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Ben@Tamworth
19-09-2004, 03:24 PM
A recent fishing trip to Tassie netted a mate this fish. It was caught in the Tailrace on the Tamar at Launceston using garden worms. Have no idea what it is. It looked to me like a whiting got frisky with a flathead, but hey! who knows... Anyway, anyone seen one of these before, no what it is?

http://members.dodo.com.au/~benjamin_marsh/fish/Dsc01341s.jpg
http://members.dodo.com.au/~benjamin_marsh/fish/Dsc01342s.jpg

Thanks

Jim_Tait
21-09-2004, 09:44 AM
Its a Congolli or Tupong (Pseudaphritus urvilli) common in the coastal drainages of Tas and also on the mainland from the Murray mouth to Bega in southern NSW. They are quite a good eating fish though generally only small (max 36cm) - I belive that in the Murray they used to be called 'dusky whiting' or something of the sort and large congregations of them used to be targeted by commercial fishers - apparantly the murray poulation has crashed becasue of tidal barrahges which prevent their movement from the salt to the fresh - they used to range all the way up the Snowy River to upper catchment reaches historically.

Regards - Jim

blaze
21-09-2004, 10:57 AM
Known locally as Roach, not sort after, pest when soaking a bait for a trout, estaury perch, bream etc.
Does not seem as common as 20 years ago
cheers
blaze

Ben@Tamworth
22-09-2004, 05:29 AM
Excellent - thanks guys, I knew someone here would know!!!