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#1 Post by **last cast lad** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 1:13 pm

Hi all, new to fishing this year and loved the thornbacks but also did quite a bit of rock hopping spinning for mackeral (as a bait supply) and pollack and did a bit of float fishing also. I caught a number of small to medium wrasse on ragworm, I assume they are all ballon wrasse and not cuckoo, however there is a drastic variation of their colouring, perhaps someone could confirm for me that these are both ballon, at present my species count is 19 if one of these happens to be a cuckoo I will hit 20!, not bad for a newcomers first year in the sport.
Regards

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#2 Post by **Al and Jordan** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 2:44 pm

both ballen. if you look back at our posts from bangor during the summer we have lots of pics of ballen wrasse, corkwing wrasse and goldsinny wrasse. they might help you i.d. them in the future. you gotta love the ballen's, you can catch 20 in one day and no two are the same colour. great wee fish.

#3 Post by **last cast lad** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 3:19 pm

alandjordan wrote:both ballen. if you look back at our posts from bangor during the summer we have lots of pics of ballen wrasse, corkwing wrasse and goldsinny wrasse. they might help you i.d. them in the future. you gotta love the ballen's, you can catch 20 in one day and no two are the same colour. great wee fish.

Thanks for that appreciate the help

#4 Post by **dogfish** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 12:37 am

Here are pictures of a cockoo wrasse and a corkwing wrasse
The Cockoo wrasse is the most colourful of all the fish species with deep blue and are mainly caught of boats in deep water and the corkwing is the smallest of the wrasse family.

#5 Post by **Ronald** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:05 am

dogfish wrote:Here are pictures of a cockoo wrasse and a corkwing wrasse
The Cockoo wrasse is the most colourful of all the fish species with deep blue and are mainly caught of boats in deep water and the corkwing is the smallest of the wrasse family.

that top photo is a goldsinny wrasse ,black spot on the dorsal and at the wrist of the tail ,corkwing has a deeper body and sometimes a dark spot behind the eye .

#6 Post by **dan** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:07 pm

cuckoos- males are the ones with the colourful blue colour, females are a light brown colour, a bit like a goldsinney.

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