Hey Larry check out my biggest Cabezon yet!

[Chris M]

http://s71.photobucket.com/albums/i135/lost_dog1/
It weighs 7 lbs 11 oz. I caught it off our South Jetti on a white Saltwater Gulp soft jerk bait.

[Henry Schmidt]

That is one ugly fish sort of like a monk fish or something from an episode of Iron Chef! Question, on one of your photos, what type of fish does that green fillet come from? Beautiful rods by the way. Henry

[Chris M]

That green fillet is from a Lingcod. The colors of Lingcod can be very different. I have caught some that are almost white, some that are almost black, grey, brown and green or blue/green as we refer to it. When you catch a b/g Ling their meat is b/g also, like in that picture. I was told by a DFG that I often talk to, that certain Lings become b/g because they prefer crabs. She told me that crabs have copper in their blood instead of iron and that copper oxydizes in the fish's blood and stains the fish b/g.
Check out the color differences of these Lings
http://s71.photobucket.com/albums/i135/ ... N08421.jpg
Very dark, almost black (that's not just shadow)
http://s71.photobucket.com/albums/i135/ ... N08441.jpg
Pretty light color for a Ling
http://s71.photobucket.com/albums/i135/ ... ceLing.png
Dark mottling with b/g. Not the same fish that the fillet came from but it would have been the same or even darker meat. You know when it's done cooking cause it turns white.
Cabezon are normally very b/g.

[Seedy]

So, uh...when you say "real leaf"...Is that a "real leaf" under the fiberglass?

[Chris M]

Not under the fiberglass, under the epoxy. I put the leaf on top of a wrap that I had previously epoxied. I color preserved the leaf and epoxied over. I thought the color preserver would keep the leaf looking fresh but it is turning brown in some areas. I'm thinking of taking it off and trying a new leaf with some other kind of preserver.

[edsutton]

were are you getting thsat leaf from

[Chris M]

Alright, this post is not turning out the way I intended it. If you want to know about the new subject of this thread please e-mail me.
lost_dog@suddenlink.net
otherwise please post responses about the Cabezon.

[Seedy]

Sorry Chris, didn't mean to hijack your thread. I suppose that is probably not a good topic for a public forum. Yes, that is a nice looking cabezon. When you say "our south jetti" where in the world is that?

[Chris M]

Northern California, Humboldt Bay, the North and South Jetties make the mouth of the bay.

[Seedy]

Sweet. I used to live in Isla Vista, (just north of Santa Barbara) and fished off the cliffs and Goleta pier all the time. Never did catch a halibut, but dang did I try...I did catch quite a few rays and small horn sharks though...let them all go...

How far south do Cabezon go? I pulled up some funny looking rockfish (sculpin I think) but never caught any of those.
The few times I took charter boats to the channel Isalands we would catch baracudu, "rockfish", sheepshead... etc

[Chris M]

Cabs go down to Mexico or close to it.
http://www.pierfishing.com/msgboard/
here is a board I post on too. There are some guys who fish Goleta on there that post regularly.
My name on that board is Sebastes2.

[roncarr]

nice fish