mako1 Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 Found this fish skipping on the bank of the Georges river close to the water. Sorry it's not a great pic. It's next to an air stone to give you an idea of its size. It was dark red in colour and had pink fins. Its body was like an eel and it also moved like one in the water but it had a head like a goby and it moved on the shore like a mudskipper. When I put it in the water it went verticle and began to bury itself. I have never seen one of these.Any ideas on what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 So thats why Bass minnows work in the blood worm scales . I fished in the system for over 40 yrs and never seen anything like that before Cheers Stewy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Dolmo Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 maybe a garden eel or something similar...find alot aroudn ship rock in the hacking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 OneMoreFish Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Mate, about 1985 towards the end of the drought these things started showing up in the mud banks of the upper georges river around East Hills and Milperra.. Namesay can vouch for me, we wasted so much time digging for bloodworms only to find these bloody things had burrowed down and swallowed the worms we were looking for. They vary in colour from deep red to pink, have nasty teeth, very slippery pink skin and are almost totally bind... if not eyeless. bloody ugly... look like a mutant penis from hell. never worked out what they were but they decimated the bloodworms and seemed to live burried in the mud chasing bloodworms... any ideas I would like to know too... and how the hell they got there as they must have been introduced... Seriously worse thing to happen to the food chain other than Bankstown council building the flood mitigation levy and blocking kelso creek completely, or the chipping norton lakes which silt up the river. Rodger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Cobalt Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 Greetings Folks, Not sure what the fish is called but have seen them in the Georges river as long as I've been fishing it (early sixties) from about East Hills up. they used to be quite common around Milperra. I've also seen them in the Woronora up above the footbridge. Found them to be excellent bait, both live and cut, for the bream and flatties. Henry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 hook'm Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 meybe a juvenile oarfish apparently some mahi mahi caught this year had bellies full of em if thats what this one is....i dunno Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Found this fish skipping on the bank of the Georges river close to the water.
Sorry it's not a great pic.
It's next to an air stone to give you an idea of its size.
It was dark red in colour and had pink fins.
Its body was like an eel and it also moved like one in the water
but it had a head like a goby and it moved on the shore like a mudskipper.
When I put it in the water it went verticle and began to bury itself.
I have never seen one of these.Any ideas on what it is.
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