Fish ID please.

Sorry no pic. Fishing at Linda Mar caught a bunch of 8-10 inch what I can only describe as very similar to a freshwater black crappie. Didn't see it anywhere on the Fish ID pics.

some type of Perch perhaps?

If you caught it in the ocean and it looked like a crappie to you, it probably was a surf perch of some sort.  Here is a decent web page with pictures and descriptions of various species of surf perch.  Take a look and maybe you'll recognize one of them.

http://www.humboldt.edu/~raf1/fishbook/bony/b25.html

Thanks, but I don't believe it was a perch. Had the body of a rockfish, mouth of a rockfish, but the coloration of a black crappie-many black spots on a dark grey/blue background. Caught a bunch all in the same spot on the rocks with the teaser. Isn't there something called a black and blue or???  Thanks for the replies!

I guess it could have been a black rockfish or a blue rockfish.  Usually when someone says "it looked like a .." I assume they're talking about the general body shape on not specific coloration.  So when you said crappie, rockfish were the last thing on my mind. I'm surprised that we don't have pictures of them in Mooch's ID photo posts.  Mooch I think you need to do a "blue vs black rockfish ID" post.

Here is black rockfish


and here is a blue rockfish

Mooch I think you need to do a "blue vs black rockfish ID" post

I'm on it.

By the way, would you consider this a blue or a black? I'd say it's a blue but I always though Blues don't get that big.....

that looks al ot like a black rockfish due to the size of the mouth and the spines along its back. also the line of white running down the side.

blue rockfish have smaller mouths and lack the spots on their backs too.

ya think?

I'd say that's a black.  As for blues not getting that big, I've seen some pretty big blues that were at least that big.

BTW, is his reel in the water?

Black.

-Allen

When I saw it I thought it was a very nice sized black as well. I think they are harder to identify when they are small.

That's definitely a black rockfish in the pic - and a nice one! 

I'd say, ec, that you caught blues - they can have sort of a "checkery" mottling on the sides that I think does resemble crappie and also small mouth bass. 

BTW, is his reel in the water?

UHHH What reel all I see is part of the rod. Ya I'm thinking so.

Sweet. From the great pics posted by Bsteves it appears that I was indeed catching blacks.