Fish ID Please

[mitch92]

G'day all, just wondering if anyone can identify the following fish?? was caught in a sandy bottomed environment if it helps?

thanks in advance,
Mitch

[Cammy]

Therapon Jabua.

Cam

[Scott nthQld]

Goes by a few names, but I think the proper common name is a Cresent Grunter.

I've heard banded grunter, striped trumpeter, stripey, banded trumpeter. Basically a spiky little shit fish that steals your bait and is good for nothing, not even a live bait, nothing eats them

[bowds13]

all ways known those guys as trumpters never really been sure what the real name is trumpter is the name iv grown up with for that fish.

cheers

[ffejsmada]

Cam is right.............it's a Terapon jarbua, in english.........a Crescent Perch.

Also commonly called a spiky trumpeter.

[reel scream]

good for nothing, not even a live bait, nothing eats them

Agree with the names Scott But.......................

Back home in SA as a kid I have used them for Jewies. A couple of cuts to the body and they trumpet away letting predators know where they are. In saying that, give me a live Gar or Mullet instead.

Cheers Scott

[dreemon]

I used one of those for live bait and got the biggest sea toad ever seen

[PBass]

I always thought they were called Railway Perch so it's interesting too find out their correct name, thanks guys.. Sean

[Scott nthQld]

Agree with the names Scott But.......................

Back home in SA as a kid I have used them for Jewies. A couple of cuts to the body and they trumpet away letting predators know where they are. In saying that, give me a live Gar or Mullet instead.

Cheers Scott

I didn't realise they had a range so big, we get an absolute shitload of em up here, espesially when fishing the gutters for whiting off the beach. Usually the same place I'll throw a livey for a roaming barra, trevally or queenie, but they never get touched. As an experiment, my brother and I had 4 rods out, each one had a different livey on it, gar, mullet, whiting and one of these spiky shits.

Well the line baited gar accounted for a couple of queenies, the whting and mullet bagged a few trevally and a barra. The other thing never got a touch, I've tried them in several different locations, around rocky bars, weedbeds, patches of shaley bottom al for the same result, they get totally ignored.

[jtpython]

We call them Zebra Fish
JT

[Cammy]

These fish are also in the Aquarium trade .

Cam

[justjack]

a good fish to be transfered to fresh water but are a prick of a fish

[nickstock]

[quote=Scott nthQld;1001997Good for nothing, not even a live bait, nothing eats them[/quote]

Scott,

the black fellas love them for Barra livies in Cape York. There is also a old scottish bloke that catches plenty of Barra on them off the Cooktown Jetty and Breakwater. He likes them for the fact that smaller pickers will not steal your live bait when you have one of these spikey buggers on. They will stay alive through the night also.

I have caught land based Spanish Macs on them, fished under a float at Palm Cove Jetty and also some nice cod up to 8 kgs in Cooktown.

Nick

[reel scream]

Pretty sure its the same fish Scott nthQLD. We called them shitties or trumpeter. They infest the Port river estuary system around Adelaide. Need to be cut to keep "trumpeting".

Agree Nick- no pickers like we get with a small live gar.

Cheers Scott

[RAT-KING]

In South Australia in the summer time they're in plague propotions! So much there nick name is a Sh!tty!!!! But they do make good bait they've accounted for thousands of big reds, mulloway and the occasional kingie!! (In SA)
I threw a live one out here in the brizzy river last winter and pulled in a 73cm jew!!!
Cheers Simon