Here's some footage of our annual garbage fish head boat trip where we took some random vagrants fishing and make the mates clean all the skate, sea robin and dogfish.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRRtF_IaGoU

Good video. It's nice that you take people that are less fortunate than us out fishing.

Brian when you say random vagrants did you mean relatives and neighbors? LOL Just kidding. Cool video, always love the background music and commentary. I think the best look on a mates face when asking to clean something considered a 'garbage fish' was when my friend's father pulled out a 4 lb bergal...the mate asked 'you really want me to clean that, you are actually going to eat that?' And my friend's father just looked at him with a straight face and said, 'why yes, they are delicious!' Then commented on being on Social Security and a limited budget.

I've never eaten a Bergal. They're probably ok. Are they small ? ...never caught one.

A lot of them are very small, the one I mentioned above was 4 lbs so it was about the same size as a 4 lb blackfish.

JJ - That 4 pounder would have clobbered the state record.

~~~A new state record cunner was taken from the Mud Hole on March 7. Nick Honachefsky of Mantoloking caught a 2 pound, 9 ounce cunner that weighed 11 ounces more than the previous record taken off Brielle in 2002.

Honachefsky was bottom fishing from the charter boat Dauntless out of Point Pleasant when he reeled the fish in on 40-pound test line using a clam for bait. The fish measured 16 inches in length with an 11½-inch girth. An avid saltwater fisherman, Nick is also an accomplished writer and has authored several articles and publications on the subject.

The cunner, also known as bergall, is related to the tautog and can be found from Chesapeake Bay to Newfoundland. The two species are similar in body shape, but the cunner is slimmer and has a pointed snout. Averaging about a quarter of a pound and 6 to 10 inches in length, cunners range in color from mottled reddish to bluish brown on top, fading to slightly paler hues along the sides. Their small mouth is lined with several rows of uneven cone-shaped teeth.

***Nick, by the way, just got a nice job with Saltwater Sportsmen in Florida and will be leaving the Fisherman Magazine, sadly.