Saturday Newport Bust
 

I guess the title says it all. About six miles of paddling with nothing to show for it except lizards and some small space alien thing that I have no idea what it was. I kind of looked like a small Ling Cod, but the gills had a brilliant yellow line around them and had spikes on them as well. Sound like anything you have ever seen? What the hell is it? :eek:

hey, I was there on Thursday, and caught the same thing. Was wondering what it was also. Ginormous jaws.

sorry bout the day Tom but any day on the water is a good day :D

Cabezon?

I think u are talking about a saint something fish (French name) we catch them out at the Channel Islands and they are usually 6-12 inches and sound like what u are describing

Sounds like a sarcastic fringehead did it look like this?




http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps30363aac.jpg

Sorry you didn't do so well. But, at least you were out there. BTW, sarcastic fringehead is the best fish name ever.

That's it! I refused to touch the damn thing for fear of being impregnated by alien spawn. It kinda looks "Skulpin-ish" Thanks for the education.

Sarcastic Fringehead without a doubt. I used to run into fringeheads up at Malibu while drifting for Halibut. Aggressive, stupid, territorial, flamboyant little fish, that are really pretty harmless.

http://www.thejump.net/id/pics/fringehead.jpg

Not much teeth, but they have a really big mouth!!!

holy shit...

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17mx.../ku-xlarge.jpg