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Title: Rockfish ID photo: Cabezon
Post by: mooch on May 19, 2006, 12:12:40 PM
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Minimum size: 15 inches
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Post by: mooch on May 19, 2006, 12:13:21 PM
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Post by: mooch on May 19, 2006, 01:16:20 PM
Jim's cabby at Elk
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Post by: mooch on June 15, 2006, 04:17:56 PM
cabby from Big Sur
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Post by: mooch on June 15, 2006, 04:30:41 PM
Linda Mar Cabezon
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Post by: promethean_spark on June 15, 2006, 07:29:03 PM
Just another day at pescadero:
(http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?option=com_gallery2&Itemid=81&g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=6237&g2_serialNumber=1&g2_GALLERYSID=a04c07dd860ec4d534a255d1c79c22b1)
Title: Re: Rockfish ID photo: Cabezon
Post by: mooch 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
Title: Re: Rockfish ID photo: Cabezon
Post by: MolBasser on June 27, 2006, 11:59:35 AM
cabby from Big Sur

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

MolBasser
Title: Re: Rockfish ID photo: Cabezon
Post by: bsteves 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).

Brian
Title: Re: Rockfish ID photo: Cabezon
Post by: MolBasser 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.

MolBasser
Title: Re: Rockfish ID photo: Cabezon
Post by: MolBasser on June 27, 2006, 01:09:11 PM
BTW, are cabezon spines as gnarly poisonous as sculpins are?

MolBasser
Title: Re: Rockfish ID photo: Cabezon
Post by: bsteves 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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Post by: promethean_spark 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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Post by: KayakJames 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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Post by: bsteves 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

Brian
Title: Re: Rockfish ID photo: Cabezon
Post by: Seabreeze on July 11, 2006, 11:12:00 AM
Our experience is that they are the most consistent "poopers" that we get.  The deck is a mess after handling one.

Is there a name for the cow like plate in the front of a cabezon's mouth where a ling has teeth?
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Post by: MontanaN8V on October 20, 2009, 10:26:59 PM
Gabe's PB cabbie from Fort Ross, and my first kayak cabbie and China from Fort Ross 10-16-09
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Post by: Kayote on January 06, 2011, 07:54:27 AM
Tha's not a cabby. This is a cabby.....

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Post by: ravensblack on January 06, 2011, 10:15:04 AM
DUDE! Thats a CABBIE. Hahahaha. Save that one for tourney day this year OK? Put it on a leash. I wont tell anyone. :smt006
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Post by: Kayote on January 06, 2011, 12:21:51 PM
DUDE! Thats a CABBIE. Hahahaha. Save that one for tourney day this year OK? Put it on a leash. I wont tell anyone. :smt006

I couldn't resist. Minus 15 here and it is even too cold to ice fish.
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Post by: fungunnin on January 06, 2011, 01:49:31 PM
I love pissed off Cabi's! The more they growl the better they taste!
(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs362.ash2/64074_440288107423_589802423_5413988_5844978_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Rockfish ID photo: Cabezon
Post by: Loco 4 Ab's on January 07, 2011, 09:46:46 AM
Speared these two Cabs..Last day of Ab season..They both flaired-up..Until I put the tip of my spear...inches from thier head...The rest..is HISTORY..! ! !    ....Loco
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Post by: AnnieAreYouOk on December 02, 2014, 10:43:41 PM
Ever see an Orange cab? My boyfriend caught this at Timber Cove this summer...Probably the coolest fish I've seen
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Post by: WingShooter on December 02, 2014, 11:10:47 PM
How about this guy I caught in Lake Natoma last week. I guess those cabbies I planted last year are breeding.  :smt002  :smt044

Mike
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Post by: Derrick A2H on December 03, 2014, 06:59:47 AM
Nice sculpin, use em for bait stripers love those things