yeh who caught those fish? plus a dolly?
yeh i did

cheers
sam

wow neva seen a fish like that before. Where abouts did you get it?

If Shizz dont no what hope we got.

any other ideas!?

What sort of area did you catch it Shizz, I will foward the photo onto some contacts at fisheries research. Have you looked it up?

When my grandfather died last year he left me a fish id book of over 5000 species in it and the book wieghs about 50kg!lol. But ill look tonight and ill bet its in there, has to be.

Keep it tight, reeeeeeel tight!

I had a bit of a read up last night and i did indeed find this fish in my book! Its common name is "orange perch" and surprising enough is part of the rock cod family with coral trout and the like. It is widely found around new zealand and south australia and is rated as a very sort after fish for taste but doesnt grow much over 40cm. I did however not say they are found in any other areas to date so it might be a very rare catch for WA! The species is usally caught around the depths of 40 to 100 metres and often is caught around snapper grounds and many people in these areas rate them higher quality. I hope this helped as i was very surprised i even found it at all. Did you try and eat it shizz?

Keep it tight, reeeeeeel tight!