Goatfish
Submitted by Terry on Sat, 2012-02-11 19:28
Caught this beautiful little Goatfish today in 40m of water. I have only ever got them in shallow water before .
Anyone know what sort of Goatfish it is ?
Cheers
Terry
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Daniel Y
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If i had my fish ID book
If i had my fish ID book handy i'd be able to tell you exactly what it is, but I think it's a Yellow Striped Goatfish (Parupeneus chrysopleuron).
http://www.fishbase.us/summary/Parupeneus-chrysopleuron.html
jigsaw
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barb
how's the barb on the chin - hopefully not like a cobbler spike
Spinnerak
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it's not much of a barb, its
it's not much of a barb, its a sensitive barbell for feeling around on the bottom, just like a catfish would use its barbells
Subway cookie is the best burley
Gaffatron
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are goat fish good eating?
are goat fish good eating? catch em all the time some alight size, normally return them to the water
Alan James
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I have eaten Black-spot Goatfish
and rate it very highly. I thought it was going to have the same bright white flesh as Foxfish but it didn't. Very nice on the chew though.
carnarvonite
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Blue spotted goatfish
Its a blue spotted goatfish and no I'm not colour blind