if you saw the head you would have no doubt, but even then the spots and the elongated looks gives it away as a small mouthed gunter unlike the spotted javelin fish which has a narlier looking head and pink/magenta hues above the lateral line. the gunter end at about hervey bay and only grow to around 3kg where as the javelinfish grows to over 10kg, bream fight well if you catch them over a kilo on light line.
good jack, i wish people would hold the fish against their body instead of outstretched armed, so you get a real ideal to the size. i think a can of coke against a fish gives the best size scale indication.
darn good fish and a tribute to the dpi for banning pro-netting of the pumicestone passage! few more years we might see some good sized jews again. wonder if the same could be achived with the caboolture and pine rivers??
damon
