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Flathead off the beach - bluespot?


Volitan

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I was fishing on Macmasters Beach today (land based) and caught a couple of little flathead. I didn’t look at them very closely because I wanted to get them back into the water as quickly as possible, but I was thinking they looked more like Eastern blue-spotted then the usual dusky. Is it common to catch blue-spotted from the beach?

camera phone failed, unfortunately.

cheers

V.

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It may have been a "Platycephalus bassenis" 

I'm using the Latin name because if you Google Bluespot Flathead, you'll get a few with this common name.

Thats all I could think of as the "Platycephalus caeruleopunctatus" Eastern Bluespot. I thought didn't came into that shallow water.

Thats my thoughts anyway.

Buggar about the phone.

 

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I went back to Macmasters for a quick session today and caught one of the same. Took a close look. Definitely a Southern Blue Spotted Flathead (P. caeruleopunctatus) . 

Realised I’ve caught a lot of these before but not looked closely - always small.

otherwise, a very quite day on the beach, unless you’re into catching undersize fish.

Some large swallowtail dart about.

The kahawai (salmon) that we’re hitting the beach have moved on.

Cheers

Arron

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