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Old 05-30-2011, 10:14 PM
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Default Weirdest fish you've seen.

Today we had about a 1000 pound sun fish swimming around our platform. Weirdest fish I've ever seen.
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Old 05-30-2011, 10:18 PM
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oysterfish definitely the ugliest!
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Old 05-30-2011, 10:22 PM
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i caught some baby african pompanos one day, didn't know what they were
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Old 05-30-2011, 10:27 PM
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Either a sun fish I saw at thunderhorse or a damn ribbon fish at the MRGO dam...they are some strange azz fish....don't think the sun fish I saw was 1,000 lbs though I think more like 500-700
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Old 05-30-2011, 10:31 PM
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saw an "opah" in Hawaii getting weighed in that weigh around 75lbs.... smaller than the one pictured:

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Old 05-30-2011, 10:42 PM
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Sun fish is the ugliest thing for sure.....yak did you get some pics...I haven't seen one that size!!! Out of 11years in the gulf...I saw 4 sun fish and biggest was about 200lbs... Biggest fish I ever seen was a whale shark at least 35ft long...and I saw a Hammer Head shark from the Helicopter one time that was every bite of 1000lbs plus
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Old 05-30-2011, 10:44 PM
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i did see one whale shark, and we caught a sea turtle one time bottom fishin, manta rays jumping once
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Old 05-30-2011, 10:46 PM
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Ya I've seen a few hammerheads every bit of 1000 it's unbelievable how large they are next to a boat...that head is sooo wide...biggest fish I've ever seen had to be a tiger shark though at the horseshoe rigs out of Venice it ate a 100 lb YFT like nothing then ate a bonito and stayed hooked for about 2 hours before breaking 20 yards from the boat it was massive capt. Said it may have been a record..
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Weirdest fish I have seen is an oysterfish or a ribbon fish. A close second is longcast. :P
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seen a whale shark while diving!
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Old 05-30-2011, 11:16 PM
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Coolest thing I ever witnessed was on A Chevron Platform...in High Island... We just go though proving the LACT meters and we walked over to the hand rail to wait for them to finishing pumping oil down....we were just staring off into the water when a huge school of bait fish surfaced... They had about 9 bull dolphin busting them....and out of the blue came two Marlin...they busted in the bait and stopped...just sat there and took off again in the bait ball...it was so fast but seemed like a day watching them slice that bait up!!....
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Definatly oyster fish followed by spoon billed catfish
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yeah a spoon bill is an odd one, but there in the sturgeon family not catfish. people catch them while catfishing in the red river. I guess thats why they relate them to catfish.
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Let me try to dig up some pictures to post. Being in the ROV business, I've seen some pretty strange stuff, and collect some pics from other guys that I've worked with
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Bay slayer that would be awesome.
W we saw a huge Marlin the other day busting hard tail.
And no we didn't get pics. The sun wouldn't allow. But we was at least 7 foot from nose to back fin and at least that wide
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Sun fish is the ugliest thing for sure.....yak did you get some pics...I haven't seen one that size!!! Out of 11years in the gulf...I saw 4 sun fish and biggest was about 200lbs... Biggest fish I ever seen was a whale shark at least 35ft long...and I saw a Hammer Head shark from the Helicopter one time that was every bite of 1000lbs plus
These the big ugly white things? Tgatvfeed on jellyfish?
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Old 05-31-2011, 06:00 AM
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Yep that's them
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I know some of you guys have seen the show river monsters that guy catches some wierd fish...
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Used to work out in the Mississippi Canyon area. Saw sunfish, whale sharks, and marlin. Wierdest was when giant Manta ray pods would swim by. Looked like Klingon warships. Top was dark and bottom was white. They would move by flapping their side fins. Used to see up to a dozen at a time.
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