What is this fish

[ship happens]

They come in shade of browns and fleshy colors, green, blue ,and red

 

[Cabezon1]

Definitely a cabezon. Great fighting fish and in my opinion one of the best tasting fish on the west coast. Daily limit is eight and open year round anywhere except the RCAs.

 

[adanac]

Hard to tell from the pictures and I've caught a lot of cabezon and never seen a red one. It could well be a vermillion rockfish, Sebastes miniatus. If it is, it's one of the best eating rockfish around.

Lol if you think that’s a rockfish you’re gotta do some more homework

 

[scott craven]

Definitely a cabezon. Great fighting fish and in my opinion one of the best tasting fish on the west coast. Daily limit is eight and open year round anywhere except the RCAs.

Good fight for about 10 seconds ! Lol

 

[Matt16]

Its a red Irish lord, a sculpin.

 

[ship happens]

‍♂

 

[ReelSlim]

I got this last summer jigging for Lings. I let it go but have always heard Cabezon are good eating. A total toad with a fat belly! I know this is an old post but I'm bored..... Other than the OP's fish being red the rest of the features are the same even the pigmentation on the fins. Cool looking fish to be sure. I thought I had a much bigger Ling on when I brought it to the boat. Fun day on the water....

 

[fishbadger]

yup, cabby, interesting color variation, but cabby nonetheless,
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