Whats up with the bufferfly gurnard
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Whats up with the bufferfly gurnard
So just getting around to posting seeing if people know whats wrong with the gurnard.
We normally catch these at bermagui around 30 to 35cm long But i caught these ones for the first time ever in over 20 years fishing there.
With big nostrals, google eyes, pronounced head hard skull with spikes amd spikes on top and side fins 35 to 40cm long.
Are the ones i catch just juvenile and the mutated ones are just old parents ones?
Does anyone know?
We normally catch these at bermagui around 30 to 35cm long But i caught these ones for the first time ever in over 20 years fishing there.
With big nostrals, google eyes, pronounced head hard skull with spikes amd spikes on top and side fins 35 to 40cm long.
Are the ones i catch just juvenile and the mutated ones are just old parents ones?
Does anyone know?
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Re: Whats up with the bufferfly gurnard
I have caught plenty of these at Bermagui and they are not only normal looking but also good to eat. Just be very careful of the spikes when cleaning them. If you get spiked you will know all about it!
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Re: Whats up with the bufferfly gurnard
These are the more common type. They are more box shaped and have more silver on their bodies. Called puff pastry by commercial trawlers.
They are latchet and another variety of the flying gurnard. The flying gurnard more commonly caught by anglers has more green and less silver on the body. They have rounder bodies. Both are excellent eating. Do not confuse them with bulleye gurnard (scorpion fish) that have poisonous slime on the spikes.
They are latchet and another variety of the flying gurnard. The flying gurnard more commonly caught by anglers has more green and less silver on the body. They have rounder bodies. Both are excellent eating. Do not confuse them with bulleye gurnard (scorpion fish) that have poisonous slime on the spikes.
There's nothing . . . absolutely nothing . . . half so much worth doing as simply messing around in boats.
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There's nothing . . . absolutely nothing . . . half so much worth doing as simply messing around in boats.
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (River Rat to Mole)
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Re: Whats up with the bufferfly gurnard
Really only get the scorpion cod type of gurnard here in west Gippsland, have caught a few of the flying/butterfly ones around Lakes Entrance. Never bothered to keep them though, heard to many bad stories with their spikes so they got me all gun shy lol
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Re: Whats up with the bufferfly gurnard
Kimtown wrote:Really only get the scorpion cod type of gurnard here in west Gippsland, have caught a few of the flying/butterfly ones around Lakes Entrance. Never bothered to keep them though, heard to many bad stories with their spikes so they got me all gun shy lol
I was just thinking something. I never recall catching them at bermagui.
I normally flying gurnard dont have the spikes.
This is the first year i come accross the mutated ones with spikes.
99% of fish i get at bermagui i can use my fish dehooker on so i stay away from the spikes. I use to get hit by bit tiger flathead spikes so i learnt my lesson.
Skorpion fish dont even come in the boat.
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Re: Whats up with the bufferfly gurnard
Latchet and gurnard spines are no worse than flathead spines.. The one you caught are not mutated they are a different variety.. Same as you have different varieties of flathead.
There's nothing . . . absolutely nothing . . . half so much worth doing as simply messing around in boats.
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Re: Whats up with the bufferfly gurnard
We have caught a few on the south east coast, they taste good and are easier to clean than Gurnard/Scorpion fish