queensland ?

[Fishguts]

Ive caught heaps of smaller ones of these but got a good one today,dunno what they are tho?

[eg_vtec]

haha they have nice patterns.. but unfortunately i wouldnt know.

[dassa]

Looks like a happy moment,not so happy if they spike you very unfreindly

[ellicat]

Silver Scat

[Fishguts]

thank you ellicat

[kriso]

yep its a scat allright i call them turd munchers, though the big ones can be fun on light stuf lol have been told the spikes from these hurt a little too.

[fishingfon]

i din't know you borthered with anything under the 2m mark lol

[roobs]

don't eat them whatever you do you'll get hepatitis!

[mick fillet]

there good size scats mate

were they caught in the cast net ???

cheers mick

[Fishguts]

yeh was in a cast net of woody point jetty,hepatitus ayy? or r u havin me on?

[mick fillet]

yeh was in a cast net of woody point jetty,hepatitus ayy? or r u havin me on?

I thought you might have got it in the net. there weed eaters like luderick they wont take a bait. although i have jagged a couple trolling, take care handling as there spines are poisinness.

tthe toxcin is protien bassed like tthe bullrout so if you ever get done by one hot water will set the toxcin in the blood. doesnt relieve the pain but and it hurts like crazy its like a red hot poker being stuck up through the veins of my arm for a few hours

e.g the white of an egg is protien bassed apply hot water it sets.

[uglyfish]

I've caught heaps of em on bait mick,peeled prawns the go..And as for eating them, they go all right.. hepatitis??? What a load of crap, bream eat as much rubbish as these bugger do and ppl love bream.

[roobs]

ok you can eat all of them you want!

[uglyfish]

Never said I wanted to, was just saying your information was crap!

[uglyfish]

Arrrrr rubbish! Eaten lots of em, and if this were true they wouldn't sell em at the fish markets...The only way you could get it is if the fish wasn't cooked properly..

. Without much doubt undercooked bivalve shellfish constitute the greatest single hazard for travellers to many of the tropical regions of the world. If the local population excretes the virus in their faecal material - and this is disposed of into the sea close to shell fish beds - then there is a distinct probability that these shell fish will filter the water and concentrate this contaminated faecal material. Bivalve shell fish are generally undercooked (steamed for 45 seconds etc.) and thus full sterilisation cannot occur

[AFO]

Please all watch your swearing and general language. Remember, this is a community and family site open to all users, so please remember to keep all discussions friendly and within the AFO spirit

[fishingfon]

Come on let’s not bicker and argue about who said what ta who,

[S4T4N]

Scatophagus Argus, known as such as they were first described found near city sewage outlets, are omnivores and will attack lures occasionally, far north they call them johnnie dory, good eating, but if they have eaten a lot of algae they can get a bit ammonia tasting unless you remove the stomach lining asap

[elops]

It is Selenotoca multifasciata. Spotbanded Scat, Silver Scat, Butterfish, John Dory etc. Not Scatophagus Argus. Spotted Scat Spotted butterfish etc.

[S4T4N]

correct, striped not spotted...

hate how they keep changing names though.

when did it change from scatophagus to selenotoca?

[elops]

Never changed, Scatophagus argus was described by Linnaeus.

Selenotoca multifasciata by Richardson in1846..

Two different species of the same genus.

[doss]

dad and i caught 1 off them in the cast net last christmas at jacobs well in the cast net it was about that size 2