Oyster Toadfish

[TheFishGuy]

Took a pic of this lovely face today at work. This is a juvenile oyster toadfish, 3" long.

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w177/cpaparo/oystertoadfish.jpg

Chris

[Photogirl2007]

Another of those "faces only a mother could love" hey Chris. :lol: This is a great pic of it.:) How big do they get?

[LordV]

My isn't he handsome :) - wonderful capture :)
Brian V.

[Mick Emmett]

A guy caught this one off the Cornish coast last year (he threw it back), it looks very similar but he called it a Scorpion fish.

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[Keith Newton]

Cool eyes. I like the way the iris seems to roll out at the bottom.

[TheFishGuy]

Another of those "faces only a mother could love" hey Chris. :lol: This is a great pic of it.:) How big do they get?

Thank you. I have caught them to about 15 inches. Last spring I was in North Carolina diving a jetty and they were everywhere. And it must have been breeding season because it was deafening. They make a drumming sound to attract a mate.

A guy caught this one off the Cornish coast last year (he threw it back), it looks very similar but he called it a Scorpion fish.

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Yep, that is a scorpionfish. The toadfish is more closely related to monkfish, batfish, frogfish, etc... We have a similar looking scrorpionfish here as well. Watch out for the shrap spines around the head!


My isn't he handsome :) - wonderful capture :)
Brian V.

He has no problems getting dates though...:)

Chris

[bandit 1]

Hiya Chris,

Lovely capture, they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder :lol:

Nice one Mick, Global warming eh !!

Cheers for now
Mark

[Mike4BekA]

U-g-l-y you aint got no alibi .....lol

Ugly fish but cool shots of that little bugger

[TheFishGuy]

U-g-l-y you aint got no alibi .....lol

Ugly fish but cool shots of that little bugger

The uglier the better! :)

Chris