What is this fish (Largetooth Beardie) Ling.

[juicy233]

This fish was caught in Sydney harbour in a rocky seaweed area and I am absolutely stumped as to what it is, my Internet research points to some sort of saltwater catfish however that doesn't really look like it.

 

[Ryder]

Largetooth Beardie?

[odysea_yt]

29 minutes ago, juicy233 said:

This fish was caught in Sydney harbour in a rocky seaweed area and I am absolutely stumped as to what it is, my Internet research points to some sort of saltwater catfish however that doesn't really look like it.

 

did you post this on my server? or am I trippin

from a image search it looks like a red hake

[dirvin21]

Rock ling 

[Restyle]

my guess is the same as dirvins, a ling

[rickmarlin62]

Ling also known as beardie

[Blackfish]

Both "Fish of Australia" and the "Australian Museum" call them Largetooth Beardie but other than that it seems every one else, including me calls them the common name which is a Ling.

But I suppose there's a lot of different types of Ling.

Edited November 17 by Blackfish

[noelm]

They appear quite often on the “what is this fish” on various sites (including here a few times) I think everyone calls them a Ling, or Rock Ling, but books tell us different. I hate them, slippery, horrible things, you usually get them when fishing rough reef and right on the bottom, you see them all the time diving if you look up under caves and holes.