Name that fish

[rockyb23]

anybody know what the fish in this website is called in English?-

http://www.heringloh.de/Seewolf.htm

Fogelberg? Believe it might be native in your neck of the woods...

haven't caught one or anything, need to know for work...

[Bigbill.]

Its a wolf-fish.
Used to have a cracker at Portaferry Aquarium called Wolfie.

http://www.exploris.org.uk/tour_of_expl ... cies/id/13

http://www.science.ie/content/content.a ... on_id=1702

Bill

[rockyb23]

that'll do it - Anarhichas lupus.

Ta bigbill that was stumping me

[BrazelC]

Useful site for identifying fish, classified by species order (Main characteristics of fish, i.e. flatfish, shark, ray etc.). Wolf fish is here
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aquarium/pages/wolffish.html - Look at the size of that thing!!

[scara]

They make a rather horrible grinding noise with there teeth.used to give me an awful case of the Willy's when you where standing up to yer family jewels in fish and the next thing you would here the grinding.......at least the congers would go mental so you could see them.

[Tanglerat]

Yup, Wolf Fish. Seriously impressive fish, you can bet you're careful of your fingers when unhooking them.

If you want to catch one, head for the Fjords....

[rockyb23]

was in work trying to translate an article about fishing in them thar fjords, that's why I was wondering.

You certainly wouldn't want that lad clamped around yer jewels, scara. I'm slightly uncomfortable just picturing it...

[markj]

Wolf fish

[Rarefish]

The following articles cover much about what is currently known about the occurrence of the 3 species of Wolf Fish found in Irish waters. If anybody wants a copy, please email me your address.

Quigley, D.T.G. & Flannery, K. (1995) Wolf-fish Anarhichas lupus L. in Irish waters: further records and a review of the Irish records. Ir. Nat. J. 25: 106-110.

Quigley, D.T.G. & Flannery, K. (1998) Fish Note: Wolf-fish Anarhichas lupus L. Ir. Nat. J. 26: 53-54.-

Quigley, D.T.G & Flannery(1993) Fish Note: Jellycat Anarhichas denticulatus Kroyer. Ir. Nat. J. 24: 299.

Quigley, D.T.G. & Flannery, K. (in press) Fish Note: Jellycat Anarhichas denticulatus Kroyer Ir. Nat. J.

Quigley, D.T. (2004) Wolf-fishes in Irish Waters. Sherkin Comment No. 36: 25

[Ronald]

Caught loads of them in norway last may ,baitted pirk tapped along the bottom seemed to work really well ,not much of a fight though but good laugh when you got them into the boat ,you never seen so many grown men climb on top of seats to get clear of the nasty b******s !! it's the only fish i've come across that actually trys to bite you :lol: :lol:
lovely to eat as well .

[fogelberg]

yup.. they are in my neck of the woods... catfish, ugly buggers aren't they ;)

Before they wasn't sold with their head on just because they are so darn cute (read UGLY).

They are fished by wrecks, using a heavy pilk with a 20cm trace between pilk and treble-hook. Let the pilk reach bottom get some torque on the line and the bounce the pilk on the bottom, that seems the irritate the hell out of them, and hell is where they come from (regarding the looks then) ;)

They can be fished with bottom-bait as well from shores, rocky shores that is..
I'm going to visit this place again (when weather approves) and try and get some, if I do i´ll post pics for sure. The spot is also good for wrasse, cod, sea-trout, mackerel and other species.

[Drew]

Its a wolf-fish.
Used to have a cracker at Portaferry Aquarium called Wolfie.

http://www.exploris.org.uk/tour_of_expl ... cies/id/13

http://www.science.ie/content/content.a ... on_id=1702

Bill

Did that Rogue Octopus try to eat it?