Long Finned Bream in Bray

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Long Finned Bream in Bray

#1 Post by jd »

I just heard an 18 lb Rays Bream was found washed up on Bray Beach last night :shock: :shock:
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#2 Post by corbyeire »

gone a bit off course :shock:
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#3 Post by Donal Gleeson »

It did not get washed up, a guy walking his dogs on the beach saw it chasing something shallow water, wadded in and grabbed it. It is now residing in a freezer waiting for a suitable party!
I'll see if I can get a picture of it.
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Thanks for the clarification. I wonder what it was doing up near Bray...
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#5 Post by brianbru »

18lb!!!! come on.... the irish record is just under 3kg's
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#6 Post by mickeyfish »

i think i will have to back up brianbru on this one,



The fresh Ray's Bream, Brama brama, was found on Harlech Beach, Gwynedd, north-west Wales (Grid ref: SH 574 317). It weighed approximately 1.5 to 2 kg and was about 50 cm long. It was left stranded dead on the beach after ebb tide had receded for about an hour.



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Mark Shortt has it in his freezer, It was identified by Warren Doyle, and the Natural History Museum want it :)
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#8 Post by petekd »

Myself and phanover came across one washed up one night on Garretstown beach in Cork after a big blow 2 years ago. Looked to be fairly fresh too. Wasn't that big right enough, from memory (distant) I would say it was about 2lbs or so.


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So was it 18lbs or what was the proper weight and was it just washed up dead ???
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I talked to Mark about this yesterday- he said it was 18lbs and that it wasn't washed up, it was spotted in the shallows, still alive.
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#11 Post by thebigman »

That's a massive Rays Bream, biggest I've heard of in European waters is only about 7lb!

For a couple of years they used to be regularly stranded in the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh, they were banned from competitions because of this.
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jd wrote:I talked to Mark about this yesterday- he said it was 18lbs and that it wasn't washed up, it was spotted in the shallows, still alive.


it looks like you missed the (POINT) in this one. :lol: :lol:

are you sure its not meant to read 1 . 8 lbs
judging by the size of the ripples in sand its 1.8lbs :wink: :lol:
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Previous photo posted by Mickeyfish was of one washed up in Wales.

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#14 Post by boycie89 »

yeah john1 that looks about 1.8lbs alri ! :wink: :lol:
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boycie89 wrote:yeah john1 that looks about 1.8lbs alri ! :wink: :lol:


i was not far out :wink:

i deserve to get my knuckles rapped because i didnt read the whole post and did not realise the first fish was caught in wales :oops:

sorry jd.......

id say the one in the new picture is around 18.0lbs :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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#16 Post by eric »

showed the photo to an ecologist at university, and he says its a long finned bream, the lower anal and dorsal fin are too far extended for a rays bream, there also more common in the northern Atlantic area
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eric wrote:showed the photo to an ecologist at university, and he says its a long finned bream, the lower anal and dorsal fin are too far extended for a rays bream, there also more common in the northern Atlantic area


he seems to be on the ball eric :wink:

it looks like a TARACTICHTHYS LONGIPINNIS :shock: to me aswell.
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#18 Post by Paul B »

Yep...its definitely a Long Finned Bream !!

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#19 Post by shamoo0804 »

I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on how I'd fish for one of those....bait/rigs etc :lol: :lol: :lol:
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#20 Post by pete »

It appears to be a bigscale pomfret although its difficult to tell from that pic, impressive anal fin alright. There are stacks of Atlantic Pomfret(Ray's Bream) of the west coast, all deepwater but they are there in numbers.
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