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Giant Silver Fish


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Hi everyone ,

I was looking thru some of my old photos and thought i would share this strange very rare fish . It was caught of wide of Sydney 100 km and was released alive .........

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It starts with the letter " O "

Cheers Dogtooth........ :1fishing1: John.... :beersmile:

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G'day Dogtooth

Amazing looking fish there. Is it called something like an "oarfish".

When you said it starts with an "o" that's the first thing I thought of even though I've never seen one live.

Was it caught down deep or trolling? How big was it?

Cheers

Peter

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G'day Dogtooth

Amazing looking fish there. Is it called something like an "oarfish".

When you said it starts with an "o" that's the first thing I thought of even though I've never seen one live.

Was it caught down deep or trolling? How big was it?

Cheers

Peter

Yes OARFISH your correct peter .... Also known as a King herring. It was caught fishing the surface on a dead saurie...

cheers John....

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Hi everyone ,

......I was looking thru some of my old photos and thought i would share this strange very rare fish . It was caught of wide of Sydney 100 km and was released alive .........

post-692-1244007790_thumb.jpg

It starts with the letter " O "

.....Cheers Dogtooth........ :1fishing1: John.... :beersmile:

Geesus John that's the longest fish you'd ever hope to catch :1yikes: I doubt if you would see a fish that long outside of a museum :D

Cheers

jewgaffer :1fishing1:

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Mate you have grown alot since that foto or that fish is HUGE! lol

That thing is freaky, some cool footage on you tube of those oarfish, a few are even alive.

Greg

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Damn that thing is freaky!!!!!

Imagine everyone trying to call what sort of fish that is after the strike!!! Its a marlin.... no its a rare silver dolphin fish..... no its a giant sea gar!!!!

Great photo's!

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Looks more like a Southern Ribbonfish than a Oarfish.

Southern Ribbonfish (Trachipterus jacksoniensis):

http://www.amonline.net.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/tjackson.htm

http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=14241

Oarfish (Regalecus glesne):

http://www.amonline.net.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/rglesne.htm

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3267

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Yes Cobba i think your right it definately looks a lot more like the southern ribbionfish

intresting that it only grows to 2 metres im 180 cm tall so i would say it was 3 metres as my arm was extended and it was still on the floor.....

Cheers John....

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