Dampier fish, what could it be
Submitted by crasny1 on Wed, 2009-04-08 13:10
Unfortunately left the camera as we were only going for a crab, but decided to fish near some structure in 18m of water last saturday night. Caught 2 fish that have me baffled. Catfish head, close to metre in lenght, fight like a sportsfish with multiple runs, no give up like a true cattie, and with a large sickle tail. Silver blue in colour and almost looks like a shark in the H2O. Caught right on bottom.
Never seen one before but they fought like the blazes and had my Miller barra stick and Curado screaming.
I just wonder if anyone has any ideas about what it could have been. Both released TFAD (to fight another day).
Neels
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Matt T
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Not threadfin?
Not threadfin?
barneyboy
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They could have been salmon
They could have been salmon catfish. Nice chrome sheen. Fork tail. Salmon cats have super slime on them and stink. Or maybee a blue salmon. Did they have scales? Blue salmon have eyes that are really close 2 gether and loose their scales really easy. Have caught them both on structure up north. What did you get em on? Any other clues?
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crasny1
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No way a thready or blue nose. caught heaps of them.
But thanks to you all got it. It is definitely a salmon catfish, bigger than this on.
http://www.fishing.net.nz/asp_forums/uploads/54324/Web_fWAtrip2008_247.jpg
Cheers for the help.
Neels
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