what kind of fish is this ?

[kela66]

caught this handsome chap this afternoon but cant find it in any of my books any ideas ?. it looked like a mini monkfish & took a fancy to some lug tipped with squid ,cheers davey

[fishingfanatastico]

looks like a bull head or granny fish to me.

[codonly]

scorpion fish i think.
caught one off a skeer at whitburn on sunday, thought it was a codling at first.
should have known better though

[The Great Wallsendo]

Scorpion or Granny Fish...biggest I've ever caught was over a pound in weight

[musky]

ea Scorpion
think the short spined one is the bigger of the two species
M8 caught one years ago

[kela66]

cheers lads

[Charlton]

just a little tale about granny fish. Many moons ago I fished the Eyemouth Festival and had caught a few decent cod and around half a dozen good granny fish, some must have been nearly 2lb, of course I chucked the granny fish back. Went back to the weigh in to see them being weighed in. Should always read the rules, I would have done quite well if I had kept them.

[northeast1]

Defo Sea Scorpion short spinned, catch loads of them using small hooks on shields pier or lower Tyne.

[The Plum]

its a alien lol

[ryanlee]

scorpion aka the granny fish,in france they use them in the soup fish thing beao,supposed to be the fish they cant sell and the soup tastes out of this world.wonder what they taste like,anyone fanncy granny fish and chips.

[fishingfanatastico]

A little more info on them in the link;

Short-Spined Bullhead

[kela66]

A little more info on them in the link;

Short-Spined Bullhead

cheers for the link , very interesting about the rod caught record 2lb-7oz-8dr (1kg-119g)
Whitley Bay B.G.Logan 1982

[phil185]

i caught one of those on roker pier a while back- horrible little things in my opinion, there was definetaly no chance of me picking it up

[BITE!!!!!!]

Ive seen that species before, its more commonly known as
" the mother-in-law"