ID Please
Submitted by Browndog on Wed, 2013-01-23 12:19
Any ideas?
Looks like the illegitimate love child from a threesome between a whiting, a wrasse and a pirahna?
Same body shape as whiting, colours like a wrasse and a seriously large head/teeth for it's body size.
Caught near Garden Island a while ago. Needless to say it went back.
Thanks, BD
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kmo
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Painted grinner
Painted grinner I think
Uluabuster
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or lizard fish. Caught many
or lizard fish. Caught many on jig in Hong Kong.
carnarvonite
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kmo
kmo is on the money, painted grinner
scottnofish
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dhuies love them
never last long a a hook
Browndog
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Thanks guys
Painted Grinner it is. Scottnofish, do you send 'em down live for the Dhu's?
bod
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Painted Grinner
http://fishwrecked.com/content/fishwreckapedia?page=3
Painted Grinner - Trachinocephalus myopsAlso known as Painted Lizardfish, Bluntnose Lizardfish and Snakefish, Painted Grinner are long and slender with alternating narrow dark-edged pale blue and yellow stripes. There is an oblique black spot at the upper end of the operculum. The snout is very short and the mouth is oblique with numerous fine sharp teeth. The eye is far forward. There is a short-based first dorsal fin followed by a small adipose dorsal fin and the caudal fin is deeply forked.
They grow to 66cms in length.
Painted Grinner are considered average eating. They are popular in the aquarium trade.
In Australia they are found from Fremantle Western Australia, around the tropical north to southern New South Wales, over sandy bottoms where they burrow themselves leaving only their eyes exposed.
deanganfield
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send him down live
Great bait the old lizardo.
The mackeral love em.