So my friend was fishing with me today and he hooked up with this weird fish thing that ive only seen dead on the shore once. Its about 4 feet of saltwater inshore wading were not in the gulf just like a inlet kind of. Looks a lot like a ling cod or monkfish but im pretty sure those arent it. its brown no scales wide mouth that can swollow good sized fish and has a set of teeth that are a little back in the mouth before the gills after the lips. any idea?

It sounds like what we call a rockfish or dogfish. If it's the same thing, they have a poisinous spine on the dorsal fin and can crawl on land with the two side fins. They are ugly and they croak too.

I looked up rockfish and dogfish and non of the pictures look like what i caught. They all look tooo much like fish (weird?) what we caught looks more like a angler and has small eyes not big and round like the rockfish

toad fish!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks! =D so whats up with these fish? anything special?

nothing special, they are aggresive, and will hide in bottles, jars and what not. they can accually get stuck in jars,cause they get too fat to get out. I caught one stuck in a jar and had to break the jar to get it out.

awesome thanks a lot =)

Wow, I just looked up both of the fish I suggested. I was told wrong. The fish we catch look a lot like that, but at a young age I was told they were dogfish. Sorry for the miss information.

No problem your not alone my brother in law called it the same thing had hes been fishing the good part of 30 years in these waters lol

Used to catch those in Jersey, called them Oyster Crackers.  Real name is Oyster Toadfish:

http://www.fisheries.vims.edu/toadfish.htm

Man that thing is ugly as they come.

Don't stick your finger in their mouth.  And, if you catch one with some size, and you can clean it without getting stuck or tearing up the tiny fillets, they are as delicious a fish as you can ever hope for.  

One we have down here are more spotted.  They've been catching quite a few the last couple of weeks.........people tell me they are very good to eat.