zrealist Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 Hey guys, Caught this small fish from the entrance, I've caugth similar fish on other occassions as well. So this time i decided to take a pic. Would it be an estuary perch? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Flattieman Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 That's a silver biddy (Gerres subfasciatus), zrealist. They form large schools at Then Entrance. Flattieman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 zrealist Posted February 24, 2007 Author Share Posted February 24, 2007 Thanks guys. Do you guys know if they grow to any decent size at all? I've got them in sydney many times before and they were small as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 henryinnis Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 nah. maybe 30cm is the biggest i have seen. a commercial fisherman came back in his tinnie and had about 200 of them..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 zrealist Posted February 24, 2007 Author Share Posted February 24, 2007 nah. maybe 30cm is the biggest i have seen. a commercial fisherman came back in his tinnie and had about 200 of them..... I wonder why he kept them. There's nor much meat on those things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Flattieman Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 (edited) and a lot of them have a filthy bug in them that busts out their guts and eats their heads when they die CFD I see you've watched "Alien" recently, mate. I didn't know that silver biddies suffered from this - are you talking about isopods? (Like the ones pictured here?): Flattieman. Edited February 24, 2007 by Flattieman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Flattieman Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 no flattieman, at the FR hawksbury jewfish social, myself and sammy0884 set a couple of silver biddies as livies, they had no bugs in their mouth. approx. 1 hour later we reeled them in to check how they were going and their gut cavities had exploded and they were dripping maggoty looking things from their eye sockets and face which had now almost being completely devoured. obviously the silver biddies were screwed CFD Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggh!!! Yuk. Flattieman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 gio Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 (edited) name='crazedfisherdude' date='Feb 25 2007, 10:40 AM' post='150029']no flattieman, approx. 1 hour later we reeled them in to check how they were going and their gut cavities had exploded and they were dripping maggoty looking things from their eye sockets and face which had now almost being completely devoured. wow never heard of anything likw that before Sounds like a serious bug Edited February 25, 2007 by gio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Penguin Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 no flattieman, at the FR hawksbury jewfish social, myself and sammy0884 set a couple of silver biddies as livies, they had no bugs in their mouth. approx. 1 hour later we reeled them in to check how they were going and their gut cavities had exploded and they were dripping maggoty looking things from their eye sockets and face which had now almost being completely devoured. obviously the silver biddies were screwed CFD Sounds gross Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 wettingaline Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Yeah, we caught crap laods of em at the FR jew social...they didnt last real long. They look like a good livie if you pinned it straight after you caught it though. We didnt have the silver biddy maggot syndrome CFD and sammy had though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 barrykrocker Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 i've heard kings love 'em Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 netic Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Damn those maggots look shocking, i have seen a few of them in yakkas and there look disgusting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Jethro Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 no flattieman, at the FR hawksbury jewfish social, myself and sammy0884 set a couple of silver biddies as livies, they had no bugs in their mouth. approx. 1 hour later we reeled them in to check how they were going and their gut cavities had exploded and they were dripping maggoty looking things from their eye sockets and face which had now almost being completely devoured. obviously the silver biddies were screwed CFD I recon they were probably sea lice and came from the water rather than the fish. We get them pretty bad off the beaches up here from time to time and they are a real pain when you are fishing strip baits. The Silver Biddies have a fairly soft skin and I recon the lice are just eating their way in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 henryinnis Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 Ewwwwww! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 james1990 Posted April 7, 2007 Share Posted April 7, 2007 Damn those maggots look shocking, i have seen a few of them in yakkas and there look disgusting Just about every yakka i have caught that has died has them bugs in them. cheers james Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 sambo Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 no flattieman, at the FR hawksbury jewfish social, myself and sammy0884 set a couple of silver biddies as livies, they had no bugs in their mouth. approx. 1 hour later we reeled them in to check how they were going and their gut cavities had exploded and they were dripping maggoty looking things from their eye sockets and face which had now almost being completely devoured. obviously the silver biddies were screwed CFD same thing happen to me a pittwater a while back. i think they were them bugs pictured before but smaller, if i put a pillchard in not even 1 minute later it was just skeliton(looked cool though) there was millions i mean millions no point of fishing when they are about cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 hustler57 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 ive caught bream in the port hacking that had those bugs in them, i always wondered what they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Caught this small fish from the entrance, I've caugth similar fish on other occassions as well.
So this time i decided to take a pic.
Would it be an estuary perch?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
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