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chavycha
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Fish ID?
Have caught a few of these in the past week. One off the beach and one over a shallow near-shore reef in about 20' of water.
Sargo? Some other kind of grunt?
Edible?
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It looks like a Pacific porgy. Good eating!
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Quote: Originally posted by chavycha  | Have caught a few of these in the past week. One off the beach and one over a shallow near-shore reef in about 20' of water.
Sargo? Some other kind of grunt?
Edible?
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Mojarra ?? or Perch ??
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Looks like a sargo:
http://www.mexfish.com/mexico/sargo/
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That's a Sargo,can be caught on various baits off the beach,my kids got them also in front of PaPa,s place.
Didn,t know they would take a bass plug tho!
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Anyone can catch fish in a boat but only \"El Pescador Grande\" can get them from the beach.
I hope when my time comes the old man will let me bring my rod and the water will be warm and clear.
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Try cooking it whole (sans entrails) and de-scaled on the Barbie, and score the flesh diagonally every inch for a leetle ajo y jugo de limon y
pimiento; don't overcook (of course, and just pick through the skeleton.... don't miss the cheeks.
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Juan says here they call it Roncador...the snorer...and it's a perch. Did you get a photo of the fabulous halibut???
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When I saw the stripe, Sargo is what came to my mind.
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chavycha
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Shari, nope, it ended up on the fillet table and then in our bellies. Turns out you can't even give fish away in this town. 
The stripe was pretty prominent on both specimens. Thought at first it might be a handling marking, but its definitely natural.
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Sargo are good eating, as everyone else said. we got them by the ton last El Nino down at the tide pools in Sunset Cliffs the last time the tuna crabs
showed up in SD, 2003ish?
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| Quote: Originally posted by shari | | Juan says here they call it Roncador...the snorer...and it's a perch. Did you get a photo of the fabulous halibut??? |
Shari, show Juan this photo (what we call a 'spotfin croaker' or 'spottie'... it makes the pig or snoring sound out of water). In Mexico, it is called
roncador... Black spot vs black stripe of a sargo... The yellowfin croaker also makes the croaking noise. You guys call that one the 'boca dulce'.
Spotfin Croaker, Roncador stearnsi (from Mexfish.com)
[Edited on 12-29-2014 by David K]
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roncador= the lowly "ronkie". white croaker c.)tom cod, kingfish,
[Edited on 12-29-2014 by willardguy]
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I love the variety of fish here! At home, when we go trout fishing, we catch trout. We've caught 22 species (and counting) in a couple weeks.
Here's another. Thought when it first came up that it was a tiny yellowtail. Not so much. It has fins like a wrasse but the head's not right.
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You probably caught that fish fairly deep? Tile Fish I think.
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chavycha
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Yep! That's it! I didn't check that one on Mexfish. Thanks! In about 150' of water.
Ocean tilefish / blanquillo.
http://www.mexfish.com/fish/ocwht/ocwht.htm
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I think often called Whitefish on the Pacific side?
Delicious...great for ceviche though it's a small one
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Whitefish caught in 220ft over rockpile near Pt. Conception, Mulege. Using a 3 oz. green dart tipped with squid tidbit. Catch one and you can crank
up a limit too quickly. Good table fare, but not much action.
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poor mans yellowtail. easy to filet and delicious. just be careful handling em, slip your hand under the gill plate and you will bleed! grab em by the
eyeballs (like a bowling ball) like you would a sheepshead 
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And one more... this from the East Cape in about 200' of water. Huge eyes. Too short-bodied for a snapper. Wrong fin structure for a rosy rockfish.
  
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Got it. A Popeye Catalufa.
http://www.mexfish.com/mexico/popeye-catalufa/
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