My 3yr old daughter caught this today.
Don't have a clue what it is.

 

Snake fish?

 

The misplaced Texan next to me thinks it might be a grennell.

 

We caught it off a pier in Baffin Bay

 

Now that mention you weren't in Texas, Google Ling Cod. You caught a tiny one....

Try this...

http://www.bulldogfishing.com/newpic...2006%20075.jpg

or
http://www.robots4farms.com/scubadiv...p_P8120205.jpg

 

We are in TX. Baffin Bay Area, south of Corpus Christi.
Ling cod has a tail fin, this one's dorsal fin went all the way to the tail.
Another guy had caught a bigger one a few days before and had no idea either.

 

Found it!!!
Oyster fish
It's ugly no matter what it's called

 

Yep. Looks like it.

Gonna win as many beauty contests as a Ling Cod....

 

Oyster cracker around in these parts, also known as a toadfish, nasty little buggers too.

 

I think it would be sweet in an aquarium.

 

Looks like the little one sure was excited about catching it. That is one ugly fish no matter what it is.

 

I was going to say a type of Midshipman (Toad Fish). Did it have iridescent dotted lines from head to tail on the belly? If so, then it's a type of Midshipman and they are poisonous, they also have some vicious little teeth. We use them as bait for Shark and Stingray in NorCal.

Ours are uglier, we catch them on rocky shore lines by flipping over rocks, they hide beneath them. They also make weird noises.

The midshipman fishes are the genus Porichthys of toadfishes. They are distinguished by having photophores (which they use to attract prey and after which they are named, reminding some of a naval uniform's buttons) and four lateral lines. Typical midshipman fishes, such as the Plainfin Midshipman, are nocturnal and bury themselves in sand or mud of the intertidal zone during the day. At night they float just above the seabed. Some species are armed with venomous dorsal spines and are capable of inflicting serious injuries if handled.

Mating in midshipman fishes depends on auditory communication; males during the breeding season broadcast a sound usually described as a hum, generated by rapid contractions of the muscles in the swim bladder. The sound can be kept up for up to an hour, and is loud enough to be heard by (and to puzzle) people on nearby land and houseboats; the hulls of the boats tend to amplify the sound to sleep-disrupting levels. Reproductive females develop a selective sensitivity to this sound, and respond by laying eggs in the rock nest of a singing male.

Researchers from the University of Washington and Cornell University have recently demonstrated that the increase in sensitivity associated with female reproductive status can be duplicated in non-reproductive females of the Plainfin Midshipman (Porichthys notatus) by boosting hormone levels, and that this acts on the fish's inner-ear to produce the change in sensitivity. An increase in levels of the hormones testosterone and estradiol triggers changes that result in increased sensitivity to higher sound frequencies.

http://ccn1.net/POTD7/fanged-fish/fi...-fisherman.jpg

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