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Eugene
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Please help with ID

Post by Eugene » Fri Oct 16, 2015 11:13 pm

Hi Guys! Caught this beauty today in MA10 - anybody knows who is it? Thank you in advance!
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Re: Please help with ID

Post by spokey9 » Sat Oct 17, 2015 5:30 am

looks like a pacific hake to me.
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Post by Toni » Sat Oct 17, 2015 6:36 am

It might be pollock. Hake or pollock, I haven't seen one of those since the 80's
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He said, “Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.” When they did, they were unable to haul the net in because of the large number of fish.
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Post by spokey9 » Sat Oct 17, 2015 7:52 pm

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 :cheers:
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Re: Please help with ID

Post by losaturn » Sat Oct 17, 2015 10:01 pm

Hake. Pollock have those mottled spots.
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Post by Toni » Sun Oct 18, 2015 6:27 am

The ones I use to catch didn't. We had a hard time telling them from the tom cod.
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He said, “Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.” When they did, they were unable to haul the net in because of the large number of fish.
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Post by G-Man » Sun Oct 18, 2015 8:14 am

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.
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Re: Please help with ID

Post by cobrar543 » Mon Oct 19, 2015 3:13 pm

so nice to see that back in the PS.
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Post by Bodofish » Tue Oct 20, 2015 6:43 am

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.
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Re: Please help with ID

Post by fishee2 » Tue Oct 20, 2015 6:57 pm

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.
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