Fish ID question

[Chuck Tribolet]

I've seen sculpins eating other sculpins.

BTW, cabezons are sculpins.


Chuck

 

[dwashbur]

BTW, cabezons are sculpins.


Chuck

To whom was this addressed? I knew that, it's why I mentioned them. Or are you speaking to the OP?

 

[cmburch]

I wonder if they taste as good as Cabezon?

Or are they poisonous or too boney?

I just ordered some prints of California rockfish and California Scorpion Fish from Amadeo Bachar for my daughter. http://abachar.com/ I think he does many of the drawings for CA DFG ID book for children.

 

[Chuck Tribolet]

My comment about the cabezon was just a general comment. A lot of folks
don't know that cabs are sculpins.

I made it back from the midwest blizzard. Humann only shows the Buffalo
Sculpin, and not the Bull Sculpin. Gotschall shows both, but that's down
at the dive shack.


Chuck

 

[dwashbur]

I wonder if they taste as good as Cabezon?

Or are they poisonous or too boney?

The ones I've seen aren't really big enough to eat. My old edition of Lamb & Edgell says "The small amount of flesh available from even a large buffalo sculpin requires some seasoning and is perhaps suitable only as an ingredient in a dip."

You now know as much as I do, which ain't much