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snailfish or midwater eelpout?

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 8:56 pm
by boydskii
found this little guy freeswimming in the water column at Pt Defiance North Wall yesterday in about 17 ft of water..what is it? It kept curling into a ball..then swim...then curl into a ball again...finally ducked in between some rocks and disappeared.....

Re: snailfish or midwater eelpout?

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 10:50 am
by WylerBear
Saw Camryn Peterson's video and I think it's a larval eelpout. Steve Zedekar found a link which shows a photo of this exact fish.