Canary?

Do coppers have a smooth or rough chin?

Its a Copper.
http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/Rockfish-Game/description/copper.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sebastes_caurinus.jpg

A couple of others thought it to be a rosiethorn rockfish and 1 fella thinks copper. Which I totally dont think it is. Its wierd because even if you look at the DFG ID chart and descrpitions the tail is way off. Not having a fork but a rounded end to it. Adam Koons................ can you run this by your guys? Thanks, Craig

I didn't see this til today, sorry for the late reply.  I work primarily with inland fisheries guys, but I'll fwd the pic to someone in marine branch.

This weekend I was catching and releasing a bunch of these, I wasn't 100% sure if it was a Canary or not but I took 1 picture to later look it up if they were or not.  I was gettting so heavy into them that I switched spots because I was getting tired of catching them and not knowing....what do you guys think?

This weekend I was catching and releasing a bunch of these, I wasn't 100% sure if it was a Canary or not but I took 1 picture to later look it up if they were or not.  I was gettting so heavy into them that I switched spots because I was getting tired of catching them and not knowing....what do you guys think?

Canary.

That's a canary.

There must have been really good production of canaries 3-4 years ago.  On our last trip out of Santa Cruz, we saw a lot of canaries this size (~10") in the 80-90 foot depth range, which is very shallow w.r.t. their normal depth range.  It's nice to see.

-Allen

Yeah I was fishing in 85ft of water and decided to get out of that spot and good thing i did got into 2 nice lings.   

Check that highly visible lateral line form the head to the tail. Totally a canary. Good job on the release. I saw some fellas down at the coast guard ramp in Monterey who werent so discriminative and its going to cost one of them some serious dough. I watched as thier jaws dropped when the DFG warden said, " boys someone caught a canary here."

Craig,

The word from my peeps on the your initial pic is: Copper.

This weekend I was catching and releasing a bunch of these, I wasn't 100% sure if it was a Canary or not but I took 1 picture to later look it up if they were or not.  I was gettting so heavy into them that I switched spots because I was getting tired of catching them and not knowing....what do you guys think?

It's a little hard to see in your pic but on the juvenile canaries there's a black spot in the dorsal fin,

" boys someone caught a canary here."

URK!

The lateral line is what I usually go by as well.  Like Allen says, there a a LOT of canaries out there.  When in doubt, throw it out.

Allen

Canaries like to school up, so if you catch more than one, it's best to move to another spot. I've been chased off several nice looking pieces of structure around SC by multiple juvi canary hookups.
I sure wish the regs could be adjusted to allow some take. When I went out on an SC charter the deckhands had to toss several floaters and we just had to watch the birds get them.

Canaries like to school up, so if you catch more than one, it's best to move to another spot. I've been chased off several nice looking pieces of structure around SC by multiple juvi cananry hookups.

+1

-Allen

Learned something...thanks.