Ever Caught a Mudpuppy

[rogerwa]

My son caught a mudpuppy the other day.. It was the strangest thing I ever saw. It kind of looks like a cross between a catfish and an eel, but has arms and legs.<br /><br />At first we thought it was an exotic species, but then found out it is just a common aquatic salamander..

 

[skeeterboy]

Re: Ever Caught a Mudpuppy

yea ive caught them by hand and they are great bait for bass and catfish. Weird looking creatures arnt they? Pretty common where i live in rivers and streams.

 

[one more cast]

Re: Ever Caught a Mudpuppy

When I was a kid I would help clean the reservoir that supplied the water to about a dozen houses in our town and when it was drained we could catch mud puppies by hand in the muddy stream.

 

[jtexas]

Re: Ever Caught a Mudpuppy

That's a waterdog, the best bait ever for bass.

 

[moderator1]

Re: Ever Caught a Mudpuppy

Larval stage of the Tiger salamander....

 

[one more cast]

Re: Ever Caught a Mudpuppy

But we don't have tiger salamanders in NY.(I don't think) Mud puppies spend their entire life under water because they breath through gills.I did a search and the tiger salamander larvae is also called a mud puppy so are they one in the same?,who knows. <br /><br /><br /> http://www.earlham.edu/~lanest/mudpuppy.htm

 

[20/20]

Re: Ever Caught a Mudpuppy

They had a mudd puppy on TV{news} a few years back, it was from china{I think} the thing was over 4 foot long and mean as he**. In up state NY we have lots of them but I have yet to see one 4 feet long.

 

[mellowyellow]

Re: Ever Caught a Mudpuppy

we gots brown salamanders up here omc...?<br />become red newts when mature.<br /><br />

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[one more cast]

Re: Ever Caught a Mudpuppy

MY, I see several different kinds of salamanders but I don't think we have tiger salamanders. Every once in a while I will see a large black one with yellow or orange spots.