Re: Monday "sea bass"/snakes
 

I tried it once and found it very tough and REALLY nasty tasting... fishy and strong... Might have just been a bad one.. Never tried it again.. Even if it tasted like shrimp stuffed lobster in garlic butter I could no longer eat one.. Too ugly and hideous.
When you try and take the hook out of those huge ugly lips, its like trying to to take the hook out of a steel belted radial tire. After a few you are worn out...

The "conger eel" we catch on party boats is indeed an ocean pout..
The fish called the "silver eel' on party boats is a true conger eel.. actual name is American Conger.. pretty confusing...bo

Re: Monday "sea bass"/snakes
 

Tiger ling are being over harvested so now they are protected...makes as much sense as protecting the endangered dogfish!!!

Re: Monday "sea bass"/snakes
 

Who the hell "harvests" these things?.. Is there a commercial market for them??.. Why can't the asian/european epicure class develop an insatiable appetite for these things, skates and horn dogs and leave the BFT and live blackfish alone??? I know, I have a bad attitude... lol... bob

Re: Monday "sea bass"/snakes
 

but did you know:
http://www.cookandgarden.com/2012/09...popsicles.html

:D:D:D:D:D

Couple more years we ill be making Special Pout Trips (release only of course):D

I was always particularly fond of the way they wrap their tail around your wrist and "stick" you with their back dorsal :-)

Re: Monday "sea bass"/snakes
 

Really like this shot, kinda gives ya a feel for their "personality":D:D
http://www.gotosnapshot.com/myblog/b...weekocean-pout

;):D

Re: Monday "sea bass"/snakes
 

I had ehard it had to do with people cponfusing them in northern waters for wolffish. People were keeping wolffish & saying it was pout

Re: Monday "sea bass"/snakes
 

I heard the same story, makes more sense than they are endangered .;)

Re: Monday "sea bass"/snakes
 

Thanks. he daughter corrected me it was 4 years ago. Tough getting old.

Re: Monday "sea bass"/snakes
 

Thanks for the clarification. Glad I'm not he only one getting confused.

Re: Monday "sea bass"/snakes
 

NJ Scuba has some good info and photo's of the species in question and the related identification clues. Many people can confuse the species(a certain person on this site probably has eaten all of them)

http://njscuba.net/biology/sw_fish_bottom.html



I did find some interesting info on a protozoa that was found in Ocean Pout years ago which put a stop to the fishery for some time(yikes!!)-but the parasite does not do well in mammals.....
http://spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/mfr365/mfr3655.pdf

there is always "fishes of the Gulf of Maine" to use as a reference
http://www.gma.org/fogm/Macrozoarces_americanus.htm