What is this fish???

[werewolf]

I caught this in Tin Can Bay last year, and I still haven't ID it. Any takers???

ps - its not a Variegated Grinner - it does not have teeth and the fins are the wrong shape

[T-roy]

Hey mate
i think it is a sort of Gudgin

T-roy

[Nathanrb4]

looks like a bar faced weever i think

[Captian_Zero]

Could be some sort of goby?

http://www.amonline.net.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/aogasaw.htm

[lippa]

ern grant agrees with you nath!
he reakons there allright on the chew, too??????

cheers

lippa

[trout3030]

Used to catch a few when winter whiting fishing in hervey bay. They tasted very similar. We just called them rock whiting.

[werewolf]

THanks guys, I'm in agreeance with the bar-faced weever. I can't vouch for its eating qualities as we let it go.

Cheers! 8-)

[blue-mako]

Like Captain_Zero said, it does look like some sort of Goby.

Troy

[timbacutta]

Catch them all the time at Hervey Bay, we call them reef grinners but am not sure what their technical name is.

Jeff.

[Big_unit]

When I lived in TCB we used to call them -

Sargeant Baker's
or
Rock Whiting
or
Barred Grinner's

Although there is one very good use for them but I cant tell you here or the whole of Ausfish will know.

Cheers
James

[blue-mako]

Big_unit: They taste great don't they! ;D

Troy

[Kendall249]

I think its some specie of gudgeon.

[jimmybob]

blenny? youd reckon a marine biologist would be somwhere on this site?

[Matt_Campbell]

Probably a black-throated threefin Helcogramma decurrens

[sharkbaithoohaha]

Not a marine biologist, but The Fisherman's Bible { :-X} pg. 611 says it's a Parapercis nebulosus, or Bar-Faced Weever (a.k.a. Rock Whiting, a.k.a. Grubfish). Apparently a "well-flavoured panfish".

[Kendall249]

One fish per mouthful, a dozen for a meal, albeit a small meal. ;D

[dasher]

I'm going for a redbanded weever. ;)

[keenfisha]

I'm pretty sure it's some sort of Goby. They're plentiful in the Great Sandy Strait Area.

Cheers, keenfisha. ;)