Fish id please

[Fiskadoro]

Originally Posted by yaknewb

What type of rock fish is this?

I'd say it's Kelp Rockfish. They are usually more brown, but I have seen ones that were greenish like that around breakwaters and piers, and that is definitely what it looks like to me.

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People sometime missidentify Kelp rockfish as Brown rockfish but Kelp rockfish have more light, tan, or sand color mottling then browns, with less reddish brown. They also hang out in shallower water then most other rockfish so they are the most likely rockfish to catch form a pier. I see these all the time as I get a ton of them in my hoops when I'm lobstering in 30 to 40ft of water.

Jim