RockFishin'

[Saba Slayer]

Finally got a chance to get out and find some Rockfish. Between the storms and the Fred Hall Show I was kept off the water until yesterday.
I badly needed my Aqua-Therapy...2 fish each drop and I was done pretty quickly so I decided to hit one of the local wrecks for a big kicker fish to top off the limit.
I had a great hookup but it took me into the structure and I slacked the line and changed directions a few times until I got the beast to swim out.
I thought I had a big Ling as it was really heavy and fought all the way to the surface...
It was about 4 feet long and Pissed-Off, with teeth snapping.
My diver friend called it a Wolf Eel.
Fun day with some great eats...cooked the Rockfish with Macadamia nuts and Panko and a Mango-Avacado salsa...YUM!

Jim / Saba Slayer



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[Amish Ed]

Great shots you got of the eel. Did you manage to get the hooks out?

[ful-rac]

Your diver friend would be right...!

A wolf EEL.

[Big T]

So cool!

[chxh8me]

I've heard wolf eels are good eating. Can anyone attest to that?

[WildernessWanker]

I've heard wolf eels are good eating. Can anyone attest to that?

I've heard the same thing, but am not sure I'd be cool with bringing 4 feet of ugly-toothed, snapping jaws onto my yak with me.

[Big T]

He looks like he was eating JUST FINE! ;)

[chxh8me]

I've heard the same thing, but am not sure I'd be cool with bringing 4 feet of ugly-toothed, snapping jaws onto my yak with me.

Nothing a Kage/Bat beatdown wont fix.

[StinkyMatt]

Great post Jim.


Awesome photos of your little friend...........

[Hunters Pa]

I think I dated that eel's sister at some point

Nice pics and a well-earned day on the water

[blitzburgh]

Nice Jim! :cheers1:

[Schmalzy88]

very nice! those guys are gnarly too. a guy pulled 2 up on the charter boat i was on a week or so ago. bit the deckhand pretty good on the finger. needless to say, he was rather upset and bloody

[f'nsabiki]

That looks like something that crawled out of Sigourney Weaver's stomach in Aliens. Beautiful pics
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[ful-rac]

There was a guy on here not too long ago that ate one...and said it was good...
Never tried one...don't think I will

[Bert Vega]

That is a crazy looking fish.

[PE.rider]

Reminds me of the Eel that popped out of a sea-wreck in the 1977 movie "The Deep"... Still scares the excrement out of me!