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help me identify this fish please.

Post by TedBull » Wed Aug 31, 2011 2:42 am

I caught two of these small "rockfish" today on the skykomish. I watched them dart out and snag my whole nightcrawler right up as I was retrieving it. Little things are feisty, tried to swallow my pliers. I could not find any pictures to help identify what it was. They were released of course.

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Post by kingfisher101 » Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:06 am

there probably skulpin
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Post by TedBull » Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:22 am

kingfisher101 wrote:there probably skulpin
Thanks for the info. I did a google image search for skulpin and that is for sure what I caught today.

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Post by kingfisher101 » Wed Aug 31, 2011 4:04 am

No problem yea ive caughton many of those on lakes,rivers,creeks and yea.good luck
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Post by kzoo » Wed Aug 31, 2011 4:19 am

I've caught those at the Sky as well, I was told they were Sculpin as well.

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Post by Gringo Pescador » Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:37 pm

yep Skulpin - fiesty little guys. They will latch onto a worm and not let go - even if not hooked.
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Post by tnj8222 » Wed Aug 31, 2011 1:28 pm

Egg robers lol. When I plunk for hos they get fed alot of eggs.
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Post by fishingboy » Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:11 pm

Sculpin.... i have got so many of those in lake and rivers!
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Post by racfish » Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:42 pm

Growing up here in the NW we called those Bullheads or Bullies. They have two horns on their head thus the name "Bullhead" the bullhead is the Sculpin family. There are salt and fresh water bullheads. Just as an FYI. Their white meat make excellent perch bait.The salt water version is the same look only they are way bigger.During the summer they nibble and eat your eggs making you think some huge king is milking your eggs. They will eat most any bait. The best way to get rid of them is 11 D.. Your foot.....I kill them. They eat salmon steelhead and trout eggs in spawning areas.
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Post by kingfisher101 » Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:55 pm

lol i know they eat everything they get in little school and hide under huge rocks and under anything dark.
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Post by returnofthefish » Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:18 pm

Some people actually fish for these sculpins and eat them. I never figured out why
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Post by racfish » Thu Sep 01, 2011 12:33 am

Skin one sometime you'll see why. They have really nice white flesh. Even small they are meaty. Like I said earlier ,you perch and bass people put the bullhead tail on a I think its a texas rig and cast it out. Everything is bait for something else...
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Post by SculpinKing » Sun Sep 04, 2011 5:12 am

I swear, everywhere I go I catch those things, which is actually why I gave myself this nickname here. :)

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Post by BARCHASER10 » Wed Sep 07, 2011 1:17 am

When I lived in Billings years ago we used to fish the Yellowstone and the Big Horn a lot. We used a big fine mesh screen and then kick over rocks upstream and those little guys would get caught in the screen. Tried to fish them alive but they worked good dead too. Big browns used to really go for them.

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Post by natetreat » Wed Sep 07, 2011 5:38 am

I put out a crawfish trap in the snohomish the other day, and pulled up about 30 of those guys. Most of them were eaten by crawfish and dead though, but the other ones were flopping around and some were big! When I first pulled up the trap I thought I had a world record craw.

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Post by kzoo » Tue Sep 13, 2011 2:23 am

racfish wrote:Skin one sometime you'll see why. They have really nice white flesh. Even small they are meaty. Like I said earlier ,you perch and bass people put the bullhead tail on a I think its a texas rig and cast it out. Everything is bait for something else...
I was told Cabezons were in the sculpin family, I've never had one, but I heard they're tasty fish.

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Post by Darcscout » Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:59 am

Looks like maybe a torrent sculpin, but hard to tell 100% from pic.

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Post by knotabassturd » Fri Sep 16, 2011 2:10 am

Think I done caught a sculpin or something. I'll take a pic when I get home.
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Post by GreenRanger » Sun May 27, 2012 6:29 pm

I think those are bullheads. I catch them all the time up at Fort Flagler

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Post by Amx » Sun May 27, 2012 6:38 pm

sculpin.
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