photo and/or info on that deal???? Actually, it looks more like a drum or croaker (salt water....).

[BSmaster]

The perch wasn't very big - about 8 or 9 inches and was in the middle of spawning. Milt was spewing out constantly. I am surprised he took the time to eat something. The bars are non existent and instead there are irregular blotches. His mouth looked like a perch's mouth. No extra teeth or anything. I caught him in a spot where there were normal looking perch there too. If he was a 15 or 16 incher, he would have been mounted. Too unique to pass up on that.

If the fish are going to start mutating, I would perfer that they get bigger instead of changing coloration.

[panfisher]

Seriously...! Never caught perch with colorations like those specimens.... If anybody else has caught crazy looking perch ( or for that matter, any other species that is highly unusual looking), and has true photos ...not gags... would u please post them? Really interesting....

[MeatHunter737]

I wanted to bump this thread, I remember seeing this last spring but forgot about it. Seeing that we will be getting some ice fishing in this weekend lets see what kind of freak fish we can pull off the bottom.

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