Help with this fish?

[Bream_Reaper01]

Hi one and all,
Can someone please tell me what this fish is,personally i think it's a bass,was caught by a mate and returned to the water.

[Screaming_Eagle]

silver perch

[3Vs]

Definitely - Silver Perch

[Bream_Reaper01]

Well i'll be buggered,it was caught in a pond on the gold coast.Not on private property either.
Thanks for the help.

[Sandman]

If there is water they get in there. A mate of mine lives in Hervey bay on 5acres, he just put a dam in and has not stocked it with fish. He was out in the shed he was building during a big wet when heard a flicker outside. To his suprise he saw a silver pearch on its side approc 15cm long traveling up the flow of the water run off away from his dam and yes the dam has pearch in it when he checked. The closest dam or river is 15km away!

[chanquetas]

Sandman, thats totally bizarre. Ive heard of this before, but its bloody weird aint it?

[agnes_jack]

Its amazing where fish will get to during rains, they only need a few inches to splash thier way thru. In the same respect, it's amazing how quick they can escape from your dam.
In febuary last year we had a stack of rain around here, a mate was driving along the road thru about 8 inches of water, reckoned he nearly ran over a barra splashing across the road.
Where it was it could only have escaped from a stocked farm dam.

Regards, Tony

[bidkev]

G'day Bream Reaper

Fish eggs are adhesive and invariably stick to the water plants at the side of ponds etc. When mating, many male fish will "drive" the females by nudging their flanks with their gill plates. This serves two purposes. It helps strip the females of eggs and arouses the male who ejaculates his milt (they have sensory nodules {I forget the correct name} on their gill plates just as we have on our plonkers but I digress

Anyway, they also drive the females through the pond plant life as this also rubs the females flanks and helps strip her and it also affords some protection to the eggs and the fry when they hatch. Wading birds such as herons will travel along the pond edges where there is aquatic plant life and pick up eggs on their legs. Then they travel to another pond, wade through the reeds and the eggs get brushed off......Voila! That's how fish mysteriously appear in ponds.

What I don't yet understand is how the bloody hell fish such as guppies appear in my pond ??? They are live bearers so just how does one or two little live fish get to arrive in my garden pond? They breed like bloody rabbits and once in it's a helluva job to get rid of them!

cheers

kev

[Dignity]

Kev, I think they must sometimes come down in a storm. Built a small pond at my place it was mainly for decoration as the missus watched too many of them gardening shows. A week after I built it we had a short very sharp storm pass through. A month later I noticed some small fish in the pond, it hadn't been stocked with vegetation at that stage. I can only guess the eggs or even hatchlings were picked up in a water spout or something similar and dumped by the storm. Still got me puzzled.

Sam