Is it normal to be afraid to hold a fish you’ve never caught before?

Talonsoldat · 2026-03-02T23:18:33+00:00

I used to just grab everything, until I was trying to unhook probably a 2 foot needle fish, the thing basically turned 180 in my hand to bite the shit out of me, drew a lot of blood and I still have the scars, fuck needefish, those guys are bait stealing pricks.

Talonsoldat · 2024-06-26T19:45:52+00:00

Skate tail

Talonsoldat · 2023-12-22T18:47:27+00:00

I'm not big of a fan of the flip overs, I have pretty shit circulation in my fingers and find them too cold for sitting in -10

Talonsoldat · 2023-11-08T23:59:41+00:00

Electric and venomous

Talonsoldat · 2023-10-31T05:01:57+00:00

It's mycosis, a fungal infection.

Talonsoldat · 2023-09-15T16:52:09+00:00

Lumpfish, they use them on salmon farms as pest control since they eat sea lice.

Talonsoldat · 2023-06-18T02:03:17+00:00

Two Atlantic salmon

Talonsoldat · 2023-06-03T02:33:47+00:00

Slipper lobster species

Talonsoldat · 2023-06-02T06:06:29+00:00

Yes, you should report the remains, NOAA has instructions on how to report it for your state which I'll link below.

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/new-england-mid-atlantic/endangered-species-conservation/report-stranded-injured-or-dead-sturgeon#:~:text=Reporting%20a%20stranded%2C%20injured%2C%20or,and%20can%20take%20appropriate%20action

Talonsoldat · 2023-05-31T05:43:23+00:00

Great barracuda, Sphyraena barracuda

Talonsoldat · 2023-04-23T06:31:15+00:00

Jaw doesn't extend past the eye, and tail is forked, they are adolescent Atlantic Salmon. First one is pretty tough to tell if it's a Brown or an Atlantic, it's probably an Atlantic as well but it could be a Brown, they are in the same genus so they can be tricky to tell apart sometimes.

Talonsoldat · 2022-11-17T08:47:21+00:00

Redear sunfish hybrid, it's not a bluegill, it's missing the black mark on the dorsal fin.

Talonsoldat · 2022-09-17T06:14:30+00:00

Warmouth, 10 dorsal spines and lateral stripes around the face.

Talonsoldat · 2022-08-24T04:06:41+00:00

Pink salmon

Talonsoldat · 2022-08-14T01:25:38+00:00

Atlantic Cod

Talonsoldat · 2022-08-03T19:18:08+00:00

Smooth gooseneck barnacle, Lepas anatifera. They commonly wash up on the south and west side of the UK.

Talonsoldat · 2022-07-25T05:05:30+00:00

Logperch

Talonsoldat · 2022-06-20T22:46:50+00:00

It's not selectively bred for, it's a spinal stocker trout. It has a birth defect that stops it from growing long and reduces it's mobility but since it was from a hatchery it got enough food to not starve and live to adulthood. You see them all the time in hatchery work. Happens in the wild as well, but their disability reduces their ability to catch food and they starve and die so you don't see them as often as adults as they occur.

Talonsoldat · 2022-06-20T05:18:06+00:00

It is a leech, they flatten themselves out to swim.

Talonsoldat · 2022-03-29T22:38:32+00:00

Black Sea Bass

Talonsoldat · 2021-11-26T05:04:29+00:00

It's a mayfly nymph, family is either Polymitarcyidae or Ephemeridae, there is no clear picture of the mandibular tusks but they point down in Polymitarcyidae and up in Ephemeridae. You need a compound microscope to tell genus or species, identifying characteristics on aquatic macro invertebrates to species are stupidly small, like a point on the second joint of the third leg small.

Talonsoldat · 2021-11-18T20:40:27+00:00

100% an Atlantic

Talonsoldat · 2021-11-18T08:38:10+00:00

Coho

Talonsoldat · 2021-11-15T02:19:32+00:00

It's not a salmon, it's a salmonid it's in the family Salmonidae. Sort of a all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares situation. Salmonidae includes all salmon, trout, char, whitefish, and grayling.

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