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[*] posted on 12-27-2008 at 05:40 PM
Please help I.D. this fish


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]

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[*] posted on 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???:o:o bump



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[*] posted on 12-27-2008 at 11:27 PM


i know this one.... alien fish :lol:
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[*] posted on 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.



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[*] posted on 12-28-2008 at 08:33 AM


Opisthognathus rhomalea, aka Giant Jawfish or Big Mouth Bastard


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[*] posted on 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...




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[*] posted on 12-28-2008 at 09:23 AM


By the way - these suckers are about the slimiest things in the water IMHO.



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[*] posted on 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:


http://www.charkbait.com/cs/csd-TeamMarine.htm
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