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06-18-2003, 06:58 PM
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Canal Junkie
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Raynham
Posts: 1,678
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Guess what floated by me today in the canal...
So Cute!
To give you an idea of the size, it was about 2' or so and heavy as hell.
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06-18-2003, 07:09 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Maine
Posts: 4,547
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supposed to be good eatin.... kind of fugly though
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06-18-2003, 07:11 PM
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Canal Junkie
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Raynham
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06-18-2003, 07:12 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Andover, CT
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DANG! That is one fugly Bstd'!  |
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06-18-2003, 07:16 PM
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Fishing Chauffeur
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: raynham mass
Posts: 2,227
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what is it
a big skate  |
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06-18-2003, 07:18 PM
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Canal Junkie
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Raynham
Posts: 1,678
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monkfish.. i think
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06-18-2003, 07:29 PM
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Below Me
Join Date: May 2003
Location: low
Posts: 2,909
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Goosefish ?
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06-18-2003, 07:30 PM
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Canal Junkie
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Raynham
Posts: 1,678
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that sounds right...
i am not sure.. first one I have ever seen not in books.
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06-18-2003, 07:50 PM
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Old Timer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Full Time RVing- Out on the Road
Posts: 403
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Monk Fish also called Goose Fish.
Mouth is hinged so it can open with lower jaw out and draws the upper lip towards eyes. If you step in it on deck you be in trouble with a capital "T".
Cut the two fillets off the tail up into the body. Behind the fins. You will feel the muscle structure. Cut into chunks and sautte in butter. Taste like Lobster.
Many good recipes.
When I was a kid they were considered as Trash Fish and were pitchforked over board from the draggers decks. Now they are controlled catch by the NMFS because they been over fished.
They can swim up to the surface and come under a Goose or Duck and swallow it whole. Some Teeth!
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Capt. Chet
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06-18-2003, 08:22 PM
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None
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Newton, MA
Posts: 4,464
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Whoa! That's a dam ugly fish. It doesn't look like a goosefish to me. Goosefish is supposed to have some kind of spiny objects on it's skin, right?
And imagine it goes under you while wading on the canal's mussel bed...then *CRUNCH*!!! Ooohh, ouch, damn, son, that gotta hurt so bad. |
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06-18-2003, 08:23 PM
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Below Me
Join Date: May 2003
Location: low
Posts: 2,909
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Thank you nor-easter,
I had only known it as the goose. I bet Bjs had quite a surprise when he saw this come to the surface.
Is that a built- in lure dangling from above his upper jaw ?
I haven't seen one of these since I was a kid (1970's).
My they are knarley looking !
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06-18-2003, 08:24 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 5,945
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monk fish
When I had this on the screen at work this evening, a customer saw me lookin' at it and said it looked like his ex-mother-in-law! 
My neighbor loves eating these, swears they are good eating. He says like Nor'easter says, eats like lobster. |
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06-18-2003, 08:28 PM
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lobster = striper bait
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Popes Island Performing Arts Center
Posts: 5,871
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they make GREAT chowder meat
and i do mean GREAT
i'll swear by em next to cod (alot cheaper than cod too)
my old man used to catch them off and on when floating chunks off red balloons... they'd go after the balloon... not the chunk 
goosefish/monkfish one in the same
sold in stores as "monkfish" because of the name/looks |
Ski Quicks Hole
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06-18-2003, 09:26 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Warren Vt
Posts: 668
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on the south shore of LI, they were called ''Anglers''. have caught them up to 40 pounds years ago
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06-18-2003, 09:31 PM
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Really Old & Really Grumpy
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: not a clue
Posts: 4,860
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anyway u slice it,, we called it poor man's lobster. yummy!
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BOAT fish do count.
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06-19-2003, 05:45 AM
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...and in person!
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Scituate MA
Posts: 999
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Poor mans lobster...
Lobster used to be considered paupers and prisoners food!!!
They used to wash up in great piles on the coast.
prisoners revolted on account that they were fed lobster more that twice a week!!!
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06-19-2003, 05:58 AM
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Really Old & Really Grumpy
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: not a clue
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yes,, I said poor....only owned one pr.a undies, those got durty I'd just turnum inside out for a clean pr.  |
BOAT fish do count.
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06-19-2003, 06:03 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: RockVegas
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capesams, I thought everone did that anyways! Poor or not.   |
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06-19-2003, 06:14 AM
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Really Old & Really Grumpy
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: not a clue
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didn't realy have ta worry about it much tho, when I went clamin they got rinced out, only problem was they got alittle crusty when they dryed out  |
BOAT fish do count.
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06-19-2003, 06:56 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Bedford, NH
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Looks like the canal is not the place to go skinny dippin! Can you imagine dragging that thing home between your legs? Might be worth a photo.  |
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06-19-2003, 07:12 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: RockVegas
Posts: 3,228
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CS, Gold Bond powder helps with the chaffing!  |
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06-19-2003, 07:43 AM
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My brother is bald
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Parts Unknown
Posts: 4,516
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Found one of those in a tidal pool at Bass River about 20 yrs ago. I'll never forget that ugly mug.
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seals + plovers = 
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06-19-2003, 08:02 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Cranberry Coast Gateway 2 Cape Cod
Posts: 4,143
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" Happy as a clam at high tide "
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06-19-2003, 09:47 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: S. Yarmouth, MA
Posts: 1,604
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Toadfish
Mikey, as kids about 35 years ago we also used to catch the occasional toadfish in Bass River. At least that's what we used to call them, no more than half the size of that one. I remember they'd clamp down on a stick and hold on like a pitt bull. At low water you could usually see them backed into a cave like cluster of rocks. Most of the time we left them alone because they scared the bejezus out of us.
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Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish. ~Herbert Hoover
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06-19-2003, 09:48 AM
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None
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Newton, MA
Posts: 4,464
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And they don't bite you?
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06-19-2003, 09:53 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: S. Yarmouth, MA
Posts: 1,604
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I don't know. I never wanted to get close enough to find out. My impression is they looked sort of territorial so if you stayed away from that hole you were fine. Don't know if it's the same toadfish I read that they're also known as oysterfish because they hang out around oyster beds) I knew as a kid, but I read this:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s475797.htm |
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06-19-2003, 09:53 AM
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Canal Junkie
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Raynham
Posts: 1,678
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Im headed back to the canal right now.. Gonna see what other wonders float by me today....
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06-19-2003, 09:54 AM
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Callinectes sapidus
Join Date: Oct 2001
Posts: 6,277
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..Notaro ,,, any fish will bite if you put your finger in it's mouth  |
 ... it finally happened, there are no more secret spots
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06-19-2003, 08:28 PM
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Canal Junkie
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Raynham
Posts: 1,678
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no picture... forgot i had my camera... but i pulled up a spider crab with the body about the size of a softball...
it was pretty scary looking...
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06-19-2003, 11:20 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Posts: 4,449
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Mikey never saw one of those goosefish up close...
Blatant Lie, you stupid monkey!!!
I on the othe hand used to date a molecular boilogist that followed these things around like crazy.
Anne Everly...Howard Head's grandaughter .
Mikey you remember this?
The real reason that I started fishing again was because of her...
That's how I started fishing Nahant in 96.
Anyhow, Later,
Rick
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