[617391]

I was fishing in the bay in fort myers beach and i casted a cast net out and in the net was a fish brownish in color and it had 2 horns on its head.It was no Bigger than a bluegill so i dont know. I've searched everywhere to find an identification of the fish but i can't find anything. I was hoping someone could help me out on this one.My emails [email protected]

 

[Gamakatsu]

It sounds like a cowfish. Was it very hard, almost as if it had a shell?

Gamakatsu

 

[615953]

Did it look kinda like this?

 

[Scalawag]

Cowfish ehh. I hear thier not good eatin, but I wonder if you can milk em???
Alan

 

[617391]

It didnt have those kinda horns...maybe 1 inch horns sticking outta its head. The body kinda looks like the cowfish but not that kinda tail. The outline looks like it and the eyes but not that long of horns and the horns were same color as the fish.

 

[Gamakatsu]

It's still sounds like a cowfish, the cowfish in Florida that I have caught look slightly different from the one in the photo.

Gamakatsu

 

[Jaiem]

Ditto on the cow fish. It's a relative of a blow fish but with a hard body, not a puffing one.

Jaiem
ArtsNFlies.com

 

[617391]

Yea it did look like it was a hard shell. Thanks everyone

 

[LobsterD]

try looking in your fish id book for a "BLEENIE"

Wet is best

 

[614851]

lifja,

i believe your new fish is the honeycomb cowfish (Lactophrys polygonia). this is probably also the cowfish that gamakatsu is familiar with.

set,
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