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Fish Species E-G
This is a list of the more common
species caught in our area.
Please scroll down the page to the species you want.
Please Check the Information Page for Warning on
some species.
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Emperor |
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Emperors: Red Emperor [government bream]
(Lutjanus sebae)Red
Throat and Spangled |
Bag
Limit:
Red Emperor
Red Throat
Spangled Emperor |
5
8
5 |
Legal Size:
Red Emperor
Red Throat
Spangled Emperor |
55cm
38cm
45cm
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| Best Bait: |
Live herrings and or any small fish, dead baits
include, prawn, squid, fish baits and cut fish. Bait must be fresh. Red emperor are
not often caught on artificial baits. |
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Line Class: |
15 - 30 kg. main line |
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Hook Size: |
No.4/0 - 8/0. |
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Best Location: |
They are predominantly a bottom dwelling species usually
congregating in schools and found mainly around coral reefs and deep gutters between coral
outcrops. The best species are found well off shore. |
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Quality: |
They fight hard and are an excellent table fish with few equals.
10 kg to 12 kg emperor are not uncommon |
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Season: |
All year round but Summer time is the best. |
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Flathead |
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Flathead Platycephalidae family
(Dusty, Sand and Bar-tailed) |
| Bag Limit: |
5 |
Legal Size:
Flathead except Dusky
usky |
30 cm.
40 cm Min Max 75 cm |
| Best Bait: |
Live Worms, yabbies and small herrings are the best. BUT
just about any bait you would like to try will catch them. Flathead are readily
caught on lures but in many cases a lot of work has to be done to reap the rewards. Minnow
pattern lures that dive and churn up the bottom are the most successful. |
| Line Class: |
3 kg to 8 kg |
| Hook Size: |
No. 1 - 5/0 |
| Best Location: |
The favoured locations include sand bank edges, small
gutters and fallen trees around rocks, drop offs at creeks or river mouths. |
| Qualities: |
Flathead are considered a very good table fish. A good fight
is given while fishing with light lines. Flathead are a ambush bottom feeder that use
their natural shape and colour or underwater structure as camouflage feeding both day and
night. Dusky Flathead are an estuarine species best caught at dawn and dusk with a
dead low tide right on dark being the best. At certain times their marks can be clearly
seen at low tide on the sand spit and on this edge of the gutters, these are the places to
fish when the tide is coming in. |
| Season:
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Flathead are caught all year round in both deep and shallow water,
although few are caught in the shallows during the coldest months. The best time to catch
flathead is from September to March. |
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Flounder |
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Flounder: (Pleuronectidae) family |
| Bag Limit: |
N/A |
| Legal Size: |
N/A |
| Bag Limits |
Whitebait, peeled prawn, squid, yabbies and worms. |
| Line Class: |
2 kg to 4 kg |
| Hook Size: |
No.2 - 2/0 |
| Location: |
They lie on the bottom buried under the sand with only their eyes
protruding. Bottom fishing from a drifting boat across the sand flats is productive.
During summer spawning flounder are found in shallow water on sandbanks and close to
shore. In winter they reside in the deeper waters. |
| Qualities: |
With excellent eating
qualities, the flounder has a sweet, moist
flesh, although fine bones can be a problem in smaller fish. Flounder can alter the colour
of their bodies to suit the bottom on which they are laying. |
| Season: |
All year round. |
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Gar
Fish |
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Garfish
(Hemiramphidae) family |
| Bag Limit: |
50 |
| Legal Size: |
N/A |
| Best Baits: |
Prawns and yabbies |
| Line Class: |
1 kg to 4 kg |
| Hook Size: |
No.12 - 8 |
| Best Location: |
Urangan Jetty mainly in the first channel and in other sheltered
waters. |
| Qualities: |
Very good eating if prepared properly. Great fun on a light line.
Garfish are a surface feeding fish and travel in small schools. They mainly feed on
floating baits. |
| Season: |
All year round but the bigger fish are mainly caught in the Winter
months. |
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Grass
Sweetlip |
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Grass
Sweetlip. [brown sweetlip, snapper bream] (Lethrinus fletus) |
| Local name: |
Coral Bream |
| Bag Limit: |
10 |
| Legal Size: |
30 cm. |
| Best Bait: |
Prawn, squid, crabs, pilchard, fish strips and fresh bait is a
must. |
| Line Class: |
6 kg to 15 kg. |
| Hook Size: |
2/0 - 4/0 |
| Location: |
Any of our shallow reefs or even the deeper off shore reefs. They
are found dwelling around the outer rock, coral and gravel reefs in water from 5m to
30m in depth |
| Qualities: |
This is another good eating fish. When fishing for
Sweetlip, fish
the up-current side of a reef or where there is a drop-off along the reef and you
will have no problem catching a feed on any of the local reefs. They bite best early in
the morning, late afternoon and on moon lit nights. |
| Season: |
November to April is the best but they can be caught all year
round. |
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