Please add Bay Pipefish , Syngnathus leptorhyncus

Common Name: 
Bay Pipefish
Scientific Name: 
Syngnathus leptorhyncus
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Comments: 
Caught on a size 30 hook using various mysid shrimps I caught using a light at night. Took me about 3 hours to catch one of these guys, probably one of the most difficult and prized fish on my list next to my Marquesan Sardine and Hawaiian Silverside.

Species Assigned:

Adult Size : 
Micro

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Region Caught:

Closed Without Identification: 
No

Comments

Triton's picture

Second photo is an individual caught by hand. Only pipefish species on the British Columbia coast so included a second photo of a different specimen.

Tyler Heroux

SomewhereDownstream's picture

Nice catch! That thing is so frickin cool.

SomewhereDownstream