Id This Fish

[matt1984]

My girlfriend caught this fish last weekend and was asking me what kind it was, her uncle said it was a ling cod but it looks different then ones I have seen. I have never fished in the ocean before but I figured someone here would know.thanks

 

[CDone]

Looks like one of the many varieties of Rock Fish that inhabit the Pacific NW, Canary or Yellow eye would be my guess. Tastes like snapper and are usually sold as such.

 

Colin

[steelhead]

spiney rockfish

[Brownstone]

Gopher Rockfish?....Rockfish are pretty similar, different color, different name...

[Glenbow]

Looks like a rock cod to me. Used to catch them off Vancouver all the time, but a long time ago.

[reevesr1]

My girlfriend caught this fish last weekend and was asking me what kind it was, her uncle said it was a ling cod but it looks different then ones I have seen. I have never fished in the ocean before but I figured someone here would know.thanks

 

Now Matt, is this just an excuse to post a picture of your cute girlfriend??

[bigbowtrout]

Girlfriend?? but by the look of the rings on her fingers she has a husband or is about to get married. What scandal

[ladystrange]

looks like a rock cod to me also. except not as red. so where was she fishing, what was the bait, how deep and how far from shore?

 

used to catch them off the dock in pender harbour. no one told me about catch and release when i was 6. they can stay alive in a bucket of water in the hot sun on a dock for hours. kinda boney, not much meat.