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Submitted by sonoftherock on Thu, 2021-01-14 21:20
Both Caught off the beach at Anvil near Denmark. Both were released to fight another day... just interested what they are!
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Feral
Posts: 1508
Date Joined: 01/11/06
Top one looks like a Drummer
Top one looks like a Drummer of some sort (same family as buff bream and luderick etc) . Bottom ones is a damsel fish, not sure of specific breed tho on either of them
Fathom
Posts: 619
Date Joined: 18/04/08
1 might be a..
Western Rock Blackfish AKA Black Drummer
The other a Black Bastard AKA Black Damsel AKA McCulloch"s Scalyfin.....They will attack you if you go within 6ft of their home, been bitten before several times.
sonoftherock
Posts: 35
Date Joined: 30/11/11
Thanks chaps! Very
Thanks chaps! Very interesting - never encountered either of these two! Plucked from a hole about 20m of the shoreline... fished it for a couple of hours and was bites every cast! In addition to those two, picked up herring, whiting, a 42cm skippy, big tarwine, banded sweep, wrasse... never seen so many different species off the same land based spot!