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#482162 - 01/25/09 05:33 PM Ever eat a Bullhead?
deckhand Offline
Parr

Registered: 09/20/00
Posts: 53
I was at HT Market on Aurora today, (formerly Larry's) and was stopped cold in my tracks when I saw "Live Wild Bullhead $6.99 lb". I thought , "it has to be something else" but sure enough I was looking at a tank of our beloved Pacific Longhorn Sculpin. Even more surprising was the fact that farm raised Tilapia were 2 bucks a pound cheaper! Bullheads? Really? As a kid I spent many afternoons catching and releasing them but I have never heard of anyone eating them.....let alone paying for them, until today. What's next?

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#482167 - 01/25/09 06:06 PM Re: Ever eat a Bullhead? [Re: ]
Smalma Offline
River Nutrients

Registered: 11/25/01
Posts: 2834
Loc: Marysville
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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#482170 - 01/25/09 06:18 PM Re: Ever eat a Bullhead? [Re: Smalma]
Neal M Offline
The Enemy

Registered: 12/13/99
Posts: 2742
Loc: Bainbridge Island and Sappho, ...
I ate bullhead cooked on a stick over a fire as a kid. tasted great then! kind of bony, but tastes like chicken smile

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#482175 - 01/25/09 06:42 PM Re: Ever eat a Bullhead? [Re: ]
cheapskate Offline
Spawner

Registered: 11/07/03
Posts: 601
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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#482176 - 01/25/09 06:44 PM Re: Ever eat a Bullhead? [Re: deckhand]
Birdsnest Offline
Smolt

Registered: 07/25/08
Posts: 82
Loc: Coupeville
I saw a guy bonk about 6 of them last year. I presume he was eating them, he had his son with him otherwise I was going to ask what he was gonna do with them. I was definatley laughing to myself as this guy crackered everyone of them.

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#482177 - 01/25/09 06:48 PM Re: Ever eat a Bullhead? [Re: ]
Turbulence Offline
Parr

Registered: 01/25/09
Posts: 47
Loc: Great Pacific Northwest
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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#482181 - 01/25/09 07:07 PM Re: Ever eat a Bullhead? [Re: Turbulence]
DP steelhead Offline
Parr

Registered: 11/23/00
Posts: 52
Loc: Buckley Wa,
In the mid west they eat bullhead all the time ! look like a black catfish .dont know if that is the same as what they were selling.

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#482183 - 01/25/09 07:19 PM Re: Ever eat a Bullhead? [Re: DP steelhead]
laterun Offline
Repeat Spawner

Registered: 10/09/04
Posts: 1016
Loc: Napavine,Washington
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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#482185 - 01/25/09 07:24 PM Re: Ever eat a Bullhead? [Re: DP steelhead]
deckhand Offline
Parr

Registered: 09/20/00
Posts: 53
Not the same DP. Your'e refering to a bullhead catfish.

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#482225 - 01/25/09 11:12 PM Re: Ever eat a Bullhead? [Re: deckhand]
milt roe Offline
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Registered: 01/22/06
Posts: 917
Loc: tacoma
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? [Re: milt roe]
Slab Offline
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Registered: 01/03/06
Posts: 241
Loc: Wa
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? [Re: milt roe]
Turbulence Offline
Parr

Registered: 01/25/09
Posts: 47
Loc: Great Pacific Northwest
Originally Posted By: milt roe
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? [Re: Turbulence]
Matt S. Offline
Returning Adult

Registered: 02/08/00
Posts: 265
Loc: Northwest
Originally Posted By: Turbulence
Originally Posted By: milt roe
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? [Re: Matt S.]
milt roe Offline
Spawner

Registered: 01/22/06
Posts: 917
Loc: tacoma
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? [Re: Matt S.]
tcman Offline
Juvenile at Sea

Registered: 10/28/05
Posts: 119
Loc: kenai alaska
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? [Re: milt roe]
Turbulence Offline
Parr

Registered: 01/25/09
Posts: 47
Loc: Great Pacific Northwest
Originally Posted By: milt roe
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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#482328 - 01/26/09 01:32 PM Re: Ever eat a Bullhead? [Re: milt roe]
deckhand Offline
Parr

Registered: 09/20/00
Posts: 53
Yep milt roe, they are staghorns not catfish.

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#482386 - 01/26/09 03:37 PM Re: Ever eat a Bullhead? [Re: deckhand]
The Moderator Offline
The Chosen One

Registered: 02/09/00
Posts: 13956
Loc: Mitulaville
If Hell is run by staghorn sculpins, I will be a in a world of hurt. evil

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.

doh




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#482583 - 01/27/09 02:39 AM Re: Ever eat a Bullhead? [Re: The Moderator]
Barbless_ Offline
Juvenille at Sea

Registered: 08/13/04
Posts: 188
Loc: Oly
They are fun for "pogey" fishing contests when you are around ten years old... that's for sure. An old timer on the shore at Pt. No Point yelled to me this summer, "32!", so I asked, "32 What?". "You caught 32 bullheads in almost as many casts!" He replied... if I had known he was counting for me I would have hooked one every cast to make it more interesting for him wink

And BTW, we are all highly-adapted fish if you think about it, no need to get into the phylogeny of sculpins smile


Edited by Barbless_ (01/27/09 02:42 AM)
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#482584 - 01/27/09 02:57 AM Re: Ever eat a Bullhead? [Re: Barbless_]
Irie Offline
River Nutrients

Registered: 11/26/06
Posts: 4317
Loc: South Sound
Anything that walks, crawls, or swims can be chopped up into a fine paste and used in Asian cuisine.
Really, has anyone beside me had Stinky Tofu??

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