queensland gudgen (i think) id

[Joel Eadie]

i caught this guy in my net as i was getting shrimp for my fish, it was about 8cm long and fat as hell. sorry about the crappy photo i was trying to get it back in the water quick

i think its some type of gudgen?

also while i am here, i caught this bass in npd last year, as was wondering how bass tasted. i got it home and went to gut it and found what i think is eggs??? i am probably wrong cas i know they dont breed in fresh

all the best to those on schoolies, im heading up the sunny coast so stay posted for my epic reports of meter plus flatties and 40cm bream that i am going to catch.

[Perky]

Definitely a gudgeon, based from the photo i would say it's a striped gudgeon. Not very common at all, well at least when we use to go trapping for our natives tanks they weren't very common. They grow much larger then some of the other gudgeons around SEQ. My brothers and i use to have one around the 15-20 cm mark. Not 100% sure on this but i believe they even get bigger then this. Nice find mate.

[Cowfish13]

Yeh, pretty sure it's a Striped Gudgeon, though I always thought they were pretty common. At least, the spots I trapped them in had tonnes :S

And with the Bass, while in impoundments, the Bass don't breed, they do still roe up, which is why they get really fat during their breeding season

[Joel Eadie]

thanks for the id guys, there are quite a few in this little pond i get shrimp out of

[Young_fella]

I reckon it might be called "live bait" :evil:

[elops]

It is a Striped Gudgeon Gobiomorphus australis.

An amphidromous fish thats spawns in the lower reaches of streams with the larvae spending the early stages of life in brackish water then migrating back upstream. Once common in SEQ streams but now not so due to stream modification and barriers.

[Thirstyman]

lots of them along the upper bits of kedron brook

[doss]

agree with u young fella :evil: