Ling with something in its mouth -- what?

Peter Guy · Post by **Peter Guy** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 6:41 pm

Lynne, Bob, Sam and I were at EUP last week and playing with our cameras. I found a ling (big one) that looked like it was trying to regurgitate something. It also had a BIG mouth so I took pictures.

Now I don't think Ling's have tongues, so what is it?

cardiver · Post by **cardiver** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 6:47 pm

Great pic! It looks like a twisted up rag......

nwscubamom · Post by **nwscubamom** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 6:50 pm

OK, that is just WEIRD. The only thing I've ever seen that coloring was this strange stuff around a Plumose Anemone once - which was supposedly the guts of the anemone but it had been mauled.

- Janna

Jan K · Post by **Jan K** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 7:21 pm

Whatever it is, GREAT shot !

rcontrera · Post by **rcontrera** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 1:51 am

Reminds me of my fishing days when we would bring up something from depth and have the gas bladder sticking out the mouth. Maybe this is one that was drug up from depth and then released?

Blow-N-Bubbles · Post by **Blow-N-Bubbles** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:46 am

Reminds me of my fishing days when we would bring up something from depth and have the gas bladder sticking out the mouth. Maybe this is one that was drug up from depth and then released?

Here is a red snapper from down deep, with same gas bladder showing. Was from tip of Vancouver Island fishing. Caught in about 140' water.

Marc · Post by **Marc** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:15 am

Blow-N-Bubbles wrote:
Reminds me of my fishing days when we would bring up something from depth and have the gas bladder sticking out the mouth. Maybe this is one that was drug up from depth and then released?
Here is a red snapper from down deep, with same gas bladder showing. Was from tip of Vancouver Island fishing. Caught in about 140' water.

That was my first thought.

CaptnJack · Post by **CaptnJack** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:41 am

They do have tongues, most bony fish do.
But I suspect that's a tumor/growth, which seem to be common around/in older fish mouths.

Dusty2 · Post by **Dusty2** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:37 am

Don't know but I ain't stickin my fingers in there to find out!

Tom Nic · Post by **Tom Nic** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:03 pm

That doesn't look like a swim bladder to me, even a deflated one. And Edmonds is pretty shallow, so what's the likelihood that this guy was jerked up from a couple hundred feet by a fisherman and then got off?

But I'm with Dusty on this one!

Greg Jensen · Post by **Greg Jensen** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 2:50 pm

Lingcod (and other greenlings) don't have swim bladders, so you can count that out.

Waynne Fowler · Post by **Waynne Fowler** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:10 pm

wow!... looks like he was thinkin you're a dentist.....

Open wide and saw ahhhhhh!

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