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while fishing the oyster bars north of the lighthouse a couple weeks ago I caught a strange fish. released it. looked it up and it appears to be a Sea Robin. anyone catch these, and how rare are they? thank you

I always thought they were toadfish. They look alike.

The searobin is classified in the Family Triglidae. The toadfish is classified in the Family Batrachoididae.

The searobin has pronounced "wings" and 6 "legs". The toadfish has neither "wings" or "legs". Both the searobin and the toadfish can be found in Florida's Gulf waters.

Toadfish


Sea Robin


Not sure I've ever caught a Sea Robin.

Sea robins also HV some fairly pronounced spines on gill plates and back of Head. Can be quite orange in color(winglike fins and orangish color=sea robin..they have flaky white meat. Tasty

Caught one a couple weeks ago on an oyster bar. At first I thought it was what we call an "oyster toad", but after looking it up, we found it was a sea robin. This was the only one I've ever caught. They are pretty neat fish.

WE HAVE ALWAYS CALLED THEM TOAD FISH, REALLY DON'T LIKE TO MESS WITH THEM, ALWAYS USED NEEDLE NOSE PLYERS WHEN I CAUGHT THEM.
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Excellent flounder cut-bait, just fillet the meat off of the sides of the sea robin and use it while drifting or else slowly reeling bait along the bottom.