[FenderBender]

Anchored up on the liberty ship for a little while yesterday, and caught two species I have never seen. One strange looking fish my buddy called a "stonefish", but when I google stonefish it doesn't look the same. Another was a small shark with a really strange tiny mouth, maybe a dogfish?? I have never seen one in person, so I can't tell for sure.

 

[Shop Keeper]

The first one is a species of stargazer, or a large oyster toadfish, I need to double check shark species.

 

[Pass Time]

I have always called the first one a toad fish or sea robin...thats a bigger one than I have ever seen though. Usually 10 to 14 inches. Is that an atlantic sharpnose...did it have any small white dots on it?

 

[specslayer]

the top one is a type of toad fish, we call they oystercrackers and idk what kind of shark that is.

 

[GROUPAGROUPAGROUPA]

we call the top one atoad fish aka mother in law fish

 

[Chris V]

Top is the leopard toadfish. The shark is a species of dogfish, most likely the smooth dogfish.

 

[Shankopotamus]

I used to catch the first one in my crab traps all the time up by rocks...I have also always called them toad fish. Mean little jokers too. As for the shark I've never caught one of those....

 

[Spear]

First one is an Oyster Toadfish or as we call them in Destin a mother-in-law fish because they are so ugly and ill tempered. They bite worse than any mother-in -law! The second is probably a Smooth Dogfish (it would help to see the second dorsal fin).

 

[MikeG]

I think the shark is a great white!:letsdrink

 

[JOHNJOHN205]

First one is an oyster toad and second is a dogfish.

 

[JOHN WRIGHT]

THE FIRST FISH IS THE GULF TOADFISH <U>Opsanus</U> <U>beta.</U>

THE SHARK IS MOST LIKELY THE ATLANTIC SHARPNOSE <U>Rizoprionodon</U> <U>terraenovae</U>. ALTHOUGH A POSITIVE ID I IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT SEING THE CAUDAL FIN AND THE TEETH----JOHN

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