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My strangest fish would have to be a painted greenling. Here is a site to see one.
[url=http://www.coastalresearchcenter.ucsb.edu/cmi/photo/Painted%20Greenling.jpeg:b88a3]http://www.coastalresearchcenter.ucsb.edu/cmi/photo/Painted%20Greenling.jpeg[/url:b88a3]
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sculp,
Weirdest was some sort of bottom fish in the Broken group off Vancouver Island.
Not even sure wat it was, ... but my brother ate it anyway. ... Some sort of cod anyway.
The meat was a tinge of light green http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/frown.gif
but turned almost white when cooked.
I'm sure it WASN'T a Lingcod, ... But I'm sure it was some sort of Greenling.
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Christopher Chin
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Hey there Chris;
By your description ( " my brother ate it anyway") perhaps death by starvation would have been a saner choice.
Mark
If it had purple spots it could have been a common Green Ling.
Caught a Wrasse (I think) while fishing off the rocks using an anchovie pattern.
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Bill
sculp,
We had the regs with us and I seem to recall that we though that was probably what it was too.
Mark,
I'm not the most "sane" traveller ... Eating almost anything that offers itself to the plate. I "have" however contacted several (many) exotic travel companions. (I can't even donate blood anymore http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/frown.gif )
Wasn't just my bro that ate it, .. I did too. http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/smile.gif
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Christopher Chin
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Definately a "Razorback Sucker" out of the Colorado River.
[url=http://www.r6.fws.gov/coloradoriver/Crrzb.htm:41a2d]Razorback Sucker Link[/url:41a2d]
It is an Endangered Species and very rare and I caught two of them and released them unharmed. That was in the 70's...
Rich
The strangest for me wasn't exactly a fish.It was a darn snake about 3 feet long. It got the hook caught in it and then it started rolling arond in the water and got about five feet of my leader wrapped around it. I got it up on the rock I was on and tried to get it unhooked but all it had on it's mind was trying to bite me.I finally put my hat over it's head and was able to get my leader unwrapped and my fly out of it.
Rocky
I have inadvertantly snagged a few starfish. One was the size of a dinner plate that I caught while deep-sea fishing. I am also always snagging fresh water clams and mussels. I guess I spend too much time on the bottom.
Caught a mudpuppy through the ice at night.
My daughter pulled it up. It was using it's front feet to pull at the hook.
You should have seen my daughters expression!
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Tom
Another strange fish i have seen was an arrowtooth flounder. It had 1 inch teeth. I did no catch it but i took the hook out of its mouth! I'll post a picture if i catch one is week. Im going to Lapush for rockfish.
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A strugeon in the Mississippi River.
Last year the seagulls seem to really like my flies. got one to hand, lost another and had a few others try for the fly. Funny thing is they do not fight as well as I thaught they would and getting even a barbless hook out of their beak is one big pain.
An eel, if it counts. Actually, it broke off as I was lifting it out of the water. That was when I learned about the effects of twisting monofilament. The eel couldn't have been much over a pound. He broke a piece of much stronger line that was fresh. (I think that he had broken off a few minutes before without clearinf the water.)
Ed
two inch bluegill on a #8 fly. Hungry little thing.
Garden,
LOL,... Up here, ... we often http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/frown.gif "catch" salmon Parr.
The darn things are so agressive, they seem to have preference for GIANT muddlers (a #4 is often AS long as an early season Parr).
Glad I use barbless hooks, 'cause the poor things look "miserable".
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An Octopus while jigging for cod In my younger days . Was to scared of it to boat it so I cut it loose . I had a porpoise grab a Pink and strip off line till I had to cut it off.
I was fishing a #8 Hornberg just about at dark in my younger days in Cardigan, PEI Canada for steelhead or salmon, whichever would take, when something swirled & missed my fly. I yanked my fly up into a backcast to send it right back on top of the rising fish, when my line kinda went limp, then moved. Much to my amazement, I had hooked a bat by the wing. I had to put my hat over the frantic critter,& try to unhook the hapless thing. A small hole in the wing, and it was on its way. Fishing across the road from the same spot a few days later for mackerel, the guy next to me hooked a seagull as it grabbed his bait before it landed on the water. Man, the noise a hook mekes inside a seagull's beak is just like the old schoolteacher running her nails down a chalkboard. Something I'll never forget!! PS the seagull wasn't too happy that it lost its' free meal either!!
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Take A Kid Fishing!!!
While fishing in fast trout water, I caught a 13" goldfish that must have been on steroids and a bat that swooped down and caught my Royal Wulff during the evening...I scratched my head in amazement and then quit for the day...
I actually caught a muskrat once...they are in some of the ponds in the Black Hills and are pretty active an hour or so before sunset. One swam right across my leader before I had a chance to lift and get it out of the way...he got tangled up in my leader and then eventually my fly. He dove and broke off but I'm sure he was wondering why his arse was stinging. Hopefully the barbless hook worked itself out.
The other odd catch was a loon...it took 5 of us to wrestle him in, dodging that 6" knife of a beak that they have. Ended up cutting off the leader but felt horrible about it in the process! I saw him diving and swimming away so I hope he was alright.
I'm not sure what it was.
In the Missouri River near Sioux City, I caught a pinkish 18" fish. The body was sandy textured, not scaly. The head was triangular with the mouth on the flattened bottom. The dorsal section of the tail extended four or five inches further than the ventral section. Maybe a young sturgeon. Maybe a Martian.
My most unusual fish was a grayling. Not an unusual fish? Well, it was unusual when I caught it in Michigan's AuSable River about a dozen years ago! Fought like an old rag, though.
Chuck
Regularly catch blue crabs, clams, and flounder (fluke) on the fly. The most amazing are the conch that take the fly down into their shell. No way to get in to get it out and have to "release" with the hook inside the shell.
How about a 2" killie fish?
There's some flyflingers on the NJ coast that will actually target cow-nosed rays from the beach for fun http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/smile.gif They can really tear up your gear if not careful http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/smile.gif
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