ciphrix1

Are we talking about Victoria? If so, and I could be wrong, but looking at the VFA website and app, a lot (most?) of the fish are either no minimum or within the 20-27cm bracket, for eg: https://vfa.vic.gov.au/recreational-fishing/recreational-fishing-guide/catch-limits-and-closed-seasons/types-of-fish/marine-and-estuarine-scale-fish Salmon = 21cm Perch = 27 Bream = 28 Flathead (not dusky) = 27 Dusky = 30 Flounder = 23 King G Whiting = 27 Luderick = 23 Snapper = 28 (40 for adults) Sweep = 23 Tailor = 23 Wrasse = 27 Then there is a whole bunch with no minimums (at work so don't want to list them all) So as far as I can tell, very few are >30cm? Please let me know if I am wrong. Also since we're new, very much shore fishing, maybe there are bigger limits with deep water fish.

Thanks gents. We did do our homework and had the VFA species and bag limit app and knew what we could or couldn't take and size limits, but since we thought it was 1) Carp, an invasive species you are not allowed to put back or use as bait and 2) the size was 29cm, where most fish limits are in the 20cm-27cm range, so we thought even if it wasn't, it'd be legal. and 3) It didn't look like any of the species that the VFA listed as not being able to take It was at Apollo Bay, in the Ocean but I think not that far from where a river meets the ocean. I googled Wrasse, and maybe the photo is deceptive but it doesn't look like any of the images that came up, although it could be a sub species I guess. The fish was quite dark brown rather than colourful (which a lot of the Wrasse images seem to be).

Hi, this is a bit embarrassing as myself (and my friend) are very new to fishing (as green as you can get), and first few trips we landed nothing (no surprises there) but then this weekend we finally got lucky and landed the below fishes. We thought they were Carp and therefore an invasive species (we didn't mind, was just glad we caught something finally) but then when I asked my friend, they said it looked like Perch or Bass, and then my parents said it might be bream (as you can tell, my friends and family are as hopeless as we are...) So what exactly did we catch? Thanks for any help in advance!