When Steve Harrison was surf-fishing recently at Grayton Beach State Park in Santa Rosa Beach, Fla., he caught a strange fish that he couldn’t readily identify. So the professor at the LSU AgCenter in Baton Rouge posted a picture of the ugly beast to the reports section of LouisianaSportsman.com asking users if they recognized the big-mouthed, spiny, sandy-brown fish.
His request generated thousands of page views and several entertaining guesses, including a mother-in-law fish as well as someone’s first ex-wife.
But Capt. Tommy Pellegrin, with Custom Charters in Houma, was the first person to correctly identify the venomous fish, commonly known as a stargazer because its eyes are positioned near the top of its heads.
Jason Adriance, Finfish Program manager with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, confirmed Pellegrin’s ID.
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