[ApS]

Since keeping a large 150-gallon aquarium, I've lost my former interest in fishing; however, I watch a lot of large fish off my dock-- which has become an aquarium.

I see some with white lips, others with red pectoral fins, still others with reddish tailfins. Catfish, sunnies, and pickerel are not an identification problem, but it's as if some other, new, fish have "moved in".

In the past, fallfish, bass, and roach (slender with coarse silvery scales) have been caught here. Some "newbies" appear to be large but stocky, with coarse silver scales. Smallmouth bass I've seen described as "bronzeback", but all the bass I see from above appear to be olive-colored. Some are schooling in numbers of 10's and 20's -- I think they're bass.

Can someone give me some pointers as to how to identify large (2 pounds+) Winnipesaukee fish from above?

(I don't want to hear about rock bass).

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