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Fish ID help

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  • 24-08-2015 10:44pm
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    Half-cocked
    Registered Users Posts: 4,319 ✭✭✭


    Hi, can anyone ID this little fish, caught off Bray in about 20 metres of water. 4-5 inches long.

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    Jim from Cork
    Registered Users Posts: 192 ✭✭Jim from Cork


    An immature if somewhat unusually marked cod.


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    dodderangler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    A cod of some sort immature poor cod or something but definitely cod family


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    gumbo1
    Registered Users Posts: 683 ✭✭✭gumbo1


    No chance of it being a young cookoo wrasse at all?


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    dodderangler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    gumbo1 wrote: »
    No chance of it being a young cookoo wrasse at all?

    Crossed my mind also but if you look at it's mouth it's a definite cod family member


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    Half-cocked
    Registered Users Posts: 4,319 ✭✭✭Half-cocked


    Thanks everyone, yes the mouth is very cod like alright.


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    Bio Mech
    Registered Users Posts: 1,045 ✭✭✭Bio Mech


    gumbo1 wrote: »
    No chance of it being a young cookoo wrasse at all?

    its definitely not a wrasse.

    Jim knows his stuff, its a cod.


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    twin_beacon
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    looks like a poor cod


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    dodderangler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    twin_beacon wrote: »
    looks like a poor cod

    That's what I was thinking but just a young poor cod


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    Bio Mech
    Registered Users Posts: 1,045 ✭✭✭Bio Mech


    The eye position and size and upper jaw shape are not that of a poor cod. The anterior dorsal fin of a poor cod is very triangular and prominent and the anterior anal fin is enlarged with reduced separation to the posterior anal fin. The extremities of the caudal fin also protrude to a point in a poor cod.


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    nokiatom
    Registered Users Posts: 434 ✭✭nokiatom


    I caught a fish many years ago with a head of a cod and a body of a dogfish !!


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    GHOST MGG
    Registered Users Posts: 940 ✭✭✭GHOST MGG


    Its a cod,they usually live in the kelp field on beaches and when i first caught one my son said "jesus dad you caught a smoked cod"
    i got it IDed by the fisheries board years and years ago


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    Jim from Cork
    Registered Users Posts: 192 ✭✭Jim from Cork


    Juvenile fish can test the ID skills of the angler but species Identification need not be difficult.

    You can check out the following PDF's which are useful in terms of Fish ID:
    http://www.topfisher.eu/identify-that-fish/


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