sea snake? rye pier

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sea snake? rye pier

Post by bigdan91 » Sat May 16, 2015 6:34 pm

saw a eel/snake looking thing swimming on the surface this evening right before a kid jumped off the pier!

it was around 1m long and had 2 fins up towards the head

grey colour

any ideas what it was?

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Re: sea snake? rye pier

Post by aussie_fisho » Sat May 16, 2015 8:07 pm

My guess is a conger eel or a large sand eel.
Here fishy fishy.......

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Post by Redhunter » Sat May 16, 2015 8:27 pm

Yep, one of those I'd say...
At least it wasn't a tiger snake on a freshwater lake that some eagle decided was too difficult to eat, therefore dropped it right next to your boat for you to **** bricks about...yep, gotta love this beautiful place...lol.

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sea snake? rye pier

Post by sloth » Sat May 16, 2015 8:48 pm

Saw a big eel in the lower yarra couple weeks back. - short finned eel i figured at the time but same description / about 1m long and find up near its head .... Freaky things to see swimming around lol

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Post by cobby » Sat May 16, 2015 10:51 pm

Super toxic cobra eel. Don't want it to get its raspy fangs into you....

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Post by sloth » Sun May 17, 2015 5:49 am

Had to google cobra eel but reckon you're right - looked just like one

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Post by cobby » Sun May 17, 2015 9:50 am

sloth wrote:Had to google cobra eel but reckon you're right - looked just like one

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:rofl: I can't believe you hit up Google. Surely not sloth

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Post by sloth » Sun May 17, 2015 9:57 am

;)

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Re: sea snake? rye pier

Post by bigdan91 » Sun May 17, 2015 1:41 pm

aussie_fisho wrote:My guess is a conger eel or a large sand eel.
yep it was defs a conger eel!

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