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Created by sassipants sassipants  > 9 months ago, 16 Apr 2017
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sassipants
sassipants

1 posts

16 Apr 2017 11:53am
I have never seen a fish like this and the authorities here are also confused about what this is... Can anyone here identify this weird fish?





elmo
elmo

WA

8879 posts

16 Apr 2017 5:54pm
looks like an eel
smicko
smicko

WA

2503 posts

16 Apr 2017 6:34pm
It's a Tigerfish. Where was it found?
shear tip
shear tip

NSW

1125 posts

16 Apr 2017 9:13pm
Its dead. And freakin' weird.
actiomax
actiomax

NSW

1576 posts

16 Apr 2017 9:26pm
Looks like my mother in law before she has a coffee in the morning .
sn
sn

sn

WA

2775 posts

16 Apr 2017 7:46pm
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actiomax said..
Looks like my mother in law before she has a coffee in the morning .


lucky you, my M.I.L looks like that before AND after coffee
smicko
smicko

WA

2503 posts

16 Apr 2017 11:10pm
Not a Tigerfish, they don't have teeth on their tongue. Looks more like a buck salmon.
Razzonater
Razzonater

2224 posts

17 Apr 2017 7:12am
Could be a sub specie of the goblin shark.
Where did you find it?
Did you get full pic not just of its head like the whole thing with tail?
Post full picture

It sort of looks like me after a big night on the piss
pepe47
pepe47

WA

1382 posts

17 Apr 2017 7:41am
Looks to me like an eel. The teeth are too small and too numerous to be a tigerfish. At first I thought it may be something like a mackerel, but after a close up the teeth are conical not bladed, so it's not a pelagic, more like demersal. Ambush species that grabs it's prey and holds on to it. The small pectoral fins also point towards eel. A look at the tail might confirm it.
Underoath
Underoath

QLD

2434 posts

17 Apr 2017 10:02am
smicko
smicko

WA

2503 posts

17 Apr 2017 10:41am



This is a spent Chinook, you can clearly see the teeth on it's tongue. I've caught buck Rainbows similar. Be interesting to find out where it came from.
pepe47
pepe47

WA

1382 posts

17 Apr 2017 2:56pm
You could be right Smicko, this. according to the source is a trout. (Same species).


smicko
smicko

WA

2503 posts

17 Apr 2017 6:49pm
Yep, you'll only make the mistake of going the thumb grip on a big buck trout once.
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