Shaun Solomon
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Absolute TOAD black rockfish. Man I love big fish.
Did y'all see this rockfish?!
jamisonace
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He looks really happy about his record catch! Haha
I need to get some of those. They look delicious.
I need to get some of those. They look delicious.
Shaun Solomon
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They are absolutely delicious. I have never met a rockfish that was not delicious. My best one is not half that weight. I wouldn't kill one that big I don't think, but I have a bunch of fillets from two pounders in my freezer.
rogerdodger
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that is a huge BRF! my biggest so far is just under 4#s...
they are great fish, reproduce prolifically through live birth and are seriously good eats, we have been eating so much BRF that our freezer is still full of fall salmon...
plus, IMO, BRF carcasses are great crab bait.
they are great fish, reproduce prolifically through live birth and are seriously good eats, we have been eating so much BRF that our freezer is still full of fall salmon...
plus, IMO, BRF carcasses are great crab bait.
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Wowza that is a lunker! I grew up in southern OR and worked as a deckhand on the local charter boats for years. Never saw one that big although I can say we got some close to that size. I'm guessing around 8# or so... BRF can be caught all year and make excellent fish tacos! Side note- along with the black rockfish on our coast, swims blue rock fish. They can be caught in the same kind of habitat/structure as the black rockfish but often times are a little bit shallower and closer to the surface. Blacks and blues like the same kind of lures, blue rock fish generally are a little bit smaller, have a little different coloring to them although very similar to the black rockfish, have a little smaller mouths, and pound for pound fight harder than blacks. What I am getting at is there is a parallel between largemouth bass-smallmouth bass and black rockfish-blue rockfish that has always intrigued me. Black rockfish/blue rockfish are even shaped identically to Largemouth/smallmouth. They are the same two groups but just saltwater and freshwater versions! Kinda trippy if you ask me...
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hobster
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Long arm!
rogerdodger
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I have found that Coppers, which must all be released, fight much better than Blacks...I have not caught any Blues yet...
in addition to tacos, we have prepared them: beer battered and fried, panko breaded and skilled cooked, chowder, red thai curry, baked with sriracha aoili and breadcrumbs, blackened with cajun rice then the leftovers in a po'boy....the 2 to 3 pounders yield perfect sized fillets...
interesting is that the rockfish and freshwater bass are not even close to being related, not even in the same 'Order':
BRF:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
Order: Scorpaeniformes (mail-cheeked)
Family: Sebastidae (rockfishes, rock perches, ocean perches, sea perches, thornyheads and rockcods)
Genus: Sebastes (rockfish)
Species: S. melanops (black colored rockfish)
Smallmouth Bass:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
Order: Perciformes (perch-like)
Family: Centrarchidae (freshwater ray-finned fish, North America only)
Genus: Micropterus (black basses)
Species: M. dolomieu (smallmouth bass)
in addition to tacos, we have prepared them: beer battered and fried, panko breaded and skilled cooked, chowder, red thai curry, baked with sriracha aoili and breadcrumbs, blackened with cajun rice then the leftovers in a po'boy....the 2 to 3 pounders yield perfect sized fillets...
interesting is that the rockfish and freshwater bass are not even close to being related, not even in the same 'Order':
BRF:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
Order: Scorpaeniformes (mail-cheeked)
Family: Sebastidae (rockfishes, rock perches, ocean perches, sea perches, thornyheads and rockcods)
Genus: Sebastes (rockfish)
Species: S. melanops (black colored rockfish)
Smallmouth Bass:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
Order: Perciformes (perch-like)
Family: Centrarchidae (freshwater ray-finned fish, North America only)
Genus: Micropterus (black basses)
Species: M. dolomieu (smallmouth bass)
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Irishrover
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10lbs of rock fish.......makes lots of good fish and chips. The carcasses do make good crab bait we tie three up together per pot. Having them fresh is the best, a quick swim through pride of the west beer batter and into the oil. We release the blues now as you are only allowed two per day anyway, and generally the blacks have more size.
