Awesome Red irish

cardiver · Post by **cardiver** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 6:31 pm

Here's one I saw at Titlow...

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And here's one at Redondo

Dusty2 · Post by **Dusty2** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 11:26 pm

Another nice red Irish, This one from Redondo

divergirl07 · Post by **divergirl07** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:48 am

Saw this one at Titlow Sunday . Wasnt sure about it then I saw the speckly eyes.. He looks like he is rusting !! It IS a lord , right??!!

nwscubamom · Post by **nwscubamom** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:22 am

Nice camo job on that one! Yes, it's a RIL. Notice the rows of rough scales that makes a U turn around his dorsal fin? That's one of the ID clues. Your photo shows that really nicely!

- Janna

dwashbur · Post by **dwashbur** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 10:06 am

We saw this guy yesterday at Redondo near the Bug. We were checking out a cute little grunt sculpin not more than an inch long at the time, and I didn't stop to study him intensely. I could tell he was a sculpin of some kind but couldn't really figure out what until I got the pictures home. I zoomed in and exclaimed "I don't believe it! It's a juvenile Red Irish Lord!" He was only about 3-4" long, and the coloring is anything but red, but there's no mistaking the speckles in the eye and that band of scales around the dorsal fin. This shot hasn't been cropped or adjusted in any way, so it's undoubtedly necessary to click it to see the real detail.

Dusty2 · Post by **Dusty2** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 10:15 am

Yep, I have seen lots of juviniles at Redondo and they are seldom red. Also they change color with their background so mud bottom= mud colored Irish.

dwashbur · Post by **dwashbur** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 10:54 am

Dusty2 wrote:Yep, I have seen lots of juviniles at Redondo and they are seldom red. Also they change color with their background so mud bottom= mud colored Irish.

Then shouldn't it be called a Mud Irish Lord? Or a Whatever-Color-I-Happen-To-Be Irish Lord?

(I just can't help myself...)

dwashbur · Post by **dwashbur** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:04 pm

Anyway, here's a couple more that we found at Redondo yesterday. This guy was good size, maybe 8", and I was fortunate to get this face-on shot, which is one of my favorites so far.

And this juvenile seems to think he's a gunnel. Either that, or one of them is slumming, I'm not sure which...

Scott G · Post by **Scott G** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 10:53 pm

Same thing?... i thought someone gave the ID tips to decipher from brown irish lords... better chance that I'd see browns than Puget sounders i would think, and i haven't seen anything but lots of reds... then again, i'm asking the ID too

The camo on this one was amazing! i landed on it, which is how i found it, then it moved twice, about a foot each time and never found it again.

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