I found this laying on the bank of one of the neighborhood ponds I fish. Im not up to par on knowing my fish species, but I believe this is probably some kind of bait fish that calls these waters home.

 

Looks like a little, dead wiper.

White perch or baby hybrid. I would assume white perch since it's in a pond

White perch do not have horizontal stripes.

Looks like a little, dead wiper.

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Looks like a little, dead wiper.

Do they normally live in ponds? If so that's probably a big food source for my bass. I'm assuming they eat them?

Doesn't look like that one is living. It could a white bass too, but it really looks like a wiper.

Looks like a little, dead wiper.

I agree. If not it is a probably a White Bass or White Perch.

It's a wiper. White bass have the stripes as well but only a single line runs all the way to the tail while I few of them do with wipers. A bass could eat a small one like that but they grow very fast and can reach upwards of 20 pounds. Around here they average about 4-7 pounds and are extremely aggressive and fun fish to catch. They're stocked in ponds pretty often but I have yet to see them do very well in a pond and they're about impossible to catch back out of them once they're in there. 

I doubt its a white bass . Never heard of them in ponds unless someone released it there. Now their cousins the yellow bass thrive in less turbulent waters .I'd say a yellow bass .

Could be - location is right for them.

I doubt its a white bass . Never heard of them in ponds unless someone released it there. Now their cousins the yellow bass thrive in less turbulent waters .I'd say a yellow bass .

 

 

No way it is a yellow. 

 

I've caught tens of thousands of wipers/white/yellow bass (we have repeat 150-200 fish days in the summer). That is hard to tell what it is, looks like its been dried out for a week. Absolutely not a yellow though. Either a wiper or a white bass, looks more like a white than a wiper though. Wipers are sterile stocked fish so unless someone bought it and stocked it in, I doubt it is a wiper. Most likely a white bass, if you have a river near you it probably came from there as an egg on the foot of a heron/egret. If someone stocked them in there they could be reproducing, we have lakes (large ponds) around here that have them. Whites do successfully reproduce in ponds if the water is good and the conditions are correct in the spring. 

It's a wiper. White bass have the stripes as well but only a single line runs all the way to the tail while I few of them do with wipers. A bass could eat a small one like that but they grow very fast and can reach upwards of 20 pounds. Around here they average about 4-7 pounds and are extremely aggressive and fun fish to catch. They're stocked in ponds pretty often but I have yet to see them do very well in a pond and they're about impossible to catch back out of them once they're in there. 

 

Huh? That's a new one to me. I think you've been miss-identifying a lot of white bass!

 

Huh? That's a new one to me. I think you've been miss-identifying a lot of white bass!

White bass have a line below the lateral line but it is faint and not really a complete line. I catch hundreds of them every year, they're easy to tell apart once you've seen a bunch and know what to look for.

Iv seen a few fish in a pond or two in the same neighborhood that look just like a LM but are really pale and all they have are a single dark line that run the length of the body. They're all small fish. White bass?

Fish eggs on birds' foot. I've always been interested in this. Who has actual science that supports this?

Fish eggs on birds' foot. I've always been interested in this. Who has actual science that supports this?

 

 

I saw it on the internet trust me it's true.

Minnesota dnr under the aqautic invasive species information. Invasive fish eggs, zebra mussel larvae, and weed particals are all transported by birds.

Iv seen a few fish in a pond or two in the same neighborhood that look just like a LM but are really pale and all they have are a single dark line that run the length of the body. They're all small fish. White bass?

I highly doubt it. White bass look nothing like a largemouth, they are not even in the same fish family.

The dead fish looks like a hybrid to me, I wouldn't want them in my pond, voracious appetites, think it would be detrimental to largemouth and sunfish.