Help identify fish?

[bbinford]

gonna say a redfish

He does have tail spots??

[jlptexashunter]

If he's not alone in that fish tank, I bet he soon will be!

That's what I'm thinking. Those things will make short work of guppies and goldfish.

[FIRETX12]

gonna say a redfish

I figured you wouldn't recognize it unless it had spots!

[txmuleyman]

I caught a ton of these tonight but only this one had a stripe. How did they get in my stock pond? We didn't put them there.

[DawgOnIt]

I caught a ton of these tonight but only this one had a stripe. How did they get in my stock pond? We didn't put them there.

Nature has it's way!!!

[cajun thunder]

sac-a-lait where I come from!

[rdkerrville]

White perch or crappie. Soetimes birds can transport eggs on their legs to other ponds or creeks

[rdkerrville]

grow it up and eat that sucker

[txmuleyman]

Sorry for sounding ignorant I don't fish much. Thanks for the help guys.

[Mason]

I caught a ton of these tonight but only this one had a stripe. How did they get in my stock pond? We didn't put them there.

My understanding is that cranes and herons walk through the eggs and they stick to their legs, they fly to your pond and the eggs hatch there.
Be glad you caught him in private waters, a 10 inch minimum is statewide for public waters.
I heard something once about the stripe from the nose and down the back. Seems like it was supposedly some "hybrid" strain. But never heard anything positive.

[Smart]

The black stripe is merely a color marking on some black crappie. Once thought a hybrid of the black and white crappie, it was proven, that it is in fact, just a marking that some black crappie have.

We catch a lot of them at Cedar Creek....if you ever get a chance to go to Cabelas, you can see four of them in the crappie/panfish aquarium that I caught and donated to them at their request.

[Nova]

A lot of folks call the ones with a stripe down their head a "black nose" crappie.

[Javelin]

White perch or crappie. Soetimes birds can transport eggs on their legs to other ponds or creeks

This is an old wives tale. It does not actually happen. I cant provide proof, but you can cal Dr. Billy Higgenbotham with TAMU Extension service and he will tell you the same thing. He is the head of small waters (ponds) for the extension service of Tx and is a formost expert in the subject.

[Shane]

White Crappie.

[BTLowry]

Blacknose, racing stripes, whatever you want to call them, supposed to be a hybrid of the black subspecies and they are showing up everywhere.
Ernest Paty, a crappie fishing guru, is rumored to have caught them and put the stripe on them with a sharpie to mark the ones he has caught and released
Lots of pictures and info on the Texas fishing forum