Anybody identify this?

[flux]

I was up Kirkudbright at the beginning of the month and while spinning off the rocks on a fantastically sunny calm day, the only thing I managed to catch that day was this:

and it was already dead!

Floating past me, I managed to fish it out the water, it was about 4 inches long, really spiny/boney lateral line and spiny dorsal.

Any ideas?

 

[codseeker]

looks like a cross bred garfish and wrasse

 

[5150]

Stickleback mate (15 spinned I think is the one we get in the seas here). Not seen one since I was a kid rockpooling, used to often find them some summers.

 

[5150]

yeah, here you go, Spinachia Spinachia:

 

[flux]

Hey ya not wrong mate cheers!
Just found this Sea Stickleback, Spinachia spinachia (British Marine Life Study Society)

 

[Juliogeordio]

Stickleback LOL!!!

 

[5150]

Think the first time I saw them was as a kid on a school trip to Dunstanburgh, teachers let us mooch around some rock pools. Found them a few times around Amble too in the pools.