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Fred

It wont let me enlarge the picture so I cant have a good look,it does't look like a wrasse though,if it is a goldsinny its a new British record!.Its currently stands at 3oz! tongue.gif more like a mullet or type of shad/herring family.. need a better picky.

 

James

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It has the dorsal of a goldsinny, but not the tell tale spot on the root of the tail.

Doesn't have the vivid "salmon pink" colours of a golsinny, but maybe it is 'cos it is dead?

 

My money is on goldsinny and a record at that!

 

Tom

 

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Had another look, defo NOT a goldsinny. They have two separate dorsals, black spot at end of tail dorsal and black spot on tail.

Also this fellows eye is a bit big....

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i am rulling out mullet, can't see an adipose for shad, wrasse looks favorite...........

 

if you have a higher quality photo can you email to me an I will process it and repost as best I can with the tools available Fred?

 

certainly wouldn't eat it (not suggesting it's fugu!) and would get it weighed accurately somewhere (like Poole Angling.......)

 

money at the moment is on a Wrasse - washed out Cuckoo? unsure.gif

 

have pm'd email address Fred - any size

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scratch wrasse............. more like the flying fish family (without the wings)

 

body shape and tail all suggest free swimming - open water fish

 

facinated!

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I have never seen one but I think there is a bream like fish called a "bogue" which is caught form time to time off the Purbecks - maybe it is one of those - anoyone knwo what a "bogue" looks like?

Mike

Posted

I agree with Duncan, defo not a wrasse.

 

Can one get hybrid sea fish like some freshwater fish can cross breed (roach/bream)

 

I too am realy curious now I have seen the better picture.

 

I would suggest fridge or freezing it incase it is a record whatever it is.

 

Mad Mike

 

PS well done anyway smile.gif

Posted

 

 

It is a Bogue or Boops Boops.

 

Occasionally caught off Devon and Cornwall, but far more common in the Med.

I think it is fairly rare up this far East.

 

Not a record unfortunately, but a nice catch anyway.

 

Tom

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im certain its a boops boop, caught on smallest hokeye which was baited with squid on the way up .Wwell it looks like the filleting knife wins tongue.giftongue.gif

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From the NFSA website:

 

BOGUE (Boops boops)

B 1 13 0 0 822 1981 K McBride, Eddystone Reef

S 1 15 4 0 885 1978 S G Torode, Pembroke, Guernsey, C.I.

 

At a guess.... yours is about 9oz? Hard to tell from the picture.

 

Tom

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Mike, gurnard are a delicious fish, much favoured by our continental cousins. In some areas, they are known as the chicken of the sea. Unfortunate thing is, as Fred says, you don't get a lot per fish. Bloody great head and mouth tapering off rapidly to the tail. In the Med they even eat the smaller ones and serve them whole.

 

Terry B.

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