Strange Looking Fish!?

[Luringbream]

I was deep jigging some zoom softplastics in around 80-90ft of water and i hooked up solid to this strange looking fish. At first it resembled a red rock cod but as i swung it into the boat i noticed its "flat head" and i stopped and thought WTF!

Here he is..

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Bad pic sorry..Heres another of his colour allround

DAN

Edited May 6, 2007 by Luringbream

[Jaybee]

Well done for the pics Flattieman theyr'e good ones, thanks.

Cheers

[Blackfish]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh as I fall on my sword.

Contacted a mate of mine who works for the Museum in Sydney and say's its no Rock Flathead , he reckons its a ........................

Tassel-snouted Flathead.

But thats already been mentioned, DOH.

B.F.

[domza]

how did it taste?

[Luringbream]

Thanks to all for their help..After much doubt, i can finally conclude that i have caught a tasselsnout flathead. First on SP, and yet another species to the collection

Yeah, Jeff. That's what I've seen as a real success of the Aquarium so far - the person asking the question always finds some "closure" eventually. Seems that Dan's quite happy with tasselsnout flathead (Thysanophrys cirronasa), so that's cause for us all to be happy! Here's a couple of pics:

From the Australian Museum:

Flattieman.

Thanks Flattieman..That pic is identical to the colour of mine and fits the description 110%

how did it taste?

Domza the taste was UNREAL, i have never had such a great tasting meal in my life and I am offering $500 per tasslesnout flattie fillet brought to me asap

Just kidding..i released him, hopefully we can see more of them in the coming months.

DAN

[Laredo]

cool fish.. I'd never seen or heard of them

thanks foir sharing

[Laredo]

Based on colour we can rule the first two out, however there are many other variables to take into account.

DAN

colour is a bad feature to go by when identifying fish species, as with many other animals. in many species it can be greatly different from specimen to specimen

[luderick59]

i caught one yesterday fromthe rocks at mona vale on cooked prawn while fishing for drummer

marbeled dark brown and red,very rough and spikey head same shape as a flathead but shorter and fatter

never seen one before

peter

[coastspinna]

cool its funny what u get when drummer fishn

[gretsch]

Can you eat them??

[tuffy]

Jeez, I'm glad you guys finally came up with a species.

When I first saw the original pics, I thought it was a Homebush Bay Bream.

Cheers,

Tuffy