Fish ID please

[Mac_Attack]

I was catching these things all day and all i can say is Yum Yum Just what are they?
Cheers Nick

[WHALEOIL]

I was catching these things all day and all i can say is Yum Yum Just what are they?
Cheers Nick

That's a Femfish.

Chockablock full of female hormones. If you keep eating them, you will start to talk rubbish and will find parking the car a difficult task.

[FNQCairns]

Boob check!....

[Mac_Attack]

OMG that is so not cool

[wags on the water]

I was catching these things all day and all i can say is Yum Yum Just what are they?
Cheers Nick

That's a pretty fancy looking bait board on your boat.
Why do you take home fish, firstly not knowing what it is??, secondly not knowing what the size or bag limits are??

Before taking from the sea, identify first.

Wags

[Mac_Attack]

That's a pretty fancy looking bait board on your boat.
Why do you take home fish, firstly not knowing what it is??, secondly not knowing what the size or bag limits are??

Before taking from the sea, identify first.

Wags

I looked on my fish chart and i couldn't find it at all so i checked endangered species and it wasn't there and i thought might as well try it, i cought about 6 of them and only kept one but i did want to find out what it was I do believe in catch and release
Cheers Nick

[wags on the water]

I threw back a 50cm - 3.5kg reefie (after taking a photo),because I couldn't identify it. Later found out it was a fairly good table fish. I'll know for next time that I can keep 'em. C&R imho doesn't have much to do with it, as C&F is more my game.

Wags

[ffejsmada]

I don't exactly know what it is, but it's from the Wrasse family.

So therefore, it's a Wrasse.

Jeff.

[FNQCairns]

Nick they are good eating, looks like a wrasse species, I dunno which, just playing with you above about the hormones. Put simply with fish of this form check it's teeth if pointy a wrasse of some description and if rabbit like then a parrot fish to us fisho's. Both usually good eating, lovely white flsh and coloured bones.

cheers fnq

[Mac_Attack]

I caught a few of these when i went to yamba and i remembered a bloke telling me that they were parrot fish but then again he did have abit to much to drink he fell over a few times so i didn't pay to much attention but thanks FNQ
Cheers Nick

[squizzytaylor]

Nick, maori wrasse (not the hump headed type found in fnq) commonly known as "butchers Pr!cks". Yes they are good eating.

Cheers
Geoff

[steve99]

I don't exactly know what it is, but it's from the Wrasse family.

So therefore, it's a Wrasse.

Jeff.

Your right Jeff, Its a red tailed lubra-lipped wrasse - I think.


Steve99

[onerabbit]

Definitely not a Butcher's Pr!ck,

Closest in the Grant's Guide is a Bicoloured Wrasse, although still not a perfect match.

I've caught plenty of them in shallower water (around 30 mtrs), even tried eating a few, unlike most Wrasse the flesh was rather dark & not all that good.

Not kept one since.

Muzz

[squizzytaylor]

Perhaps a female crimson banded wrasse, judging by the red stripe.

Geoff

http://www.harbourkeepers.org.au/Labridae.htm#maori

[WHALEOIL]

Perhaps a female crimson banded wrasse, judging by the red stripe.

Geoff

http://www.harbourkeepers.org.au/Labridae.htm#maori

I told you, but do you listen to me? Noooo.