Devil Fish of the 'Bay
Submitted by Thomo 85 on Tue, 2012-09-25 18:28
G'day Fellow fishos'
Last year at the start of March the Mrs and I went upto Shark Bay for a fishing sortie. One arvo off the beach, along with the 1m plus long tom, goldspot estuary cod and black snapper we caught this funny looking critter!
Was hilarious watching the Mrs' jump around giving little squeals and screams. It's eyes glowed a bit red in the light and made the funny croking noise.. Greedy little bugger took a whole live sand whiting down it's gob too! Needless to say we let it go, using pliers, to fight another day!
Any Ideas?
Cheers
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West Aussie Fisho
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snapper
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stargazer
Looks like a stargazer.
Assassin Land Based Fishing Club Member
Thomo 85
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Ahh righto i'll have to look
Ahh righto i'll have to look it up never heard of one before cheers mate
West Aussie Fisho
Mitch1
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Stone fish?
Stone fish?
Thomo 85
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Bit of both
Part stone fish part stargazer? :-p
West Aussie Fisho
Yewiefish85
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try frogfish ;)
try frogfish ;)
Yewiefish85
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Date Joined: 02/01/11
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Western Frogfish are brown to olive with a broad, flat head and tapered body to the tail. They have distinct dark cross bars on their sides and broad stripes across the soft dorsal and anal fins. The first dorsal fin consists of two or three strong sharp spines. The pectoral fins are lightly spotted. They are distinguished by the gill slit extending along the entire pectoral fin base.
Western Frogfish grow to 20cms in length.
Western Frogfish are endemic to Western Australia and found from Rottnest Island to Dampier Archipelago. They are bottom dwellers, ranging from shallow inshore areas to deep waters.
Ben Derecki
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Jawfish of some sort?
Jawfish of some sort?
Ben Derecki
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Castelnau's jawfish?
http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Opistognathus-castelnaui.html
PattyT
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That is one horrid looking
That is one horrid looking fish, hahah
carnarvonite
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Pink headed frog fish
Looks like a pink headed frog fish. First though was a stonefish but wasn't ugly enough
Thomo 85
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Cheers boys!
Thanks for that you blokes,Western frogfish it is!
West Aussie Fisho
crasny1
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All I call them
Is Fuglies. Some pretty ugly looking critters in the Ocean.
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