Hi guys, does anyone out there know of any good books for identifying crustaceans? 

 Hi, I caught this last night out the front between Mooloolaba/Coolum, it's got purpley blue marks around it's face, body really blueish on the top and blends to pink on it's belly with a very yellow tail that looks like it comes from the emperor/bream species, and it has no teeth. My neighbour used to be a pro fisho and thinks it may be a great barrier reef species. I'm really keen to find out what it is, looked through all my books that I have with no success.

was wonderin what this little fella is? iv been lookin at fusilier, but cant find a exact match.

cheers

caught a few of these was wonderin what exact species it is?

looked through the fish ID guide and it looks similar to a "senator wrasse", but when i search the net for more photos it seems to find more colourful wrasse.

cheers

When fishing in the Swan last night for bream and i managed to hook this little fella.

Does anyone know what fish it is?

Caught this on friday night on fresh cuttle - was pretty yellow/golden - thought it was a soapie at first, though the tail looked all wrong:

Was caught about 2km offshore in 10m of water close to reef

caught him in port hedland a few years ago-

but just out of interest what kind of shark do u reckon it is?

Caught it a while ago but just found the photo and thought I would ask if any one knew what it was.....

 Need a fish ID for a friend who went diving off a local rock groyne, cheers.

Gday,

Caught these at Port Gregory on Sunday.

Are they Sombre Sweetlip?

I never realised there were different types of sweetlip........

Cheers

 caught this little guy in one of our pots yesterday i cna t find out wat it is from anyone or anywere hopeing someone can help

What do you thing, am I right?  I can never tell the differance between them and spango's. Think it is a blue lined due to the blue lines going all the way to the eye.......had a blotchy red throat also

thanks

CCC

OK, here's an interesting one.  Fishing with a mate at Flat Rocks he caught this nice looking fish around 45cm. Tail is not really clear, but was rounded. All our books and the wonderful Fishwrecked Identification Guide consulted in vain - no positive ID on this one.

Needless to say it was released after the pic was taken, but if its a keeper, we'd like to keep it next time.

Any positive identification appreciated.

Cheers

I was fishing off the limestone on the south side the other morning and caught  a stipey triangular fish.

It was the first fish (non-blowie) I've caught and would like to know what it was.

Cheers

who can identify these two fish for me??

Hi gang,

              I'm a keen new angler who has been hitting up his local WA beach for a few fish. I'm pulling in a few bream and I just want to be able to identify them properly. I'm fishing on a tiny little rig with very light line. The bream are a lot of fun to pull in on such a small rig.

 My only problem is distinguishing between black bream and yellowfin. Because there is a 5cm difference between the limits of the two, with Yellowfin needing to be 30cm and Black being 25cm. I was looking earlier at the fish board and I'm perhaps getting tarwhine, but after gutting and prepping, the fins of my fish took on a yellowish tinge. I've got the 12 to 13 anal fins like tarwhine description says. But I just don't know for sure.

I'm going to attempt to attach a small phone video clip of the little sucker I released yesterday, these are the ones I'm hooking. I'd love the input, thanks a lot

Jels

Been catching a few tuna out on the boat lately (Mostly by first time anglers who usually out fish me using my borrowed gear). i didnt originally put much thought into what species they were and called them all for longtails and chucked them back. it wasnt until i looked back through the photos that i noticed there were a few differences between them, im pretty sure the one in the first picture is there real longtail but im undecided on the others. They were all caught just north of Kalbarri in faily shallow water, under 15m

Hi, could someone please ID these two fish. Caught them coupla kays off Tims Thicket. Guessing the Red one is some kind of Wrasse but a more specifiic ID for both would be appreciated. Relatively new to offshore fishing so need help with these species. Cheers.

Caught north of Rotto.

Thank you 

caught a few weeks ago off Kalbarri. Any ideas?

fishing under the mandurah bridge this morning and caught this... any ideas what it is? 

G'day

My Dad and I went fishing at my favourite spot on the swan...it's around where mosman park meets freo. I caught a fair few baby pink snapper and bream and then my Dad got this guy. He thought he had a snag and for a good five minutes went about trying to dislodge the hook but then this fish just popped out and surprised us. We have no idea what it is though. Sorry about the photos not showing the whole fish.

Dave

Hi guys,

Anybody able to ID this fish?

A mate and i were out at hillaries this morning just doing a little fishing and hooked this little fella.

Thanks 

Hey Guys

Its from a mine site in the East Pilbara

Gday.

Was fishing the other night in the swan hooked a nice little bream. Was wondering how you can tell when these fish are pregnant. Unfortunantly this fish was fatally hooked so i kept it. I found what looked like eggs in its stomach and was horrified. (I always put my bream back, even nice big ones). Just wondering if anyone knows how to spot when a black bream is pregant and if its only full grown ones that lay eggs. Any information would help so i can keep an eye out and fish for the future.

Hey there,

Hoping someone can help me.  We are new to fishing in WA and caught a fish off Karratha.  It is bright/irradescent blue and has a yellow stripe/banner from it's nose almost the length of its body.  It's tail is long.  I do have a picture of it on my phone but can't get it from my phone to the PC .

Anyone?

Cheers!

hey what is there at the jetty at buso cause i go there every year and only get a couple yellowfin whiting and i was just wonderiing what else there was

Sorry about the quality, captured from a video.

 I reckon I should know what these is - I'm sure Ive seen it on wall charts.  Can anyone tell me?  50cm long caught at Esperence.

 Also, are there any online catalogs that can be refernced.  I typically forget my fish ID book.

thanks.