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 Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2013 10:38 am Post subject: Sea Monsters!!! (for real) |
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Found this guy on my beach walk this morning - 
For scale, I wear size 13 flip-flops, so it was pushing 6 feet long!
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ltorna1
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no stab at species CS? Ophichthus rex maybe, but snout too stubby? Shes a monster.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2013 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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| How cool is that!!!!! Never know what is going to come washing up!!! |
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| Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2013 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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| ltorna1 wrote: | | no stab at species CS? Ophichthus rex maybe, but snout too stubby? Shes a monster. |
You nailed the species. Hoese and Moore lists it as the Banded Shrimp Eel, Ophichthus sp., but the O. rex nominal name is probably correct.
As soon as I saw it, I knew what it was. Believe it or not, these are pretty common in CC Bay. In every major red tide outbreak, I see a couple washed up on the shore. Still impressive, given the size. And check out those teeth!!!!  |
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ltorna1
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nasty monster for sure. Apparently they have caught them in bottom-trawl fisheries in the gulf of mexico for years and were only officially described in 1980. George H. Burgess and colleagues published a report on them as a potentially marketable species. Apparently people tried eating them and they were actually good enough to consider harvesting. I don't know about you, but I'll pass! 
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ironmanstan
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| Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2013 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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Put a bag over it's head  and it will taste much better.
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shallowsport
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| Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2013 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Bet it's good when "fried". |
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| ironmanstan wrote: | | Put a bag over it's head and it will taste much better. |
 Yep, the old bag trick has been known to cure many an ailment in the 'Bluff. |
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landlocked beachbum
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American Eels are also slimy, squirming, biting critters that are as unappetizing as just about anything out there, and yet as almost always with fish....... they're great on the table.
Then again, catfish, rays, sea robins and such also fit that same bill.
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ltorna1
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| Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 9:41 am Post subject: |
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| landlocked beachbum wrote: | American Eels are also slimy, squirming, biting critters that are as unappetizing as just about anything out there, and yet as almost always with fish....... they're great on the table.
Then again, catfish, rays, sea robins and such also fit that same bill. |
Very true - heck look at a monkfish! Even after you filet them, the meat looks like something you cough up when you have a cold. Delicious though.
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| Central Scrutinizer wrote: | | ltorna1 wrote: | | no stab at species CS? Ophichthus rex maybe, but snout too stubby? Shes a monster. |
You nailed the species. Hoese and Moore lists it as the Banded Shrimp Eel, Ophichthus sp., but the O. rex nominal name is probably correct.
As soon as I saw it, I knew what it was. Believe it or not, these are pretty common in CC Bay. In every major red tide outbreak, I see a couple washed up on the shore. Still impressive, given the size. And check out those teeth!!!! |
Saw a bunch of those critters washed up on the bank behind the Reynolds Metals plant and on the Portland shoreline after the freezes in '83 and '89.
Also found some Moray Eels and a couple of octopus.
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| ltorna1 wrote: | | nasty monster for sure. Apparently they have caught them in bottom-trawl fisheries in the gulf of mexico for years and were only officially described in 1980. George H. Burgess and colleagues published a report on them as a potentially marketable species. Apparently people tried eating them and they were actually good enough to consider harvesting. I don't know about you, but I'll pass! |
You are very smart for such a young age, my lad. I would like to take you in Nueces if you are brave enough, right after I take Bob Bobber. I am still waiting for it to get good enough for that task.   |
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I don't know about being smart, but I love to read about fish and I love learning about this area. And on that note, I would love the opportunity to learn about fishing Nueces bay from a resident expert. I imagine it would be one of those trips where I just shut up and listen - take it all in.
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| ltorna1 wrote: | | I don't know about being smart, but I love to read about fish and I love learning about this area. And on that note, I would love the opportunity to learn about fishing Nueces bay from a resident expert. I imagine it would be one of those trips where I just shut up and listen - take it all in. |
I'd like to see you "shut up and listen" when politics comes into the conversation!!!!!!
Sorry Luke, you teed that up so perfectly that to let it slide by without taking a stroke would be akin to walking by a cart that said "free money" and not reaching in for a few bucks........................... at least!!! 
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ltorna1
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If politics comes up during fishing - we must not be catching
Plus I better be careful what I say - I'd be on a strange boat in a strange place. Its a long wade home from nueces bay to southside corpus
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