Brain trust, what type of fish is this?
Posted: May 10th, 2012, 7:29 pm
When I was at Rotary Reef last weekend, I landed this fish. I've been trying to figure out what it is. I suspect someone in the BBF brain trust knows. Do tell.
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Brain trust, what type of fish is this?
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Re: Brain trust, what type of fish is this?
Posted: May 10th, 2012, 7:40 pm
BP oil spill fish, catch em all the time.
Re: Brain trust, what type of fish is this?
Posted: May 10th, 2012, 7:43 pm
Tilefish.
Re: Brain trust, what type of fish is this?
Posted: May 10th, 2012, 7:47 pm
Jt I Googled tile fish and they do not look like Ken's fish?Jumptrout51 wrote:Tilefish.
Re: Brain trust, what type of fish is this?
Posted: May 10th, 2012, 7:49 pm
That is a southern tile fish.
Re: Brain trust, what type of fish is this?
Posted: May 10th, 2012, 8:14 pm
it's looks like a mix between a triggerfish and a porgy (jolthead maybe?) that got chomped on by something yrs ago and healed weird.
Re: Brain trust, what type of fish is this?
Posted: May 10th, 2012, 8:31 pm
Orange File fish ... not a tile fish.
Re: Brain trust, what type of fish is this?
Posted: May 10th, 2012, 8:35 pm
It is not a "Keeper" 
Re: Brain trust, what type of fish is this?
Posted: May 10th, 2012, 8:40 pm
Bman, BINGO! http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/D ... efish.html It was a freaky little dude. It felt like very rough sandpaper and didn't have any meat in its bones. It also had strange gills.
Re: Brain trust, what type of fish is this?
Posted: May 10th, 2012, 8:50 pm
That is what I meant. It just didn't come out right.bman wrote:Orange File fish ... not a tile fish.
Re: Brain trust, what type of fish is this?
Posted: May 11th, 2012, 8:31 am
Can be deadly to touch.bman wrote:Orange File fish ... not a tile fish.
Re: Brain trust, what type of fish is this?
Posted: May 11th, 2012, 9:53 am
Those fillets look about like what came out of the bag of frozen grouper fillets the wife bought from Winn Dixie.
Re: Brain trust, what type of fish is this?
Posted: May 11th, 2012, 12:17 pm
Ugly