Fish ID please

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Fish ID please

#1 Post by fred funk }{ »

Strangefruit and myself were out yesterday in the boat. Not much fish around Bray and Dalkey but Strangefruit pulled this boy from the deep :D

Anyone know what it is? We were think it looked like an Anglerfish.


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#2 Post by whiting2k9 »

id reckon its a monkfish
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#3 Post by alannelson »

short spinned scorpian fish :D
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#4 Post by goldfish17 »

scorpian fish?
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#5 Post by Congo »

Its a sea scorpion. I caught 2 myself a while ago and got them ID'd
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#6 Post by fred funk }{ »

What size do Sea Scorpions grow to because this lad was approaching the 2lb mark.
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#7 Post by ShaneH »

its the biggest i have seen but its no were near 2lb nice catch
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#8 Post by scaley »

i think it could be a bull rout. if it has numerous small spines in the skin, either side of the lateral line.
this on lives down to 60 meters and can grow big, while the sea sorpion lives in shallower water
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#9 Post by Al »

Its a scorpion fish alright, we used to get big ones in dun laoighre years ago.
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#10 Post by gfkelly1969 »

looks like a Short-spined Bullhead/Sea Scorpion it looks like the one in the following link
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aquarium/page ... lhead.html
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#11 Post by corbyeire »

2lb is a nice scorpian - bet he was well peed off
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