Yelloweye. The color of the fish in the picture is faded looking like a Bocaccio bronze, but its lower jaw is not protruded enough. The rounded tail fin edges look like Yelloweye. There are no points on the tail to make it a Canary. I took the picture and cleaned it up until Daves bibs looked red and then the fish became orange. Its eye turns a brighter yellow too. The edges of the fins became darker too.

Printing color is going to be a detrimental for our rockfish identification for our bottom fishers in our state.

A vermillion is more of a redish and I am hearing that they are moving into the Puget Sound? News to me.

That is a very pronounce lateral line for a Yelloweye, but some are.

Rockfish colors are going to be a lot of fun as I have pictures of copper rockfish from California and they have an oragish tint and ours up here don't.


Edited by Fishinnut (01/06/13 01:17 PM)
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