Was fishing with worms with my ultralight rod and caught this....

I have no clue what it is...I think it could be some kind of sunfish hybrid or maybe an oscar that someone released into the lake because it got too big for a fish tank. This fish had small teeth in its mouth as well. Anyone know what kind of fish it is?

Here is a closer shot of the strange fish....

Wow thats one ugly fish.

Kinda look's like a Pacu from the pic a few post down but I'm pretty sure it's not....what did you catch him on?

Wow thats one ugly fish.

Kinda look's like a Pacu from the pic a few post down but I'm pretty sure it's not....what did you catch him on?

This one i got on a live crawler. I went out today with only finess worms and a little tub of crawlers I was given. I got a couple one pound bass with the finess worms. With the crawlers I got this thing that I am clueless as to what it is, some good size bluegill, and a little bass.....

I'd keep from dangling my feet into the water until I learned what it is  And after I figured out what it is then I would   it.  

That looks like a Rio Grande Perch

That looks like a Rio Grande Perch

It does look similar but my fish is much darker....I wish I had spread my fish's fins out to see what they looked like better. It could be a dark roi grande perch though i guess. The spots on my fish go into the tail like they do on your pic. My fish also has a ragged tail like something tried to eat it. Are Roi Grande perch native to the southern California area? If not where are they found and how big do they get? Actually il go look this up now on google. I know that it was put in there by an individual person and not stocked into the lake though....

They are part of the cichlid family,i remember seeing somebody in TX having one of these in a aquarium.They only survive in warmer water.  

If this thing was a Rio Grande then it was a huge one...i looked these guys up and it said they were usually around 6 inches fully grown...this guy was around 8-10 inches...god i feel like an idiot for forgetting to measure him. I know he was bigger than 6 inch though...

I went through a list of 300 fish and their pictures and a Rio Grande is the only one that came close.

There must be alot of tree huggers that live near the lake you fish. Because they have release alot of aquarium fish in your waters.

nice fish,  

due....where the heck do u fish....the twilight zone. ;D

Are you fishing near a Nuclear Power Plant?  What are you doing with all these weird fish when you catch them?  Just wondering if you were filleting them.  Nice fish though.  

Was fishing with worms with my ultralight rod and caught this....

I have no clue what it is...I think it could be some kind of sunfish hybrid or maybe an oscar that someone released into the lake because it got too big for a fish tank. This fish had small teeth in its mouth as well. Anyone know what kind of fish it is?

We have Blue gill that get almost that black when they bed, is the fin structure identical to your gills ?

rio grande perch

looks like the hood ornament off an old pontiac to me.

http://www.cadvision.com/blanchas/hood_ornaments/images/pontiac/pont51-2a.jpg

after all your ideas the perch and pontiac ideas are pretty neck and neck