#482167 - 01/25/09 06:06 PM
Re: Ever eat a Bullhead?
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River Nutrients
Registered: 11/25/01
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Loc: Marysville
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Do Cabezon Count?
While a cabby has a dense meat I rank it just below ling cod on the table.
Tight lines Curt
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#482175 - 01/25/09 06:42 PM
Re: Ever eat a Bullhead?
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Spawner
Registered: 11/07/03
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While I've never eaten one, I don't see how it could be any much different than any ordinary white-fleshed fish. White meat is white meat.
Sometimes, the Western palate (aka American palate) steers away from eating ugly looking fish, simply because it looks ugly. In reality despite its looks, it probably tastes just fine.
I would not eat carp though (a white meat fish)... I've heard that its rather bland.
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#482177 - 01/25/09 06:48 PM
Re: Ever eat a Bullhead?
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Parr
Registered: 01/25/09
Posts: 47
Loc: Great Pacific Northwest
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Lingcod and Cabezon both are in the Bullhead (sculpin) family. And Smalma, I caught an 18 lb Cabi off tatoosh a couple of years ago. I found the much thicker meat as opposed to the usual smallish cabi's to be a MUCH better meat than Lings. Very sweet tasting. Yum
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#482183 - 01/25/09 07:19 PM
Re: Ever eat a Bullhead?
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Repeat Spawner
Registered: 10/09/04
Posts: 1016
Loc: Napavine,Washington
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I know they use them for bait to catch large Brown trout. I read an article about a guy fishing them in Wyoming.
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#482225 - 01/25/09 11:12 PM
Re: Ever eat a Bullhead?
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Spawner
Registered: 01/22/06
Posts: 917
Loc: tacoma
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Lingcod are not sculpin - Hexigramids, same as Greelnling. Cabezon are sculpins (cottids) however.
Bullhead are usually a common name for catfish when sold in the store. Pacific Staghorn sculpins would be very difficult to harvest in quantities suffiecient for commercial sale - You sure you saw those and not catfish?
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#482232 - 01/25/09 11:51 PM
Re: Ever eat a Bullhead?
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 01/03/06
Posts: 241
Loc: Wa
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I spearfished in the sound from about '75 to about '85 I never saw any small ones and unfortunetly would target the spawning fish who were in 50' or less of water. There used to be lots but not any more. Same as true cod used to be thousands now mostly gone.
The large cabazon were tasty many had green meat thick fillets not bony like ling.
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#482262 - 01/26/09 03:15 AM
Re: Ever eat a Bullhead?
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Parr
Registered: 01/25/09
Posts: 47
Loc: Great Pacific Northwest
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Lingcod are not sculpin - Hexigramids, same as Greelnling. Cabezon are sculpins (cottids) however.
Bullhead are usually a common name for catfish when sold in the store. Pacific Staghorn sculpins would be very difficult to harvest in quantities suffiecient for commercial sale - You sure you saw those and not catfish? Theres one in every crowd. You are correct in that a Ling is not a Sculpin. Using the word "Family" I suppose was not the right choice as apparently the rocket scientists of the crowd will call you on it. So just to clear things up, all of the above mentioned fish are of the same "Order" of fish,which to the average joe means that when mother nature decided to make multiple families of said order of fish, she used the same skeleton, relatively speaking. This IS obvious to the average person just by looking at them side by side. Cabi is to bullhead what Envoy is to Trailblazer, the Lingcod would be a Tahoe. Feel free to split some more hairs if you must.
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#482264 - 01/26/09 04:08 AM
Re: Ever eat a Bullhead?
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Returning Adult
Registered: 02/08/00
Posts: 265
Loc: Northwest
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Lingcod are not sculpin - Hexigramids, same as Greelnling. Cabezon are sculpins (cottids) however.
Bullhead are usually a common name for catfish when sold in the store. Pacific Staghorn sculpins would be very difficult to harvest in quantities suffiecient for commercial sale - You sure you saw those and not catfish? Theres one in every crowd. You are correct in that a Ling is not a Sculpin. Using the word "Family" I suppose was not the right choice as apparently the rocket scientists of the crowd will call you on it. So just to clear things up, all of the above mentioned fish are of the same "Order" of fish,which to the average joe means that when mother nature decided to make multiple families of said order of fish, she used the same skeleton, relatively speaking. This IS obvious to the average person just by looking at them side by side. Cabi is to bullhead what Envoy is to Trailblazer, the Lingcod would be a Tahoe. Feel free to split some more hairs if you must. YEAH!! Scre3w them intellectual jerkoffs and there rood confritational corections! Man I hate leerning knew things, dont let anyone try to tel you what you no is nott write!! I reely appreciate you not ansering his question two! Wayy to sho him!
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#482282 - 01/26/09 10:55 AM
Re: Ever eat a Bullhead?
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Spawner
Registered: 01/22/06
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Loc: tacoma
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Right on Turbu - Next thing we know, they will be selling toe-biters in the stores too.
So you say Cabizon and Lings are both are Chevrolets - I figured a Cabizon to be more of a Plymouth, they have that blue-green meat similar to colors of those old '60s Baracudas. And Lingcod must be Ramblers - they used to have a Marlin that had a big ugly front end like a Ling. Maybe a Tiger Muskie is a Toyota - a hybrid sort of like like a Prius. Now, for the non-bony fishes, you definitely could have Chevrolets there, all related to a Stingray.
Edited by milt roe (01/26/09 10:56 AM)
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#482283 - 01/26/09 10:57 AM
Re: Ever eat a Bullhead?
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 10/28/05
Posts: 119
Loc: kenai alaska
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When I was a kid we use to spear and net bullheads. Oh yeah, we use to use a fishing pole as well. Anywho, use to give them to an old lady down the road and she use to deep fry them. She liked them, I didn't. The meat was not as firm as walleye, perch, etc...
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#482312 - 01/26/09 12:52 PM
Re: Ever eat a Bullhead?
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Parr
Registered: 01/25/09
Posts: 47
Loc: Great Pacific Northwest
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Right on Turbu - Next thing we know, they will be selling toe-biters in the stores too.
So you say Cabizon and Lings are both are Chevrolets - I figured a Cabizon to be more of a Plymouth, they have that blue-green meat similar to colors of those old '60s Baracudas. And Lingcod must be Ramblers - they used to have a Marlin that had a big ugly front end like a Ling. Maybe a Tiger Muskie is a Toyota - a hybrid sort of like like a Prius. Now, for the non-bony fishes, you definitely could have Chevrolets there, all related to a Stingray. Ha Ha! Thats good!
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#482386 - 01/26/09 03:37 PM
Re: Ever eat a Bullhead?
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The Chosen One
Registered: 02/09/00
Posts: 13956
Loc: Mitulaville
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If Hell is run by staghorn sculpins, I will be a in a world of hurt.  I literally caught thousands of them off of our dock while growing up in Magnolia. Raw bacon worked great as a bait, by the way. I was "less than nice" to lot of them, for no other reason than being a stupid kid. 
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