Recently caught a few Stripey looking fish on light gear east of Peel & just inside north Moreton. Was after some live bait. I should have taken pics but didn't think of it at the time. They looked like stripey's (as in the attached pic), but some had a thin tapering ribbon extension on the top of their tail fin. Size about 6cm to 16cm or so. Anyone know what they are?
Looked up Stripey's on DPI web but couldn't find if they are a managed species, legal size, bag limit etc
Yer looks like a stripey, mabye a juvinile species mabye?, dont know what though.
Cammo
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Mate, i have picked alot of them up round the south west end off peel, stripey for sure as Cammy said. they run pretty think there just like the udersize Snaps.
Mad, yes they are lively little tackers, hit like bream then fight all the way. Did you use them for live bait, & do you know what species they might be good to target with?
Here you go, mate.Originally Posted by Hornet Rider
http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/cps/rde/dp..._ENA_Print.htm
Look under tropical snaper and sea perches, under Tidal Waters
It's not a whiptail is it. We have caught heaps of them around Mud. They have a long thin piece at there tail.
a juvenile moses perch has markings like that before it develops its spot and colour. it has that lutjanid kind of head...
simon
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sounds more like they were whiptails. ok as live bait
Definitely a Lutjanidae, and definitely not a Whiptail.
Looks very much like a Stripey, though as Cammy says juveniles can fool you.
Slyman is right about juvenile Moses Perch, they look very similar, but still very clearly have their black spot which this one does not have.
I will go with the Stripey ID Lutjanus carponotatus, also known as a Spanish Flag.
http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Spec...ry.php?id=1424
Cheers
Dave
Hornet,
Mate i have used them as bait when getting low, all i have done in the past is wack a fillet of them and float it down, also i have bashed the bottom with a fillet on, normally i only pick up squire and grassys on it, however, i have got the odd hammer and shovel of the bottom of peel doing this, only small shark but yummy. Just remember to bleed them.
cheers.
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yet to see a stripey with a thin tapering ribbon on the top of the tail fin. The prevalence of whiptails in the bay compared to stripys would also suggest that he was catching whiptails.
Heres a pic of a whiptail. Its not the best pic, the colours and stripes are quite faded compared to ones fresh out of the water.
stripey sea perch... get a lot of em up here. they are good eating but i don't take them under 35cm.
have used the under 30cm for live bait they are good on the trout around the boombies.
Dave, your right about the pic I put up being Stripeys, but the ones I was catching I think were whiptails. Didn't know whiptails existed, but now I do.
Clint, I think you found it - that pic is on the money, that's what we were catching. We also caught some stripeys.
From everyone's input I take it that whiptails are not a managed species & can be used for live bait, regardless of their length, but Stripey's are a coral trout (delete that & insert 'sea perch') species & subject to a size restriction (add '25cm')
Last edited by Hornet Rider; 23-06-2008 at 10:51 PM. Reason: correct error
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