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Location: Ontario, California | Hey Gang... I have been looking for a picture that was posted last year of a freshly snagged Cisco that was on a bump board. I can even tell you it was snagged and pictured with a cremesicle bulldawg. Anyone have that photo or any other clear photos of a Cisco fresh out of the water? I am having a buddy do some custom painting on some baits and need to send him some photos.
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Location: Nowheresville, MN | http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/areas/fisheries/baudette/whitefish.html |
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Location: WI | Here you go.....It was a monster and that is a pounder that is next to it.
Dan O
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Location: Ontario, California | That's the one... Thanks Dan |
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| Are you sure that is a cisco? It looks like a whitefish to me. |
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| Toad,
If you have ever been to Minnesota, you would know that is just one big ol' Cisco. |
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Location: Hugo, MN | Looks just like the whitefish on the MN DNR link above. Take a look. |
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| I'm no cisco expert, but I also didn't think it was a cisco at first glance. according to the link posted above it looks more like a whitefish. I have only seen 2 dead ciscoes in one of the lakes I fish in WI, and they looked just like the picture of a cisco in the above link. just my opinion though. |
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| That's a whitefish. The snout of ciscoes are shorter, and the jaw extend beyond the tip of the shout, usually. Not to mention there's not a bit of the blue/black color of cisco. |
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| Either way, muskies love them both. It is their Thanksgiving dinner. |
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Location: Minnesota | That picture on the bumpboard looks like a cisco to me. It is kind of hard to tell with the snout pushed up against the bumpboard like that but it still looks like the common ones I see in Northern Minnesota.
The most obvious difference I look for is the mouth. If it looks kind of like a sucker mouth, facing downward it is a whitefish. If the mouth is striaght forward more like any other gamefish it is a cisco.
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| I'm not saying it isn't, just that it looks like the whitefish from the post above it and it looks like the whitefish that we catch to eat in Canada, but I haven't caught any cisco at all, let alone any that big, so it could be. Just curious. |
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Location: Lake Tomahawk, WI | The whitefish we've caught have been quite a bit more gold, and we've caught ciscos up to 19" so the size of the specimen isn't an issue. I guess I should've paid more attention to the differences when we were catching them. I always told the two appart by the mouth, so it's tough for me to tell from this pic.
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| I would say bumpboard fish is a whitefish.
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| Cisco all the way. Like it was said before the mouth is a dead give away. Whitefish mouths are turned down a little, lake herring (or cisco for all the Minn's and Cheeseheads) have an upturned mouth. They are very similar fish though, even taste the same!
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| Whoa, wait a second...........taking a closer look its really hard to tell from that pic. Maybe its a Whisco..........do they hydribize? They still taste the same though! Gooooooood.
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Location: WI | It was a cisco......."caught" in November on Mille Lacs. It did not have a whitefish mouth. I don't have a release picture to show the mouth better, sorry.
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| cisco all the way |
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Location: Hugo, MN | Upon further review, it's a big fat cisco. The matching fins on the top and bottom of the tail section give it away. It just looks more like the profile and color of the whitefish in the DNR photo. |
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| I'd put either one of 'em on a quickstrike rig! |
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| Here is a definite monster whitefish that I found on the bottom of the shallows while fishing in Canada in a trophy pike lake. This thing had huge bite marks all over it, but I guess that it was still to big for anything to eat it. But I'd like to see the fish that tried.
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| What a BEAST! |
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Location: Warrenville,IL | Is this a whitefish or a cisco?
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| had to tell from that far away. By the size though I would say whitefish. just a guess tho |
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Location: Detroint Lakes, MN |
Sure looks like a whitefish. Ciscoes tend to be long and slender, like a hot-dog.
Whitefish get more of a belly, and have a "slab" look to them.
JS
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Location: Minnesota | I agree, looks like a whitefish. The snout looks too pointed for it to be a cisco or tullibee. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | 'Whitefish get more of a belly, and have a "slab" look to them. '
I'm a Whitefish! |
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Location: St. Louis, MO., Marco Is., FL, Nestor Falls, ON | Steve:
Would that make you more of a Pancho...and less of a Cisco??? |
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| do you found that fish inside the pike?? |
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