Reef Fish

[AZZA]

Hi Guys fished Huchies on Labour day got a mixed bag, plate size snapper,sweep, small kings ,under sized spangled emperor ,leather jacket and these quite tasty looking fish ,first thoughts was a type of trout,but they were slimey like a parrot.So we put them back in the drink . Does anybody know what they are and size and bag limits [img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/100_0506_AFO.jpg

[AZZA]

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[AZZA]

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[Dec]

That would be a gold spot wrasse

[Nastymind]

I caught one of them about the same size yesterday.

As much as i wanted to eat it, i still let it go.

You gotta admit, it looks tasty.

[jeff f]

not real good eating the flesh tends to be soft and mushy

[AZZA]

Thanks for the info Dec , checked that name out and the only place I can find it is on ausfish forum and a dive forum is there another name that is used

[Dec]

Got my info from Grant's Guide to fishes it is one huge book with 880 pages of fish from Australia great book

[AZZA]

Thanks will have to get myself one of them must sign off now a wife has to take over the computer to do her homework , what you have to put up with being married to a uni student:laugh:

[Mack_attack]

While on the subject we caught a few black tipped rock cod(looks like a bright pink coral trout) a good red throat emperor and a few decent goat fish yesterday while off the tweed and we were wondering on the size limits remembering that it is in NSW. None of the DPI sites have any limits so are we right in asuming that if not mentioned on their sites there would be no limits??

Thanks

Jack

[Terry H]

I know some species have things like, "Cod (all species)" I'll take a quick look now

Edit: Yep
/>http://dpi.qld.gov.au/cps/rde/xbcr/dpi/RecFishingRulesQld-SizeTakePossessionLimits.pdf

You'll see that there's an "All Cod" size limit, with exceptions to that. So if its not in the exceptions list, which has different size/bag limits, then it would be under that "All Cod" size + bag limit.

[Mack_attack]

That's what we thought except these fish only have a maximum size of 35cm. Anyway at that size there isn't much of a feed anyway so it doesn't hurt to let them go.

[benno573]

gold spot wrasse (also called pigfish) are beautiful eating. the flesh does go a bit mushy if not cooked right, i found dusting with flour and frying in hot hot peanut oil worked a treat and the taste is absolutely suberb. size limit is 25cm, bag limit of 5 (see dpi website under all wrasse species, i can't remember the bag limmit exactly). bigger ones tend to be less mushy, they grow to about 50cm.

[big dyl]

not bad fish