Rockfish ID?

Hi.  Caught this little guy poke-poling in HMB yesterday.  First ever rockfish, and first ever time poke-poling.  Anybody want to help me out with the identification?  This was the only picture I took before I released him to grow up.

I'm guessing it is a Grass Rockfish.

Looks like a grassie to me.  A good (though intrusive) method to differentiate grassies from kelp rockfish is to look at the gill rakers.  Grassies will have short, stubby rakers; kelpies have long, thin rakers.  But if you're practicing CnR, I don't recommend poking fingers around in their gills.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_rockfish

Grassy...

Browns have one black spot on operculum...

Fleshy pectoral fins are a dead give away for grassy.

 

Sincerely,

Jim

could not find  a better pic but this--brown rock fish-- a spot i go -130 f.o.w -has a lot of them always in this one spot--slime coat-patchwork pattern and clear white meat--they also start to blanch quickly after dead..pale a bit

edit BigJim would know better so grassy it is

Brown is a def possibility Craig, but the lack of mthat one unique black spot and the fleshy pec fins make me say grassy....

I bet a pic of gill rakers would show them short and stubby.

 

Thanks guys for the help on the ID!  Grass Rockfish it is.  I look forward to catching more and bigger ones!