NESA Species Hunt 2013

[toonboymc]

3 bearded rockling for me

 

[toonboymc]

A pouting for mad rob aka

 

[oneforthepot]

codling to get me dad off the mark (itwasthisbig)


and a whiting for me!



Finally broke the blank!

 

[Thunderpants]

Table updated lads.

Toonboymc I have put that down as a shore rockling as it does not have the dark spots that a three bearded rockling has. Of course I am no expert so if someone can positively identify it as a 3B I will change it?

Three Bearded Rockling

That is the blurriest pouting I have ever seen

Oneforthepot your Dad's name made me laugh and is appropriate for that wee codling

 

[toonboymc]

A coalie for mad rob

 

[toonboymc]

A star fish lol

 

[Stewart 1971]

Pollack

Codling (well, more of a codlet but they all count)

And a Coalie

 

[Darnc]

 

[Thunderpants]

Table updated.

Sorry toonboymc but I can't allow your starfish Too many legs and not enough fins

 

[toonboymc]

Cheers mike fish are hard to find so thought I would try to sneek one past you lol

 

[Thunderpants]

Cheers mike fish are hard to find so thought I would try to sneek one past you lol

Aye, I'm as sharp as a cobblers thumb.

 

[codcatcher3000]

codlet for me

 

[lumpsucker]

Finally got me Dab to tick off

Here he is upside down

 

[Debaitable]

Rockling

 

[Bassboyo]

Rockling

That could be another eel pout, do you have any other photos showing the head / barbules etc ??

 

[lumpsucker]

That could be another eel pout, do you have any other photos showing the head / barbules etc ??

That was my assessment too, looks too long for a rockling and it seems to have an orangey tinge to the fins and dark banding you can just make out. Anything else it could be?

 

[Stewart 1971]

That could be another eel pout, do you have any other photos showing the head / barbules etc ??

That was my assessment too, looks too long for a rockling and it seems to have an orangey tinge to the fins and dark banding you can just make out. Anything else it could be?

Agree. Doesn't look like a Slug to me, and I've caught plenty of them in my time. Based on the photo I would also say Eelpout but from that angle a positive identification is tricky

 

[Bassboyo]

That was my assessment too, looks too long for a rockling and it seems to have an orangey tinge to the fins and dark banding you can just make out. Anything else it could be?

Without more clear photos it makes identification near impossible, but it does look like an eelpout.

 

[Debaitable]

Sorry only got that pic with my dino phone

It did have an orangy tinge and brownish blotches. Iirc it did not ave any barbules and was VERY wriggley and liveley. I remember cursing the thing as it wrapped my snood line around itself.

Heres the same pic lightened, wich shows the colouration a little better.

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb109/onebadguy/Fishing/rocklingsh-1.jpg

 

[Bassboyo]

Sorry only got that pic with my dino phone

It did have an orangy tinge and brownish blotches. Iirc it did not ave any barbules and was VERY wriggley and liveley. I remember cursing the thing as it wrapped my snood line around itself.

Heres the same pic lightened, wich shows the colouration a little better.

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb109/onebadguy/Fishing/rocklingsh-1.jpg

All three species of rockling have either 3 or 5 barbules, from your description and no other photos its more than likely an eelpout. Great addition to your species count , I know I will struggle to get one on a lure. Well done