What is this?

What is this?

Some sort of gurnard is the guess.. but not too sure.. we released it anyway.

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Yup, def. a gurnard, spikey

Mon, 2006-03-20 10:56

Yup, def. a gurnard, spikey bastards of things....
Make good eating too, if ya can be bothered cleaning 'em, very small fillet yield though, and be bloody careful of those spikes.......

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weird

Mon, 2006-03-20 15:55

thats one crazy lookin fish

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gurnard

Mon, 2006-03-20 16:40

Looks like a Butterfly Gurnard adam

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according to csiro they dont

Mon, 2006-03-20 22:21

according to csiro they dont live in wa, idiots what are they getting paid for again??

http://www.scienceimage.csiro.au/index.cfm?event=site.image.detail&id=1030

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Interesting

Mon, 2006-03-20 23:00

Yep, you look spot on Tommy after looking at streetfighters link. Might have to inform them that you catch them on the west coast too. :)

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Lost Gurnard

Mon, 2006-06-19 19:13

Ads the old man got one of those in the inlet in Walpole about 10 years ago. I was there or I wouldn't have believed it. So the depth of water blows that theory away. Maybe one very lost gurnard of some kind.

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french name

Sat, 2006-05-06 20:10

this fish is common in france. wich name is galinette or rouget grondin. when it is out of water, it make a strange sound like grrrrr!!!
it s delicious and beautifull fish which live between 150 feet to 600 feet.

you can catch it frequently with bottom taping jigging or with natural bait...

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do they fight well for there

Sun, 2006-05-07 17:30

do they fight well for there size?

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gurnad

Sun, 2006-06-18 19:07

yeah gurnad. caught a few of them in NZ many years ago .the local kiwis i was fishing with rated them and they went in the esky

always in it just the depth that varies

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Ads the old man got one of

Mon, 2006-06-19 20:23

Ads the old man got one of those in the inlet in Walpole about 10 years ago. I was there or I wouldn't have believed it. So the depth of water blows that theory away. Maybe one very lost gurnard of some kind. Well the site streetfighter posted says they are caught in anywhere from 3m up to 60m of water...

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eating

Mon, 2006-06-19 23:05

Yep as mentioned great tasting flesh. Only a decent sized one though as the fillet isn,t that big. ATB MAXY

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i caught one of them here in

Tue, 2007-01-02 16:19

i caught one of them here in mandurah but mine had diff color wings