Fish from Boundary Bay

[Kronk]

I went for a walk the other day at boundary bay near twassessen and noticed a fish flopping around on the sand i picked it up and placed it back in the water... anybody have an ID for this guy, i thought a Bullfish but its Fins look very different and they are primarily freshwater

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k266/Kronk_01/Easter004Medium.jpg

[fishmaster]

I went for a walk the other day at boundary bay near twassessen and noticed a fish flopping around on the sand i picked it up and placed it back in the water... anybody have an ID for this guy, i thought a Bullfish but its Fins look very different and they are primarily freshwater

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k266/Kronk_01/Easter004Medium.jpg

Looks like a staghorn sculpin. They will live in fresh, brackish and full salt.
Not 100% but that's what it looks like to me.

[Scavenger]

One of these??

http://fishbase.se/identification/specieslist.cfm?famcode=277&areacode=

[fishmaster]

Ok.....definately a sculpin, IMO most likely a staghorn, but could something else for sure. I'm prety sure staghorns are the most common in that area and favour the sandflat/estuary type environment. Again...IMO...
Shaun.

[fishface]

i grew up in richmond, caught those all the time...we just call em bullheads :mrgreen:

[Scavenger]

Ok.....definately a sculpin, IMO most likely a staghorn, but could something else for sure. I'm prety sure staghorns are the most common in that area and favour the sandflat/estuary type environment. Again...IMO...
Shaun.

I'm sure it's a sculpin too. My money is on a common/tidepool sculpin. The above pic shows 2 bands on the pec fins (that I can see) and all staghorn pic's I've seen have at least 4. Though I don't know if this is a valid ID method or not.

[fishmaster]

Pretty hard to tell without a better pic.??????I'll check my book when I get home.

[Kronk]

Cool thanks for all the replies... i just thought it was cool to something other than rotting crabs and snails at the beach.

[Kabong]

i grew up in richmond, caught those all the time...we just call em bullheads :mrgreen:

Yep that's a bull head all right, Used to fish them off the dock when I was a kid.

[Johnny Reefer]

Uh Huh. Bullhead. Ditto on the kid thing. Mouth of the Capilano here.

Cheers,

[justinl]

+1 on the bullhead sculpin. cool fish. I wouldn't mind one ofthose in a cold tank :biggrin:

[fishmaster]

Looked at my books and I'm still going with staghorn. I couldn't find a "bullhead" sculpin from our area. That one in the link is from Europe. But it seems to be the most common nickname for all sculpins. ??????????????????????????? I've caught them all over the lower mainland, and everybody always called them bullheads.
Shaun

[draco]

DIDO bullheads caught them vancouver island