What are these?
Submitted by Roger Knife on Thu, 2009-01-29 03:01
Found these old photos from 9 years ago, dodgy shirts and bad glasses but what kind of fish are they. I reckon they are both catfish but not sure whatsort. Both bait caught down the east coast of OZ.
Let me know cheers
Rayman
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Faulkner Family
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first one is a fork tail
first one is a fork tail catfish also known as silver cobler , the second one is a cobler
both can be verry painfull if you get stung by them
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sherbert
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Good eating fish
You get afew in WA But its hard to find them
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Bodie
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yeah some sort of cobler.
yeah some sort of cobler. Fresh or salt?
There is quite a few salt Cobler about, and i rate them pretty dam good on the tooth.
Always get a feed of them in Mandurah, just need to know where they are and what bait. All the ones we catch a sea cobler not estuary
Daisy
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The top one is a Blue Salmon
The top one is a Blue Salmon Catfish and taste like mud, the bottom one is an eel-tailed cattie (cobbler, if it's from the salt, and like the guys said great to eat.
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7739ian
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Catfish
are fine out of the ocean - i have eaten them for years and love 'em. Cobbler are A1 too but disappearing around the river.
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Ive noticed cobler have
Ive noticed cobler have moved to more ocean based areas.
I wouldnt be supprised if they were caught from north mole, south mole, two rocks marina etc...
I even get them at hamelin bay :) just gotta know where they are, what they eat and the technique used.
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G'day Ian, I think the fish
G'day Ian, I think the fish your referring to is the Giant Salmon Catfish (big golden buggers that pull like hell) and yeah they're not bad.
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i caught a 2 kilo cobbler from the ocean side of north mole
about this time last year and that was top tucker
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Mate you one lucky Pom
The bottom fish is certainly a cobbler and it has 3 nasty spines covered in a toxin that will make grown men cry. Just grabbing it like that is not a smart idea and I suspect you where lucky. I have had a sting and ended up with a nerve block of my finger! Ouch!
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Cobblers!?
Well boys I was fairly confident about the sting in both of them which is why I kept my hands away and employed the use of a bag in the second photo..felt a bit of a sheila doing it but still...Caught them both from the sea and the bottom one was from a south sydney beach!
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