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Title: What the...
Post by: hookedonquack20 on July 24, 2015, 12:53:14 PM: My friend caught this fish while jigging off the bottom in area 8-1.Any ideas what it is?
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Post by: CP on July 24, 2015, 12:54:20 PM: Ratfish ?
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Post by: hookedonquack20 on July 24, 2015, 12:54:42 PM: .
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Post by: hookedonquack20 on July 24, 2015, 12:56:21 PM: It also has a big ole spine on his head.
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Post by: notellumcreek on July 24, 2015, 12:56:36 PM: :dunno:
Quote from: CP on July 24, 2015, 12:54:20 PM
Ratfish ?
I looked up ratfish and it does kinda look like it but different fins along the back...
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Post by: SilkOnTheDrySide on July 24, 2015, 12:56:37 PM: Looks like a lion fish

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Post by: WapitiTalk1 on July 24, 2015, 12:56:55 PM: Looks like some crazy variety of a skinny Skulpin?
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Post by: lokidog on July 24, 2015, 01:29:54 PM: Maybe a Spotfin Sculpin.

Seems to be a lot of variety in color pattern.
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Post by: lokidog on July 24, 2015, 01:36:19 PM: Just curious, isn't it single point hooks for the lures?
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Post by: kenzmad on July 24, 2015, 02:38:05 PM: Im thinking Longspine Combfish.

http://eol.org/pages/210871/overview
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Post by: gasman on July 24, 2015, 05:42:56 PM: Quote from: lokidog on July 24, 2015, 01:36:19 PM
Just curious, isn't it single point hooks for the lures?

I was thinking the same thing.
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Post by: lokidog on July 24, 2015, 05:57:36 PM: Kenzmad, I think you got this one. :tup:
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Post by: hookedonquack20 on July 24, 2015, 07:08:10 PM: Quote from: lokidog on July 24, 2015, 01:29:54 PM
Maybe a Spotfin Sculpin.

Seems to be a lot of variety in color pattern.
I think it is a spotfin sculpin

Quote from: lokidog on July 24, 2015, 01:36:19 PM
Just curious, isn't it single point hooks for the lures?
We always thought it was single point for salmon and single hook(1 barbless treble) for flounder,might have go back and reread it.
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Post by: lokidog on July 24, 2015, 08:27:38 PM: Did you catch any flounder with that big bar jig? They seem to have too small of a mouth to actually bite the hook? We always caught flounder on 1-2 oz leadhead jigs depending on water conditions. What if you accidentally hooked a salmon? You'd have to let it go. I do think it is legal to use barbless trebles for flounder and even lings, which is surprising. The regs only refer to single hook for salmon.

Barbless hooks are required for all species in
Marine Areas 5-13, except forage fish jig gear.
When fishing for SALMON in Marine Areas 1-13,
single-point barbless hooks must be used.
-from page 102
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Post by: ICEMAN on July 25, 2015, 09:42:09 AM: It's a Jigback sculpin.
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Post by: MLBowhunting on July 25, 2015, 09:52:08 AM: Cool fish.
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Post by: lokidog on July 25, 2015, 01:55:26 PM: Quote from: ICEMAN on July 25, 2015, 09:42:09 AM
It's a Jigback sculpin.

:chuckle: D'OH... I started to look up jigback sculpin. :o
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Post by: lokidog on July 26, 2015, 09:25:24 AM: I've gotten confirmation from our local bio experts and it is indeed the Long-spined (Longspine) Combfish. Again, good eye Kenzmad.

http://www.pnwscuba.com/critterwatchers/coolarchives.htm#combfish
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Post by: ICEMAN on July 26, 2015, 12:14:15 PM: Quote from: lokidog on July 25, 2015, 01:55:26 PM
Quote from: ICEMAN on July 25, 2015, 09:42:09 AM
It's a Jigback sculpin.

:chuckle: D'OH... I started to look up jigback sculpin. :o

:)
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Post by: carlyoungs on July 26, 2015, 12:19:22 PM: You can use treble hooks for bottom fish the just have to be pinched. I've asked and been checked by leo and it is legal.