I caught this little beauty on iron in Bahia de los Angeles some time ago and have never positively identified it. Looked it up once and thought it
was a type of "midshipman"?
BTW, he was delicious!
[Edited on 12-28-2008 by BajaWarrior]
Sallysouth - 12-27-2008 at 08:09 PM
Wow, that is one weird looking fish!Looks like a cross between a bass of some sort and a Halibut??? bumpamirravon - 12-27-2008 at 11:27 PM
i know this one.... alien fish Santiago - 12-28-2008 at 07:06 AM
Goes by a bunch of different names: "Lingcod" (not a real lingcod like on the west coast), "Big Mouth Bastard", "Jawfish". I call them "Humfrees" in
honor of Mike Humfreville who targeted this fish for its good eating, though the fillets are really small. I can't seem to find it in any of my books
or on Gene's fish I.D. website (http://www.mexfish.com). We will catch them on jigged iron, usually in fairly deep water - 100' to 300'. If you're going to release these fish,
you will have to puncure their airbladder in order for them to get back down to the bottom. I doubt they survive the trip though.Don Alley - 12-28-2008 at 08:33 AM
Opisthognathus rhomalea, aka Giant Jawfish or Big Mouth Bastard
[Edited on 12-28-2008 by Don Alley]BajaWarrior - 12-28-2008 at 09:07 AM
Thanks to Santiago and Don Alley for the positive I.D.
I caught that little guy 18 years ago at L.A. Bay and had always wondered exactly what it was...Santiago - 12-28-2008 at 09:23 AM
By the way - these suckers are about the slimiest things in the water IMHO.Don Alley - 12-28-2008 at 09:51 AM
Quote:
Originally posted by Santiago
... If you're going to release these fish, you will have to puncure their airbladder in order for them to get back down to the bottom. I doubt they
survive the trip though.
I just got a release device from Charkbait.com. Haven't tried it yet. Here's a link to their web page, showing the device and how to use it:
