Sculpee the freshwater rockfish

Found this fish in the Big Sur river and my kids named him Sculpee. No fish were harmed...underwater pic attached.

It looks to me like a coastrange sculpin.  Cool photo!

http://calfish.ucdavis.edu/species/?uid=41&ds=698

Yep sculpin are super cool!!!

I never even knew there were freshwater sculpins.

Neat!

Cool little fishies.  Lake Merced in San Francisco has a bunch right under the fishing docks. 

the natives call them Mudsucking Bullheads 

Cool find PK.

I never even knew there were freshwater sculpins.

I once caught one out of Loch Lomond.  Tiny little guy, maybe 3-4", but definitely cute.  Don't believe it to be of the coastrange variety though.

Cool find PK.

I never even knew there were freshwater sculpins.

I once caught one out of Loch Lomond.  Tiny little guy, maybe 3-4", but definitely cute.  Don't believe it to be of the coastrange variety though.

I have been known to be wrong 

Which species do you think it is?

Cool find PK.

I never even knew there were freshwater sculpins.

I once caught one out of Loch Lomond.  Tiny little guy, maybe 3-4", but definitely cute.  Don't believe it to be of the coastrange variety though.

I have been known to be wrong 

Which species do you think it is?

No clue.  Just figured since it was in a lake that it wasn't a coastrange.  Maybe that is an inaccurate assumption.

I have always like sculpin for some reason. They're cool little fish. The biggest I ever saw was about 6" long--I actually caught it on a nightcrawler at Loch Lomond res in Santa cruz; I believe that was a standard prickly sculpin. Back in the day, we'd catch a bucketfull of em on redworms below Anderson dam then go to San Luis Res and use them for bait (when I was like 13-18). Those were likely riffle sculpin. I rescued one from some kind of temporary filter/screen on the rubber dam in the Salinas River back in February...who knows what type that one was, but Pablito saw it.
I tried to get underwater pics of this one from the BS river because it was so pretty. But most of my pics were blurry. It's either a coastrange or sharpnose sculpin.
We also encountered steelhead in various stages, turtles, and lots of crawdads.

Crawdads? Yum!

Never knew there were so many sculpen species in fresh water.