I caught this sucker in my kayak on Saturday off Opal Beach in about 75' of water while i was trying to make bait. It sure was pretty but one mean little fish! It bit me every time I tried to pick it up.
It's called a Slippery Dick, a member of the Wrasse family. And, yes, they will try to bite you every chance that they can.
I don't think I'll be telling anyone I caught a slippery dick........I like pearly razorfish better
But seriously my biology teacher in high school told me about them but had no idea what they looked like.
I guess the name is spot on due to the fact that he was really hard to pick up and behaved as his name suggest.
Thanks!
Last edited by CaddyYakker; 01-30-2012 at 01:19 PM.
Purty little critter....He'd be a good addition to an aquarium!!!
They are really cool in a tank but the catch is that you have to have a deep sand (NOT gravel) bed in the tank. Razorfish are burrowers, so you wouldn't see him out on display all the time. In nature they're kind of cryptic, poking their heads up out of the sand for a bite to eat. Catching them means you're out over a sandy patch. Y'all got the family correct, it's a wrasse, and the way I remembered the Pearly Razorfish's scientific name- Xyrichtys novacula- is because it sounds like "Dracula". Get bitten by one & you'll never forget it! Beauty of a fish!
They are really cool in a tank but the catch is that you have to have a deep sand (NOT gravel) bed in the tank. Razorfish are burrowers, so you wouldn't see him out on display all the time. In nature they're kind of cryptic, poking their heads up out of the sand for a bite to eat. Catching them means you're out over a sandy patch. Y'all got the family correct, it's a wrasse, and the way I remembered the Pearly Razorfish's scientific name- Xyrichtys novacula- is because it sounds like "Dracula". Get bitten by one & you'll never forget it! Beauty of a fish!
I am so glad you are an active member of this forum!
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Originally Posted by Salty Dawg
been bit a couple times over the years!! they are so flexible and slippery.
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