Fish ID Please -Fish on Right of Esy
Submitted by trueblue_10 on Sun, 2014-05-25 10:25
Think the fish on the right is a goldspotted sweetlips (I know what the rest are). The two finger marks on the back are confusing. This pic was a couple of hours after it was caught/bled.
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tim-o
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Looks like a gold spotted
Looks like a gold spotted sweetlip aka netted morwong, shit eating, I caught one few weeks back and released it after taking a pic as I didnt know what it was....
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strumpet
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hahaha
hahaha
Fishobrad80
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Some sort of sweetlip or
Some sort of sweetlip or morwong?
FishingFrenzyLuke
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May I ask
Why would you even risk putting it in an esky if you don't know what it is...for a start you could not be sure of the size restrictions...?? Let alone if they are edible...JMO
Brucesta
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And here we
And here we go!........
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MattMiller
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Same old
same old.
Stock standard Gold Spot Sweetlips
Gold-Spotted Sweetlip - Plectorhinchus flavomaculatusAlso known as Netted Morwong (although no relation to morwong), Gold-spotted Sweetlip are greenish/grey to brown with many golden spots on the body, dorsal and anal fins and small yellow lines on the gill cover and cheeks. The tail has dark spots and is square cut and sometimes has a dusky ventral margin. The lips are large and the inside of the mouth is orange.
Juveniles have a gold body with orange and blue facial stripes which turn into spots as the fish matures.
Gold-Spotted Sweetlip grow to 4kgs and 60cms in length.
They are considered poor eating and need to be bled, cleaned, skinned and filleted on capture.
In Australia, Gold-Spotted Sweetlip are found from Geographe Bay Western Australia around the tropical north then south to southern New South Wales.
lawndered
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What the fish on the left
whats the fish on the left, i see what looks like two blackass in the middle, and the sweetlip. dont know the other looks like a keeper??????
sea-kem
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Red throat Emporer, very
Red throat Emporer, very tasty. And they form part of your demersal limit.
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trueblue_10
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Thank Guys
So it seems the general consensus is a Gold spotted sweetlip. Still not sure why the 2 darker marks were on the body. Yep everyone is spot on with the three others but I already know black-arse and red throat -I have caught these before. With the Red throat the size was about 31cm (legal size is 28cm).Got to say surprised the amount of red throat we have caught in perth. Very nice eating.
Never caught a Gold spotted sweetlip though.
Fishfrenzyluke- I appreciate your concern. The way you indicate you normally fish is how I normally conduct or control fishing from my boat. In this case on the day I hastily identified it as a queeny (blue morwong) by the markings on the head. We sized it accordingly, (it was legal for a queenie), bled and retained it. In hindsight I should have looked at the fish/book a bit closer. Would have seen significant differences such as tail and some fins. It was well after the fact (couple of days later) someone pointed out my mistake that it may not be queeny. In fact the suggestion was it was a painted sweetlip (which I disagreed with). Thus the post to fishwrecked.
As it turns out all is well, all the fish I caught are legal size, the sweetlip bled well, iced and fully eaten to try the quality for the first time by the fishermen in the boat. Well as for eating quality of the sweetlip -average at best- used plenty of spices and it was just ok. Don't think I will be keeping these anymore. (nice looking fish though).
Thanks to everyone for your input and assistance.