I know this is a hunting forum but I have been washing my testicles in the "Great Southern Ocean" and I finally caught an Australian Salmon.

Bloody hell mate, that's not far from my home, and only a stonethrow to top fallow deer country.

Long beach is a beautiful spot...nice fish you got there. Not the best eating, but fun to catch.

Cheers,

blacks

Split em down the middle, cover with salt and brown sugar, and smoke em on the beach with one of those portable smokers and they are beauty.
Great fighters too if you use a trout rod. Its nearly run time for them here, where they pack in by the thousands to certain west coast river mouths. Nothing better than a flyrod in hand with hundreds and hundreds of fins breaking the surface a scant 15 meters from the bank.

I didn't know you got them over there Shanks. What do you gys call them?

FISH

Muzza, I got to shake my head at times.
Kahawhai is the name we call them Bakes.

Absolutely Shanks .....

You can always tell an Aussie - you just cant tell them much .....

Just got a new-to-me rig for kahawai fishing , hope to try it out in the next week or two which should be interesting cos I have no idea on what you do - apart from bleeding the fishy as soon as its caught .

Maybe we need a "fishing" thread?

Have ya got a spot? If they are running up here its not hard, any cheap shiny thing with a hook in it will catch more than you can eat.

FISH...since when did you start speaking english, I thought you call them FUSH.

Considering your knees are hardly wet, your testicles must live in a fairly unusual spot !!
Nice fish - best smoked.

Shanks - theres a few spots on our bit of the west coast that are accessable , river mouths etc where one might practice the gentlemanly art of fushing.( note that I wont be feeshing tho )

have a mate that professes to know all there is to know about kahawai , and a small boy who knows everything else , so should be good to go ....

What other species do you guys get over there? Bream, Whitting, Flathead, Taylor? I know you get snapper and Kingy's...

Trevally, though not the big ones.

Tarakihi maybe? http://www.wildblue.co.nz/fish...dlinessand/tarakihi/

Porae
http://www.wildblue.co.nz/fish...dlinessand/tarakihi/

Probably a lot of others

We call tarakihi Morwong and the Porae we call blackfish or niggers in the days before PC. Nigger fishermen were old blokes with center spin rels and cane baskets on their hips. Very secretive bunch.
I just googled fishes of NZ and there are a few species that are found in both countries.Bream and whitting haven't made it over there. Wonder why considering snapper and John dory have.

water temperature most likely Bakes. You guys have much warmer water around you than we do so the cold water fishies stay here .

Of course our fish species may be much more discerning than yours , and appreciate when they are onto a good thing...

Are yes but there are bream and flathead in Tassie to Muzza.

many of the inhabitants of Tasmania are broad of bream and have flatheads too Bakes. ( so I'm told ...)

Fish go where they please , there arent many fences under the sea.

Chuck up some pics of common Aussie fish caught by rec fishers Bakes, maybe a few there that we know.

just dont show them wrapped in newspaper and surrounded by cheeps.....

And two heads Muzza...

Here you go Shanks. These four are the main stay of estury fishing over here. There are different types of all these fish and it depends on which part of the country as to which one you catch. For instance Black bream are found in the southern states, sliver bream around the middle part of the eastern states and Pikey bream up North, NT . Same with whitting,you have King George down south, Summer and winter whitting nearly everywhere else. The main flat head in the rivers is the dusky but there are flat head species off shore right around the country. All are top eating.
Bream

Whitting

Flathead

Garfish

Yeah, we get the Garfish, call them piper.

What about Gurnard?
http://www.wildblue.co.nz/fish/weedlinessand/gurnard/

Other main speicies are blue cod.
http://www.fish.govt.nz/en-nz/...Blue+Cod/Default.htm
Trumpeter.
http://www.wildblue.co.nz/fish...sdropoffs/trumpeter/

Haven't seen the cod but we get the other two in southern states.

What kind of fish is this??

looks like a perch of some sort

I'd call that a wrasse.

I think I'd be more concerned about Duffy wearing a shirt with what looks like a sheep on it ...

Be carefull mate , one of those Aussies will sneak up on ya while you are bending over and ... well , -you can imagine the result for yourself.

Tha fish still looks like a perch . Sea or fresh water ?

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Originally posted by Bakes:
I'd call that a wrasse.

Yep.
Juvenile blue throat wrasse, probably. They're a salt water fish, and common in Western Vic and SE South Aust.