barr-cheeked trout jigged on a sea rock - Kavieng Island, PNG

barr-cheeked trout jigged on a sea rock - Kavieng Island, PNG


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thats cool

Thu, 2006-08-10 17:46

taste good?

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Awesome

Thu, 2006-08-10 17:52

Thats one magnificent lookn fish!

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Nice

Thu, 2006-08-10 18:20

Nice fish , looks like it would pull some string too.

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PNG

Thu, 2006-08-10 18:54

Seansurfy good old PNG is an awesome spot. I lived there for 2 years in Port Moresby. Did the Ungabunga rapids, the Kokoda, the Trobriands, Madang etc, was fantastic.
When were you up there last?

I left in 89'. Didn't do much fishing, just drank heaps.

We were the only non-pub residence to get a pallet of beer delivered every month.....yes a pallet of beer between 7 of us.

SP Brewery loved us ANZ boys at the single mens mess.

Cheers

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I went for a surfing holiday

Fri, 2006-08-11 06:30

I went for a surfing holiday November last year at Nusa Island just off the coast of Kavieng in The Bismark Archipeligo. Couldn't go all that way and not take a few rods...Anyway the surf didn't really play the game, but the fishing was pretty hot. Sailfish hooked 500m off the shore, loads of Spanish Mackeral and a few nice bottom fish. Great diving too...lot's of WW2 wrecks. They use Yamaha Long boats which were pretty good fishing platforms. cheers Sean Coral sea carnage

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Correction

Sun, 2006-12-17 11:26

That is not a bar-cheeked trout. Bar cheeked trout are similar to the common coral trout except that they have wider spaced spots and spots on head form elongate 'bars'.

This fish has a lunate tail which suggests it is part of the variola species which the coronation trout belongs.

See http://www.reef.crc.org.au/publications/brochures/documents/CoralTroutFlyer.pdf

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