Help ID this fish - also TUNA still near D.B.

Sea Jypzee · 10-02-2003, 08:51 AM

Dave and crew from the charter boat Enterprise based in Depoe Bay just got in last evening from a TUNA trip for some commercial fishing.

I was just down at the S.J. this morning and ran across them as they were showing their catch and telling fish tales. :grin:

They got a total of 16 Tuna, all from 20-28 miles offshore, with the bulk of them around 22-25 miles. They went out tuesday? I believe and got out past the 125 line where the bulk of the commercial fleet was working with scratchy success. There reportedly were jumpers throughout the entire area from about 20 miles all the way out, but difficult to get them to hit. The Enterprise got fish on pretty much anything and everything, with nothing specific outscoring the other gear.

They did get a large number of giant squid, and one unusual fish that is yet to be identified. It does not match any of the photos in the book I have on North American fish, and definitly is 'not from around here'. :grin:

And here is one of the giant squid.

corrirod · 10-02-2003, 08:56 AM

You know I found some smaller versions of that fish in a salmon I caught last week. They had the same body shape but were fairly digested so the skin was gone. They were about triple the height of a herring! When I gutted the salmon I noticed the stomach was just huge which is what caused me to open it in the first place. It had swallowed 2 of those fish and was still greedy enough to go for my hootchie!

Miss B Haven · 10-02-2003, 08:58 AM

It's shaped like a Pompano but wrong color and that's a Florida fish. :whazzup:
Kinda looks like a giant Pirahna doesn't it! Ha- that'll get the Surfers excited! :shocked: :grin:

Glas to hear the Tuna are hitting again (even if I'm not going Saturday :depressed: ). Kamloops- you out there paying attention to this. Sounds like the 125 line just like last Saturday. :smile:

Good report Nancy! [img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img]

Sea Jypzee · 10-02-2003, 09:00 AM

Ya, one of the guys there who has fished pompano said the same thing, and that he knew it wasn't that. It also looked very similiar to an Atlantic Moonfish (per picture in book I have), but again, that's ATLANTIC fish...

Actually these fish were all well within the 125 line. More like 124 30's or so easily, if not inside of there even. They were straight out from D.B. in 59.5 degree water all over out there.

kamloops · 10-02-2003, 09:10 AM

It's something in the Jack species.
Sure looks like a Pompano.

I'd be happy to get ahold of one of those Squid
critters although Pillar is proly sick of em by now. Who wants one for Calamari Stakes?
Don't think 13 Coins has anything to be worried about.

Miss B Haven · 10-02-2003, 09:10 AM

The big question is, if Salmon eat the little ones, what eats the big ones! :grin:

Muahahahahah.... Mr. Bill, fresh feeesh!

Sea Jypzee · 10-02-2003, 09:11 AM

Interestingly the fish in the pic above hit on a piece of a kilbasa.

As they said, the fish were hitting on anything and everything. :grin:

Mark Mc · 10-02-2003, 09:14 AM

I think that's a Pacific Pomfret.

edit: yep - got an ID on it Danno:

http://hmsc.oregonstate.edu/projects...icpomfret.html

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northriver1 · 10-02-2003, 09:17 AM

Dr. Mark Mc strikes again.

Sea Jypzee · 10-02-2003, 09:20 AM

Yep, I'd have to agree. Thanks! [img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img]

Mr. Fisherman · 10-02-2003, 10:11 AM

Hmmm, how did it taste?

10-02-2003, 10:43 AM

Mark's pick is what I would have said.
The squid aren't GIANT SQUID they are either red squid or Magellan squid.

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Threemuch · 10-02-2003, 02:58 PM

Keta-
I believe they are humboldt squid.

Ed SR-

I have eaten, not good in my book. I marinated, pounded, sliced thin, and still, it ate like a tire. Flavor was not bad, but not as good as small squid. I had several from a trip out of Bodega Bay, and wound up using them as crab bait, which it is excellent for.
KB

KB

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fish_on · 10-02-2003, 04:36 PM

Hook one of those squid up for oversize and hold on :shocked:

Reel Creel · 10-02-2003, 04:45 PM

I say eat it :grin: and tell us what its like. :smile:

Reel Creel · 10-02-2003, 04:48 PM

Beter yet smoke it.then let us know :grin:

Sea Jypzee · 10-02-2003, 04:57 PM

Actually none of them were mine to eat or smoke....I just saw the catch as they came in. They apparently did try cutting one of the squid up and deep frying strips of it...said it was pretty good.

jocose · 10-02-2003, 06:06 PM

can you eat those giant squids too? the smaller versions at safeway are very tasty.. what do you do with the big guys? my phillipino wife would love to have one of those.. joco

edsr · 10-02-2003, 11:44 PM

Are those squid good to eat? One that sized would keep a large family in calamari for weeks.

We used to have good luck on bottom fish with squid strips on the east coast. It would seem that these critters are great bait in the rough.

edsr

Pilar · 10-03-2003, 12:23 PM

The masters wife of the Julie Rose III, Julie cooked some of that stuff the day we returned from the Sword trip. She called Kum Yon asian restaurant in Newport for advice on how.

Cut into small chunks and sauteed quick and hot in garlic and butter. Pretty tasty and just a little chewy. Thanks Julie, it was good eats.

What was the guy who ate the first oyster thinking?

Don't let the 'Sea monster' look put you off.

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Albacore Tuna Captain · 10-03-2003, 10:00 PM

Dave from the Enterprise told me tonight that they deep fried those Humboldt squid and they were EXCELLENT!!!

He's going out tomorrow for sum mo! Maybe we should think about gettin sum r selves.

Mr. Fisherman · 10-03-2003, 11:39 PM

YEP