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Yah, I can see that the bugger's body is still bendy but the skin is already frosting up right smartly. Yep, that's some c-o-o-l temperature indeed!

I used to be a lot tougher!

Wow, it's like you were there listening. I think I said exactly what you wrote, 'ceptaybe not in that exact order.

And thanks. She's daddy's little girl for sure.

Green ling cod and black rock fish.

Catch


Cut

Cook

Blue Ling

you don't skin all that red meat off before cooking?

Nope. Doesn't taste strong, actually very mild. Blue color, or green, goes away as soon as it hits the skillet, grill, or oven.

Bo Pelini's brothers?

I do with oily fish such as bluefish, but not with others like striped bass. With bass the dark bands of meat are only slightly stronger in taste, but barely so IMO.

LOOK! I found Waldo!

Here's another candidate, maybe. Young feller's folks couldn't afford braces, obviously...

Ha! Here in the Great Lake State we call them lawyer fish. No idea where that came from.

Not ugly.


But he tasted good!

We always called the various brown rockfish "double uglies" while these...



...are Ling Cods. Great eating!

A member of the rock fish family that's not ugly is the Yellow Eye...



...also good eating!

Oh MY! I need to hook n cook some of those bad boys. I hear they're very tasty.

Thanks for the pics everyone!

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The black sea bass (two pics up) isn't what I'd consider to be ugly, but it is double freaky. Its claim to fame is this: it's a protogynous hermaphrodite. IOW, it changes sex in its lifetime. Bizarre, eh? Doesn't affect the taste, however. They're fantastic eating.

Thanks for sharing, those who did. Calkook, nice jobbie!

yep a monk fish.....they are actually an angler fish species....one of the few pics i can find showing the "lure"



ive got a book about the oceanic anglers that are free swimming in the dark zones of the ocean.....some of thoae would qualify for quadruple ugly

yep a monk fish.....they are actually an angler fish species....one of the few pics i can find showing the "lure"
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Way cool. Also known locally as a 'goosefish', I believe. Sweet flesh with good texture. The Japanese consider the liver of the monkfish to be a delicacy (steamed or boiled, I believe). I've most likely had it, but can't recall specifically. My wife said that it's very good. I'll get some off my buddy and find out.

The wolffish, AKA a wolfeel, is also Highly prized for the table, but locally the fishery has been closed, due to concerns about the dwindling catch and overall population. Mean looking bastards, eh?