help with fish ID
Submitted by sando1 on Wed, 2018-04-25 20:52
My wife caught this today can anyone help with an ID
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sea-kem
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Amberjack
Amberjack
No I was wrong, Oz has it below.
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oz74
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Bludger
ill go Bludger trevally?
Faulkner Family
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im going with a bludger, was
im going with a bludger, was thinking amber but the coloring didnt quite match
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sea-kem
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Pectoral is the giveaway
Pectoral is the giveaway
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sando1
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thanks
We were in two minds yes the pectorals made us think a trevally. Was released. thanks for that.
squidvicious1
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Bludger make great susumi.
Bludger make great susumi.
ranmar850
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yes, Bludger Trevally
Go really hard, good fun. I hadn't seen much of them at Ningaloo for years, and thought numbers were on the decline. But, last year, down towards Norwegian bay, they were in absolute plague proportions, you couldn't catch anything else on a lure or bait.
Beard_Slob
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looks Like a
Turrum
ranmar850
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They do look a little like them
The Gold Spot Trevally, or, to give it the banana bender name, Turrum, is common in the same waters. Turrum can have have more gold-coloured fins,(in the smaller fish) and gold spots, and are not as thick through the body as a bludger.
piston broke
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What's
that one Ranmar? cheers
ranmar850
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That's the gold spot trevally
I was referring to in the post, as the poster above said the bludger looked like a Turrum. They call ( or have in the past) Gold Spots , Turrum, in the land of Fourecks. I caught that one in Kalbarri early new year, good size ones like that turn up there a bit.