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  1. 09-04-2010 06:54 PM #1
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    Deepwater Fish Identification...

    Greetings all. Here is a deepwater fish that a Marlin had spit up on us, while we were fishing far off the Texas coast in the Gulf of Mexico...

    Not sure if it is a Black Eyed Dragonfish, Hammerjaw, or Viperfish (or something else)... it is NOT an Atlantic Cutlass (ribbonfish)!

    Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Pretty interesting nonetheless...

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  2. 09-05-2010 02:05 AM #2
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    WOW! Very cool. I have no idea what the fish is but I LOVE this kind of stuff. I cant wait to get into the guts of the fish I catch. You never know what youre gonna get!

    Looking forward to the comments on this thread!
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  3. 09-05-2010 09:16 AM #3
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  4. 09-05-2010 12:16 PM #4
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    I think it could be a lancetfish:





    I'm interested to know whether the marlin that spat it up was a white, or a blue? Did you hook it near an oil rig, a weedline, or in open water?

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  5. 09-05-2010 07:00 PM #5
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    i'd agree. lancetfish.
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  6. 09-05-2010 07:13 PM #6
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    Looks like a ribbon fish to me. I caught one a couple years back while deep jigging for squid in the thermocline on an overnighter.
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  7. 09-08-2010 05:38 PM #7
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    The first thing that came to me was a lancetfish also. I was just looking at one first hand the other day as I always do in Barry's in Beach Haven while eating a cheesesteak. He has one mounted over the door caught aboard the Anthricite. I look at that freaking thing everytime I go in there. Looks just like it!!!
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