Identify this fish please.....

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#21 Post by **petekd** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:57 pm

Eoghan, Dont forget the cuddly toy.... :D

G.Wyse, I have no idea how it ended up there in such good condition, It was well up the tide line and I can only presume it was the big tides over the weekend that left it there, high and dry. I would have thought a gull would have been at it at the very least. Cant say I've ever had a problem with crabs at Garretstown to be honest but you would surelyu have expected one or two to have made the find!!

In fairness it was Paul who spotted it, just a few feet from where we parked the Jeep, a lucky find and well spotted. Couldnt possibly have tried to claim I caught it, he would have had me ruined....... :D

Thanks for the help lads in clearing that up as we were thinking along the lines of triggers and giltheads and were of course way off. Not surprising

#22 Post by **phanover** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:12 pm

Here's the photo... Deffo a Rays Bream. Case closed.

Well done to 2Poc for the ID.

Paul

#23 Post by **corbyeire** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:07 pm

great picture - interesting

#24 Post by **stevecrow74** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:23 pm

if i'd seen this post earlier i could have told you it was a rays bream.. very distinct features..

pity... i missed out on the cuddly toy too :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

#25 Post by **alancooper** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:48 pm

Is it a scad (horse mackeral) - forked tail - deeper than mackeral and without the blue stripes.
AlanC

#26 Post by **corbyeire** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:17 pm

alancooper wrote:Is it a scad (horse mackeral) - forked tail - deeper than mackeral and without the blue stripes.
AlanC

:?:

#27 Post by **petekd** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 8:29 pm

:?: Er no...... its a rays bream.....^^^^^^^^^^^^

#28 Post by **phanover** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:44 pm

Dammit, we've been rumbled!

Of course its a scad. This is the picture of the said scad before we proceeded to transform it into a rays bream by running over it with a steam roller and spraying it with a couple of coats of silver paint. :lol:

Paul

#29 Post by **petekd** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:46 pm

:D You're on your own Paul, there is no WE in team...

#30 Post by **JimC** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:48 pm

:lol:

#31 Post by **phanover** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:04 pm

petekd wrote::D You're on your own Paul, there is no WE in team...

Whaddya mean? It was a team effort. You were driving the steam roller and I was the one on spray paint duty! :D

#32 Post by **petekd** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:14 pm

Thats only cos you cant drive.... Made a good job of it didnt we :D

#33 Post by **phanover** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:21 pm

:lol:

Dammit Pete, our secret is out...

We'll now have to abandon our next "project" which was to transform a codling into a sun fish and claim we caught it at De Wall!

:lol:

#34 Post by jd » Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:23 pm

phanover wrote::lol:

Dammit Pete, our secret is out...

We'll now have to abandon our next "project" which was to transform a codling into a sun fish and claim we caught it at De Wall!

:lol:

I suppose you were going to use your bicycle pump!

#35 Post by **phanover** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:32 pm

I don't give away my trade secrets. :D

I prefer to call it "Extreme Makeover" for fish. :wink:

Paul

#36 Post by **petekd** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 12:09 pm

2 words lads..... The Swan..... :D

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