Strange species. Help needed?

[Johnb87]

My mate caught a strange fish we can't identify, this afternoon off roker pier. We asked a few lads if they knew what it was.

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Here is the photo of the fella not the best, it wouldn't stay still. If anyone could identify it would be great. All I can say is it had an eel type tail, it had quite a large head for the size of fish and it had feeler on the bottem of its head like a catfish.

Cheers again lads

[Johnb87]

[finseeker]

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[marco1967]

A fish blog.com » Tadpole fish – the big tadpole

[Johnb87]

Cheers guys had a look and that is defiantly the fish. Well thats one to add to his list.

[lumpsucker]

I got one a couple of weeks back. It's in the species hunt thread, again from roker. Did you get a look at it's toothy grin? They're not that common at all, only one caught last year in the 2012 species hunt. maybe it's a hotspot for them there, if it isn't the same fish! well done mate

[alan heeley]

Record

the record for tadpole fish is just over a pound i think

[Johnb87]

Cheers lumpsucker, like I said it was my mates catch, but I'll show him your post as he is not on here. It probablies was the same fish, we asked quite a few people but no one knew what it was. I'll check out your species hunt photos. Cheers again lads.

[Reelseat]

Hi anyone had one of these? and what is it?, from a northeast beech

[codcatcher3000]

looks lika an undulate ray

[Bassboyo]

That will be a cuckoo ray.

[brothersangling]

a tadpole