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Topic: What am I seeing?  (Read 3040 times)

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Alkasazi

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The last two mornings I've been out paddling, there have been small fish-like things jumping out of the water. Yesterday morning looked like it was raining, except the droplets were coming out of the water. Any idea what I'm seeing? Couldn't get a super-close look since they jump & land so quickly, but look to be greenish & about the size of a finger.

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I saw those for a spell last year.  About this time, actually.  Except my sightings were in Tillamook Bay.

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Brian, up on the Columbia in your neck of the woods?  Perhaps YOY perch?  That's what comes to mind when I hear "greenish" in fresh water.

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but look to be greenish & about the size of a finger.

This time of year, young of the year bass, perch and walleye should all be the size of a finger and still schooling about.     My guess for the columbia gorge area would be smallmouth fingerlings.


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yep, I've been on the inlet at Rock Creek, just off the Columbia mainstem at Stevenson. Little baby bass, that's cool. between the volcanic sunrise last week, and now a deluge of frog-like things, I was worried the end time were finally upon us.

thanks!