Caught him on a crankbait.

Some details or a pic might help.

 

Apart from all those, my guess is 'shark'.

Whitefish?

 

Tom

one fish

two fish

red fish

blue fish

Looks like a white bass without stripes.

a white perch, aka the nemesis 

Yeah I know. White perch maybe?

Definate perch of the white variety.

In Kansas, you must kill it.

Why kill it?

Caught him on a crankbait.

LOL i just read your name tag.... thats so wrong lol

White Perch for sure

White perch is the consensus

In Kansas, you must kill it.

 

I would like to know more too.....

LMGTFY

It's a bison

Why kill it?

 

 

I would like to know more too.....

In Kansas, and other states I'm sure, they're considered an ANS, aquatic nuisance species. They aren't supposed to be in the lakes they're in and they compete directly with a lot of native game fish for food and habitat and in some cases are outcompeteing native species. It is against the law to posses a live white perch or to release them, even into the body of water that they came out of or use them for live bait in the lake it was caught from. Same goes for the Asian carp. 

Beat me to it Clayton.

^^^^ What he said

gotcha..totally feel ya on the Asian carp front.

Same thing for Zebras. We joke in the KC Area thread about Lake Wabaunsee's Gate Ladies. Spraying boats with bleach before you can launch, livewells, trailers. Then again before you leave.

Questioning you, giving you the 3rd degree about where youve fished, when you fished it.

They are native here and delicious. Remind me of flounder. I sometimes catch them on spinnerbaits or crankbaits.

Another vote for white perch

white perch will take over a body of water more so then crappie and lead to the depletion of other fish species. I havent researched it myself, but on Smith Mountain Lake the story goes that  there was apparently a healthy thriving white bass population at one time...then came the white perch. now its considered a rarity to catch a white bass there. and if you are live bait fishing they will irritate the crap out of you, its happened to me many night while catfishing. so i just go to a smaller hook and catch the hell out of them. i will toss the bigger ones back, but the smaller ones become cutbait, caught a stripped bass on white perch cutbait back in april. the stripper knocked the cut bait up the line, i re-rigged it and caught a catfish on the same piece of cutbait 15 minutes later lol...

 

actually right now is a great time of year to catch the perch at SML. I was getting into some decent sized yellow perch last October when i was down there along with the white perch. yet i cant get either to bite any of my lures like the tiny ratl traps, toss out a minnow or nightcrawler and they are all over it though