Fish ID - Moreton Bay - looks like a Stripey

[Outsider1]

Whiptails are not regulated, correct.

Stripeys are Sea Perches and have the same size and bag limits as Moses Perch;

All tropical snappers and sea perches 25 min 5 per species

Cheers

Dave

[Al Thomson]

I think you'll find the ones with the "ribbon extention" on the top of the tail are what I call hairtail or whiptail and are quite common around coffe rock. They make good live bait, cobia love them. they are a green colour with stripes though.

[Local_Guy]

it's a stripey and they aren't bad eating..... in my books anyway.

[Outsider1]

it's a stripey and they aren't bad eating..... in my books anyway.

Yep the picture is definitely of a Stripey, but if like me you did not read Hornet Rider's original post properly you would have also missed the fact that he did not actually take a picture of the fish he caught;

"I should have taken pics but didn't think of it at the time."

and the photo he has put up is off the DPI site and what he caught looked a bit like it but;

"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?"

We seem to have confirmed now they were actually Whiptail he was describing.

Cheers

Dave

[Mexikan]

Definently a Spanish Flag.Up north they send them straight back down as bait for Coral Trout.
Mex

[ronnien]

mex,
sure do make good live bait for trout & another way is to fillet & have the tail still on, i have got some big trout this way. but chinaman can be a hassle doing it this way.

ron.