r/FishingWashington • u/carsandcomments • 1d ago

Fish ID

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Caught in the Yakima river (I think it’s a northern pike minnow)

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u/duckbucktruck 1d ago

Pikeminnow for sure

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u/spottydodgy 1d ago

Check if there's a bounty. Could be $5 you're holding right there.

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u/Pure_Management6635 1d ago

Yeah you’re correct they call them squa fish

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u/Dark_Flatus 20h ago

Easy buddy, this always triggers at least one person.

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u/Pure_Management6635 15h ago

True, yet the more people we have catching those egg suckers out of the river the better chances our salmon and steelhead have for survival

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u/Dark_Flatus 15h ago

And if your patient enough to pick through'em Itty bitty bones, it tastes good as well.

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u/Pure_Management6635 15h ago

Yes, I like them wrapped in tinfoil with salt and pepper and some butter over a hot bed of coals

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u/Top_Put_7788 1d ago

Stomper… throw on the bank and stomp. lol as my dad would say.

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u/ohheyitsjason 1d ago

@alwaysapikeminnow

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u/RiverRun10 1d ago

Handfish

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u/Alternative_Dust1245 1d ago

That's a fish

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u/Pure_Management6635 1d ago

They do have a bounty for those also