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Rockfish ID photo: Cabezon
« on: May 19, 2006, 12:12:40 pm »
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Re: Rockfish ID photo: Cabezon
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2006, 12:13:21 pm »
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Re: Rockfish ID photo: Cabezon
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2006, 01:16:20 pm »
Jim's cabby at Elk
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Re: Rockfish ID photo: Cabezon
« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2006, 04:17:56 pm »
cabby from Big Sur
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Re: Rockfish ID photo: Cabezon
« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2006, 04:30:41 pm »
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Re: Rockfish ID photo: Cabezon
« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2006, 07:29:03 pm »
Just another day at pescadero:
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Re: Rockfish ID photo: Cabezon
« Reply #6 on: June 16, 2006, 08:14:28 am »
Josh - nice variety there! Pescadero might just be the place to go on the opener. I launched there once whith Lee and Ethan (we caught a lot of fish but only a few keepers = it was a calm day - so it was easy getting back to shore. I can't imagime it on a big day :smt010
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Re: Rockfish ID photo: Cabezon
« Reply #7 on: June 27, 2006, 11:59:35 am »
Quote from: Mooch on June 15, 2006, 04:17:56 pm
cabby from Big Sur

That looks like a toad sculpin to me, not a cab...

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Re: Rockfish ID photo: Cabezon
« Reply #8 on: June 27, 2006, 12:19:41 pm »
I'm not sure what a "Toad sculpin" is.  Neither Fishbase nor the American Society of Fisheries recognizes that common name.  A quick search on google only led to some unhappy fishing reports from San Diego so I'm guessing it's a local name down there.  However, that fish from Big Sur is a Cabezon... you can even seen the cirrus on the nose  ( a key characteristic).

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Re: Rockfish ID photo: Cabezon
« Reply #9 on: June 27, 2006, 01:06:54 pm »
Toad being the generic fish term for large.

Sculpin, being the california scorpion fish.

And it may or may not be one, but it sure looks like a sculpin.

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Re: Rockfish ID photo: Cabezon
« Reply #10 on: June 27, 2006, 01:09:11 pm »
BTW, are cabezon spines as gnarly poisonous as sculpins are?

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Re: Rockfish ID photo: Cabezon
« Reply #11 on: June 27, 2006, 02:18:12 pm »
Okay, that makes sense.. I can see where they might look similar.

Anyway, cabezon spines (as far as I know) aren't poisinous but the roe (eggs) are.
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Re: Rockfish ID photo: Cabezon
« Reply #12 on: June 28, 2006, 01:26:01 pm »
Cabbies vary in color dramatically from grey/black to blue to red to brown.
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Re: Rockfish ID photo: Cabezon
« Reply #13 on: July 11, 2006, 01:18:26 am »
Why do cabby's growl it freaked me out last weekend and he spit water at me too mean little guys but I got the better of him sauted in garlic. haha.
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Re: Rockfish ID photo: Cabezon
« Reply #14 on: July 11, 2006, 10:03:49 am »
I believe it's a bit of posturing, that is to say, looking impressive to prevent you from attacking/eating it (didn't work did it).  Other sculpins like staghorns and buffalo sculpin have large operculum spines that they stick out.  In the case of cabezons they also seem to flare their gill covers while producing a nice croaking/grinding sound with their pharyngeal teeth (see link below).  I've never had one spit at me though.

http://filaman.ifm-geomar.de/Glossary/Glossary.cfm?TermEnglish=pharyngeal%20teeth

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