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General => Fish Talk => Fish ID sub-forum => Topic started by: fishemotion on February 20, 2020, 12:53:27 PM

Title: sculpin?
Post by: fishemotion on February 20, 2020, 12:53:27 PM
netted this at fort baker
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Post by: ex-kayaker on February 20, 2020, 12:57:11 PM
Midshipman
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Post by: fishemotion on February 20, 2020, 01:00:14 PM
wow that was a fast i.d.  :smt001
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Post by: Uminchu Naoaki on February 20, 2020, 01:51:17 PM
Midshipman
yup very cool fish :smt004
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Post by: curplunkie on February 20, 2020, 03:40:27 PM
Ah yea, that's an awesome fish.  I love the photophores that line the body.  Nice photos and nice catch!
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Post by: Hojoman on February 20, 2020, 04:43:39 PM
If that were to be a sculpin, you should not be holding it anywhere near the dorsal fins.
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Post by: fishemotion on February 20, 2020, 04:55:28 PM
If that were to be a sculpin, you should not be holding it anywhere near the dorsal fins.

...yeah the concern is venomous spines or something right?  When i first saw it, bullhead(staghorn sculpin?) looking came to mind.  Whatever the case, it was sorta gnarly looking and i was hesitant to even touch it.
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Post by: SlackedTide on February 20, 2020, 07:37:20 PM
Those things glow in the dark, really good sevengill shark bait...
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Post by: bluepants42 on February 20, 2020, 07:52:18 PM
Cool fish. Thanks for the post.

Went fishing out of Newport Beach last year and caught some sculpins. Only the deckhands were able to handle those per boat rules.
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Post by: crash on February 20, 2020, 10:59:14 PM
Cool fish. Thanks for the post.

Went fishing out of Newport Beach last year and caught some sculpins. Only the deckhands were able to handle those per boat rules.

Those weren’t sculpins. They were sculpins. Sculpins aren’t sculpins.

And I’m not making that up. What are called “sculpin” in SoCal are California scorpionfish, which are not sculpins at all.
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Post by: BigJim on February 21, 2020, 10:10:23 AM
Those fish are terrifying.

I had one attack me once.

10 feet long and mouth full of razor sharp teeth.

Man eating zombie fish!!!

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bi3K7zsHq19/?igshid=14p72ozdbegpn

I still have nightmares.

 :smt010

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Post by: ex-kayaker on February 21, 2020, 12:53:28 PM

I had one attack me once.





Looks like it was pretty chill till you started stabbing at it with the tip of your spear  :smt044
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Post by: BigJim on February 21, 2020, 01:01:23 PM

I had one attack me once.





Looks like it was pretty chill till you started stabbing at it with the tip of your spear  :smt044

Yeah....bad habit I guess? Prolly lucky this big Angel Shark didn’t behave the same way as the NightMareFish...

 :smt005 :smt044

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bkrhnl5nyIa/?igshid=1an22ofye2n6l

 :smt006

Sincerely,

Jim
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Post by: ex-kayaker on February 21, 2020, 01:03:50 PM
Be sure to hit the record button when you come across a torpedo ray  :smt003
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Post by: fishemotion on February 21, 2020, 01:14:22 PM
good eye. holy crap