View Full Version : Need help identifying a flat fish
glumace
02-28-2009, 10:00 PM
Need some help identifying the flat fish in the picture. Caught it off the Redondo Sport Fishing Pier on cut squid and peas (was fishing for Sargo). Saw a few other caught that day. Released it.
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_kmJKY6zLH3s/SV8X8igfOOI/AAAAAAAAAHE/RdsEHY3C71g/s400/img_2269.jpg
Wingnut
02-28-2009, 10:06 PM
Cool looking thing... I would guess a Turbot or some kind of Sole. :Cool:
glumace
02-28-2009, 10:11 PM
I thought it might be a sole of some type. I've been looking online for a while for a match and no luck.
dockboy
03-01-2009, 12:14 AM
I believe its a turbot of some sort. There are some many little flatfish species its mind boggling. It might be a Diamond Turbot. Look how the body is more angled in front and behind the mid section, kinda like a diamond. They dont get very big, so it would make sense.
jerryG
03-01-2009, 01:48 AM
Turbot have a much different shape (diamond) with smaller mouths, eyes, and heads. Halibut have a longer body shape, with different shaped tail and a larger mouth. It looks like some type of sole. Rock sole perhaps.
JerryG
Nessie Hunter
03-01-2009, 08:31 AM
Not a Diamond Turbot....
Looks like a Popeye Turbot (Sole)..
Rounded tail, pop eyes????
Did it have a small mouth and no teeth???
(hard to tell from Pic).
Turbot mouth is quite small, often wonder how they took the bait. also have no teeth, like a Sand Dab....
.
megafisher94
03-01-2009, 10:46 AM
im goin with nessie. i think its a rock sole.
glumace
03-01-2009, 12:56 PM
Thanks for the info. After looking up the rock sole info online I'm sure its one.
http://www7.taosnet.com/platinum/data/species/flounderrock.html
http://www.dfw.state.or.us/MRP/finfish/sp/rocksole.asp
http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/RACE/behavioral/rocksole_fbe.htm
Thanks again to everyone for pointing me in the right direction!
foofisher
03-02-2009, 05:40 PM
This is a C-O sole. The marks on the tail look sort of like a "C" and an "O".
http://www.oceanlight.com/lightbox.php?sp=pleuronichthys_coenosus
Foofish
Definitely a C-O sole. The tail markings give it away, but if it didn't have those I would have been inclined to say rock sole. There are so many different types of flat fish who don't have distinctive markings that it makes it next to impossible to figure out which one it is.
CastMan
03-02-2009, 10:53 PM
Looks like a Reticulated Vermillion Rock Trout to me. :Big Grin:
Hitts0n
03-02-2009, 11:55 PM
look like a hali to me:Rolls Eyes:
Evilone
03-03-2009, 08:20 AM
AS in T-A-C-O Sole?