Most Unusual Catch

[ak country girl]

Here's my most unusual catch for last year. This fellow decided he wanted to know what it felt like to be a halibut. It was interesting to reel him up and feel him try to shoot back off to the bottom of Prince William Sound. Once he reached the surface, he made one more jetting attempt and inked everywhere. Those tentacles can sure sucker on to the side of a boat.



Does anyone else have unusual catches?

[Chrome Bumper]

Great picture!, did ya eat him? What's the limit?

[ak country girl]

We couldn't find anything in the regs about a limit. I saved the tentacles for calimari and used the rest as bottom fish bait the next day. Only caught a couple small rockfish on him though. Unfortunately our freezer got unplugged and we didn't get a chance to try him out..

[alaskan]

That's the best halibut bait you can get. It stay's on the hook, and the big ones love them.

I don't have pics, but we caught a dalls porpoise last year in Kachemak Bay. It wasn't intentional, and I didn't want to cut the line and have it get caught on something so we brought it to the boat and cut the leader.

[The Croatian]

All this time I thought calamari was squid

[Metal Manipulator]

Thanks for the great picture! :smile:

[Jsail]

This may be a little off the subject ......
I'm looking at the eye of the hook and the leader.
That must be one big hook
What is your set up for halibut?
Nice picture!

[Threemuch]

Calamari IS squid. Octopus is Polipo. Cuttlefish is Seppie.

Octopus can be really, really good, but you can't overcook it. It will become tough beyond belief. I love the steamed octopus used for sashimi.

You know how we kill them when spearfishing so that they will stay on a stringer or in a catch bag? You bite them between the eyes. No lie.

Man that sucker looks angry!

[ak country girl]

Thank you for distinguishing between the three. And, EEEWWWW!!!! Biting between the eyes?!?! Don't think I could do it!!
Someone told me to basically shove my hand in its "mouth" and turn it inside out. Couldn't do that either... There are a lot of things that I will do, including gilling and gutting but even I have my limits.

I was going to cut the tentacles so that they were rings, lightly coat them with breading and italian seaoning and pan saute them.

[ak country girl]

I'd have to go back through my tackle boxes and see. I switched rigs this year from that circle hook setup to a triple hook tandem setup. It seems to hold the bait better as well as the smaller rockfish. I don't have as much problem with bait stealers with this new setup like I did with the other.

[fyshndad]

I brought up a rock from 600 feet of water off Depoe Bay
only 1 small little dent in the rock where a hook could hold on and I had to be the one to hook it

It took me almost an hour as it kept taking line as it hit the different currents coming up

thought for sure I had a 100lb Halibut

Can you imagine how I felt when the Capt said it was a rock???
Had I given any slack at all I would be talking about the big one that got away

The rock is a center piece in a water fountain at the home of a deceased friend

[CATCH AND EAT]

A really good wife that lets her man fish all summer without complaining. Now that is a pretty unusual catch. Love ya babe.

[Rosco]

I caught a seal on a large swimbait while fishing for lings one time :smile: He was quite a handful and we only got him to within 50 feet of the boat before we cut the line.

[Chrome Bumper]

I caught an unusual mollusk once, a chiton, kinda like a meat covered abalone, letem go, he (it? she?) was foul hooked.

[Snakebite]

I caught a sand dollar on a black rockfish rig once. Hooked it right in the mouth! No snagging here!

[Snakebite]

I caught an unusual mollusk once, a chiton, kinda like a meat covered abalone, letem go, he (it? she?) was foul hooked.

That would be a gumboot chiton! Apparently they are every bit as good as an abalone! Never tried it but, there's no reason it shouldn't be! Seen lots of them SCUBA diving but never considered the thought they were edible.

[OceanBlue]

3 mackerel on handlines.

[Salmonator]

A friend snagged this guy several years ago off of seal rock. We caught several up in Puget Sound but this is the first ratfish I've seen down here.

[fyshndad]

I got one of those rat fish near the big rock north of Tillmook

I wasn't sure what to do with it and some guy wanted to trade it for some salmon

I aint no fool I took him up on it

I then asked why he wanted it and he said he wanted the oil from the liver but I don't remember what for

[ripnlips1]

I caught this under the Tacoma Narrows bridge last May fishing for Lingcod. Used half of it for bait later that year and my neigbors parents ate the other half.

[tunahelper]

Crabs. :blush:

[fyshndad]

Dungeness??

[tunahelper]

No- she was more of a dominatrix.

[fyshndad]

thats funny

[tunahelper]

Not really... I still have the scares and walk with a limp- wait! What are we talking about? Oh crap! #^)@#&amp^*@& -how do you erase a post...

[tree37]

i dont know how unusual this is to most...


is this an "irish lord"?
tree37

[fishboys]

Thats one big muddobber.

[Super Fluke]

[tree37]

we didnt know what it was....is a muddobber the same as an irish lord? i did a google search and i found mud daubers like wasps ... :whazzup: i guess you dont keep them right? tree

[Subtlety]

isnt that a bullhead/sculpin?

[puffins crew]

I believe that is a "mother in law" fish.

Capizon

[bugleboy]

If the fish had a few rows of scales below the dorsal fin, than it is an Irish Lord, if those scales were not present than it is a Cabezon (mother in law fish). Both are "sculpin".

[fishinlady97140]

We go bottom fishing...I catch starfish. Caught a cluster of oysters ('bout 14" diameter) on the Yaquina River -- and often we pick up crabs who want to have their way with our bait on the Yaquina.

[tree37]

thanks bugle boy