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03-04-2011, 05:22 PM | #1 |
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Fish id please
What type of rock fish is this?
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03-04-2011, 05:34 PM | #2 |
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I just got the DFG fish id book in the mail yesterday.
Looks like a copper rockfish to me, and a very young one. Can grow to 26+ in. Where did you catch it? Looks like a pier. |
03-04-2011, 05:50 PM | #3 |
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I believe Rookie is correct.
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03-04-2011, 06:04 PM | #4 |
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its a very tasty rockfish
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03-04-2011, 06:10 PM | #5 |
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Looks like a baby Calico....
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03-04-2011, 06:18 PM | #6 |
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Thanks for the id i didnt catch it some one i know did and i thought it was a baby calico at first to. And it was at IB pier.
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03-04-2011, 06:39 PM | #7 |
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Sugar bass?
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03-04-2011, 06:41 PM | #8 |
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Calico aka kelp bass...I've never heard of anyone catching rock fish from a pier....but I've heard about and seen WSB caught from a pier and the shore...
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03-04-2011, 11:03 PM | #9 |
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I'd say it's Kelp Rockfish. They are usually more brown, but I have seen ones that were greenish like that around breakwaters and piers, and that is definitely what it looks like to me. Here's another pic of of one... Here's yours... People sometime missidentify Kelp rockfish as Brown rockfish but Kelp rockfish have more light, tan, or sand color mottling then browns, with less reddish brown. They also hang out in shallower water then most other rockfish so they are the most likely rockfish to catch form a pier. I see these all the time as I get a ton of them in my hoops when I'm lobstering in 30 to 40ft of water. Jim Last edited by Fiskadoro; 03-05-2011 at 12:00 AM. |
03-05-2011, 06:56 AM | #10 |
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It's a Rockfish.
Look at the length of the Anal spine. The Bass does not have such a long spine. |
03-05-2011, 07:36 AM | #11 |
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Marlin...Swordfish....Bit right through that piano wire?...
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03-05-2011, 10:14 AM | #12 |
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Damn...I concede to kelp rockfish....Looks like beers on me
You sure its not the bastard son of a kelp bass and rockfish? |
03-05-2011, 02:03 PM | #13 |
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People sometime missidentify Kelp rockfish as Brown rockfish but Kelp rockfish have more light, tan, or sand color mottling then browns, with less reddish brown. They also hang out in shallower water then most other rockfish so they are the most likely rockfish to catch form a pier. I see these all the time as I get a ton of them in my hoops when I'm lobstering in 30 to 40ft of water.
Jim[/QUOTE] Nice research Jim, the markings around the eye and behind it are identical. The pectoral fins are thicker and have more pronounced bones kind of like a Cabezon, another sign of this fishes natural habitat. Also, baby calicos only look like small calicos, there is very little juvenile differences. Unlike black seabass that look very different throughout their life stages. |
03-05-2011, 09:57 PM | #14 |
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Certain rockfish can live very shallow in La Jolla. I often sight-fish at low tide.
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