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Not quite sure??
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 7:27 pm
by Dylmiest
My first thought was a gurnard, but not sure and what better place to ask hey?
Caught off Red Point , Cape Woolamai.
Re: Not quite sure??
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 7:53 pm
by bilby
It appears to be some (unusual) species of flathead ... but no idea which one!
Re: Not quite sure??
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 8:07 pm
by Nude up
Looks like a type of gurnard/latchet fish but I have not seen one like that before usually big eye or butterfly
Re: Not quite sure??
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 8:08 pm
by Boonanza
It's definately a species of Gurnard
Re: Not quite sure??
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 8:41 pm
by Brett
Re: Not quite sure??
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 9:19 pm
by bilby
So it is - I've never heard of these. The one you linked to, Brett is a NZ variety, apparently. Maybe it is this species, listed as being in Port Phillip Bay? (The Dragonet or Bovichtus angustifrons)
http://portphillipmarinelife.net.au/species/6363
Re: Not quite sure??
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 10:24 pm
by Dylmiest
I think your onto it there!! Beauty!
Re: Not quite sure??
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 11:12 pm
by Nude up
Amazing I have fished around here since 1982 and never seen or heard of one fishing is an amazing thing
Re: Not quite sure??
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2019 12:19 pm
by AzCoy7
Weird, black colours don't really resemble any commonly-caught fish. Its physique displays the attributes of a flathead, though.
Re: Not quite sure??
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2019 1:27 pm
by Dylmiest
Yeah very different hey, I had no idea!