Species ID

[RockHunter]

Just back from Lanzarote - can anybody id these fish please.

[RockHunter]

Some more fish for ID

[shamoo0804]

Cant help with the I.D sorry, but some interesting looking fish all the same.

[samo]

I THINK THATS AN EAGLE RAY. DONT KNOW ABOUT THE REST BUT WAS IN GRAN CANARIA LAST MONTH AND THERE WAS LOADS OF THOSE FISH THAT YOU HAVE IN THE FIRST PIC.

[eric]

1- demoiselle
2- some form of sprat
3-eagle ray
4- derbio
5-zebra sea bream
6-looks like a blenny of sorts
7-sea peacock (type of wrasse)
8-once again a type of blenny

[shamoo0804]

1- demoiselle
2- some form of sprat
3-eagle ray
4- derbio
5-zebra sea bream
6-looks like a blenny of sorts
7-sea peacock (type of wrasse)
8-once again a type of blenny

Welldone Captain Birdseye, you sure know your stuff......

[dan]

the fourth and fifth i caught last october while i was in spain for a fortnight along with triggerfish and some goby species i couldn't id.......

[RockHunter]

Thanks guys

and a big thanks to Eric.

By the way I was looking up Fishbase - No. 7 looks to be an Ornate Wrasse

No. 2 looks ldentical to some grilled "sardines" I was served in a restaurant while in Lanzarote. I also had grilled "parrot fish" in a restaurant there - it looked like a wrasse to me - and tasted much like you would expect a wrasse to taste - ie not very nice.

[kieran]

2. is a bogue (no seriously that is the name), great bait float fished live or dead for cudas.

4. is known locally as a "facio", usually very small but grow big and go like stink!

7 is an ornate wrasse, stunning if very small fish.

I think the small bream may be an annular bream, very common there but in juvenile forms, its almost impossible to be certain bar in counting spines and the like... but I very much stand to be corrected.

Nice ray, well done, where abouts did you fish?

[seanie35]

nice haul, did you get many hours fishing and what baits

[RockHunter]

Thanks Kieran,

I fished lots of places, along the northeast coast towards Orzola, the rocks west of Playa de Famara and the beach in the northwest, the rocks south of El Golfo in the southwest, Punta Pechiguera in the south as well as a small pier to the east of the main harbour in Puerto del Carmen.

I will post a report in the next day or so.

Seanie, I was using squid, prawn and mussel. But squid was the most successful, the small fish would just nibble the other baits off the hook. The best way to catch the little guys was to use a piece of squid tentacle impaled on a size 8 or 10 hook just like a worm. I got the ray on a bigger chunk of squid and a moray eel on a prawn/squid cocktail

[Davy Murdoch]

i was going to say

1-demoiselle or cape verdean(the demoiselle is supposed to have pale spot on each scale,the cape verdean more brown with blue markings)

2-i had no idea but would agree with kieran that its a bogue

3-eagle ray

4-derbio(but would`ve liked to see sides for several darks bars)

5-white sea bream?(it has thinner and more dark bars than zebra bream)

6-hard to see from photo but just looks like shanny!!

7-female sea peacock(checked out latin name and its the same as ornate wrasse found on fishbase )

8-caneva`s blenny

[dan]

the fifth i think it is some type of sea bream.
i remember getting some of these when i was in spain like i say.