Looks like a gigantic Rockcod. Notice how the eyes are bulged out? That's not how they normally look. Rock fish are bottom feeders and are WAY DOWN. Like 200 to 400 feet or so, give or take. They decompress when you reel them in, and are dead by the time you get them to the surface. The ones I used to fish for, their eyes would pop out of the heads, and their air sacks would be protruding out their mouth because of the decompression. With rock fish, their's no such thing as catch and release. You reel them in, and that's pretty much the end of them.
I used to do alot of ocean fishing with my dad growing up.
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