Rock Sole or Dab?

I caught and released this flatfish in 45 fow off the kelp in Monterey fishing for rf last October.The bottom was mostly rock reef with small patches of sand/gravel.Is this a rock sole, sand dab or something else?



Note the bite out of the tail...also a mystery.

The color leads me to say dab...but that is a massive dab if it is. Like record size

I think you got it right, Aaron. Looks like a rock sole to me. “Rock, yeah~~sole, yeah~~yeah, yeah~~”

Without seeing the teeth and fins up close, it’s hard to say for certain. But it also c/b a sand sole, fantail sole, butter sole, English sole, or petrale sole (the tastiest). They all look the same to me---looks like dinner!
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=24237

Looks like something took a bite of its tail too!

I caught one of those before up near Pinos drifting rock to sand.  At the time I looked it up in a book and decided it was rock sole as well.  As I couldnt positively ID it, I released it.

We got lots of rock sole here in Puget Sound and it doesn't look quite the same. That'd be a massive on if so. Then again there's a lot of water between Monterey and PS.

Here's the guys we see a lot of.


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Hmm.. rock sole or sand dab... how about combine the two names and go with sand sole.

http://www.dfw.state.or.us/MRP/finfish/sp/sandsole.asp