Identify this fish
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Fascinating ... 
This is ripe for ShellFish jokes...
What do you call a secret operation run by shellfish?
Clamdestine
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Carry on...
What do you call a secret operation run by shellfish?
Clamdestine
That and many more here: https://upjoke.com/shellfish-jokes
Carry on...
cww
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I’ve seen bass do it
johnkn
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Looks more like otters or muskrats have been eating in that area.......
They seem very deliberate. There are multiple groupings of them, with each group having 4-11 "nests".
E.Shell
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This.
Both muskrats and otters will dig out a freshwater clam and carry it to a convenient place to eat. If the place was convenient once, it will be convenient again, and often to different animals, hence the multiple shells in what one would call a "feed bed". Some feed beds are on land at the water's edge, others are in very shallow water.
Fish 'nests' (beds) in this region are normally just slight depressions fanned clean by the fish as a silt-free repository for eggs - no actual architecture. Some tropical fish, notably cichlids, DO build with local materials like stone fragments, but not our bass, bluegills or other "depositors" (vs "scatterers").
Either that or Chessie....
- Jul 29, 2014
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Could be sunfish making a redd. Fish sweep the muck away to expose 'gravel' to lay their eggs into. If that gravel happens to be shells...
This makes sense. A guy in the neighborhood told my brother if you dig under these "nests" you'll get live clams.
Allium
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Wanda
johnkn
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That is not a sunfish, bluegill, crappie, or bass nest. They don’t assemble a nest, as noted above they fan sediment off of shallow sandy or gravel areas. Live clams under them is a sure sign of a clam predator like an otter or muskrat. But I’ve only been on the water and fishing for 62 years, what do I know....
brownspotz
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Dundalk lump fish
E.Shell
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That is not a sunfish, bluegill, crappie, or bass nest. They don’t assemble a nest, as noted above they fan sediment off of shallow sandy or gravel areas. Live clams under them is a sure sign of a clam predator like an otter or muskrat. But I’ve only been on the water and fishing for 62 years, what do I know....
To wear sunblock?That is not a sunfish, bluegill, crappie, or bass nest. They don’t assemble a nest, as noted above they fan sediment off of shallow sandy or gravel areas. Live clams under them is a sure sign of a clam predator like an otter or muskrat. But I’ve only been on the water and fishing for 62 years, what do I know....
- Jul 29, 2014
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Who said assembled?That is not a sunfish, bluegill, crappie, or bass nest. They don’t assemble a nest, as noted above they fan sediment off of shallow sandy or gravel areas. Live clams under them is a sure sign of a clam predator like an otter or muskrat. But I’ve only been on the water and fishing for 62 years, what do I know....
I offered a guess, as in "could be".
You almost quote my post, then discredit it using the same evidence. There are many predators of clams, including starfish, horseshoe crabs, birds, fish etc. BTW, muskrats usually eat the clams out the water and otters, as they float around on their backs.FWIW, I have been fishing on the bay for nearly as long as you. I do not claim to be an expert though.
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