Scratchie Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Caught this in Port Stephens this afternoon. Some sort of trevally? Cheers scratchie!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Penguin Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 (edited) Looks like a Cotton mouth trevally. https://goo.gl/images/A5riyo Edited April 28, 2017 by Penguin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 rickmarlin62 Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 wots wrong with catching normal fish scratchie..lol..looks like juvy gt...rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Scratchie Posted April 28, 2017 Author Share Posted April 28, 2017 Yeah, the head itself looked like a bigeye. I don't know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Blackfish Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Hard to get perspective, what size roughly was it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Blackfish Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Nailed it Penguin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Scratchie Posted April 28, 2017 Author Share Posted April 28, 2017 Thanks fellas! It was about 35cm and a really slimy bugger as I threw it back in! Oh well, that's another one off the list! Cheers scratchie!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Blackfish Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 For the Purists Cottonmouth Trevally. Uraspis secunda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Scratchie Posted April 29, 2017 Author Share Posted April 29, 2017 13 minutes ago, Blackfish said: For the Purists Cottonmouth Trevally. Uraspis secunda Are they common to port Stephens? Never seen one before! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Blackfish Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 I've seen a couple over the years caught by other anglers, never caught one myself. Gives you some idea of their distribution https://australianmuseum.net.au/cottonmouth-trevally-uraspis-secunda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Yowie Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 21 hours ago, Scratchie said: Thanks fellas! It was about 35cm and a really slimy bugger as I threw it back in! Oh well, that's another one off the list! Cheers scratchie!!! Was it really on your "list?" or just some poor bastard that happened to grab Scratchie's bait? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Scratchie Posted April 29, 2017 Author Share Posted April 29, 2017 58 minutes ago, Yowie said: Was it really on your "list?" or just some poor bastard that happened to grab Scratchie's bait? Lol......I meant I can tick that off my shit list! Ive caught a few of them fish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 PaddyT Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Seen these guys a fair bit out really wide hanging around flotsam/wider home made fads, saw a couple off Sydney 2 weeks ago under a floating drum (that had 25ft of rope hanging off it that i nearly ended up getting in the prop!) in about 100 fathoms, never seen or caught them in close though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Blackfish Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Paddy, there is another similar fish that hangs around what your describing. Its called a Pilot Fish,now I'm not saying that the fish you saw weren't Cottonmouth Trevally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 PaddyT Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 17 hours ago, Blackfish said: Paddy, there is another similar fish that hangs around what your describing. Its called a Pilot Fish,now I'm not saying that the fish you saw weren't Cottonmouth Trevally. Yeah had a look on the Australian museum site , more likely to be pilot fish out wide, the black markings are fairly similar but the pilot fish seems to be a "longer shape" cool, thanks for that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 PHILL Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 On 28/04/2017 at 7:16 PM, Scratchie said: Caught this in Port Stephens this afternoon. Some sort of trevally? Cheers scratchie!!! YES I GOT SOME IN SYDNEY AT THE FAD.SAME FISH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 PHILL Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 HI. YES WE GOT THE SAME FISH AT THE FAD IN SYDNEY THERE WAS A LOT OF THIS FISH ITS NOT A PILOT FISH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Caught this in Port Stephens this afternoon. Some sort of trevally?
Cheers scratchie!!!
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