Fish ID please.... (Sooty Grunter)

[Billmack]

Caught in freshwater by others in the Wilton River NT, the Wilton feeds into the Roper River. 

[dirvin21]

looks like a sooty

[Blackfish]

I recon its a Sooty Grunter to.

[Billmack]

Yes, thank you, never caught one myself, but research says you are both correct. This one is simply not very sooty. 😉

[dirvin21]

4 hours ago, Billmack said:

Yes, thank you, never caught one myself, but research says you are both correct. This one is simply not very sooty. I😉

they have crazy colour variation,  I've caught them from near jet black to creamy colour and everything in between without moving my feet 

[Blackfish]

12 hours ago, dirvin21 said:

they have crazy colour variation,  I've caught them from near jet black to creamy colour and everything in between without moving my feet 

Never caught a Grunter but have caught Jacks that are really pale more like a Moses Perch and then really dark Red Devils out of the same school.

Also another example are Luderick, some really pale ones and then at other times really dark.

[Blackfish]

Not to hijack the post, but on a recent "Research and Development trip" ... that's self development trip 😀

Here's a couple of Jacks that were caught, so I thought I'd take a colour of the colour variation to show one example of different body colours of the same fish species.

 

 

Edited May 28, 2021 by Blackfish