I've been kayaking (on a irregular basis) for 6 years now and I wish I had read this when I started!

Beautiful man, nice day to be out

Canaries are very orange like a an old trafic cone( canary) and coppers are well a dull copper color, youl know the diffence once you see them in person. If you know what one looks like you can easily tell them apart, its a little more difficult from just pictures since its an odd color, underwater the canaries will make your brain hurt because it's a very strange color ive never seen on land.   Ive only seen a tiny canary once in my life before underwater.
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Thanks Ryan, I suppose I just need to invest in a laminated ID sheet

Hey all.  I don't get to go out on the ocean much anymore, so I fully admit to not being as familiar with rockfish species as I used to be.  I caught this guy at SWS on Saturday and was pretty sure it was a copper until I started second guessing myself and looking online.  From what I've read canary are more difficult to differentiate from vermillion, but I saw more similarities between coppers and canary.  Would anyone be willing to clarify this for me?  I don't want to end up with multiple canaries.

That fun morning, always nice to have someone else to fish with.  Thanks for the introduction to NCKA Sonny