Photo 3874652, (c) Jennifer Aitkens, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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Associated observations

Photos / Sounds

What

Freshwater Drum (Aplodinotus grunniens)

Observer

jenaitkens

Date

August 29, 2015

Place

remmie bay (Google, OSM)

Description

A freshwater drum or sheepshead as Lake Erie fishers would know them.Taken on light fishing tackle and released following photos. A really rare - and big! - specimen from Georgian Bay. According to Scott and Crossman's Freshwater Fishes of Canada, freshwater drums were formerly harvested from Lake Erie by the ton for feeding farmed mink.

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