unidentified fish

[Screwball]

i was walking down the riverside wen i was on vacation, i looked in and saw a fish that looked like a guppy that was 12" long but without a head, it had a catfish head. i held out my hand and jump into it, it apparently was like an amphibious catfish/guppy thing. it also had 4 extra bottom fins that looked like feet i put it on the ground and it walked/flopped back 2 the river, it also had a water nozel on its nose like a sea horse, it shot water onto the land and it looked like an object, wat is it. i was at a river in the deep woods, cant remember were, it was about 4-5 years ago.

i cal it gupat water shooter

[cucci67]

Were you dreaming? Was anyone with you at the time to verify that it actually happened? I only say this cause I doubt that any fish would just jump into your hand.

[solar-ton]

dude it was a mudskipper

[cucci67]

mud skippers look like guppies, have a catfish head, seahorse nose, and squirt water??? I thought about it, but lost the idea when it suddenly had a seahorse nose.

[solar-ton]

hmmmm it was probally a new species mabye. cause the mudskipper is the most probable thing it couldve been unless it was a wiered mutation

[Screwball]

ya but it was bigger than a mud skipped and it had almost like a tube, maybe 2 inches long

[euRasian32]

a mudskipper with a straw in its mouth? pretending to blow bubbles with it?

are you being serious or throwing us a screwball, errr curveball???

[solar-ton]

if it came from the mohawk river it was deffinetly a mutation

[Scuba Kid]

you should have set up a tank for it. or took pictures. if this is a serious post.

[Screwball]

it had a mouth below its head like a bottom feeder with a straw nose

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it was in america somewhere but the city did have a nuclear power plant nearby, about a mile away but the river goes by it, and no, i do not have it, it disapeared into a lake

[maxpayne_lhp]

Nuclear power plant? Wow... that could answer the question or... make it more blurry.
Dun think its any kind mud skipper, they usually pack up making a school sitting on the river side.

[solar-ton]

lol sounds like an elephant nose and muddskipper DNA mixed because there is no species anywhere on the planet or in history that i can find that talks about soemthing like that.
P.S
once i saw a giant horseshoe crab like 1' long in 2' water

[Scuba Kid]

ive seen many horseshoe crabs that big....and even bigger.

[Lydia]

are you sure you weren't dreaming? lol jk

LMAO euRasian32!

ps: solar-ton: the way weird is spelled is like that not wiered....no offense...and sorry if thats not what you were trying to say

[TheOldSalt]

How about Bowfin, Sturgeon, or Paddlefish? These almost sound a bit like what you've described, actually live in America, and under certain circumstances may even be easily caught by hand.
Bichirs & Snakeheads are another possibility further down the list.

If I had to guess, and I guess I do, then my guess would be Sturgeon, on account of the bottom-feeding mouth under the pointy snout.

I saw a weird little fish once when I was a kid. It was squatty and black like a tadpole, but it had fins. In every way it looked like a little tadpole with fishlike fins. It has bugged me for years that to this day I can't figure out what it was. ( Dunn, North Carolina ) Have you ever wished that you could go back in time, possessing your own body Quantum-Leap style, while knowing everything you do today? I wish that a LOT! One of the first things I would do is go back and see if I could figure out what those things were.

[Scuba Kid]

oldsalt: tadpole madtom maybe?

[fishboy]

if it was a sturgeon i think screwball would have described its bony plates

[cucci67]

OldSalt, the fish you saw could have been a brown bullhead catfish fry. They look just like tadpoles, but with fins. I catch them in the Poconos all the time. I am going to go with either a snakehead mutation, sturgeon mutation, or he was dreaming.

[Screwball]

it looked like a mudskipper with a mouth under its head (upsidedown catfish) and a about a 2 inch water nozel on its head area, there is a bulge where the eyes are and that area is red, the tail is read, in its dorsal fin is orange peach and its body was mub brown with black spots, and 2 uper fins like a manta ray, with lower ones that are similar but smaller

[Screwball]

but now that i think of it, i was reading a book a bout made up fish, and it was an out of body expearience thing cuz i was lookin at me oldin the fish so it may have been a dream, i'll neva no but it may have ben 80% chance that it was a dream