Fish Species Identification

Fish Species Identification

Up in Coral Bay at the moment for our Daughter Jade's (and new son in law Mick) wedding yesterday - only just recovered enough to have my first beer (far too much red wine last night.

We went out on Bernie Vale's Mai Mai III charter - we did pretty well, though didn't manage to raise any marlin or catch as many 'reds' as we would have all liked.

Anyway, been through DOF's Pilbarra Fish Species guide and can't quite match this one. What is it please guys - Not a Red, Chinaaman, Coral Trout, Moses or Saddle Tail... 

 

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looks like a small mouth

Sun, 2012-10-07 18:31

looks like a small mouth nannygai

 

http://www.daff.qld.gov.au/28_8995.htm

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Crimson

Sun, 2012-10-07 18:47

Its either a crimson snapper or a crimson sea perch

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Nice to see you back mate

Sun, 2012-10-07 19:36

Hope everything is going OK for you now. Looks like a perch to me. Then again I could be wrong.

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Sore

Sun, 2012-10-07 21:17

On antibiotics because there is a bit of infection inside somewhere but got a call from the transplant team that the kidney recipient is off dialys and doing well so all good.

Ended up with a scar the size of an open cut mine because they cut an artery that wasn't supposed to be there and couldn't stop the flow via the keyhole method

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Thanks Guys!

Mon, 2012-10-08 06:25

Thanks for the input guys and glad to hear you are on the mend John!

 

Here's a close up pick:

 

 

On a closer look, going for sea perch. :)

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Crimson Snapper

Mon, 2012-10-08 08:37

I agree with the consensus above - Crimson Snapper Lutjanus erythropterus    (or one of the other common names listed above...:-)

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Thanks Glen

Tue, 2012-10-09 06:55

Cheers Glen !

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nice fish and as its red it

Thu, 2012-10-11 18:53

nice fish and as its red it will be good eating as they say. good to see you into the fish.

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Thanks Rus!

Thu, 2012-10-11 19:27

Yes, as they say, it's been a long time between (Piscatorial) drinks! Far too long! We'll certainly be getting out in Dreamweaver when we get back down south (so hopefully look forward to reports) before we sell Dreamweaver and get into a pair of "Yaks" We will be looking at acquiring a pair of Hobie Mirage Pro Angler 12s!

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your going to need the

Thu, 2012-10-11 19:33

your going to need the exercise now your not chasing chickens around. sounds like a good plan tho. exercise and fishing in one.

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LMAO Russ

Fri, 2012-10-12 06:31

 

Russ said "your going to need the exercise now your not chasing chickens around"

 

LMAO - so true mate! Yup reckon the YAK will do that, and "the petrol" will be cheap too ;-p

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