Toothly eel like fish.

[dech64]

While researching a recent fish I caught I found this site and joined. Hope the members here can help me identify a recent fish I caught fishing in the Tangier Sound. I should have took a picture but I didn't. At first glance I thought it was an eel. But after a closer look this thing had a mouth full of teeth. I mean just like a baracuda. It was about two foot long. It was a brillant silver in color. Its dorsal fin ran the entire lenght of its body ending at a pointy tail. I searched the net but haven't found any close. Please Help.

[spynet000]

Could it have been a Longnose gar fish? I could be wrong...

Maryland DNR - Fisheries Service - Fish Facts: Longnose Gar

[Baldzilla 2.0]

Was it an inshore lizard fish?
Yahoo! Image Detail for www.samford.edu/schools/artsci/biology/photo57.jpg

[cuhollow]

How about a Houndfish?
http://www.freewebs.com/skinskin713/...0houndfish.jpg

[dech64]

I'm sure it wasn't a Gar. It was very thin and flat in the body. And it dorsal did a rippling like action down its body.

[Scott McGuire]

Release the Hounds!

[DaveOsh]

It's most likely an Altantic Cutlassfish.

We catch a lot of these in the surf at Hatteras. We call them ribbon fish.
Here's a full body shot:


Bright silver with a fin running the entire length of their body? Cool looking but NASTY-teethed fish.

Is that it?

[dech64]

Just checked not a lizard fish or houndfish. It had a pointy tail not a forked one.

[rhahn427]

While researching a recent fish I caught I found this site and joined. Hope the members here can help me identify a recent fish I caught fishing in the Tangier Sound. I should have took a picture but I didn't. At first glance I thought it was an eel. But after a closer look this thing had a mouth full of teeth. I mean just like a baracuda. It was about two foot long. It was a brillant silver in color. Its dorsal fin ran the entire lenght of its body ending at a pointy tail. I searched the net but haven't found any close. Please Help.

Sounds like a ribbon fish. Very silvery, lots of sharp teeth more flat than round if I remember correctly. THey're caught mainly south of here. I caught 1 in Fla and another in SC. THey make great bait for king mackerel.

[Scott McGuire]

It's most likely an Altantic Cutlassfish.

We catch a lot of these in the surf at Hatteras. We call them ribbon fish.
Here's a full body shot:


Bright silver with a fin running the entire length of their body? Cool looking but NASTY-teethed fish.

Is that it?

Now that's just freaking cool!