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06-02-2009, 07:45 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: To close to water for my insanity
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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!!!
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06-02-2009, 07:47 PM
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Live Life.
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Hanover
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Nice catch RoyL. Great find!
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06-02-2009, 07:55 PM
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Location: Norwich Ct
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So cool! How are you cooking it?
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06-02-2009, 08:16 PM
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Location: On my boat
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Very good eating !
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LETS GO BRANDON
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06-02-2009, 08:31 PM
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Plug Builder in Training
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: wareham MA
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there was 1 earlier this week also caught on the east end.
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06-02-2009, 08:34 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: East Taunton
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Even its tonsils have teeth.
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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. ~Ernest Hemingway
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06-02-2009, 08:38 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: To close to water for my insanity
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mikecc
there was 1 earlier this week also caught on the east end.
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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. |
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06-02-2009, 08:43 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Boston, PRofMA
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mmm..awesome..better than striper :-)
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06-02-2009, 09:05 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Kingston, Ma
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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.
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06-02-2009, 11:25 PM
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West Siiiiiiiiide
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: San Francisco
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holy chit! wow amazing catch. your resume grows!!!  |
Lookin for my big'un!
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06-02-2009, 11:31 PM
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None
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Newton, MA
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WOW that's a BEASTLY FISH!
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06-03-2009, 05:44 AM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
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Amazing.....and I don't mean just the fish.
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06-03-2009, 05:50 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
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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
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06-03-2009, 07:23 AM
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Nice snag!!!
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PRO CHOICE REPUBLICAN
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06-03-2009, 08:15 AM
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Here fishy fishy
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Whoville
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Off the hook Roy L
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06-03-2009, 08:59 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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great pics. i love eating Monk fish. Way to go.
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06-03-2009, 10:52 AM
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Location: North Cambridge, MA
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That thing is hideous... but it taste so good.
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06-03-2009, 11:18 AM
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sick of bluefish
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: TEXAS
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be a man and thumb it like a bass!
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making s-b.com a kinder, gentler place for all 
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06-03-2009, 08:20 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
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your a nut. Let me guess you were talking to someone on the bike path when you saw it.
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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06-03-2009, 08:34 PM
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Marshfield, MA
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so you did eat it....did she like it???
sounds like they taste better than they look.....
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06-04-2009, 11:14 AM
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Location: North Shore
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If you're not out there, you won't get them ... awesome catch
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"It was the blackest night! There was no moon in sight! (You know the stars ain't shinnin cause the sky's too tight) "
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06-04-2009, 02:46 PM
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Location: New Haven County, CT
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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.
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06-04-2009, 06:25 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: near water
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wickit pissa fish dude!!
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06-04-2009, 08:31 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: North Branford,Ct.
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Is it true the tail is the only edible part of the Goosefish?
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Billy D.
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06-04-2009, 09:16 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Bridgewater, MA
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Hey Roy - is there anything you don't catch?  |
--Mike Malone
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06-04-2009, 09:20 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RoyL
I then ran back to my bike grabbed the rod and a bucktail and dropped it in the fishes mouth.!
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like fishing in a barrel 
that don't count Roy 
Moses, you ain't kidding.
if it swims, he'll catch it
we're gonna have to call you QueeQueg  |
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06-05-2009, 07:21 AM
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Location: Falmouth, Ma
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pbadad
Is it true the tail is the only edible part of the Goosefish?
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There isn't much else to them, it's basically teeth and tail. |
60 % of the time, it works every time.
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06-05-2009, 11:56 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Corona Del Mar, CA
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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...
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06-06-2009, 05:45 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: To close to water for my insanity
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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.
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