My strange catch
 

I was biking along the canal the other day looking for bait and fish when I noticed something slowly moving along the canal. Thinking it was a torpedo ray( lots of them around last year) I turned around to snap some pictures. I walked down to the edge and couldn't find it until I looked on top of a kelp bed and saw some huge eye's looking back at me. I then ran back to my bike grabbed the rod and a bucktail and dropped it in the fishes mouth. It didn't fight as well as I expected, but trashed around a bit. The monkfish went 24lbs on the boga and a first for me. The thing was ugly and had a serious mouth full of teeth. Talked to some locals who said they use to be common in the canal? I know guys have caught them from race point back in the days, but this is my first encounter. It was cool and my girl loved it......Poormans Lobsta!!!

Nice catch RoyL. Great find!

So cool! How are you cooking it?

Very good eating !

there was 1 earlier this week also caught on the east end.

Even its tonsils have teeth.

Thats where I got mine...I think it was Friday........

I broiled it with butter, a little olive oil, garlic, salt & pepper and some lemon rind.

mmm..awesome..better than striper :-)

Roy, I tell it, you are one crazy Arse fisherman...from carp, to sharks, to the Sponge Bob rod.......if its out there, you can catch it.

holy chit! wow amazing catch. your resume grows!!! :kewl:

WOW that's a BEASTLY FISH!

Amazing.....and I don't mean just the fish.

Caught a small monk in the Sakonnet river a few years ago...let the little bugger go, he wasn't as big as your catch.

-spence

Nice snag!!!

Off the hook Roy L

great pics. i love eating Monk fish. Way to go.

That thing is hideous... but it taste so good.

be a man and thumb it like a bass!

your a nut. Let me guess you were talking to someone on the bike path when you saw it.

so you did eat it....did she like it???
sounds like they taste better than they look.....

If you're not out there, you won't get them ... awesome catch

They're usually called "goosefish" in the books, sold as "monkfish" because commercials didn't want buyers to know how ugly they are. That's why "Patagonian Toothfish" are called "Chilean Seabass" in restaurants. Ugly or not, they're great eating.

wickit pissa fish dude!!

Is it true the tail is the only edible part of the Goosefish?

Hey Roy - is there anything you don't catch?:heybaby:

like fishing in a barrel :hs:
that don't count Roy :fishslap:

Moses, you ain't kidding.
if it swims, he'll catch it

we're gonna have to call you QueeQueg:hihi:

There isn't much else to them, it's basically teeth and tail.

Monk Fish AKA poor mans lobster.

The only good meat is in the tail. You cut the tail off and then skin it like you would an animal.

Its a nice firm white fish. I personally pass on it after catching them commercially for a couple years.

We used to get about 6,000lbs of those a day off the shelf 70 miles south of the vinyard. My hands still have scars from those little bastards, they also trash oil gear and boots like nothing else...

Yes there is one thing I can't seem to catch ........ A 10lb tiger musky lol.........I eneded up cutting out the loins on that fish. It was much easyer to do then I thought. i figured id end up butchering it but they came out good. I wish it had not been such a crappy day, I would have loved to have taken a few more pictures.