Strange fish from Tyne

[Gazz]

Fished off the Black middens 8pm-2am caught a few but nothing worth keeping so they had a little home in a nearby rockpool til the tide come in

Anyway, i foul hooked a weird looking fish in the tail, something i have never seen before. I did take pics but the quality will be poor as they were taken on an old mobile phone. As soon as i figure out how to get em off i will post em.

The fish was a redy/pink colour, around 6" long & around 4" high with small black spots & it was fat. The lips reminded me of a cods (big n fat). The dorsal fin was wavy. I didn't touch the fish coz i have no idea what it was but when it went in the rockpool it was slow swimmer.

I found a pic on the net which looks a little like it, shape wise. The dorsal fin is also different

[5150]

Sounds like you caught a Lumpsucker:

[Charlton]

can you post the original photo's even if they are poor we should be able to tell if it is a lumpsucker as 5150 has already said, it certainly sounds like one

[COD GOB]

Cayton bay, yorkshire

I was on cayton bay a couple of weeks ago and there were a few of these washed up.

[davey g]

fish

was down digging last nite and there was a lumpsucker big 1 lying on the beach sounds as tho thats wot it was m8.

[Gazz]

Sounds like you caught a Lumpsucker:

That could be it, i will try & get the pics off this phone & post. Reeling the thing in was like pulling a big clump of seeweed in (which i pulled a lot in last night).

[5150]

If you go to google images and search for "Cyclopterus lumpus" you'll find a load of photo's of them, males turn redish in colour in the breeding season (which is now).

[Gazz]

If you go to google images and search for "Cyclopterus lumpus" you'll find a load of photo's of them, males turn redish in colour in the breeding season (which is now).

Thanks for that info, i managed to find it:

http://www.natuurlijkmooi.net/images/cyclum.jpg

[big sid]

Caught one quite a few years ago now, whilst fishing with the wifes son at Smiths Dock,neither of us knew what we had so we took it to I.D. Fishing were the late great Mac identified it as a Lumpsucker. Our's was more bluey/green in colour with a light underside and croaked abit like a frog weighed 9lb ish.Strange fish.

[Caster Troy]

aye ya rite Gazz that is a strange looking fish. ha ha