Trout Cod / Murray Cod

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Trout Cod / Murray Cod

Post by davek » Tue Jan 24, 2017 4:10 am

I got permission from the owner of this pic to post it as I thought it would be a good reference to those who don't know the difference between the two fish.
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Trout Cod on the left, cheers davo
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Re: Trout Cod / Murray Cod

Post by Texas » Tue Jan 24, 2017 9:15 am

Thanks Dave
To see them together helps heaps.
If the Bunyip leaves my bait (& me) alone, I might catch one.

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Re: Trout Cod / Murray Cod

Post by Nightwish » Tue Jan 24, 2017 10:35 am

Thanks Davo,
seeing them side by side makes all the difference,l have only caught a handful of murray cod but sometimes l wondered if one might have been a trout cod,l feel a bit stupid because there are quite a few differences between the two.
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Re: Trout Cod / Murray Cod

Post by Truedogz » Tue Jan 24, 2017 5:06 pm

Nice side by side pic.

As you can see having an eye stripe does not make a fish a trout cod - you can seen on the right that Murray cod has a stripe which they commonly do, when under 5 kg. Similarly, people say that trout cod don't have spots on their head - in fact larger trout cod can be heavily spotted on the head.

Bigger Murray cod/trout cod can be a bit trickier to for the inexperienced to pic but once you have seen a few its not very difficult to identify them.

In this news paper story the bloke in the pic is supposed to be holding an 87 cm Murray cod - it in fact was a trout cod:

http://www.bordermail.com.au/story/3019 ... out/?cs=10

The simple test is when the mouth is closed if the top jaw is significantly longer than the bottom jaw then it is either a trout cod or a 'mongrel cod', which is a hybrid cross between a trout cod and a Murray cod.

If the top jaw is longer let it go.

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Re: Trout Cod / Murray Cod

Post by poodoo » Tue Jan 24, 2017 10:09 pm

Great side by side pic!

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Re: Trout Cod / Murray Cod

Post by hornet » Tue Jan 24, 2017 11:23 pm

Personally trout cod doesn't sound right, I would prefer they named it " Murrays cousin " seeing they look so alike.. :rofl:
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