Northwest Fishing Reports

Hi Guys! Caught this beauty today in MA10 - anybody knows who is it? Thank you in advance!

looks like a pacific hake to me.

me either i havent seen a hake or pollack since the early 90's. hake were my favorite fish to catch off les davis pier during the summer nights when i was a kid and we caught a lot of pollack during the winter. i miss those fisheries.

very cool fish eugene, congrats

Hake. Pollock have those mottled spots.

The cods have a chin whisker whereas the hake does not. Pollock have darker fins/markings, I'd go with the spokey9's assessment that it is a juvenile hake.

so nice to see that back in the PS.

G-Man wrote:The cods have a chin whisker whereas the hake does not. Pollock have darker fins/markings, I'd go with the spokey9's assessment that it is a juvenile hake.

Not so sure I'd say it's a juvy, after processing a few million pounds for them for human consumption (Yuk!!!!!) I'd have to say looks pretty normal for a PS Hake. Now the ones from out in the ocean are a bit bigger but I still have never seen one that came close to the WDFW descriptions 35" long......... Maybe back in the early 1900's.

cobrar543 wrote:so nice to see that back in the PS.

For reals, I have seen a hake since back in the early to late 80's. AGAIN!! Thanks to our commercial fishing for wiping out the fishery.