Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: dennisK on September 01, 2005, 12:44:31 PM
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A friend sent me this picture - no idea what sort it is. It was caught in the south pacific.
thanks
(http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/7530/rarotongalandingfish6xi.jpg)
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big red tallywacker?
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big red tallywacker?
haha
tallywacker is a lure 8)
(http://www.guideschoiceproshop.com/acatalog/tallywacker.jpg)
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Sure is a colourful fish
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Puffer fish?
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Chernobyl Sunfish :D
What is that - a moose in the trailer?
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I think its just tails of other fish.
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a specaled oh my god whats this fish ;D ;D ;D ;D kind of different though
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its called a moonfish. too bad, they usuall grow to about 500 lbs. they're a slow moving, very gentle type of fish. they have the same demeanor as the manatee.
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"That's no moon. It's a space station..."
-Obiwan Kenobi
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It's an opah "Lampris regius" (nichname 'moonfish')
One of the most colorful of the commercial fish species available in Hawaii. A silvery-grey upper body color shades to a rose red dotted with white spots toward the belly. Its fins are crimson, and its large eyes are encircled with gold. The moonfish's large, round profile may be the origin of its name. Moonfish landed in Hawaii range from 60 to over 200 pounds in round weight. A pelagic wandering species, it is often found in the company of tunas and billfish.
In Hawaii, the opah has historically been an incidental catch of longline gear. Only recently has this species become commercially important. The opah was viewed as a good luck fish by old-time longline fishermen, who would give it away as a gesture of goodwill rather than sell it.
Good tasting fish. long grain rich and fatty.
Usually prepared as sashimi, boiling and sometimes smoked.
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thats not a moon fish its a opah, moon fish are a drab grey colour.
its that colour because its a juvenile. just like immature lingcods are sometimes bluish in colour.
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Looks like photo shop to me.
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Yes it is defanitly a "Moonfish"
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Yes it is defanitly a "Moonfish"
Or an Opah! ;)
(http://www.state.hi.us/dbedt/seafood/opah1.gif)
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..or an Oprah. :)
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Yep, it's an Opah alright. One of my fellow guides on Langara Island caught one on a rod and reel while guiding. Late one August night, in 1997 I ran out off Coho Point and helped net the bugger. It went 106 lbs. It looked exactly like that fish. It was EXTREMELY POWERFUL, as they had played it for 3 and a half hours on a 10.5 foot medium action mooching rod with an Islander MR2 reel. I believe it was 20 or 25 lb test and at the time it was an IGFA line class record for that species. When I left the water at 615 to run my guests back to the lodge for a hot tub and cocktails before dinner, they had already hooked into it. It would strip out half the reel of line before taking a break, and I mean STRIP off the line. Truly Amazing! :o It was dark when we slipped the net over it, and they hadn't seen it up close until that point, 3 hours into the fight and it was late, like 930. When we put it in the net, it literally went flying flopping itself in the extra large net from Gunwale to Gunwale across the beam of a 17 foot Whaler like a kangaroo. Enough to break limbs. We had to cut the net with sheers to get the fish out.
They are common in the Pacific Coast waters, and are seen often around the Charlottes I have many pictures of them around my boats in my albums. They have been caught as far North as Alaska and as far south as Mexico.
Cool fish.
:D
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Opah would be the real name however the fishes nick name is "Moonfish".
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http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?genusname=Lampris&speciesname=guttatus
Common names around the world (http://www.fishbase.org/ComNames/CommonNamesList.cfm?ID=1072&GenusName=Lampris&SpeciesName=guttatus&stockcode=1088)
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Haha,then its settled,its a Moonfish or Opah...you choose ;D
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haha adanac there the same fish. moon and opah....get your facts straight
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I kno but sum peeple call it a moonfish and some call it a Opah,so I sed they can pick wut they would like to call it cuz theres two names.lol. dident wanna cause any confusion or anything.