Fish ID please

Strangefruit and myself were out yesterday in the boat. Not much fish around Bray and Dalkey but Strangefruit pulled this boy from the deep

Anyone know what it is? We were think it looked like an Anglerfish.

id reckon its a monkfish

short spinned scorpian fish

scorpian fish?

Its a sea scorpion. I caught 2 myself a while ago and got them ID'd

What size do Sea Scorpions grow to because this lad was approaching the 2lb mark.

its the biggest i have seen but its no were near 2lb nice catch

i think it could be a bull rout. if it has numerous small spines in the skin, either side of the lateral line.
this on lives down to 60 meters and can grow big, while the sea sorpion lives in shallower water

Its a scorpion fish alright, we used to get big ones in dun laoighre years ago.

looks like a Short-spined Bullhead/Sea Scorpion it looks like the one in the following link
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aquarium/page ... lhead.html

2lb is a nice scorpian - bet he was well peed off