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WTF is this thing?



Anyone know what this ugly b@stard is? I was out with bostonstripper on the harbor. We caught live mackerels and a little Pollock (striper candies). We cruised to his favorite striper spots... Marked some big, big stripers on the fish finders.

Wham! The live pollock started running. A true gentleman let me have the first fish on his boat...

I was so pumped. Using a high-powered, 5:1 boat rod, I thought I had a decent striper. Instead, this ugly b@stard.

Caught first macks, made a friend, but damn, this thing was a HUGE disappointment.
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Posted Thu Jun 19, 2014 10:27 am

Sea Robin?
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Posted Thu Jun 19, 2014 10:37 am

Looks like a form of scorpion fish.. some have been found off NY.. they are poisonous. be careful
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Posted Thu Jun 19, 2014 11:27 am

tacklesmith: It didn't have the long legs that sea robins do.

Scorpion fish sounds kind of cool...
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Posted Thu Jun 19, 2014 12:28 pm

scalpun or sea raven?

scorpion fish?? i need to catch one! i love catching weird fish on the bottom of the ocea
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Posted Thu Jun 19, 2014 1:18 pm

Me too bassturds. If we hadn't worked so hard for stripers, or caught at least one, I would have been thrilled.
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Posted Thu Jun 19, 2014 1:56 pm

most defiantly a scorpion fish do not mess with very poisons.
Won't kill you but will make you ill.
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Posted Thu Jun 19, 2014 2:22 pm

This is sculpin. I can't misidentify it. I used to caught tons of them along with sea raven.

Don't get me wrong, there is no scorpion fish in east cost except lion fish in florida that is poison fish.

Anyway, nice catch! surely beat the skunk day!
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Posted Thu Jun 19, 2014 2:34 pm

Sea robins are 100% poisonouS
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Posted Thu Jun 19, 2014 3:38 pm

From Wikipedia - Sea robins have sharp spines on their gill plates and dorsal fins that inject a mild poison, causing slight pain for two to three days.
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Posted Thu Jun 19, 2014 7:35 pm

sculpin
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Posted Thu Jun 19, 2014 8:07 pm

def a sea robin
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Posted Thu Jun 19, 2014 8:41 pm

Bloomagoo - nope, I think you was confused with sea lion fish. not sea robin because I'm eating them. Taste similar as scallops if you cooked it right. I'm not even dead yet! haha
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Posted Thu Jun 19, 2014 9:18 pm

Not a Sea Robin. Caught a Sea Robin Sunday Morning. Not the same fish at all.
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Posted Thu Jun 19, 2014 9:34 pm

Yeah, that is definitely some kind of sculpin.
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Posted Thu Jun 19, 2014 10:57 pm

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