Bribie Jack and Grunter

[Fisher_Boats]

Went up the passage Saturday night with Jay to get out of the wind and chase a few summer whiting.
Only had worms and only got a few whiting but around high tide the grunter and jacks came on the bite.
Got 6 grunter 1-1.5 kgs Good fun on alvey's and 6 pound line.
Scored a nice jack 2.2 kgs on a whiting. Missed about 3 others to the snags.
Good to see fish like this are around especially in the crap weather.
Cheers
Coland Jay

[Fisher_Boats]

Jay with a couple grunter.

[vertico]

nice fish good work

[Dodgy_Back]

WOW! what a Jack!

[gunna]

OK - someone help out the southerner - those grunters look like bream - whats a grunter ?

[beefaman]

What part of the passage where you in? Coochin I am guessing ???

[Fisher_Boats]

Beefaman

Up that way mate

Gunna They are grunter bream. Javelin fish is another name I think. Get the odd bigger one around here,but mainly up north.Some of the other guys on here would know the scientific stuff. Don't think you get them much further south of brissy/gold coast ???
They are pretty good eating and fight well. Much better then a normal bream.

Col

[Billo]

I am very curious as to the amount of time i see fish identified as grunter .

This is a ' silver Grunter '



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The Silver Grunter has large eyes, a flat ventral profile and a large emarginate caudal fin. It has long dorsal and anal fin spines.

This species is silvery, often brownish-green above and white below. Juveniles are silver with four strong black stripes on the head and body. The stripes disappear with growth.

It grows to 30 cm in length.

Adults are found mostly in coastal waters, but juveniles enter estuaries and freshwaters.

This species occurs throughout much of the Western Pacific, including Indonesia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.

In Australia it is known from the eastern coast and rivers of Cape York Peninsula, northern Queensland.
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Can anyone give me supporting pictures or notes to say that these are indeed 'grunter ' and not yellowfin Bream ?

[vertico]

http://www.amonline.net.au/fishes/fi...h/pkakskul.htm

javelin fish

[JB]

Sorry to say that they dont look like grunter to me either (however ive been know to be wrong before.. maybe once or twice.. hehe), we caught a few up around deep ck on the western side of fraser, there are distinct differences between yellowfin bream and grunter.

None the less, thats a top Jack mate [smiley=2thumbsup.gif] I'm yet to snag one of those on the goldy.

Jas

[Fisher_Boats]

Billo,
We have only ever known them as grunter bream.
They definately aren't your normal yellow fin bream.
You can see the brown spots on them and they are longer and not so round as a normal bream.The ones in the pics had been in the icebox all night so probably not looking as good as they should. Next time I'll remember the camera and try and get some quality pics.
Maybe there are different sorts of Grunter ???
They grunt pretty good too
Col

[mackmauler]

look like gruntas to me, and how about 1/ 1.5 kg bream if they arent top jack to the young fella.

[JB]

Yep, ur right mate, sorry the smaller pics were hard to tell. Its looking much more like one in the larger pic.

Great catch.

[DaneCross]

Mate if I caught something that grunts, I'd call it a grunter too Much rather the ones that moan and call out my name though

[Colorado]

To my knowledge there are a couple of species of Grunter Bream (Javelin Fish). The ones in the pictures are most likely Small Spotted Grunter Bream. They don't grow quite as large as the Spotted Grunter, but are just as tasty and fight just as hard.