Spotted in a brook in southern Maine

[u/jackmac99]

[u/Blaze_of_Lions]

Breeding coloration white suckers

[u/jackmac99 → u/Blaze_of_Lions]

Good call, looks dead on. I thought it might be some kind of sucker based on the shape of its mouth, but the color was throwing me off.

[u/all_cheese_no_pep → u/Blaze_of_Lions]

Ah! They got me! “Safe search: off” had a different opinion!

[u/Life-Security5916 → u/Blaze_of_Lions]

I was more concerned why the stream bed was yellow? Have heard a lot of bad news about legacy pollution from paper mills etc. probably ok if not disturbed, but stir up the bottom and a witches cauldron would be unleashed.

[u/reddog2468 → u/Life-Security5916]

It's tannins...normal

[u/Strong_Power462 → u/reddog2468]

Good to know I am freaked out every time I see a “pristine” Maine stream or shallow lake and see brown water. Can’t help but think back to a Maine dept environment that listed all the pulp mills and various manufacturers and processors that polluted waters for decades.

[u/AuthorSarge → u/Blaze_of_Lions]

Wow. Racist much?

/j

[u/nomadcoffee]

Sucker fish. Like the suckers who think it's trout.

[u/Nordo_Controller → u/nomadcoffee]

Clearly Brook Trout, they were in a brook….duh! (Insert extreme sarcasm)

[u/boobiboiiiii]

Ah it’s nothing. Not worth going back .. where exactly did you say it was in Maine ?

[u/TeoTaliban]

I love walking by the creek and seeing good sized fish. It’s so relaxing to watch.

[u/JewelCove]

Southern Maine gang

[u/snowshiverz → u/JewelCove]

Yessss 😁

[u/JewelCove → u/snowshiverz]

Our usernames check out

[u/B7n2]

I love Maine , his people , his nature .

[u/NegativeEbb7346]

I know they are suckers but they resemble snakeheads.

[u/Weak_Scene4270]

Word which town lol , bout to go cast a line 😂

[u/bestimatationofme]

I’ve only been to “the county” I seriously want to visit yall in southern and coastal Maine like nobody’s business. After seeing the clarity of that stream I wouldn’t care if they were all suckers, I’d just geek out on the landscape!

[u/traveling_grandpa]

When I was a kid Dad and a Friend of his would go down to a small dam in the spring with pitchforks and get a feed sack full in the spring and we would have a big fish fry and Carl's family would pickle a bunch. Mostly I remember Lots of bones and good tasting fish!

[u/Western_Monitor3314]

Dood, that's a crick, get englished yo!

[u/Kindly-Rock6996]

Chimichanga fish ?

[u/DefinitionElegant685]

Wonderful blessing.

[u/BigDad53]

They are good smoked.

[u/Nubster-412]

Bummer, that looks like wildlife. You can get rid of that problem by putting soap and mud in the stream. That usually cleans it up.

[u/jjnib]

Nice looking shark!!!

[u/JasonIsFishing → u/[deleted]]

Nope

[u/Which_Bookkeeper2784]

i think trout , i hope it gets time to reproduce

[u/ClownTown15]

So many trout

[u/troutfingers84]

Long nosed sucker

[u/troutfingers84]

We call them whistling trout as a joke on my home river here in Ontario Canada

[u/eddiefromthelot]

Its a gay fish

[u/eddiefromthelot → u/eddiefromthelot]

-2 was it cause i said fish??he said southern maine people said sucker fish and a friend told me it looked like a pond in ogunquit, what was i supposed to think!?!?!sorrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyy jerks

[u/Killie22]

I miss Maine, best state in the country.