BajaWarrior
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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]
Haven't had a bad trip yet....
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Sallysouth
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Wow, that is one weird looking fish!Looks like a cross between a bass of some sort and a Halibut??? bump
Happiness is just a Baja memory away...
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amirravon
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i know this one.... alien fish
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Santiago
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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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Don Alley
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Opisthognathus rhomalea, aka Giant Jawfish or Big Mouth Bastard
Mexfish
[Edited on 12-28-2008 by Don Alley]
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BajaWarrior
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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...
Haven't had a bad trip yet....
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Santiago
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By the way - these suckers are about the slimiest things in the water IMHO.
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Don Alley
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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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