Spotted Featherback

  • castandblast
    Eau Claire, WI
    Posts: 269
    October 2, 2009 at 2:59 pm #1318962

    I should probably buy a lottery ticket soon because I have been cleaning house on my Lifelist goals. In the last 9 days I have caught 7 new lifelisters. Today I hit a pond in Thailand and caught a beautiful Featherback. I am still waiting on the ID confirmation from my buddy Francois but it appears to be a Spotted Featherback to me. The Spotted differs from the Clown in its spots. The Clown has iregular spots where the Spotted has perfect round spots.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59944
    October 2, 2009 at 3:02 pm #484248

    Strange but cool!

    Well…strange to me.

    DrewH
    s/w WI.
    Posts: 1404
    October 2, 2009 at 3:09 pm #487135

    Great looking creature.

    Bob Gordon
    Washington,IL
    Posts: 606
    October 2, 2009 at 3:27 pm #613979

    Are they good eating ?

    walleyejoe
    Litchfield, MN
    Posts: 463
    October 2, 2009 at 3:45 pm #301832

    Thats a nice size clown knife fish?

    kooty
    Keymaster
    1 hour 15 mins to the Pond
    Posts: 18101
    October 2, 2009 at 4:35 pm #487208

    Looks to be a very powerful fish. What did you estimate it’s weight at?

    jerrj01
    Hudson, WI
    Posts: 1547
    October 3, 2009 at 12:53 am #479471

    Cool pic and some of us jealous at the vairety of fish you have been catching and photographing.

    castandblast
    Eau Claire, WI
    Posts: 269
    October 3, 2009 at 1:11 am #472514

    That one is truly a trophy. It is the biggest one I have caught. I didn’t put a scale to it but I would estimate somewhere around 10 lbs. He took a live 7 inch Tilapia fished on the bottom. After I hooked him, he did this beautiful tail walk and looked like a Tarpon on the water. It was quite memorable. And yes they are good to eat.

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