Help with identification

[Downwind]

So you saltwater gurus out there what hell was thing thing I caught?
4013

No teeth so my thought of a juvenile ling was out (unless they don't grow them until older). I had someone else that thought it might be a Pacific Hake but it really didn't look like any pics that I saw online?

[MB_Boy]

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Pacific cod.

[moosecamp]

So you saltwater gurus out there what hell was thing thing I caught?
4013

No teeth so my thought of a juvenile ling was out (unless they don't grow them until older). I had someone else that thought it might be a Pacific Hake but it really didn't look like any pics that I saw online?

It looks like a Pacific cod.



http://www.allfishingbuy.com/Fish-Species/Pacific-Cod.jpg (http://www.allfishingbuy.com/Fish-Species/Pacific-Cod_lg.jpg)
The Pacific cod, Gadus macrocephalus, species family Gadidae, also known as gray cod, gray goo, gray wolf, grayest or grayfish, Morue du Pacifique in French, Bacalao del Pacifico in Spanish, Ma-dara in Japanese, is widely distributed in the North Pacific Ocean from Yellow Sea to the Bering Strait, along the Aleutians. In western North America they are found from Japan to the southeastern Bering Sea and to Santa Monica, in the waters of the Aleutian Islands, along the Pacific coast of the Alaska Peninsula, and around the Gulf of Alaska, southwards to northern California, Los Angeles (but rare).

[shantz]

Correct. Not the tastiest fish, a lot like pollock.

[Downwind]

Thanks guys! Well he was small and got to live another day. Fortunately I caught up with an 18lb chinook Sunday so that made up for only catching that guy Saturday. :D

[BigfishCanada]

I would say its a pollock.......AKA, a filet of fish.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SajUCpe9dtI/AAAAAAAALRw/s57g2P0KnI0/s400/alaskan+pollock.jpg