Tiz an eel..or atleast a long fish
I have never heard of it. But 30 more species of fish have been found this year. Goodies!

i have heard of the oarfish. and yes it does get very long. its a beautiful fish.

I was thinking, 60 feet long, that equals two sixty foot long filets, equals good eatin!

The crest on it looks magnificent, though I wonder how evolution hasn't killed it yet. I can't imagine that its very fast, and a sixty foot long target doesn't seem to hard to catch

yes i have seen footage of one of these in shallow water it was about 45 ft long... amazing when i saw it... there is probably weirder # than this deep in the sea...

On the Discovery Channel I saw a video of an oarfish being draged on shore and it was still alive the whole time. It look kinda cool with its gills moving and such.

i think gooking this is probably where i saw the footage aswell..

*Dreamstone bows before the majesty of the mystic fish*

an Oarfish was alledgedly caught this summer on the east coast of England... the story was a bit unbeleivable about it being caught (woman claimed she caught it while mackerel fishing) I beleive like many others of my angling freinds that it was washed ashore already dead. but nonetheless a beautiful fish. I too first read about it in Undersea Adventure by Willard Price about 20 years ago. a very good series of books, although would probably class them as childish now, but it did ignite an enthusiasim that never left me.

Reminds me of a fish I saw in Hawaii. They have some cool crap down there. Not as interesting as this one of course.

beautiful fish...kinda looks like a giant underwater "rod" (the things some people claim are flying around everywhere)