Saltwater bass??

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Last Sunday, in East Sooke Park, shore fishing I caught what absolutely looked like a smallmouth bass in a mixture of largemouth & smallmouth marks & colours. The pecs were smaller and the scales weren't coarse sandpaper like rockfish (and no dogfish jokes). It was about 1#-1.5#, 12". (didn't think to check the teeth) I don't have a camera & released it.

I've caught an awful lot of rockfish, but never seen anything look so much as close, as this did, to a bass.

Any ideas?.. I've heard of seabass up North, but never seen pictures, nor talked with someone catching those. I always figured they were piscatorially-challenged, mis-identifying what I thought could only be rockfish.

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Widow Rockfish (Sebastes entomelas) aka Brown Bomber-will hit anything</u> and tastes like a mouthful of wet kleenex.

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Widow Rockfish (Sebastes entomelas) aka Brown Bomber-will hit anything</u> and tastes like a mouthful of wet kleenex.

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quote:Originally posted by The Fish Assassin

Probly a black bass-tard.

Take only what you need.
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Says you (bass-tard? lol), if you feel that way, please drop all the ones you catch at my house. In my opinion, best tasting fish out there!

Likely that's what it was, but I fished lots of the bottom from Sooke to Albert Head and never seen one. Tons of them around Renfrew though.

Was this him??

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quote:Originally posted by The Fish Assassin

Probly a black bass-tard.

Take only what you need.
Click to expand...

Says you (bass-tard? lol), if you feel that way, please drop all the ones you catch at my house. In my opinion, best tasting fish out there!

Likely that's what it was, but I fished lots of the bottom from Sooke to Albert Head and never seen one. Tons of them around Renfrew though.

Was this him??

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I have caught many black bass in sooke, and victoria waterfront, use white grubs in the evening off the breakwater, cant keep em off! they are great eating. But the fish u described was probably a brown bomber.

-Steve
 
I have caught many black bass in sooke, and victoria waterfront, use white grubs in the evening off the breakwater, cant keep em off! they are great eating. But the fish u described was probably a brown bomber.

-Steve
 
Nope, not Greenling... I catch quite a few of those. Not lings, we caught 3 orange & 2 green ones in the same spot, only 4# +&- (elect scale in my bag).

I have caught the black bass before... thought they were rockfish, and their scales aren't as fine as the one I caught Sunday. I'll look at their (black bass) teeth too, next time I get one, see if they're like their freshwater cousins.

The yellowtail is about the right colour except for the bluegill style gillplate, and the lateral area had largemouth marks under smallmouth stripes.

Maybe the widow, but the picture's not too easy to determine. The mouth seems to stop just at/before the eye, like the one I caught

If there's a next time I'll pay more attention to the teeth.

Black Bass... What the heck makes that a bass & every other rockfish a rockfish..? They sure seem tricked up the same... gillplates, fin positions & sizes, scale size...

And there's no mention nor quota listed for black bass, or does DFO just lump them together as rockfish?

Does anyone know a link to a good fish ID site?..

Aw shucks, while I'm beggin' for help & info... do Sablefish hang out around the South Island (Vict & Sooke), reachable for the shorebound salt-chucker?.. 150'-275' from shore? Thanks

Thanks. I appreciated your input folks

Cheers!
 
Nope, not Greenling... I catch quite a few of those. Not lings, we caught 3 orange & 2 green ones in the same spot, only 4# +&- (elect scale in my bag).

I have caught the black bass before... thought they were rockfish, and their scales aren't as fine as the one I caught Sunday. I'll look at their (black bass) teeth too, next time I get one, see if they're like their freshwater cousins.

The yellowtail is about the right colour except for the bluegill style gillplate, and the lateral area had largemouth marks under smallmouth stripes.

Maybe the widow, but the picture's not too easy to determine. The mouth seems to stop just at/before the eye, like the one I caught

If there's a next time I'll pay more attention to the teeth.

Black Bass... What the heck makes that a bass & every other rockfish a rockfish..? They sure seem tricked up the same... gillplates, fin positions & sizes, scale size...

And there's no mention nor quota listed for black bass, or does DFO just lump them together as rockfish?

Does anyone know a link to a good fish ID site?..

Aw shucks, while I'm beggin' for help & info... do Sablefish hang out around the South Island (Vict & Sooke), reachable for the shorebound salt-chucker?.. 150'-275' from shore? Thanks

Thanks. I appreciated your input folks

Cheers!
 
Regarding limits on black sea bass ~ I called one year and DFO explained that rockfish limits apply to black sea bass. If you phone DFO they are pretty good at helping with regulation questions. Victoria# is 363-3252.
 
Regarding limits on black sea bass ~ I called one year and DFO explained that rockfish limits apply to black sea bass. If you phone DFO they are pretty good at helping with regulation questions. Victoria# is 363-3252.
 
sablefish dont look like a bass. Just curious not tryin to stir the pot but how do you weigh lings without killin em? and whats an orange ling?
 
sablefish dont look like a bass. Just curious not tryin to stir the pot but how do you weigh lings without killin em? and whats an orange ling?
 
http://www.fishbase.org

Another shot of a Brown Bomber those stupid punks will hit anything

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WA state has some great photos of fish on their F&G site as does Alaska they're all on Google Images.

Sebastes Melanops isn't any kind of Bass it's just a Rockfish like any other Sebastes.

Someone here once pointed out to me that many Black Rockfish are mixed schools of Black and Blue Rockfish.



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http://www.fishbase.org

Another shot of a Brown Bomber those stupid punks will hit anything

widow.jpg


WA state has some great photos of fish on their F&G site as does Alaska they're all on Google Images.

Sebastes Melanops isn't any kind of Bass it's just a Rockfish like any other Sebastes.

Someone here once pointed out to me that many Black Rockfish are mixed schools of Black and Blue Rockfish.



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