Fish from Boundary Bay

[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

[Kabong]

Originally Posted by fishface

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

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

[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

[Scavenger]

Originally Posted by 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.

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.