What is this (Name please)

[NilsC]

What do you call this fish?
Nils

[S-Journey]

Looks like a wolf fish to me...

[S-Journey]

Those things will take a finger off real quick. When I used to have my lobster boat I would catch them every once and a while. For fun we would hold them up to the gunwhal and have them bite onto it. They would sit there for ever, just holding on by those big nasty teeth.

They are a great tasting fish too. The eat mostly shellfish, like lobster and such.

[Rappin Mikey]

Yup, wolf fish (ocean catfish)

[NilsC]

Thank You, In Norway we called them Uer but I had no idea what the english name was.

As a kid in Norway we used to go fishing for them in waters from 30' to 300' of water. When you pulled them up to fast the eyes or the intestins would pop out. It was like candy when you poached them........ mmmmmmmmm now I'm hungry. (I remember the skin used to turn red when poached, maybe from eating lobsters etc. Strange what memories pop up every now and then)

Nils (Amnesiac)

[redlite]

Must be a male wolf fish. A happy male wolf fish................

[striprman]

Ocean Catfish or Atlantic Wolf Fish

[BigFish]

How about "UGLY" for a name? Thats what I would call it!

[BasicPatrick]

bury or boil the head and it comes out a great Skull

Medalions cut from cheeks are a delecacy

[BasicPatrick]

The guy in the pic could be Flatts1 after a crash diet

No Offense Nils

[MrsSFrances]

that is one ugly fish.....

[Backbeach Jake]

Those things are great eating! But they are hell on work boots, and ya better have steel toes!

[BigFish]

Oh....the fish....yeah, pretty ugly also! but seriously folks......

[CAL]

What's up with the ball bag?

[Notaro]

It is a piss bag, CAL. I dunno, NilsC, is that a bladder?

No way, SJ, that they would cut my finger really quickly. I thought that a wahoo, king mack, kingfish, and bluefish cut off anything quick.

[NJTackle]

So that's what happens to those goldfish that no body wants and gets flushed down the toilet! That is one ugly fish!

Wow!!!

So what do you think he did after taking that photo?

1 - Release (looks dead though with ball bag hanging)

2 - Mount and display over fireplace (I think not)

3 - Cook 'em up and eat (maybe down south )

4 - Throw it in the back seat of your worst friends pickup truck and let mother nature do the cookin'

[striprman]

You ever go "deep sea fishing"?, When fish caught in deep water decompress, they blow their guts out the vent and the air bladder out the mouth.

[NilsC]

Originally posted by BigFish
How about "UGLY" for a name? Thats what I would call it!

BasicPatrick
Flatts1, what did he do.........

MrsS,
You close your eyes while eatin...

Yes, we eat them... very good.

I think it's the intestins hanging out, pushed out by the swim bladder.

It's not me in the picture,

NilsC

[MountainBreeze]

Originally posted by NilsC
What do you call this fish?
Nils

One FUGLY S.O.B.!

[NilsC]

Originally posted by striprman
You ever go "deep sea fishing"?, When fish caught in deep water decompress, they blow their guts out the vent and the air bladder out the mouth.

I used to go COD fishing in the North Atlantic, off the cost of Norway in the Middle of January.(North of the polar circle). Cod fishing in Norway used to start in the fall and was fished all winter. Split up when the Herring came in, then the really crazy fishing started (Closing of whole fjords, rivers and saltonds trapping the fish. Herring was scoped up until the boat was full, then the next boat moved in to get filled. (This kind of fishing depleted the ocean so bad that I remember it called "Black Sea" meaning no fish).

Some of the Fjords can be considered deep sea fishing with depts of 300+ meters (900+ feet)

I started ranting again, didn't I. It's just that I wish the fishing had ben regulated earlier and overfished like the Norwegians and Japanese are doing still.
Nils

[striprman]

I like Norway Herring. King Oscar smoked sardines with garlic.
2 row tiny sardines. MMMMmmmmm

[NilsC]

Originally posted by striprman
I like Norway Herring. King Oscar smoked sardines with garlic.
2 row tiny sardines. MMMMmmmmm

[striprman]

http://www.kingoscar.no/KingOscar/ma...256B3C00330CAE

[NilsC]

Originally posted by striprman
http://www.kingoscar.no/KingOscar/ma...256B3C00330CAE

yeah, and as they say:

King Oscar has also been a brand for other products such as kipper-snack, anchovies and herring, fish balls, cod-roe, herring tid-bits, fish pates, cod liver, salmon, mackerel and tuna.

Heard on the phone "Do you have King Oscar in a can"

Answer "Yes"

First person "Then for heavens sake let him out befor he suffocates"

[zacs]

As everyone told you uer is known in american english as wolfish or ocean catfish. As you know it is really good to eat. I have had some great uer in Norway.

It didn't sell so good here in the US until some creative marketers came up with the name (forgive my french spelling skills) Loup Du Mer (wolf of the sea). You sill see that name on many fine dining menus.

Never caught one before, but I have been cod fishing around Lofoten in January!

Zac

[striprman]

One thing I noticed about wolf fish, they seem to have alot of worms in the meat, even more than cod, but they are tasty.
http://nene.essortment.com/wolffish_rzkk.htm
http://www.seafood.no/eff/eng/effand...eafood%20Facts
http://articles.uwphoto.no/aboat_fis...ic_catfish.htm
http://www.ecoserve.ie/projects/aces...narhichas.html
http://www.fao.org/wairdocs/tan/x5951e/x5951e01.htm
http://www.tewkesburybc.gov.uk/livin...faqs.asp#faq32
http://martin.parasitology.mcgill.ca...E/anisakis.htm
http://www.highnorth.no/Library/Publ...er/co-a-th.htm
http://www.fao.org/wairdocs/tan/x5951e/x5951e01.htm#How do round worms get into fish

[Nebe]

isn't wolf fish also called 'Monkfish'?????

[striprman]

A "monk fish" is not a "wolf fish", a "monk fish" is a "goose fish".

[zacs]

Originally posted by Eben
isn't wolf fish also called 'Monkfish'?????

Nope. Monkfish another name for Angler fish.
You think this wolfish is an ugly sucker you should see the Monk.
I will try to dig up a picture. It is basically a big ugly head with a tail. No body at all. They tails are delicious to eat, though, and the liver is highly prized by the Japanese.

_Zac_

[striprman]

http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content...cies/3492.html

And you thought a wolf fish was ugly.

Angler fish, goose fish, monkfish= same fish.

The meat off the tail is like lobster meat.