Fish id

 300 m off Exmouth 

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Fish I’d

Sun, 2024-04-28 12:35

Hairtail by the looks of it .  

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That’s my

Sun, 2024-04-28 12:39

Thoughts but double checking as never seen one up here 

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 Did it have a defined tail

Sun, 2024-04-28 15:21

 Did it have a defined tail (small) or down to a point?

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Frost fish

Sun, 2024-04-28 19:17

Frost fish, apparently the best swordfish bait going

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Hairtail

Sun, 2024-04-28 19:30

 Looks like a hairtail.They have a more northern distribuytion than the closely related frostfish.

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At a guess, hairtail, as its

Mon, 2024-04-29 07:08

At a guess, hairtail, as its the only thing I have caught that resembles that fish. We used to catch them in big numbers as kids on Stockton break wall in NSW.