pilbara Fish ID
Submitted by pricey10 on Tue, 2013-02-26 18:44
We caught a couple of these the other day out in the 60m mark. originally i thought it was a much larger version of the small spotted cods the harrass us but on a closer look it was quite different
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Carry
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Honey comb cod
Honeycomb cod maybe big bugger if it is good chewin
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quadfisher
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2nd that
yep we call them honeycomb cod or dinner fish.
Up at ex or coral b if we catch one , we keep it for dinner , usually with a pearl perch
or 2, and that way we get to freeze up the reds etc , but still have a feed.
And yep that looks like a cracker.
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meglodon
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biggest I've seen
what a ripper biggest honeycomb cod that I've ever seen well done
Glenn Moore
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Duskytail Cod
This is actually a Duskytail Cod Epinephelus bleekeri. Great catch - this is not a very commonly seen fish at all and most of the records come from well offshore. Note the lower 2/3 of the tail is very dusky and only the top third is patterned. Dampier is as far south as we know they occur.
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Adam Gallash
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thanks Glenn
Thanks Glenn, I was pretty sure it wasn't a honeycomb as I'd caught plenty of them before.
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Brucesta
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loody good eating is what
loody good eating is what they are! always welcome in my kill tank
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Minesy
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Heaps out of Dampier Ads.
Ads,
I have caught a fair few of these off dampier but a fair way out. Have only kept one because the rest released really well the only one I kept I haven't had a chew on yet but after reading some of these posts it might be coming out of the freezer pretty soon.
I tried to research it and the best I could come up with was a Brown Spotted rock cod but it is good to know what they actually are now and next time they might be ending up in the esky.
Doooma
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I thought honeycomb cod were
I thought honeycomb cod were protected in WA??
TorquenFish
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Potato Cod is what you're
Potato Cod is what you're thinking of.