Show capture ora ona of a devil fish rish one of the fishermen employed by larco in drawing his nets this morning found entangled in its meshes rues beb bes a veritable devil fish of large size the ugly thing wa wab so entangled and held on with such tenacity that it was with great difficulty and only after tearing the net badly that it was released and got into the boat it was brou brought glit to the wharf where a nuru berof persons visited and inspected the monster the body 1 is an elongated ova labout 15 inches wide and 4 feet long from the head to the end of the spear shaped tall tail the mouth or rather beak is exactly like the mandibles mand ables of a hawk and is placed underneath the body the long arms or feelers of which there are eight radiate from around this thia beak and the largest of them are upward of 7 feet in length making I 1 11 I 1 feet from the end of the two longest tentacles ten tables to the tip ol 01 the tail tall the other arms are tire from 4 to 5 feet long the underside of them these feelers for about two feet from the tip are armed with rows TOWS or sharp pointed hooks increasing ineize as they approach the end where they terminate in veritable talons the body is of a red dish gray color on top and a pale salmon pink underneath the under tido is 14 covered with small suckers possessing considerable power even after the creature bad i been on the dock for some time and was nearly dead a finger placed to the mouth of one of these buckem was seized u upon pon and only released by a strong pull while lying on i the dock the fish nish exuded about two gallons callous of the dirke fluid with it I 1 is supplied and aud which it uses to discolor the water either to conceal itself or to render helpless its prey this alaid is of a most offensive odor aud and is of f u n dark yellow color the monster which was captured judt just inside of the jine line of help heip would be an unpleasant thing to come in the water and after seeing him binia one oue cin thoroughly appreciate the cene inthe in the cavern so graphically described by victor hugo bugo in ithe the toilers boilers of the sea the fish nish was cut up and taken out by the fishermen bermen na to their crab nets as bait but the beak and bome some if the large larger talons were secured byar by mr rece small smail th tieh tish h of this description have been found in the channel at tit different tilts measuring from 6 to 8 inches but nothing approaching this one in size has ever been captured in this vici vicinity alty santa bar bara car cat cal fras press |