Fish Pictures
Abundance
2012-01-06 02:50:19
It seems to me like this would be a good time to share pictures of fish. Not just salmon, but any fish that strikes you as interesting or that you feel proud of. We catch so many interesting things out there and I think that it is often under appreciated just how wonderful our local biodiversity is.
Abundance
2012-01-06 02:54:08
This was nice skate, a fish that I think is sadly unappreciated as food here on the Pacific side. Try one next time you catch one, you might be surprised.
Abundance
2012-01-06 02:58:54
A 20+ pound coho.
Abundance
2012-01-06 03:03:41
An 8 foot long octopus. It is always fun to try to get one of these creatures aboard. When you are shrimping ones this size can't fit inside of the pots, so they lay on the top and reach inside. Sometimes they are still on there when the pot reaches the surface, and you have seconds to decide if you want to reach for the gaff or let it go. Usually we let them go, but sometimes we have use for them.
Abundance
2012-01-06 03:08:49
A person always tries to avoid catching coral, both for the practical reason that it wrecks your gear and the consideration that coldwater coral reefs are fragile environments. But they are pretty to look at.
Abundance
2012-01-06 03:12:13
A 280 pound halibut. I've actually caught a couple 300+, but don't have any pictures. Honest!
Abundance
2012-01-06 03:13:52
A blue shark. They usually move in here in September, following the salmon in. They make for fun sportfishing, I can tell you.
Abundance
2012-01-06 03:27:34
A squat lobster. Good eating, but a lot of work for a little meat.
Abundance
2012-01-06 03:30:10
A box of XL prawns
Abundance
2012-01-06 03:33:24
A dolly varden charr I caught trolling in front of Wrangell this spring. A big ocean dolly is much better eating then a fresh water dolly.
Abundance
2012-01-06 03:35:15
A kelp crab, being crabby with the camera.
Abundance
2012-01-06 03:38:24
A rock crab. You sometimes have to wait a long time for them to give up imitating a rock and move. This one is just beginning to unfurl.
Abundance
2012-01-06 03:40:39
From top to bottom; sidestripe, northern pink, coonstripe, and spot prawns.
Abundance
2012-01-06 05:12:54
A day sport fishing for bottomfish
Abundance
2012-01-06 05:15:45
A basket starfish. Now that's a really weird animal.
Abundance
2012-01-06 05:17:00
A kelp greenling.
Abundance
2012-01-06 05:18:46
Two different kinds of sculpin.
Salty
2012-01-06 07:00:09
Cool, Motivates me to post some of mine on here.
Salty
2012-01-06 07:23:25
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Salty
2012-01-06 07:24:09
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Salty
2012-01-06 07:25:11
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Salty
2012-01-06 07:26:01
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Salty
2012-01-06 07:26:48
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Salty
2012-01-06 07:27:58
It is late, but cool idea abundance. Now if we can get some others to post we might get something going.
Abundance
2012-01-06 08:43:32
Nice pictures. I particularly liked the sardine and mystery fish photos. I remember when those sardines swarmed in around here a few years ago. It was fun seeing something completely different. I didn't think to take a picture of them, and regret it. I suppose that one of the things that I hope to see on here are pictures like that, of odd creatures that we found out there. I remember, around ten years ago or more, a flood of Atka mackerel coming through. We just couldn't keep them off of our gear. They stayed all year, then slowly dwindled off. We had never seen them before, and never seen them since. We kept one in the freezer until we could find out what they even were. I've looked up pictures since, but I wish that I had taken some of my own. I may never get to see one again, and a reminder would have been nice. And I know that it is getting on a bit to start digging through past photos, as everybody is gearing up for a new years worth of fishing, but found a number of them while looking through my scenery photos and decided to put them up before I forgot about them. I am curious to see what other people come up with.
Abundance
2012-01-06 08:50:16
I love oranges.
Abundance
2012-01-06 08:52:47
We are not the only ones who eat salmon.
Abundance
2012-01-06 08:57:00
A little wolf eel. They taste like chicken!
Abundance
2012-01-06 09:01:11
The near final resting place of many fish.
Abundance
2012-01-06 21:10:42
A pipefish, related to seahorses. I have watched the females give the eggs to the male to raise. They are very weird animals. Easy to catch with your bare hands too.
Abundance
2012-01-06 21:15:43
A better picture of a wolf eel. Don't let one get ahold of you, or going to be missing a finger.
Abundance
2012-01-07 00:00:58
A little sturgeon.
Kittiwake
2012-12-05 23:45:48
Salty, that little mystery fish is a pacific sandfish, Trichodon trichodon. One of the less frequently encountered forage fish. Was this in a stomach?
Salty
2012-12-06 01:14:21
Correct, was spit up by a coho. Most often these fish breakdown so fast you see little more than the jaw. In some areas they are quite abundant, like Icy Straits. I will look up their life cycle. Thanks a lot.
Abundance
2012-12-15 08:55:58
A few fish pictures
Abundance
2012-12-16 01:45:25
A couple more