Fish Identification
Submitted by Crikko on Sat, 2012-05-05 07:19
Hello there.
I was out beach fishing on Wednesday off Bunbury near BP, and got a few of these fish I'd not seen before, and unfortunately didn't get a photo.
It was about the size and shape of a herring, but had a spikey dorsal fin (that got me in the finger which wasn't plesant). It had three brown stripes down it that looked like someone had taken three fingers and painted them on, but other than that was just a silver color. I've seen the photo's on the 'pedia, and the closest thing was the Robinson Sea Bream (obviously not that this far south though).
Any ideas what I was catching?
-Chris
till
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Sea Trump most likely.
Sea Trump most likely.
Gaffatron
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some sort of trumpeter?
some sort of trumpeter?
Spinnerak
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pretty sure it's a trumpeter
pretty sure it's a trumpeter
Subway cookie is the best burley
C.P
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Fish I.D
The descriptions fits a trumpeter. Did they grunt? That would just about confirm it.
squidder
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till
is spot on, Sea Trumpeter, commonaly called stormy perch.