First time poster but have been reading this site for a few months - you all have been a wealth of knowledge as i started my fishing journey back in May.
This poor chap pictured was hooked in the eye at Rose Bay today as he came in for a bite of chicken breast.
Length was perhaps 12cm, very small indeed.
what am I looking at here? Is this a juvenile Yellow Perch, a striped snapper, some sort of baitfish, one of those hallucinogenic Salema things ?
I couldn’t make a positive ID from googling so figure why not come to the experts.
some quick thanks - Waza for the write up on Bradley’s Head / White Rock which was amazing. Whoever posted that recent squidding guide too, incredible detail.
I started fishing as a way to get out of the house back in Sydney’s Covid lockdown and as I’m sure with most of you I now can’t stop. Only a dozen or so fish caught and released so far - bream, tailor, fan bellied leathers and a bunch of baby snapper. This was the first catch in what has been a slow few weeks.
any clues or definitive identification would be welcome. Heck it could be a super common baitfish but I am very new to this whole thing!!
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Mike Sydney
Hiya raiders!
First time poster but have been reading this site for a few months - you all have been a wealth of knowledge as i started my fishing journey back in May.
This poor chap pictured was hooked in the eye at Rose Bay today as he came in for a bite of chicken breast.
Length was perhaps 12cm, very small indeed.
what am I looking at here? Is this a juvenile Yellow Perch, a striped snapper, some sort of baitfish, one of those hallucinogenic Salema things ?
I couldn’t make a positive ID from googling so figure why not come to the experts.
some quick thanks - Waza for the write up on Bradley’s Head / White Rock which was amazing. Whoever posted that recent squidding guide too, incredible detail.
I started fishing as a way to get out of the house back in Sydney’s Covid lockdown and as I’m sure with most of you I now can’t stop. Only a dozen or so fish caught and released so far - bream, tailor, fan bellied leathers and a bunch of baby snapper. This was the first catch in what has been a slow few weeks.
any clues or definitive identification would be welcome. Heck it could be a super common baitfish but I am very new to this whole thing!!
cheers, Mike
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