Surface Flatties?

[kiro]

Hey guys...

Just thought i'd share... My mate showed me this pic on his phone he had taken in darling harbour. He said there were heaps of nice sized flatties on the surface, just swimming around casually.. is this normal?? are they even flatties in that picture??

never seen or heard of this before...

He took the picture in darling harbour on that wharf next to the floating boat restaurant.

Cheers raiders

Kiro

[spence]

Hey guys...

Just thought i'd share... My mate showed me this pic on his phone he had taken in darling harbour. He said there were heaps of nice sized flatties on the surface, just swimming around casually.. is this normal?? are they even flatties in that picture??

never seen or heard of this before...

He took the picture in darling harbour on that wharf next to the floating boat restaurant.

Cheers raiders

Kiro

Na mate - not surface flatties - im sure someone will know what they are though.

[Justinc]

they look more like mullet to me

dont look wide enough for the length to be flattys

[johnsparky77]

mullet for sure mate

[forliano]

Don't look as though they have a flat head....

I would go with mullet as well...

Just eating scraps off the boat...

Cheers

Ben

[Moro Mou]

I would go with mullet or some type of catfish.

Edited February 2, 2009 by Moro Mou

[LittleNoah]

Can't tell what they are from that pic, but I can tell that they're definatley not flathead.

[zrealist]

I think they are yellow fin bream.

[A.dawg]

I'd go with catfish they love skooling around otherwise mullet

[squid hunter]

mullet

regards

Squid Hunter

[cpanag]

Mullet for sure

[OSHISWET]

some sort of fish for shore!

[daeheeyang]

I saw mullet at Darling habour. I guess these could be mullet

[Davemmm]

Mullet for mine.

As an aside my old man takes a mate of his out fishing from time to time. Following a car accident this bloke has been left both physically and mentally incapacitated.

Aside from being blind(ish) he struggles a little bit with co-ordination.

One time on the Shoalhaven he told Dad that he wanted to cast his own rod out. First cast slammed into the water about two feet from the boat. Second cast about the same. Third cast went a bit further but still just slammed into the drink.

When he started to wind in said I've got a fish to which my old man said "bull%$#@"

He then wound in a nice flathead. This was in about 6-7m of water so the theory is that the first cast woke him up. The second cast upset him and came to the surface where he was caught with the third cast.

I'm not sure this practice would work all the time though.

Dave

[fishon]

i saw a shitload of mullet over the weekend and they dont look like mullet... they look like catfish or koi to me???

CFD

yeah id say koi if it was freshwater lol but id put money on em bein cattys

[kiro]

I think LUMPOOKEY cracked the mystery lol...

So we've narrowed it down to mullet, catfish or koi? So they definately arent flatties..

cheers raiders

Kiro

[sniper]

Look like Cobia [black kingfish ] to me

[slayer666]

i suppose there is only one way to find out throw a line sit back in a chair and crack a coldie

Cheers Joe

[johnv]

mullet 4 shore

cheers john

[rockfisherman]

i reckon that tail fin gives them away as not being flatheads...

rockfisherman