Goby caught on Kegonsa

  • tedpeck
    Genoa Wi
    Posts: 267
    January 22, 2004 at 3:43 pm #1296587

    Stopped by U Catch Em bait south of Janesville yesterday. Owner Mike McLain showed me little critter he caught on Tuesday fishing L. Kegonsa in Madison chain– A GOBY!!–
    there is no doubt that’s what the little critter was. I saw it. He’s gonna contact DNR. Has anybody else out there caught a goby on the Madison chain??

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    January 22, 2004 at 4:05 pm #289611

    Hey Tedpeck,

    What the heck is a Goby? Did you spell it wrong perhaps?

    blue-fleck
    Dresbach, MN
    Posts: 7872
    January 22, 2004 at 4:14 pm #289614

    As God as my witness, should I catch ANYTHING closely resembling that, I will quit fishing. period.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    January 22, 2004 at 4:21 pm #289616

    Guess they’ve been around a while…

    Here’s a link to a WI fisheries site…
    Round Goby’s invasion

    You learn more on this site by accident…than……

    Jeremiah Shaver
    La Crosse, WI
    Posts: 4941
    January 22, 2004 at 4:23 pm #289617

    Maybe the Asian carp will eat them all

    herb
    6ft under
    Posts: 3242
    January 22, 2004 at 7:10 pm #289658

    Looks like another “green carp” invasion to me.

    blue-fleck
    Dresbach, MN
    Posts: 7872
    January 22, 2004 at 7:18 pm #289661

    Hey! You will keep those “Green Carp” comments to yourself, if you know what’s good for ya buddy!

    herb
    6ft under
    Posts: 3242
    January 23, 2004 at 7:12 am #289774

    Ummmm, ok

    tee he

    buzzer
    Garnavillo Iowa
    Posts: 542
    January 23, 2004 at 12:20 pm #289777

    Put a hook in gumby it will be the new 2004 hot topwater bait of the year for slop . Does biodegradible count .

    carptracker
    Missouri
    Posts: 110
    January 24, 2004 at 5:02 am #289913

    I don’t know where the Kegonasa chain is, but if it is not near anywhere marked in red on this map http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/SpFactSheet.asp?speciesID=713
    then that might be a significant jump from where the fish have been found before. If the fish is turned in to the DNR, and it is verified to be a round goby, then please encourage them to report the fish to the USGS at the above link. Note that some sculpins look a lot like round gobies. Round gobies are BAD. I just was at a presentation describing how they have had to institute season including no tournament fishing, even catch and release, on smallmouth in Lake Erie because of the gobies. Seems the little devils love smallmouth eggs, and when you catch a smallie off a nest they move in by the hundreds within just a very few minutes to clean off the nest. Thus, no more fishing for smallies during the nesting season. Before the gobies, a captured and released smallie would usually get back to the nest before anything much happened. But with the density of egg-eating gobies in shallow water in Lake Erie, even a short time off the nest is too long.

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