We catch a few of these fish up this way out on the reef, mostly at night. They appear to be a Lutjanid of some sort, a cross between a Mangrove Jack, Large Mouth Nannygai and perhaps Red Emperor. The larger ones we've caught have a small hump on the head and we've got them to over 3 kilo so a nice fish and good eating like all Lutjanids. Apologies for the poor quality of the photo.
hi,
if it has nostrels on its nape it will probably be a juvenile red bass i would think. just a thought ???
see ya
It is definitely not a Red Bass, we catch heaps of them and they are vastly different from this fish. Colourwise, it most closely resembles that of a Moses Perch, without the Fingermark near the tail. The underside area is a bit darker than the Moses Perch too. I am yet to find them in any Fish Guide and others in this area are in the same boat.
hi, yeah your right its not. youve got me stuffed, im thinking there are numerous varieties of sea perch (like hussar and blue stripe perch, moses perch ect) you might just have one of them. dont know....sorry.
see ya
Could be a Saddle-Tailed Sea Perch. They are caught up on the northern off shore reefs. The younger fish have a dark spot on top in front of the tail that turns greyish as they get older. They are often caught with scarlet sea perch and are pretty good eating. Grow to over 10kg.
Did say "could be", check it out and see what you think.
Cheers, Clutter.
BeastMaster recons it looks like a dead hussar.Ive only ever heard of them growing to about a foot and a 1/2 long.
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Beast
Looked like the paddle tail to me, considered a risk of ciguatera poisoning in QLD.
Heres a pic. ignore the yellow line patterns, a scanning modification.
Cheers
We get these occassionally in the Whitsundays as well. They are not paddletails. Look like a big moses perch but without the spot and a fairly uniform coppery red colour.
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KC
KC is right. I've done a fair bit of fishing and caught all the Lutjanids mentioned above and it is definitely not one of those. I've yet to see it described in any fish guides.
Could it be one of those, Red Big Eye
ive seen them grow pretty big, not huge but it does look like one of them....
Red Big Eye
Priacanthus Macracanthus
I just found the scientific name for the Red Big eye maybe someone could look it up and see if it is that fish, It sure does look like it here in the book im looking at.
Priacanthus Macracanthus
I'll go an XOS Hussar.
I have caught them to 1.2kg out at the Bunker Group of Islands, and they tend to loose their stripe at that size.
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some inside info tells me that it is a red throat snapper...
five years ago a research company tried to run a project where they tagged and released mangrove jacks into reefs. mangrove fack tend not to get much sunlight so my guess is that over the years the offspring has been exposed to more sunlight thus the light colour, they probably feed at night because they like to hit their prey hard and is easier to sneak up on prey. just a guess from eli.
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