Neat Lings

[Sneaky]

Meat was blue too. I heard its from eating crabs?

[yelp]

  pass the vinegar and fries!

[robodad]

pass the vinegar and fries!

Indeed !!!

That blue color goes away when you cook the meat, it is just as yummy as the white ones !!!

Nice Catch !!!

[bowhunterforever]

  Nice fish! Where did you catch them?

[littlebuf]

that blue one sure looks cool, and they both look tasty 

[GoldTip]

I've seen'em in all sorts of colors, all of which were danged tasty.

[Alchase]

Very cool pic, and some seriously good eating.

[Happy Gilmore]

Meat was blue too. I heard its from eating crabs?

Sweet meat!

[boneaddict]

So is that a green ling....sorry, I don't see many of those in the Wenas

[popeshawnpaul]

This is an interesting thread because I've always liked the blue ones better.  Believe it or not, I think the blue ones taste better and I've thought that over zillions of fish the last 30 years.  

Does anyone know definitively what turns them blue?  I don't ever see any food down there that is blue color and I know it must be something they eat.  That makes sense too, since you basically are what you eat.  Like a deer that eats wheat vs one that eats sagebrush.  The sage deer is going to taste different.  Anyone know for sure?

Bone, greenling is a smaller variety of fish.  That is a lingcod that is green/blue color.  Not the same.

[boneaddict]

 
I'v eheard of greylings but not greenlings, so I assumed it was  a green Ling.    Thanks for the clarification. 

[finnman]

He has been eating too many Asarco crabs

[littlebuf]

This is an interesting thread because I've always liked the blue ones better.  Believe it or not, I think the blue ones taste better and I've thought that over zillions of fish the last 30 years. 

Does anyone know definitively what turns them blue?  I don't ever see any food down there that is blue color and I know it must be something they eat.  That makes sense too, since you basically are what you eat.  Like a deer that eats wheat vs one that eats sagebrush.  The sage deer is going to taste different.  Anyone know for sure?

Bone, greenling is a smaller variety of fish.  That is a lingcod that is green/blue color.  Not the same.

maybe there hanging out in the area where honey bucket dumps there trucks 

[groundhog]

Great lookin fish!
I ran a sportfishing camp in Southeast AK south of Sitka for over twenty years and we used to catch a lot of white kings. The meat would look just like a halibut. With the kings it was from not eating shrimp which have keratin (sp?) that turns the meat orange. We also caught kings that were half orange and half white.

We caught a lot lings of the blue variety and I have also spear fished a lot of Cabazone's in the Puget Sound that were blue. I also think they are better eating. It has to be diet but I have no idea what it could be. I know Cabazons love crabs and some of the sand crabs are blueish green.

 I know lings will eat just about anything. I have netted many lings that were trying to eat a fish that was on a line including trying to eat salmon and other lings.

[bucklucky]

I wana see the blue mea (fish that is) , i it as blue as the fish? Thats pretty cool lookin!

[popeshawnpaul]

Yeah, it's kind of wierd but the meat is neon green/blue.  Kind of wierd to eat at first.  I've caught them everywhere so it must be a prey species that occurs all over.  You are right about the cabezon too, they are blue as well sometimes.  The mystery continues...

I guess the best guess I've heard so far is a crab type.

[BLKBEARKLR]

Man that would have made a neat mount.

[billythekidrock]

Does anyone know definitively what turns them blue?    Anyone know for sure?

I was told by NMF bios and observers that the blue/green color comes from eating a lot of crab. Something about the calcium in the shell.

[Straight Shooter]

Nice!  I caught a cabazon that had the same blue color.

[ratherhunt]

Interesting thread thanks for sharing

[huntnphool]

Nice!  I caught a cabazon that had the same blue color.

[Bean Counter]

While one is blue, the other is kind of red.  Ergo..

One voted for Obama and the other for McCain... sorry, couldn't resist 

[popeshawnpaul]

By the way, 2 more weekends to get some lings in the sound and San Juans.  I'm hoping to get something big for you guys this weekend...