Halloween Vampire fish?!?

[Johnsfolly]

I didn't know that when I went out with my daughter to fish the salt that we would encounter something so horrifying that I have to still calm my nerves!

We began the day at 5:50 am heading towards the beach. We were trying to hit the high tide at 10 am. It was a beautiful morning that was not disturbed by any solid bites. Our baits would get stripped and we were just feeding the denizens of the surf. After 11:30 am we decided to get lunch and head to back into MD and fish a city pier to try to turn our luck around. The tide was falling and the heavy current made it hard to keep out baits near the bottom and too heavy a weight was just going to get hung in the rocks. Even with lighter weights we lost a lot of tackle to the angry rocks below. Or were they rocks?!? 

Caught a couple of small black sea bass and our mood was lightened. I then got a tug and landed a seemingly benign fish that hid it's darker self. It was not until I removed the hook that this fish showed its horrifying true colors as it attempted to sink it's saber like canines into my unsuspecting flesh !!!

Fortunately my reflexes were still sharp and it's bite was slow that I was able to avoid any serious damage. It also helped that this fish was only 3 inches in length and firmly in my grasp .

I did catch two and Livie tried but could not catch one herself.

[jdmidwest]

Poor little fishy.

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

Cool story bro.  Lol

[JestersHK]

Dracula!!! One, two, three, ha ha ha

[Ham]

Do you know what the ranged beast was? 
so many weird fish swimming in salt. 
Even the tough days yield treasures ; I hope y’all had a good trip.

 

[Johnsfolly]

3 minutes ago, Ham said:

Do you know what the ranged beast was? 
so many weird fish swimming in salt. 
Even the tough days yield treasures ; I hope y’all had a good trip.

 

It's a crested blenny.  I still need to catch the striped blenny that Livie caught previously and now she needs this one.