Yup, def. a gurnard, spikey bastards of things....
Make good eating too, if ya can be bothered cleaning 'em, very small fillet yield though, and be bloody careful of those spikes.......

thats one crazy lookin fish

Looks like a Butterfly Gurnard adam

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according to csiro they dont live in wa, idiots what are they getting paid for again??

http://www.scienceimage.csiro.au/index.cfm?event=site.image.detail&id=1030

Yep, you look spot on Tommy after looking at streetfighters link. Might have to inform them that you catch them on the west coast too. :)

this fish is common in france. wich name is galinette or rouget grondin. when it is out of water, it make a strange sound like grrrrr!!!
it s delicious and beautifull fish which live between 150 feet to 600 feet.

you can catch it frequently with bottom taping jigging or with natural bait...

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do they fight well for there size?


Ads the old man got one of those in the inlet in Walpole about 10 years ago. I was there or I wouldn't have believed it. So the depth of water blows that theory away. Maybe one very lost gurnard of some kind.

Well the site streetfighter posted says they are caught in anywhere from 3m up to 60m of water...

Yep as mentioned great tasting flesh. Only a decent sized one though as the fillet isn,t that big. ATB MAXY

i caught one of them here in madurah but ming had diff color wings