Fish ID Please?

[scuttlebutt]

A Burnett Salmon IS a Threadfin Salmon (though they're not a true salmon). Threadfin refers to the filament like fins just behind and below the gills. There are a couple of varieties of Threadfin, but the Burnett is the biggest. Some people also call them Kings.

I lived at Noosa for a few years and have caught them up at Lake Cootharaba. Live prawns near the reed beds.

Also get a few in the Mary River near Maryborough - fishing near creek mouths with big live river shrimps. The old timers used to say that when the mullberries started to ripen it was King season.

cheers,

steve

[mjc85]

I lived at Noosa for a few years and have caught them up at Lake Cootharaba. Live prawns near the reed beds.

I wouldn't mind trying that, they look like fun to catch but i would probably go nuts with all the bream and whiting bycatch

[jackash]

Cast net a whole school of them at Mooloolaba a few years back, released most of them because we thought they were small blue or threadfin salmon. Haha caught a few very nice bream on live ones though... seemed like a really good bait. But i later realised that i think they are frogmouth pillies... occasionally sold in bait shops. Still get them every now and again in the cast net.
Cheers
Jackash

[major-defect]

A mate caught a large salmon at deepwater bend when we were kids.

[catchy_fishy]

What about a red-eye round herring - or did the camera cause that ?

Catchy Fishy

Check this site out for identification if it drives you crazy :

http://www.oceansatlas.org/unatlas_g...&kot=web-sites

Mike

Seems like a long link, but really worth it

[vanurose]

Thanks scuttlebut Steve
It never ceases to amaze me how much I have learnt from ausfish. That photo of those 2 x salmon caught at Noosa are amazing. I can't wait till my husband gets up and I can inform him of something else I have learnt about today. Terry lives nearly every day to catch his next threadfin off the beach here in Cairns(Clifton,Kewarra,PalmCove,Yorkey's estuary mouths)weather permitting, of course)We eat it twice a week and we love the density of the pure white fish and the taste is superior to anything else we catch.
Cheers
Rose

[Matt_Campbell]

Its actually a Thryssa. Either hamiltoni or a close relative. Check this out

http://filaman.ifm-geomar.de/Summary...ame=hamiltonii

[Kendall249]

yorkies

[Rainbowrunner]

looks different to a yorky in my experience, yorkies were browner in colour and not as herring like.
We used to catch heaps of them(yorkies) off the coal/wheat wharf in gladstone harbour b4 access was restricted.

[fisher28]

we catch these as bycatch in the river.always thought they were called a golden back herring,thats what we call em anyway.terrific bait for tailor and snapper.they are definately not a salmon.we have seen some big salmon caught in the river up round bulimba army barracks and under the gateway.when we could keep fish,the bait buyers would give us a whopping $1.50 for those herring,what do you pay for them at a bait store?

[zoolander]

Highly interesting morty103. Enlighten me.... fish swim and the water is warm there

[Tropicaltrout]

Yes it is interesting topic its quite possible more tropical species would move south as the waters temp rises with the global warming thing???

hope so less distance to travel.

[SLACK_GURU]

WE CATCH THEM ON THE GOLD COAST TOO... NOT QUITE THAT BIG.. UP TO 45CM.. GOOD FUN....