Todays effort and IDs
Headed out with Duges around 5am behind GI and rottnest trying a few spots .. plenty of dhu and snapper not one in the esky though , one dhu went 49.5cm that hurts . Bit of a mixed bag including small sambos , leather jacket , skippy , bbums , we were cursed with small sharks on a few spots . Moved on and then we were pulling up what I think were sea sweep they were like blowies everywhere all released , but thought we should've kept one for a taste test but weren't 100% on ID . 3 other types of fish not sure on ID .. all in all , a good day catching fish and got a feed .. would've been nice if we had a snapper or dhu in the fridge but thats fishing . Seen heaps of birds and bait fish in the sound on the way back to woodies .. with quite a few boats heading out around 5pm snapper hunting I presume , the water was like glass at that stage.
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carnarvonite
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Ids
Bronzy, sea sweep, red throat emperor, footballer and Bernard the Gurnard.
chris raff
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Thankyou thats sorted .. the
Thankyou thats sorted .. the footballer has a pies jumper lol . I thought the sea sweep looked similar to the buff bream I suppose they taste like crap as well , mind you they go fairly hard with lots of head shakes that had us wondering .
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hlokk
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The shark I was gonna call
The shark I was gonna call for a spinner. Bluer skin, pointier nose, black tips on the fins?
Justo82
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Carnarvonite is on the money
Carnarvonite is on the money with the ids.
Decella
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Super charged footballer.
Super charged footballer.
Leemo
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got all of the undesirables
got all of the undesirables today Chris! ahaha, good assortment though!
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chris raff
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oh and I forgot the huge NW
oh and I forgot the huge NW blowie that decided to chew my rig up ..I gave it a good stern talking to
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mjohns
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Yeah not a footballer,
Yeah not a footballer, actually is a vinculum, surprisingly good eating too !
ALEXANG3
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Yeah Moonlighter, not
Yeah Moonlighter, not footballer.
Better than nothing!
JoRn
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wow the red throat are all
wow the red throat are all the way down here?
they were in plague numbers in Jurien bay few weeks back
dant
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Never tried them - but
Never tried them - but apparently the sea sweep rate 3 stars, not to bad eating apparently.
they do also fight well though, i keep hoping for a small snapper when i have hooked on to one, get heaps just past rotto.
Uluabuster
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I kept a sea sweep i jigged
I kept a sea sweep i jigged up and cook it next to a mulloway from Abrolhos caught months back and guess what ? The sea sweep wins hands down.
dj dvd
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I reckon just about anyfish
I reckon just about anyfish tastes better fresh than any frozen fillet. I will take fresh tailor fillets over frozen snappers fillets for example.
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dj dvd
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Actually maybe not any fish!
Actually maybe not any fish!
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Philly
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Sweep are ok In my books
Sweep are ok In my books to,as well as gurnard as long as their a reasonable size.we call those ones scorpion fish back in Nz.the way I hold them are by the lower jaw,they don't have the strength to bite down and no spines in their mouth either
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lawndered
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Scorpion Fish
The last shot is of a western red scorpion fish if I'm not mistaken
lastcast
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scorpion fish is delish
Delicious actually, firm white fillets, but its a bugger to handle + clean. best to take the head clean off
If you want to butcher it. Also, the shark doesn't look like the bronzies I've caught, I'm calling it for a
Long nosed grey. that would be 2/4 for carnarvonite I think.
chris raff
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Cheers for the responses ..
Cheers for the responses .. definately give the sweep and red throat run in the pan next time we come across them . Don't think I could bring myself to knock the moonlighter on the head , same as leatherjackets I have a soft spot for them as well lol , plus not much meat anyway .. the scorpion fish , well their just friggin too ugly to eat . Small sharks seem to plague us at times so I'll have too brush up on their actual IDs .
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Bodie
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yep dont think I've heard of
yep dont think I've heard of many red throats as far south os G!. people do get a few from NOR and Two rocks.
Wont be long now!
duges66
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My 5 bobs
Spinner shark (took flight on the way in) plus before filleting got a good look at it. Sea Sweep (reports are they are not too bad on the tooth so we should have kept one to make up our own mind - fish cakes at worst) Red Throat Emperor. Moonlighter. Western Red Scorpion not Gunard as we first called it (again reports are very good re eating - though for the risk/effort it would need to be bigger than this specimen)
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Glenn Moore
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confirm
I'll back up these IDs duges
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Notorious
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Sea sweep are good
Sea sweep are good chew
Moonlighter are even better, hardly average eating there!
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