Fish ID Please

[Mike_W]

Tried for some whiting on hardbodies but only got this. Anyone know what it is? (apart from very small and hungry).

Mike

[marty+jojo]

Don't know the name sorry, but i have caught them on sp and would also like to know what they are.
Marty.

[BGG]

Not sure but it looks a bit like a Banded Trumpeter

[chewy01]

Ya banded or we call em ironbark trumpeter

[Jono_SS]

try this site

http://www.fishbase.org/summary/speciessummary.php?id=4458

[Scott nthQld]

banded grunter, pain in the arse spiky bloody things, not even bait-worthy

[Scalem]

I took one of them home to start the new salt aquarium ecology going, and he was returned from whence he came ( kids had named him by then, so what else could I do?::) )

At least I found a purpose for it, there wouldn't be any other I don't think.

Scalem

[Captain_Zero]

I think it is a crescent perch. I have caught a few of them while whiting fishing.

http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/tjarbua.htm

[geoff72]

first time i have ever seen one of them but i would like to know what type of lure that is. Looks like the goods i reckon.

[BAR UP]

Hey Mike_W, get yourself a Grants Guide to Fishes. Great book with fish ID & plenty of pix. Page 259 Banded Trumpeter, Northern Grunter, Spikey Trumpeter.8-)

[Mike_W]

first time i have ever seen one of them but i would like to know what type of lure that is. Looks like the goods i reckon.

Geoff, its an ecogear px45.

[lenthals_barra]

not a banded grunter i have one in my fish tank and they are everywhere around mt isa. banded trumpetor ill say

[James Simpo]

wacked one on live one day in eli creek 70+ dusky nailed it must of been hungry or fluke, trial and error.

[Az]

its a trumpetor to me... not sure which one though

[tailorboi99]

Dunno, I've caught heaps of them at Nudgee though seem to love Prawns..

[nuggstar]

stripy grunter, banded grunter, stripy trumpeter, banded trumpeter. there all good names in my book. i have caught so many of the spikeys buggers its not funny, theres heaps in maroochy. and darwin is plaged with them

[Mangfish]

i agree with nuggstar they're a plague in maroochy and most rivers on the sunny coast, they're thick as hell in coochin. nasty to get out of the cast net

[cbruh1]

Banded trumpeter/grunter either way are spikey things, I caught a couple of these and did a fish id on this site http://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/showthread.php?t=122397
and it was id'd as as a banded trumpeter/grunter and they are comonly found in whiting grounds.

cheers callum

[HORTO]

i agree with Terapon jarbua, could also be T. theraps but from what i can see more likely jarbua, identified a fair number of these as part of a bycatch study. As for common names seen it called everything already mentioned as well as a few others (crescent grunter, crescent perch, tiger perch).

[BobbyJ123]

I think it is a crescent perch. I have caught a few of them while whiting fishing.

http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/tjarbua.htm

Yep, that's the crescent perch, Terapon jarbua. Located from Geraldton (WA) north to about Port Macquarie, NSW

[Coochin]

We've always called them Trumpeter , and used to catch quite a few good sized ones years ago around Dohles Rocks . They are not bad eating if you ever get a decent sized one, which I have not seen for a long time.