Mark Ring brought this unusual fish in yesterday. The diamond pattern markings going in all different directions on it’s head are pretty neat. You don’t normally see sharp straight lines as markings on fish. Its almost prehistoric looking.
Horn Pout
My View of Life on the Dock
Good Morning Gloucester 
aSea Robin……cool!!!!!
great spines on his operculum!
live? dead?
(never heard one being called a horn pout-thought that was a dance on a boat)
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it was live. i took pictures of it and tossed him back. maybe i misnamed him.
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I have seen these diving. He looks small, and not as leafy looking as a sea raven, I think he is a sculpin.
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It’s a Longhorn Sculpin! A Horned Pout is a freshwater fish in the catfish family.
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We used to catch horn pouts at the sportsman’s club pond when I was a kid!
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Species: Bellator gymnostethus
Family: Triglidae (Searobins)
It’s a sculip.
A horn Pout is what we call catfish.
Great Photos, now how about a Monkfish, we caught those off the breakwater
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