Fish ID

axiom

right gonna do my best tryin to describe this haha

was out feathering in Dalkey, Co. Dublin , and caught a fish that was about a foot long (maybe little under), same sorta shape and body as a pollock, except it had a wider open mouth and was a red/bright brown colour,

anyone any ideas ? I'm useless as ID'ing fish

I've caught wrasse in the area of a similar colour but this was definitely not a wrasse

Compton

Pic? you sure it wasn't a pollock that had that colouration!

axiom

shblob wrote: »

Pic? you sure it wasn't a pollock that had that colouration!

if i had one i'd post it,

i don't know, you could be right (as I said im pretty useless with fish ID'ing that i'm not familiar with)

it had a different shaped head and mouth from a pollock though, we caught a polloack just before this one (unless my pollock wasnt a pollock at all and might have been a coalfish)

still searching google for somethin similar, havent seen anythin yet though

edit:

couldnt by any chance hav been a cod ... Very Similar to what I caught , although not too much of the same colour

jack01986

Could be a red coloured cod from the kelp but you can get pollock that have that colour tint to them as well. Cant find the pic of a pollock with those colours.

fred funk }{

How about this, a Red Cod.

Compton

If it had a little whisker on the bottom of it then it could've been a cod.

axiom

it looks very similar to that red cod jack, especially in the face, but not as dark a colour

fred funk, i cant see the picture

sheesh

I vote red cod too by the sounds of it

fred funk }{

axiom wrote: »

it looks very similar to that red cod jack, especially in the face, but not as dark a colour

fred funk, i cant see the picture

Sorry about that

axiom

thats exactly it !!! mine was bigger too :P

jack01986

axiom wrote: »

thats exactly it !!! mine was bigger too :P

Nice one!