Red fish biting off Mission

[Outsider1]

Re: Red fish biting off Mission

Wasn't having a shot Scott. Someone else mentioned it so thought I would put it up as the same time. Anyway sounds like the evidence is no longer around

Nice bag that, drool.

Cheers

Dave

[FNQCairns]

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Shame on you Scott! thought for sure you would have done the associate diploma in QLD recreational fishing, it's only $1500, 2 years with a forced refresher every 3 as the regulations and the idiology are abstract so cannot be relied on....next intake possibly?

cheers fnq

[disorderly]

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lol..Scott.
Yes I think I need to sign up for the first semester immediately.
Though I think I might sign up for the 3 year Degree program as it's said to give a fuller understanding of becoming a successful recreational angler.

Scott

[dfox]

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Scott, there all large mouth ...

[Shanoss]

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Scott, there all large mouth ...

After a second look, i could go either way. Appears to be a slight concave look to the head on some of them, though its hard to tell from that photo. Either way, they are all red.

[Wahoo]

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well done Scott, yes they are small mouth, ( black nanni), at least the weather was a bit kinder down there than it was up this way
Daz

[dfox]

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Better take a closer look Daz, no blacks in that lot, there all silvers...

[jtpython]

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You are definatly right Foxy
Scott amazing effort mate for a solo effort we had marvellous trip to and will wait for pics before i post, and we all make mistakes no all of us are perfect
cheers mate
JT

[Wahoo]

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dfox, to me the two on the left look like blacks, bit hard to tell at that angle, this is a pic of a black and a silver

[dfox]

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Yeap, as im sure your very well aware there awfully simular. It's easy to make mistakes identifying them especially from a low res picture. I blew up the image to make sure before commenting...

[disorderly]

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just grabbed a stray head.
looks like foxy is the man.

[FNQCairns]

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Why do they call them black and silver? Stomach liner??

cheers fnq

[Shanoss]

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I stand corrected. Large Mouth it is.. Now all you need to sort is your bag limits eh Scott? To tell the truth, i hade been working on seven nannygai till just recently. Dont know how many fish i had not bought home because of it.

[dfox]

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Why do they call them black and silver? Stomach liner??

cheers fnq

Its terms used more so by the north qld commercial sector. But many of the names given are used and refered to by the local rec fishers.
When filling in paper work on catches and filling in the older log books it was easier to refer to many fish by a shorter name thus instead of saying i have 50kg's of large mouth nannygai, buyers and log books refered to them as 50kg's of silvers.
Small mouth- blacks
Red Emperor- reds
Spangled emperor-greys
Red throat emperor-RTE
Etc, etc.
We as fishers are awful for having alot of different names for the same species, look at the Lutjanus malabaricus known as
Silvers
Large mouth nannygai
Large mouth sea perch
saddle tail sea perch
red jew
scarlet sea perch
all are the same fish ...foxy

[FNQCairns]

Re: Red fish biting off Mission

Great info thanks!!!

cheers fnq