WHAT IS IT PLEASE
 

So i went shore fishing mon I was tired and didn't feel like going out on the yak, went to la jolla and fished a spot for about 5 hours threw every thing but my rods in the seaweed. Used squid, and small rock or foamers started getting hits, but STILL nothing!!!!! then as I was about to leave, I thot my dad told me old timers would spit on their hooks !!! WTF???? so I threw out a squid and spit on a baby crab........ and BAM !!!!!! iI hooked up fought for a little while and it was heavy brought it to shore and my 8 pd leader broke!!!!! I grabbed it not knowing what IT was. It weighed about 5lbs and had blue and brown I am going to say SPLOCHES???? and a weird BLUE mouth, tongue.skin and no scales, lots of SPINES...... BIG ONES. It was 20 inches long and I have pics. I cleaned it after slicing my finger. the fillets were nice ,,,but again had a blue tint????? can SOMEONE TELL ME what I caught?????? Thanxxxx ahead of time. HUGE SCULPIN?????? pics :D:confused: im still confused i sent the pics to my album

first off ill start by saying....if you dont know what it is, dont keep it. Could have size limit or seasonality attached to it.


2ndly ill say cabezon.

Sounds like dinner to me

baby dolphin

My guess is a blue ling cod butI without pics its hard to tell

Cabezon 20 in is a good sized one

still trying to upload pics sorry

Ling cod or midshipman. (if a ling, it's undersized.)

ya you dont see em that large down here to often but that was the average size from shore when i was living in Monterey fishing Pacific Grove down to Big Sur coast. The stringer of fish in my photos is of a 20 inch Cabbie that was about 4.5lbs. I figured id throw Cabbie out there that way if i was right he was actually in the regs and not taking a short Ling. Either way, only 2 fish i know of that can be blue like that so im guessing its one or the other.

If it was multi-colored it was a gay fish

I was thinking ling. Pick up a regs booklet at any sporting good store for free. Don't get caught up in killing a fish to find out what it is. Take a pic, let it go, ID it and then you know for next time. Or kill the last living leprachaun fish on earth, whatever

BUS KID WINS:luxhello:

Glad to hear it was a legal catch. Cabezon have to be at least 15 inches to keep. Like it has been said, get a reg book or go over it online. Especially with the rockfish as they can be difficult to differentiate between some of them. Nice fish either way.

THANXXX for the help guys

I need a book to keep with me and i uploaded the pics on my album:cheers1:

A smart phone can also work for quick on the water lookups on regs on the DFG website. Although the book is better if you have it

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question is...what album did you load the photos in??? only thing i see is you with a shovelnose.

GUESS I DIDNT LOAD AFTER ALL ILL TRY LATER:boxing_smiley:

CAB PIC
 

THE CAB IS UP NOW MEMBR GALLERY

nice cabbie....very cool looking fish. come in a few diff colors. Saw a really bright red one a couple months back fishing on the Fury out of Dana Wharf.