[wadin' boot]

Found on the shores of Lake Cle Elum by a friend- what kind of fish?

 

[cabezon]

Hi WB,
I know that my suggestion is WAY far from home, but that looks like part of the lower jaw of a ling cod. Either an eagle picked a carcass at the Sound and decided to carry it to eastern Washington for a snack. Or someone brought their boat to the sound to fish for lings, brought one or more back to Lake Cle Elum in a cooler, and cleaned the fish by lake.
Steve

 

[Porter]

Reminds me of a Snakehead fish!

 

[zen leecher aka bill w]

I would say Lake Trout with receding gums.

 

[Porter]

northern pike?

 

[junkie]

There's big browns in that lake.

 

[Jeremy Floyd]

If it was a ling, the tooth density increases as it approaches the centre of the top jaw.

I'm going with walleye.

 

[Porter]

I like the call Jeremy!

 

[GAT]

Okay.... I'm going to say it.... Atlantic Salmon....

 

[wadin' boot]

Steve if you went with Ling, why not burbot?

 

[cabezon]

Steve if you went with Ling, why not burbot?

I usually do not associate gadids with those piercing teeth. Remember the ling cod is neither a ling nor a cod; it is related to greenlings and sculpins. Here is a head shot of a burbot and I don't see the same tooth development.
http://previews.123rf.com/images/kr...f-predatory-river-fish-burbot-Stock-Photo.jpg
Here is a walleye skull. They have a mix of large penetrating teeth and smaller, holding (cardiform) teeth.
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z180/rbsphoto/IMG_2817.jpg
Here is another shot which shows the mix on a walleye lower jaw.
https://flic.kr/p/4714164230 Steve

 

[Smalma]

At first blush I would say a lower jaw from a salmon. Maybe a sockeye?

Curt

 

[Buzzy]

At first blush I would say a lower jaw from a salmon. Maybe a sockeye?

Curt

Certainly a few Sockeye in the lake: http://www.yakimaherald.com/news/lo...cle_c3574d1e-68cf-11e5-92de-8f6fa08e7611.html

 

[junkie]

http://www.d91.k12.id.us/skyline/science/zoology/BTROUT.HTM

 

[Jeremy Floyd]

I know that there's significant variation of teeth in Walleye, having fished Banks Lake lots. The bigger, non eaters, are plain scary looking.

This is the first image from google.

 

[karnage]

http://www.in-fisherman.com/walleye/new-20-pound-record-walleye-pending-washington/

I dont think it is a walleye, but man they can get big here they have narrow jaws even at 20 lbs

 

[Nick Clayton]

One of the funnest parts of my job as a deckhand out of Westport last summer was saving up various client's fish carcasses and depositing them at random locations around the state. Trying to start a new form of geocaching but it just hasn't caught on yet

 

[Irafly]

One of the funnest parts of my job as a deckhand out of Westport last summer was saving up various client's fish carcasses and depositing them at random locations around the state. Trying to start a new form of geocaching but it just hasn't caught on yet

I read about a guy who did the same with rocks just to mess with future geologists.

 

[plaegreid]

Lake trout/Mackinaw

 

[jasmillo]

Certainly a few Sockeye in the lake: http://www.yakimaherald.com/news/lo...cle_c3574d1e-68cf-11e5-92de-8f6fa08e7611.html

I was going to say a spawned out Kokanee as well...