What fish is this?

What fish is this?

Caught a few these yesterday jigging in 50m of water off Dampier.


boofhead's picture

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red one????

Sun, 2008-04-06 12:39

looks like it might be a red fish.....lol

just looked in me magic book and maybe its a tomatoe cod???

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you guys might be right,

Sun, 2008-04-06 12:41

you guys might be right, thought it looked a little different to a tomato cod though.

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yea

Sun, 2008-04-06 15:30

yea i think it's a tomato cod they live in Warm & tropical waters of northern Australia
did u eat it?

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nah we released it.

Sun, 2008-04-06 19:16

nah we released it.